... and let me take a shower!

im tired, dying to take a shower, but my roomie's in there, and im tired and desperately need a shower, falling asleep, i wanna shower, did i mention im cranky when tired?

muslim athletic wear covers skin without cramping style [national geographic]

love the idea... but u gotta admit, she does look like a smurf!!! :b

(here's one for comparison ;D :

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(ps. hijoob=hijab+hood! :D)

yay! :D no headache today!! :DDD aaaand, i cleaned!!! i vacuumed, mopped, wiped, scrubbed... and i even cleaned the fridge!!! which i'd been dying to do for some time... no more bugs anymore!!! \o/

let me explain... for those of u who dont know (and i dont think i've blogged about it), we had issues with bugs invading the kitchen... (and my room, too, to a lesser extent though. (that can't be gramatically correct... but u get the picture :b)) living with three other ppl u dont really know all that well, these kinda projects (getting rid of bugs) take much longer than normal. it took several months from when the bugs started being really numerous till when the last of us finally cleaned her stuff (throwing the ruined stuff out and putting the rest of it in boxes/plastic bags). and now our kitchen is finally bug-free!! \o/ (the 'bug count' did actually decrease a whole lot after the other two girls cleaned their shelves, but it wasn't until the last girl cleaned hers that the bugs fully disappeared.) however... there were still a bunch of dead bugs inside the fridge that had crawled in and frozen to death there :b but... not anymore!!! ;D

so, i've done my share of cleaning for a few weeks. :D (we take turns cleaning the kitchen, small 'hall' and bathrooms we share.) and my room is clean, too! :D i just didnt do the dishes (and there's a ton of them...), but it's late and i have to work tmr so im gonna do that some other day. (im just not saying tmr bc im planning to stay working laaaate...)

i also cooked, healthy veggies with some noodles... :D for once, i have something to take to work to eat on my lunch break! :D

crap! i started remodeling the template - slightly, but yet remodeling - and screwed up the column on the left. and now i cant figure out where exactly i went wrong... and i really dont have time for this right now!!!!!

so, im just gonna leave it... (just leave it, saara, leave it!!!) and go to things that i need to do.... (like hanging laundry to dry, emailing that professor (see yesterday), dishes, cleaning... etc etc)

finland is playing sweden on tv right now!! going to go watch now :D

ps. soccer.

"Haluatko tukea hyväntekeväisyyttä vastaanottamalla tekstiviestimainoksia matkapuhelimeesi oman alueesi yrityksiltä? Jokaisesta vastaanotetusta etuviestistä tilitämme valitsemaasi kohteeseen 2 senttiä. Palvelun maksavat mainostajat.
Saat etuviestejä puhelimeesi keskimäärin kerran viikossa, enintään 3 viestiä viikossa. Viestejä voidaan lähettää arkisin ja lauantaisin klo 9 - 20.
SMSAidiin liittyminen, jäsenyys tai siitä irtisanoutuminen ei maksa sinulle mitään.

Liity tästä."

mä aattelin liittyä nyt :D

(vaikka toisaalta... 3 viestiä/vkk > 6 senttiä/vkk > 312 senttiä/vuosi = 3 euroa/vuosi! pääsisköhän helpommalla jos lahjottas vaan... ;D)

the bright side being i hadn't really studied a lot to begin with and should probably be (as i am!) thankful for this second chance!

the bad side being i did study somewhat and go to the exam–just to find out dear prof hämeen-mänttilä had made 2 outa 3 q's on the wrong book... (and the one he'd made on the book i actually read... well, i had kinda skipped that exact part! *lol*)

i'll proly try to email him on fri or sth...

i've seen sas so many times during the past two months that it feels really strange not having him around and not even knowing when i'll see him again. (gosh that sounds overly dramatic! :b) but i really miss him  and can't help but plan my next trip... (hope my brother will get to come home on june 10&11 bc then i'd get to go ;D)

he was here for a night and the room seems so empty now... *sigh*

i feel like such a spoiled brat right now, though...  get a grip, saara!!

im running late, so i'll try to be brief (which, i know, will never happen, but let me give myself this excuse for finding time to post).

so, sas is in town. (well, to those of u who know about espoo and helsinki, technically not in town (which is important to remember, btw!)... but since i promised myself i'd try to be brief.... hehe) and he's playing cricket. and so are two of my faaaaaaaavorite brothers. and i can't go watch (which im dying to!!!) because i have to go to my father's sister's because she's turning 50! aaand, to make things worse, i can only think of three people that are going to be there that i actually like: my parents and my grandma. i'd muuuuuch rather spend time with them elsewhere!

luckily, my mom shares my, hmm, well, 'non-passion' ;D and is willing to stay an hour, an hour and a half tops. (and to be honest, i think that'll be juuust fine with my dad, too. ;D)

however, im still jealous of my brother who is getting away with not coming just because he's in the damn military. iiii too wanna join the damn military at moments like this...

but oh well... if i was really in the military, i wouldn't have any chance at getting a glimpse of my brothers playing for the national team (!!!) tomorrow, and spending time with them/sas tonight. so i guess i shouldn't complain...

anyway, im off now since im really getting late now!

after the walk, i remember thinking:

1) 10 degrees isn't really that much to be happy about, after all ;D

2) maaan, do places look different now than they did just a month ago!! (ok ok 'now' as in the day of the walk, and 'a month ago' as in early april.... but u get it! the snow gone, a whole lotta new things can be spotted... :D)

(no, this post is not an ad for mcdonald's... but i do kinda feel like singing though! :D)

thruout the dark (and i mean daaaark) five-month winter here, i ask myself (and others) how on earth people decided to populate this place in the first place!! seriously, the darkness makes u go into this state where everything just seems kinda foggy; waking up in the morning (or even in the afternoon, for that matter) is completely impossible and it's like u were sort of half asleep all thru nov, dec, jan and feb...

but now, mid may, 9 pm and the sun still hasn't set... 10ºc, birds singing and the trees finally green, i remember what's great about this place!!!

heck, im off for a walk... like brother hijabman puts it: "can i get an alhamdulillah??" :D

ps. i just realized i should change my blog's time zone... one more thing to be added on the (long) list of what irritates about the day-light saving time!! *grr*

as it so often happens with me, when i'm supposed to be studying vigorously (this time, to write a paper on the egyptian 'family' law), i find myself finding more and more ways of keeping myself 'busy' elsewhere. this time, i turned to blogging - and i just signed up for flickr. (i'm up there as 'unelias', at least for now. (it means sleepy in finnish.)) i didn't have the energy to upload a whole lot, though... maybe later

anyway... i'm gonna go waste some of my time elsewhere now - and then curse myself tomorrow for having done nothing of what i wanted to do today. oh well.

see some of damon's most memorable moments in f-1! (and u don't need to turn ur volume on; there's nothing but music.)

this got me so emotional! seeing things i'd forgotten... and things i hadn't forgotten but just hadn't seen in sooo long!! i so wanna start being a fan again... i so wanna go back in time!!! buaah...

i loved it. i loved being a fan, i loved the races, the cars, the excitement... man i just loved it all! (except for schumacher of course ;D)

remember the good old days of f-1 when the mclarens were red and not silver, and the screen texts during the broadcasts looked different, when they didn't have a number constantly up there telling the viewers the number of laps still to go?? (i miss those days... i miss cheering for damon! anyway...) remember how, approaching the end of the race, this "laps remaining" thing would come up a few times? it took me a few years to understand it actually said "laps remaining" and not "laps reminding"... (like they were reminding the viewers of the number of laps left) ;D and even after i realized it actually said "laps remaining" (and knew what it meant), i'd still keep reading laps "reminding"... just because i'd been doing that for years ;D

and i still remember it today.... q:

(ps. schumacher won once again today...  good thing i didn't watch the race!)

since i love making lists (especially 'to-do's), here's one:

things i've done today:

• prayed
• laundry (and btw, the machine didn't spin the first load of it... which meant i had to spend some extra time twisting it all )
• talk to my grandma (after way too much time! and when ever she calls me (like today, because i had called her earlier when she wasn't at home (and yes, she often leaves her cell at home when she leaves the house...), so she called me back), she's always real quick to try and get off the phone; i think she feels like she's disturbing me. and even though i try to tell her that's not the case... we never end up talking for very long. which means i need to call her more often! ( at myself))
• wrote and sent three emails to sas
• chatted shortly with sas, a.t., jewls, ri & us bhai
• watched some dr.phil :b
• struggled with the tax forms that need to be turned in by monday... (if u're gonna do that, that is.) but after like an hour or so i figured the figures were off by such little amounts i'd just let it be... i mean, from what i could tell, it looks like i'll be getting a refund, and i don't wanna risk that, do i?? ;D
• read a little
• watched hijabman's first ever video log :D - and then discussed his "40-year-old woman" (not my words!) voice with him
• watched this bbc documentary on a few european converts (or reverts, if u will) to islam, which was interesting Ü - but it did lead to my computer crashing multiple times, which wasn't as nice (especially as my dear oldie takes so long to get started... u can do a whole lot while waiting! (no, i couldn't think of an example.))
• took a walk - but a fairly short one this time; i was little scared to be walking out there alone at 2 am on a sat morning... although it's not like it's the first time im doing that, but i dont know.... was just feeling more scared today i guess :b
• ate two apples even though im starting to realize they give me heart burns. oh well :D

btw, what does kermit sound like?? he came into my mind while i was trying to find a proper term to describe hijabman bhai's interesting voice... (check it our urselves at the link and tell me what u would call it!) i need to ask pete or sas to download an episode of the muppets (and while im at it, a few of sesame street (;) for me... (i miss sesame street. why isn't anyone broadcasting that these days??? hmph.)