One year older..
Last Wednesday was my 28th birthday.. I can’t express the over whelming feelings I had all week for all the good things that happened during that day. It started with a lovely gift I received from Duha on Tuesday and emails/texts from friends. Wednesday morning was so quiet.. Mom told me she’s having people over.. What a timing! Got a “happy birthday girl!” text from Mai, then sis called to chitchat and in the middle of the talk she was like “It’s your birthday today?” Boy she sure does know how to pull this off! :-p
I had a meeting that lasted for two long hours talking about 5 major projects and our future plans, setting deadlines, and figuring out solutions. It was mentally exhausting.. I couldn’t sit still after the first hour. Then I heard a knock on the door and some delivery guy asking for me. There it was, the loveliest flowers ever from a good friend. I didn’t realize it when she called me asking for the extension number of my office! That day I missed so many things that created question marks in my head but I was too tired to figure them out.
The funny thing I was looking forward to hear a “happy birthday Manal!” from my friends at the office but non of them did! Had a plan with Mai to go out after work to a restaurant to celebrate my birthday that evening. So I was waiting until the last minute before leaving the office to get any kind of reaction from the girls but I didn’t get any! I went home early.. And while I was getting ready my little brother Mohammed came in and said he wrote me a poem.. I hugged him and thanked him for his cute gift. He read the poem to me and I was in tears when he finished! I loved it! Thanks 7ammod! Love you sweetie! <3
Afterwards I went to meet Mai at the restaurant.. which wasn’t a good start for the evening.. It’s a long story ended with leaving the restaurant and Mai suggesting Shawermas for dinner. I decided to play along and let it go… Asked her to go home with me and she was like “Of course! I won’t let you eat shawermas on your birthday alone!” :-p
I was expecting something from Mai.. We talked about so many things that evening.. and I kept peaking at her bag.. Oh well.. She wanted to stop by a bookstore on the way home to get her notebooks and I suggested to check the collection I have at home. She wanted to live the shopping-for-notebooks-feelings! So we did.. Got me two pens.. Don’t know why?!
On our way to the shawerma place it hit me! Felt like House when he was messing around with his team on last week’s episode, and I said “Mai, I have this thought in my head.” She was like “What?” Then I decided to keep the conclusion to myself. “THEY WANTED ME OUT OF THE HOUSE!” Told her to remind in the morning about it and I’ll let her know as I didn’t want to sound weird if it wasn’t right.
Mai was playing with her BlackBerry while I ordered the food to go.. At some point I snapped at her and asked her to stop using the BB! LOL! Poor thing! Love you Maieosh! That was a very stressful task.. To keep me busy! <3 She asked me to call sis to ask her when is she coming.. “Mai’s BB stopped working and she wanted to give Ashwag the heads up! We’re here! I must say that was smart.” :-p
We got home.. Saw a car at our door that was leaving and I told Mai there’s something fishy.. Showed her our swimming pool.. don’t ask me why.. But I was like did I ever show you our swimming pool? And she was like No.. I was thinking to myself why didn’t I share this information with her before.
So we got in the house.. I found little sis sitting in the living room using her laptop.. The lights were dim and then Abdulmajeed Abdullah’s Song “‘3nno l7abeeby” started playing in the background.. “by the way, this is my new favorite Arabic song these days” And I saw all my friends, sisters holding a birthday cake with little me printed on it. That was the best birthday EVER! It was overwhelming!
Another bunch of dear friends threw us another surprise birthday party last night which was amazing! It was outside in the cool breeze.. Thanks ladies! We LOVE YOU! My life wouldn’t be the same without you! <333
Before I go.. Here’s little bro’s poem: <3
You love it when I joke about your day
You hate it when I don’t study and play
I love it when you download me Fringe
You hate it when I play with your light thing
You hate it when I joke about 300 pages on the laptop everyday
You love it when I say **** is gay
Happy Birthday
You’re one year older
That doesn’t mean your heart is getting colder
Might post pictures of the birthday cake when I get them from sis later. ;-)
Eid Morbarak everyone!
