I have been sick all weekend long. I have strep throat, bad crap that is bloodish, orangy, or yellowish colour coming out of my body. And I have a good topic to write about, but I will leave it till later today maybe.

I am really enjoying my long weekend, caughing.

Blah Blah, Whatever!

Today my mom comes up to me when I got home from work and said,

“A lady (mom friends with her) said that there is a guy who is looking for a wife. And wants an answer ASAP!”

I said, “No.”

Then I said, “ASAP? So he has 10 girls lined up eh? Waiting for the quickest answer!”

Mom said, “You are 30! Don’t you ever want to get married? We won’t be alive forever!”

I said, “I am living the best life anyone can ever live! I have freedom to do what I want! No one to bother me!”

Mom said, “The lady asked me to ask your dad to get his opinion.”

I said, “Since when does dad or anyone have an opinion regarding this matter? No one even dares asks me to do anything like clean my room, you think he has control over this?”

Mom said, “Welek 3eeb!!”

I said, “Blah! I don’t want to get married! Unless he is rich or a doctor! ”

She said, “Doctor? Who do you think you are?”

I said, “I worked really hard in my life. I got a University education, I work my butt off daily at work and I got a job with my own two hands with no one’s help! I am not throwing that away for some desperate guy and to be a baby popper!”

Mom said, “Go find a guy from the internet then or just go and find someone!”

I said, “Blah blah blah!”

Any hot Arab Canadian guy wanna hook up? It is Valentines after all and my mom is bored of my daily craziness!

Blah Blah, They said what?, Whatever!

My brother on his Facebook status said,

“1 Dictator dead (Iraq) 2 Dictator in Hiding (Tunis and Egypt). A few more dictators to go and then we can have a big block party in the M.E ”

And I said,

“Block party?? am I invited? We can sing, “Bye Bye Bye” by N Sync! ”

Blah Blah, Culture, Thank you, They said what?, Whatever!

I have been getting a lot of messages on Facebook and many have started groups saying that Valentines is originally pagan, and blah blah blah it is a sin blah blah blah, and the list goes on and on.

You know what, after so many decades on earth, everything is crap. Anything that is celebrated is crap. The only thing we need to celebrate is our birthdays and thank God we are still walking on this earth breathing. Anything else is a Hallmark holiday. Today is some Hallmark celebration. Just look it up! Every day is a commercial holiday for them and they want your money to buy cards or send e-cards to people who don’t give two shits!

I mean, come on! I decided to be oh so witty, and I declared March 16 of every year as “Kiss me I am Arab” holiday. So what? I am awesome and I got a blog, and I can write anything and make it sound true and enforce the celebration into people’s souls! Why? Because I love you guys and we need to unite together and make random celebrations and spread it on the inter-web, because we don’t want the commercial GIANTS ruling our lives! We rule our selves!

Side note! Anyone read this book? I want to buy it!

Anyways, back to Valentines day. It is sad that people need a day to celebrate love. I guess the other 364 days of the year should be known as “FU” days. I donno people! I hate Valentines not because it is pagan or none Islamic or anything like that. I hate it because no one wants to give me a kiss!! Waah!! Just kidden!

However, I do like wide spread celebrations for the enormous amount of sweets in the stores! Can’t get enough chocolate, and on SALE!

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Dear readers of my cute little blog,

I know I have bitched a lot in the past regarding my current employment. They drove me crazy, but I worked extremely hard at this job that majority of the time I worked overtime to get work done. Last week, I was at the edge and it was either me or them if the chaos didn’t change. I made that clear in an indirect way.

Several meetings later, I was told this in a tone of fear:

“Mona, please don’t go.”

They said it two times . . .

I demanded change, and quick change or else. I had several 100 reasons, and in the end, I enforced the change. I had to speak up because I didn’t want all my work to crumble into pieces because of stubborn people who won’t listen!

They made profit last year, 3 times more than the previous year and I knew it, but if I left, they wouldn’t be able to manage. I am sure of it because I have this mentality of extreme organization and rules. I am given a position that 3 people in traditional structured companies have. It was insane. They drove me insane.

So, today we had performance reviews.. yay.. took a year and a half since I started. It was more of bosses evaluation of us, and not self-evaluation at all. And at the end of it all, they talked about raises, and how the economy was bad, but they still survived through a recession as a company, blah blah. Then they said, you get X amount of money extra.

I was like

Wohoo!!!

Wow, I never got such an exponential raise before in my life! Boom shakalaka!

Lessons learned from all this:

1. Work really really really hard!
2. Prove your worth!
3. Raise your voice when you see things going wrong.
4. When rewarded, work even harder the next year!

I shall sleep peacefully tonight! And to celebrate.. I will do what little kids are doing now a days.. I will whip my hair back and forth!

Blah Blah, Happy, They said what?, Whatever!