Safa means tranquil, serene, calm…I try

-Yesterday at work I saw a security guard opening the door to the snack room. He was turning the knob with a napkin. I didn’t think anything of it. I mean people can be hypervigilant when it comes to germs and door knobs. At the end of the day I happened to get in the elevator with this same security guard. Why main man proceeds to push the elevator button with a napkin???

Now let me say this - I don’t work in a sanitation truck. It’s an average office building. OK, that said….YOU ARE A SECURITY GUARD!!!! Why are you not just wearing gloves? It was so ridiculous looking. What are you going to do if you have to apprehend a criminal on duty?

-Sta.rbuck.s is killing me…chai tea latte is the debil for real.

-I don’t celebrate many most any traditional holidays anymore. However, that doesn’t mean that they don’t still get me feeling some kind of way. I love thanksgiving. It was the time I got together with all my family. It really started changing before I was muslim with the deaths of so many family members around the holidays. Now that my grandma is dead, I feel even more sad during this time of year. I am not sad about the 2 days off though! It will be fine insha’Allah. My son was invited to a sleep-over at a friend’s house so a few sisters will probaly congregate on Friday for a bit. Oh, and for real, I’ll still get some food from peeps in the area on Friday!

-With us buying our 1st home in September that needed some work, my husband has been channeling his inner Bob V.illa…..remind me to devote a whole post on this debacle. Anyway, my 6 year-old has been itching to help out. He was constantly getting yelled at by hubby for messing in his tools and being a general nuisance. Finally, hubby decided to buy him his own tool set. So…he purchased a whole ensemble that has EVERYTHING in it. The stuff is pretty real, just for a child. See this pic of my child as the ghetto Handy Mann.y Mind you those are his real prescription specs on his eyes. The goggles are on his hard-hat…bless his heart. You can’t see the tool belt but it loaded. Now, my 2 year-old is asking for his.

I found this at The Insurgent Scrapbooker’s spot. Something to pass the time. Bold everything that you have done…I was brave enough to do it!! Leave results in my comments section or on your blog if you have one!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors…Got as far as Savannah GA
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted ( charcoal)
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible or Quran
86. Visited the White House…does outside count???
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

How about you?

You know, you often hear that times are worse now than in the days of yore. But really people have done evil things. Why am I bringing this up now? Well it was prompted by my weekend movie viewing of Changling. The movie was done…I love Clint East.wood as a director. Anyway, I won’t give a recap of the movie that is based on a true story. Whenever I see a film or read a book based on actual events, I will routinely research archives to read actual newsclippings and other info related to the event.

This movie takes place in 1928 California. After I read LA Times articles on from the actual events, it really sickened me but also me think…people were sick back then too. I see now as being no worse. I am not even considering atrocities committed against Blacks during and after slavery. I talking just people who do evil and unthinkable things.

As we approach historical changes today in this county, it kind of makes me sad that the evil that men (and women and sometimes children) do has not simmered. I feel really sad. I’m sure some of it has to do with a story I read today. Well not really a story. I went to the Chicago T.ribune’s website to read a story on Ob.ama casting his vote and started reading the “paper”. They have a section where they post recent mugshots…for some reason I thought it was pics of wanted individuals. I always check stuff like that (ya never know who lives next door). Anyway, along with the mugshots are brief descriptions of what they were arrested for. It just made me sick and sad. I need meds…for real. I am so emotional and take things so personally. I cry like a relative was killed. It just seems like evil never rests…