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Posted under clothes, family by rahma

It’s been a stressful few weeks in my world.  My grandfather went into the hospital a few weeks back with internal bleeding.  He was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and has been on a wild roller coaster of wanting to struggle and just giving up.  Every day, there’s a call that he migh not make it.  I visited him yesterday and he’s a skeleton.   All he ate was half a little dish of ice cream.  *sigh*

My sister was in the hospital recently as well with severe anemia.  The [sarcasm] wonderful [/sarcasm] doctors she had did not communicate with her at all, and faxed her on Friday the test results that showed the possibility of a very serious illness.  Dude, you tell someone something horrible via fax?!?!????  *dur*

And my father just found out he was pre diabetic.  Although he got on a health kick 8 years ago and lost a ton of weight, all those years of crappy eating have still damaged his body.  Again, another wake up call (sign from Allah?) that I need to get serious about getting healthy.  I did not get my usual egg and cheese biscuit from McDonalds this morning.  Instead, I’m eating instant oatmeal filled with sugar.  Ok, it’s not great, but it’s a start.  *blah*

Granted, not everything is horrible.  I met Dara of Modest Clothes on Saturday and helped her vend at a bazaar.  If I ever have a midlife crisis, I think I’m going to quit my job and sell scarves.  While I have no fashion sense for the rest of my outfits, hijab I’m all over. 

I got another kuwaiti wrap scarf, which was a gamble.  I have 2 others that are a tight under my chin and are just uncomfortable.  Alhamdulilah, this one isn’t so bad.  It’s a bit tight, and the wrap bunches a bit under my chin, but not as bad as my others.  Plus, it was bright orange, so I couldn’t resist.  I also got a lime green sqare scarf *weeee*  I’m all about the bright scarves, and I didn’t have a green one yet.  Now, all I need is a late 80s party and I’m all set.

I finally got new long hijab pins as well.  I bought a dozen a few years back, and I’ve either lost or managed to mangle all but like one of them.  I was looking for the long ones with just a few simple beads on the end, but it looks like dangly is the style now.  I broke down and got a few dangly ones that are cute.  They’re excellent quality and I’d definately recommend them to people looking for hijab pins (and bling).

I also got the husband a muslimgear shirt as a present (short sleeved).  However, I do plan on stealing it come jummah and rocking it with a white long sleeved shirt underneath and my new lime green scarf.

So in conclusion, when life sucks, shop.  Ah no wait.  When life sucks, turn to Allah (swt)…and shop.