A week of updates!

So, it's been a while.  Sometimes life takes over and does things I don't want it to.

Anyway!  Where was I?  What was my last post?  Wow, it's been a week?  Well, let's see what happened this past week.

Monday I hung out with my friend Muzhda; Victoria came, too, and we went to the Roseville Galleria, then back to Muzhda's for an Afghani dinner.  It was too spicy for me, but yummy.  ^_^  It's always awesome to hang around Muslims; I don't get to do it often enough, because it's generally a bit of a drive to get to the masjid, and after Jummah prayers, I tend to go back home to sleep because I work at 10pm on Friday nights.

Tuesday I got new contacts and ordered glasses, thanks be to God!  Very awesome.  Pictures to come soon!  I also had dinner with Victoria.

Thursday I went rollerskating with Victoria and her boy, and brought my baby brother.  Wow, rollerskating is SUCH great exercise!  Work was, as I recall, uneventful.  I've been really tired all this week, so I just kinda chilled.



Friday I made it to Jummah prayers, but, uh, this week is my off week for prayers, so I sat upstairs.  After, a couple girls and I went to Arden Fair Mall and hung out.  Again, it was awesome socialising with other Muslims.  (As a side note, I used to think Arden Fair was Arson Fair, which led to much amusement for my family when I told them where summer camp had gone to)

I went immediately to the family night the masjid has, where there was conniving to get me a husband (read: much acting like 12-year-olds).  Victoria, Kubra, and I met this really cute Bosnian Muslimah.  I have such a girl-crush on Kubra, lol.  She's so adorable.  ^_^  So is Admira, our new Bosnian girl.  She's a white chick, so we thought she might be a convert, but she was born Muslim and got married 8 months ago, then moved to America with her husband.  He wants us to teach her English, and when she asked him questions in Bosnian, he'd say, "Sorry, I don't speak Bosnian.  I only speak English."  They were adorable.  Work was exhausting, but Ricardo let me take an hour lunch and sleep, so that helped.  I ended up sleeping through Saturday class, but I'm not going to work late for Gina on Fridays any more; school has to come first.

Saturday's tea party was fun!  I want to have another one.  Work was blah; I got off two hours early.  One guy kept looking at me and finally asked, "What sort of religion are you?"  I was cranky, so I said, "I'm not a religion in and of myself, but I practice Islam."  And another guy asked where I was from, so I gave him a really weird look and said, "Uh, America?  Where else?"  Yeah, I was cranky and tired of people assuming I'm foreign.  God willing, next week I'll be back to my usual self.  :D

Today we had the convert support group meeting, which was aaaaaawesome.  Victoria and I learned a secret, which no one else knows, and I'm not going to say, bwuahahahaha!  :D  It's an awesome secret, rest assured, and I'll totally blab all about how I knew it first when it's not a secret any more.  I'm updating from Victoria's house; we're rolling up characters for a Pathfinder roleplaying campaign.  Did I mention I know a secret?

We also learned that a friend's brother passed away in a car accident yesterday, so she and her family are in our thoughts and prayers, and please keep them in yours.