Alhamdulilah, all praise due to Allah who has ended finals season and has let summer “vacation” begin. Man, I am sooo relieved that all of my finals are over with. I had my last one yesterday actually, but I was far too lazy to write about anything although there’s so much to talk about.

I don’t know how I used to make a post every single day and sometimes several posts within the same day; I think my record was five or six in one day. Now I forget I even have this ol’ internet journal of mine. Anyways, back to what’s going on.

My aunt is due with baby number five in about a month. I’m really excited because the youngest right now is two and half and throwing those terrible two tantrums, but gosh darn it he is so unbelievably adorable I can’t even think about being angry with him. Besides he really is a good kid overall. Anyway I read on one of my favorite blogs that baby breath smells really good. No, not that toddler breath that never smells quite right, I mean like newborn or infant breath. So that’s one more reason I’m looking forward to the new baby in the family. I’m going to get a nice whiffof his/her (my aunt never finds out the gender until its born -I just wouldn’t be able to do that) baby breath and write about it.

But unfortunately I won’t be around for the birth. In fact I won’t be able to see the baby until he’s/she’s about a month old since I’ll be in Lubbock for six weeks. For a vacation? Yeah right. Who goes to Lubbock, Texas for a vacation? I feel like most cities in Texas aside from the major ones like Houston and Dallas are pretty much dead, like Waco. With a giant haystack just rolling on by in the middle of the quiet ghost town. Or like College Station where the most exciting place is the college bookstore. Yay. Not.

But Lubbock’s not like that and I know this only because I checked out their CITY WEBSITE. I didn’t know city’s had websites. I wonder if Houston does. Anyways it seems like a normal bustling city with sky scrappers and freeways and stuff. So I guess I won’t have to milk any cows or saddle any horses, but I know I’ll be worked to the bone with the intensive summer program the folks at Texas Tech have lined up for us (a group of young adults from all over the state).

So I head off for this place in two weeks and in all honesty, maybe this sounds ungrateful because I know some people who would love to be able to go, but I am not looking forward to it 100%. At this point with the difficulty in getting the information to us and lack of more information we need, I feel like it’s kind of a mess over there. Like things aren’t completely organized. But that’s just part of my reason. The bigger reason is something I don’t want to get  into right now because it’s an entirely different post. But for the record I am happy about going, at least it’s something to do for six weeks, but on the other hand it’s a painful reminder. Ack, that’s te last time I’m going to mention that.

This Saturday my sister and I are going to meet with a couple of friends for an end of finals BBQ. I’m looking forward to it. The hostess came up with a great idea actually. Instead of just having a mindless good time and shooting drinks out of our nose from laughing so hard, she wants each person to prepare a breif five minute halaqa about something we care about and share it with everyone. What a great idea, huh?!!? Of course I’m not going to prepare for it until the day of the par-tay because that’s just my style, yo. After Islam, procrastination can be a way of life. I’m living proof of that.

Hmm, other news include just includes how ridiculously busy I’m going to be this summer, which is why I put vacation in quotation marks at the beginning of this post. I really want to just run away sometimes and travel the world on my time and do whatever I want without any obligations. I think people like Jeff Corwin and some others I can’t think of right now have the coolest jobs ever. I mean, this guy gets to travel the world, talk about it, preserve wildlife, share it with the world, do something he absolutely loves, make a real difference, AND GET PAID FOR IT! How awesome. I know he obviously had to work really hard to get to where he is right now, but boy oh boy his rewards are pretty sweet.

Anyways I’m getting a headache again. I’ve been plagued with headaches for the last couple of weeks and I have found yet another wonderful drug – Tylenol extra strength rapid release gels. Wow does it keep it’s promise. I really do feel my headaches  dissipate within a couple of minutes. Ah, I love over the counter drugs.

But I’m no junkie.

I’ll post other news later on.