Category: Everyday Me

Well, my wife has gone to visit her family in Jordan, and due to work obligations i wasn’t able to go too, and so i’m left all alone in Tunisia.

This is not the first time i’m alone in my life, but this time it’s so different, it feels like i’m the only person left on earth.
It’s the first time we’re not together ever since we got married last year, it sucks big time, and it actually feels really weird, as if some part of me is missing, a part i’m so attached to.

I’m kicking myself in the head because i was the one who convinced her to grab the occasion and visit her family.

I can’t wait for her to get back, so we can do everything together again just like it’s supposed to be, just like it makes sense and has a meaning and taste to it.

Anyway, i’d better get going now, i’m so sleepy and exhausted after last night and working till 6:45PM today…

We were invited at a friend’s place yesterday, he’s someone who went to the same school as i did in Tunisia, and whom i met and knew better in Jordan when i was going to university there.
The cool thing is we also lived in the same building, became good friends, went through the internet bubble together, spent time with a lot of common friends, but the coolest thing of all is that our stories with our wives are very much identical, we both met them at around the same time in university, got engaged at around the same time, got married and moved back to Tunisia and both work in the internet domain, lol.

So just by imagining how many similarities there are between us as couples and how much history we have behind us, you’d imagine how much fun stuff we had to talk about, from our experiences as a married couple and what we go through, to the amazing insects and crawling species we have in Tunisia, to the stuff our wives find weird in Tunisia, lol.
Of course no such talks go without uncovering some funny past secrets along the way, lol.

After talking and laughing for a couple of hours, the talk turned to food, and our stomachs started rumbling at the thought of some local Jordanian fast-food “Falafel” that we haven’t tasted for so long, and so we suggested to go to this lebanese restaurant called “Baalabak” that serves some quite similar dishes, and so we did.
The food was good, and our conversations and fun went on.

By the time we finished eating and talking, we were too exhausted to even blink, so we thought that was a sign that we should at least try to get home, but of course not before a half hour talk in the parking, in which we men talked about launching a web startup, and our wives talked about whatever they were talking about.

In short, it was some real cool fun, and hopefully we’ll be hanging out together more in the future 🙂

I thought i’d post a blog entry summarizing the past period, so here it goes 😉

Basically, it was more and more of the usual, lol, work from 8AM to 3PM, lunch at home, sleep or watch movie, go out or watch movie, have a cool night out or watch a movie, lol…

But, there were some rather cool things that happened, which are:
– We got a DVD player as a late wedding gift, so no more movie nights watching DVDs on my laptop, from now on we can use the TV, which is one of the bedroom accessories now after the AC was installed there 😉
– A friend of mine got married (he’s actually a brother of a friend of mine who became my friend), and that meant days in a row of nights out, sleeping late, and going shitfaced to work in the morning, lol.
– We went bowling at last with some friends of ours, something we’ve been wanting to do for ages and just putting off for no reason, anyway it was like a curse, my whole game was a series of 9 points, and i only got strikes in my last 2 shots. good thing though is that i won, so it wasn’t such a bad curse after all 😛
– We went out to the beach at Hammamet with some friends of ours, and it was pretty cool and good fun.
– We saw a number of cool movies: “Not Another Teen Movie” which was awesomely funny, “Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle” which was really good and better than the first one, “Pay It Forward” which was really nice, “Hulk” which had really good special effects but was a bit boring story-wise …etc.

I guess that about sums it all up…

Well, yesterday was a good day, our AC finally got installed, and the bedroom became heavenly cool 🙂
It really was worth the wait, and even though these days aren’t that hot in Tunisia, i just know we’ll be needing it more and more as we go further into July and then August, and hell starts opening its doors again…

It was a noisy procedure installing it, and one of the neighbours started shouting out of his balcony, but it’s ok, i just ignored him, which is something really easy to do with all that drilling noise. what annoys me most is that this guy is supposedly a distant relative of mine, and yet he’s the only one who made a fuss out of it…

So last night was the first night since summer began that we could sleep comfortably, in fact i was so comfy and loving it, i had a hell of a time trying to get out of bed and to work in the morning 🙁
Don’t you hate work ??!!
Can’t wait to get home, get hold of my laptop and sit in bed doing whatever and enjoying the cool 🙂

On another note, we rented a cool movie on Monday called “Say it isn’t so!”, it’s one of those fun movies to watch, featuring Heather Graham and one of the guys from the American Pie movies, quite enjoyable…

Have you ever allowed yourself to spend every penny in your pocket, feeling safe that you have money in your bank account and that you can use your ATM card at any moment to get the cash you need ?
and have you ever gone to an ATM with an empty pocket and that feeling of safety only to be turned down because of a connection failure or whatever other reason and then hit by the fact that you’re totally out of money and that even though you have money in your bank account, you just can’t get to it ?
It’s one of the worst feelings ever, and it sucks like hell !

Well that’s part of my everyday life with my bank, i put my money in, spend the money i have, go to the nearest ATM (and every other one i know about), and it doesn’t give me anything !!!

What annoys me most is that it seems to only do it when i really need the money, when i’m really out of money, and when it’s a weekend, so i’m left with no solution to get my hands on some cash…

I’m seriously thinking of changing banks, the only problem is that i know it’ll be the same shit, just a different taste, so the big question is : am i ready to change the taste i’ve gotten so used to ? loooool…

Have you ever been to a place so overcrowded you end up stepping on your own toes ? Well, if not, then you obviously haven’t visited Carrefour in Tunisia (a Mega Mall we have here) on the first day of the month.
Everyone just got their paychecks, and they’re all out there at Carrefour to spend every millime (cent) of it like crazy on stuff they mostly don’t need, but are buying anyways because there’s a big red and yellow sign saying “PROMOTION” on it.

Suddenly, the laws of physics don’t apply anymore, and you actually can fit 15 adults in 1 square meter, not to mention their shopping carts and kids, who act as if this is the first time they actually step out their home doorstep and see what the outside world looks like, not wanting to miss one moment of it without proving to everybody how insanely active they are.

Another amazing phenomenon is what happens at the cash registers, it’s incredible how everyone totally believes they were standing in that queue before you or that they deserve to pass first, multiply that by 30 cash registers, and then believe me you’ll start thinking twice before using the word havoc in the future.

Oh well, i think its obvious i made the stupid mistake of going to Carrefour on this cursed shopping day, only to find that every other Tunisian beat me there, lol…
Anyway, i’m ok now, i just have this darn headache, a raging temper and god knows what else boiling inside of me !

Today was the first day in what we Tunisians call “S

It’s incredible how wrong a person can be when he thinks: “Things can’t get any worse than this !”, coz they can, this heat seems to keep wanting to out-do itself day after day, making life miserable for us mortals…

Just came back from checking out a number of ACs and their prices, and well i feel like kicking myself in the head for not buying that unionaire AC in the beginning of the summer for half the price ACs are at now

I can’t help but fantasize of that cool Training room i spent most of my day in today, even if it meant having to answer an endless flow of questions about web site management by two people who shouldn’t be anywhere close to a website, lol…

Good thing i’ll be back there for more training on Wednesday, bad thing is i’ll have more questions to answer, so i’d better be ready and take my anti-stress pills (just kidding) 😛