Of Eid and St.Nicholas..
Thursday, December 20, 2007
I'm like the Grinch who stole Eid. No seriously - I've developed an antipathy to the holiday years ago (several issues that you can read about in a psychiatry textbook somewhere); and so everytime I mention not liking Eid to friends here, I always get dumbfounded looks.
These past few days might actually change that. I've slept enough to literally make up for a month of minimal sleep, I went to Hashem and Jafra with friends from work, and I celebrated Eid and St.Nicholas' Day with Oksana - both of which involved us leaving chocolates on each other's pillows. This morning we woke up to text messages from Momo and ended up going on a treasure hunt set up in our house by him (with rather difficult and cryptic clues!!) to end up at a big basket of gifts and candies!
Our house looks like such a Christmas postcard - Momo got us a Christmas tree which looks gorgeous decked out with fairy lights, and Oks and I are knitting! (Technically, she's knitting and I'm learning how to). And after years it actually felt like Eid as Oks and I went for Eid lunch to a Pakistani restaurant (our Indian friends would disagree cos its called Kashmir ;)) and had actually well cooked Pakistani food! :)
Oks and Momo - thank you for an awesome couple of days, and helping me rediscover a holiday spirit of sorts.
These past few days might actually change that. I've slept enough to literally make up for a month of minimal sleep, I went to Hashem and Jafra with friends from work, and I celebrated Eid and St.Nicholas' Day with Oksana - both of which involved us leaving chocolates on each other's pillows. This morning we woke up to text messages from Momo and ended up going on a treasure hunt set up in our house by him (with rather difficult and cryptic clues!!) to end up at a big basket of gifts and candies!
Our house looks like such a Christmas postcard - Momo got us a Christmas tree which looks gorgeous decked out with fairy lights, and Oks and I are knitting! (Technically, she's knitting and I'm learning how to). And after years it actually felt like Eid as Oks and I went for Eid lunch to a Pakistani restaurant (our Indian friends would disagree cos its called Kashmir ;)) and had actually well cooked Pakistani food! :)
Oks and Momo - thank you for an awesome couple of days, and helping me rediscover a holiday spirit of sorts.
Labels: jordan journal, random musings
posted by saba at 12:51 AM, | 
And knitting? still cant believe it... where's my scarf? :D