Category: Everyday Me

Well, we spent the Eid at my parent’s place just like last year. We ate a bunch of dishes all based on meat from the freshly sacrificed sheep and they were yummy delicious.

During lunch, Tunisia’s 3rd match was going on against Guinea, so we all watched that.
They ended up in a draw (1-1), and so Tunisia passes to the quarter finals at the top of it’s group.
The next match will be this next saturday against Senegal, which should be a hard but exciting match, i hope the national team get their acts together for that one.

After the match we went and visited my Grandmother’s, where we also found a bunch of my paternal uncles and aunts, and then we went to visit my maternal uncles and aunts.

After that, we just got ourselves home and watched 1/4 of a movie before falling asleep.

And, that was the Eid as I spent it.

Well, yesterday, for the first time ever in my life, someone called me up to tell me that my order was ready earlier than scheduled and that i could go pick it up whenever i wanted to.
I couldn’t believe it. How come ? I mean, things like that never happen. It’s normal for delays to happen, but for something to be ready before schedule, that’s impossible.
Anyway, it was true.
And i’ve already filed this occurrence for consideration in the Guinness book of records.

Well, what was ready ?
My new pair of eyeglasses.
So, i went and picked them up after work, and spent all night trying to get used to them. I still think i look a bit weird in them.
But, this morning as i walked in at work and said hi to everyone and chatted with some people a bit, almost nobody noticed, so that’s cool. I’d rather they don’t notice than having them burst into laughter 😛

Anyway, as for myself, my eyes are still adapting to the new glasses and all, but one thing that crosses my mind is this Jimmy Cliff song that goes something like this:

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin’ day

Oh well, not that i didn’t see well with the old ones, but the vision is clearer with these.

I really think shopping and buying are totally different things.
I hate doing both, but they’re very different.

Shopping is when you go out with no specific goal and you just go around from shop to shop, wasting time and looking around with the possibility that you might find something you like and that you just might buy it.

Buying is when you go out with something very specific in mind, and you go from shop to shop looking for it to buy.

So, if you take this idea one step further, people can be classified in 2 kinds: The Shoppers and The Buyers.
As for me, I’m a radical Buyer.
I go out with something very specific in mind, and i try my very best to buy it from the first shop i go to.

Yesterday, i went out to buy a new pair of eyeglasses (at last), and luckily all the optics shops were closing (i don’t get it, these people shut down earlier than chicken).
Anyway, i only found one optics shop open, and so i went in with the will to buy and get over with it all.
Maybe i should have waited and checked out some other shops today and all, but well, being myself i just had to rush and buy them yesterday from that first shop.

So it’s done, i have some new eyeglasses that will be ready by the end of the week. They’re very different from the ones i have now, so they’ll really change my look a lot, and even though i liked them for a fraction of a second yesterday and was convinced to buy them, i’m not sure how i feel about them now.
I just hope i don’t end up looking like a dumbass because they weren’t cheap, lol…

Yesterday, as i was driving home, i assembled a list of the 10 things i can’t live without these days.
Here’s the list i came up with:

1. My Wife: Romantic, huh ? Well, it’s true 🙂
2. My Family: Even though i might not show it a lot, but still family is very important thing to me.
3. A computer: I’d go mad without one.
4. An internet connection: I’d start itching all over if i lose this.
5. My blog: My brain online, how could i live without that ?
6. Music: The soundtrack to my life, without it, the world would be so dull.
7. Movies: My number one fun thing to do and enjoy.
8. My Car: I’m crippled without it.
9. My Paycheck: Money, money, money. I hate to need it, but we all do.
10. My Home: Where the hell am i gonna crash at night if i don’t have that ?

Well, i wanna blog, but i don’t have anything to blog about, so what do i do ?
I blog that i have nothing to blog.

And what use is that ?
Well, at least i blogged, and now i won’t feel like i have to come up with something to blog, because i know i won’t find anything worth blogging.

Waste of time ?
Maybe, but now the blog-itch is gone, and i can enjoy the rest of my day without thinking about blogging 😛

Cya…

Well, yesterday, as i dragged my exhausted and extremely hungry self home from work, and as i was going into our building, i noticed we had something in the mail.
I thought it was either gonna be the greeting cards we’ve been waiting for ever since before New Years or Tunisie Telecom telling me that they’re coming to install my phone line.
Needless to say it was neither, instead i found a little PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) vegetarian starter kit, some sort of magazine that aims to convince me to become a vegan and give up eating meat.

I had ordered the starter kit a while ago out of curiosity and i was interested in seeing what would be in it and how they would try to convince me to quit meat-eating.

I’m sorry to say this, and i mean no offense to vegans, vegetarians or to PETA, but this whole thing is really nonsense.
Some of the reasons given for not eating this or that are so dumb and use a very twisted logic.

I’m totally for the protection of animals against all forms of bad treatment and i totally support the efforts to stop hunting down animals for furs, fun and other cruel reasons.
But i also think that some animals were created to produce things that we can use for our everyday life, things like: eggs, milk, silk, wool and even meat.

Anyway, after going through the whole kit, i am more of a meat-eater than ever before; there’s no way i’m gonna quit eating meat, drinking milk or whatever else these guys want me to quit for the reasons they wrote.
I’m not gonna go eat fake mock meat, soya whatever or tofu rubbish that tastes like shit when i can have a juicy steak, chicken tikka or a milk shake.

And to stress my point and my commitment to meat-eating, i went out last night for a good delicious meal at Baguette & Baguette, where i had a Chicken Burger and a Hamburger (actually Cow meat burger in muslim countries), and it was very very Yummy 😛

I also ate some really great french fries. But hey wait a sec ? Don’t vegetables have feelings ? They’re alive creatures too, aren’t they ?
Maybe someone should think of starting PETVF = People for the Ethical Treatment of Vegetables & Fruits 😛

Don’t you just love it when you’re over-exhausted, just had a delicious dinner and finally get to your bed which is perfectly soft and warm and you’re already dreaming of the great sleep you have ahead of you ?

And don’t you just hate it when after all that, you end up waking in the middle of the night with this sudden weird case of insomnia ?
I mean, you’re so damn tired your body parts are about to fall apart, but you just can’t fall asleep again.

And wouldn’t you just hate it even more if when you were about to get over that insomnia and were about to drift into a sweet sleep, the damn neighbour’s alarm goes off so loud and keeps on beeping for over half an hour !!!

And at last, after the neighbour’s alarm stops and after going through another long pre-sleep period, you finally slip into this beautiful state of perfect slumber, but your shitty alarm goes off telling you that your time is over and it’s time to go to work again !!!
Aaaarrrrggghhhhh !!!

I hate alarms !!!
And i hate my upstairs neighbours !!!

Isn’t it beautiful when you’re lying in bed early in the morning, in the perfect and most comfortable position, with the bed at the perfect warmth, with the pillow at the perfect softness, with the air in the room at the perfect temperature, and the weather outside is cold and the wind is humming you lullaby after lullaby sending you to this magical place.
You feel you wanna stay like that forever and just sleep like there’s no tomorrow.

But then that damn alarm goes off, pissing you off, and telling you to leave all that comfort and beauty, leave that warmth, leave that soft bed, get up, get dressed and go out into the cold world outside to go work !!

I hate alarms !!!