Little time to prepare for my engagement party!
Today has been an exciting day. Did I tell you guys I have been seeing someone, or I met someone? Yep. He is Palestinian too, 33, and his name is Hossam. He has been in Canada for about 20 years, and studied Business and actually live in my city! He is a very nice guy, and the number one thing I liked about him is, (drum roll please!), is that he likes my blog! Double bonus! 
The good thing about him is he is very quiet like me, and never bothered to live the wild life and live a double life like the rest of the Arabs that I met in my life.
So for the past couple of days we have been deciding when to have the engagement party. I am hoping before the end of April. Also, the dilemma of deciding who to invite, and how big or small to make it. I am thinking small, because spending money on “just” an engagement party is a waste! I could save it to buy a house instead. Why do people like to hold extravagant engagement parties? Who cares? I don’t.
I wonder what to wear? I am thinking light blue or light purple dress. I seriously want my mom to make it, since she is a seamstress and I don’t like all the revealing dresses out there. Blah! But NO! She is too busy. Argh!
Maybe I am a cheapo and don’t want to spend over 200 or 300 bucks for a dress. Don’t forget SHOES! However, I am not going cheapo on a ring. I want my white gold DIAMOND ring dammit, and it better be a noticeable piece of rock!
Out of all this experience, and actually deciding to settle down, and being secretive about it to everyone, I decided that getting married is not so bad. Maybe there was hope for me all along. Just the next few months is going to be a bitch to prepare everything! I am thinking of a September or October wedding. I like fall. I don’t want it to be a typical summer wedding, because I don’t like typical things. Blah!
I should invite all my readers that live it the 200km radius of my city to the wedding! Who wants to come? You get VIP seats!
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hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah Mona u crack me up!! nice one
Now now, Mona. The thing that makes this so unbelievable is that we would have been given some clue about this dream dude’s existence well before April 1
Good one, though
Congrats on your engagement!! Hope you guys have a happy long life together.
Oh yeah, I’m in South Africa, can I come to the wedding too? lol just kidding…
Oh Mona…you know I am a sucker for diamonds. Meanie
Um, really…I’m relativly new to your blog.
I have to go with the april fools day,
Mona I think his name would have appeared in one of your rants
hey ho! first time dropping by ^^
congrats on ur engagement!! XD
keep up the good work!
congratulations in your engagment and may your first child be a masculine child
Those that are wishing me happiness, did you read the fine print in the end of this post? lol
Today, before reading every post I had to scroll down and see if there was an April Fool’s note in the end of the post or not, haha..
I was almost half way through this post, but then decided to scroll down and there you go! April Fool’s.
Aw man – I wanted to come!
Glad I saw that small print at the end to confirm my suspicion or else I would have been fooled. Very well played
I was so exited! Then I realized it was a joke. What an emotional roller coaster.
Can I come?
Haha jk I live in Vancouver.
Great April fools lol
White gold? Blech!!! And I used to respect you
@Meyrick Kirby
I don’t like yellow gold at all. I like white.. or better yet, PLATINUM!
I’ve got to figure out how to get my blog to look more professional like this one.
Alf Mabrook! I’ve been browsing your blog and never saw any hints of it…you’re pretty good about being secretive girly!
I can relate to a lot of the anxieties you have about planning however in our case we don’t even have anything official yet, we’re still on step 1. Because of our schedules and the fact that we just have small overlapping windows to do anything in I’m always worried about how I’ll have time to plan a proper party that’s good timing for both of our family members.
Good luck and update us about everything!
Oh my God I’ve totally been fooled-I had to read the comments to realize it LOL.
Hey getting married is not such a bad thing…when the right person comes along that is!
Interesting, the rebellious arab girl has finally found her match. Cheers for your engagement party.
Sorry i can’t make it to ur party though.
Congrats ! Congrats ! Congrats !
Very nicely done, Mona. You got a few with it. Shows that some do just skim through the post.
o I believed it
And was so happy for you! And then you killed me with the small font sentence…Sigh. Anyways, I think the way you will meet your future husband will be exactly as you say in this post 
Keeping my fingers crossed!
All the way from Jordan
Read the title, read the first few words till “seeing someone”, scrolled down and looked at the pic of the ring, flash of thought she could have taken a pic of a platinum ring….slightly more thicker is good, i think platinum is in a “purer” state than gold which has Cu added to it for hardness.
And wished she had the April Fool comment in much smaller finer print, AND she should not have commented above about the practical joke. And I believe she should have a great time laughing fooling others with this post.
The humor died
But what pepped me up was her real comment “not in this decade”!!!! 10 years more without marrying??? into your 40s or what? you will have serious case of PMS. you are giving me worries, now
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Funny how the captcha feature showed up with “7,200 unpaid”
lol unpaid party bills.
congratulations mona! or is this an april fools day joke?
May you have 12 children!!!
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just saw the april fools line at the bottom. damn im blind.
Good for you rebel gurl… go and start making children :p
Eh, I got fooled on April 2nd, what can I blame it on? I believed it, I think it was his name, for some reason it made it so believable.
Congrats on the engagement! A fall wedding is gorgeous…the colors…everything. Very happy for you Mona!
This is perhaps the WORST April Fool’s Day joke I’ve seen all day, LOL!
Good try, though. But your readers know you better!
For those of you who are STILL congratulating me, you just proved to me that you don’t read my entire posts and just read titles or skim through them. You didn’t read the last line with fine print that says that it is an April Fools Joke.
@Crabby Blogging Lady
WORST? Ok. I won’t blame you since I don’t remember seeing you comment before on here. At least I got people with the joke, and they are still being fooled. That was the WHOLE intention.
hehehe I was shooo!! btit5awat!! akeed btit5awat! since today is the 2nd I didnt think much about it, but I still couldnt believe it lol, not that I don’t believe you’ll get married, but I thought you’d actually see the guy more than once before marrying him :p
good luck girl
Soon after starting to read the post, I realized it was an April’s fool joke. My doubts were getting more and more strong through reading the post till the end, and finally confirmed by the small note.
Well, I hope that you’ll be wrong and that it won’t take you a decade to find or be found by Mr Right.
_Secret Reader_
@_Secret Reader_
I never said it will take me a decade. I said not in this decade. Hello! it’s 2009! lool
That was FAST.
You’re right, my bad. Trying to go ahead of myself.
_Secret Reader_
@_Secret Reader_
Because I am sitting on the computer.. lol
And because you like my nickname?
@_Secret Reader_
Sure. I like all the creativeness that people come up with. I am just Mona.
haha very funny
I wanted to go to your wedding though
Congratulations! Good luck with this!
lolol….i totally fell for it…
shame on you my dear…how could u do this to yourself?
lolol…good one though
LOL!
Good one, girl
I do think you made the post the way you’d like things to happen! You were very convincing, until one gets to the last line of course
By the way whats wrong with Mona getting married?
Congrats to all those who felt good for her.
Shame on you for those who did not care to let her keep her secrets to herself about a mysterious 33 yr old dude. Instead you all felt shocked?
She is not rebellious…she just wants to find her own mate.
Mona is starring herself in a real life documentary version of “run away bride”
I can see the Oscars already! Hollywood here we come. Nominated for Best story, screenplay, script, actress, and finally supporting actor (yeah thats me 
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@John Jacob
The entire post was a joke. Didn’t you read the last part that said April Fools?
Mona this dude is driving ME crazy, I don’t know how you can handle it hehe, it’s like he’s from another planet!
@Mona
huh???!!!
Yeah, i knew it was a practical joke, because i noticed the fine line that said so [the first time].
Noticed how some still continues to believe it so. And then how some learn of the practical joke after reading the comments above.
So decided to “script” in comments that accepts the practical joke, as many comments can create mental illusion that something exciting is happening. oh well…some things can never be understood completely.
Sometimes we know it creeps some ppl’s nerves.
@Dee
You mean the silent psycho named 33 yr old Hossam or the much talked about naughty Johnny
@John Jacob
hmm well actually you, lol, sometimes i just don’t get what you’re saying, actually all the time hehe. I might be THAT dumb but I don’t think I am, you really don’t make sense at times, sorry if you think I’m being rude :s.