Fall

-Fall is back again and I remember the falls back in Tehran . School would always start with first day of the fall and it would make the season even more unpleasant. The worst thing about fall and winter is short days and long nights which makes you be more at home rather than outside. It can be very depressing if some one is already heartbroken and lonely. I really like the nature color in this season though! It’s beautiful. We don’t see much of the fall and winter here in Southern California because it never gets very cold just very few days of the fall and winter can be cold and the rest is just chilly and some days are like spring days or even summer. I know it sounds nice but you can get easily sick in this kind of weather and must remember to always have a jacket or something even if it looks nice out side.

-These days I have two little issues that one of them is related to my health but so far is not a big deal, I should do more tests and find out more about it. The other one is an issue that we have with the pervious owner of our house about some legal papers that our lawyer says we are OK and it is not a big issue, but still makes me a little bit worried. I think Peace of mind is the best thing in life, even little things here and there that make back of your mind to constantly thinking about it can take a way the peace of mind from you! We don’t really appreciate the peace of mind unless we somehow lose it for a period of time!!

-Last night I was watching a program that was an interview with Dr. Andrew Weil who is
A great advisor about health and how to use herbal and natural medicines to improve your health issues. He was saying that the very first thing that can make every disease worse and make people age faster is Stress. He was advising to avoid stress as much as we can! I guess he is right. I myself should work on that a lot!

Anoosheh in Space!

Every one has heard the news about Anoosheh Ansari, the originally Iranian lady who traveled to space yesterday! Good for her. She is very smart and successful (check out this link: http://www.nipoc.org/Anoosheh_Ansari.htm) and to me very brave, I don't think I can ever travel to space. I always have short breath phobia and part of it, may be is because of my allergy. Whenever I am in a small room, especially with few more other people I feel I have short breath. When I imagine to be in a spaceship, I feel I would have short breath for sure!
Would you travel to space? I really admire all the efforts and hard work to learn more about other planets and stars but there are still alot to discover in our own plant and alot problems to resolve., like eliminating poverty and war! If I was that rich to spend money to travel to space I think I would consume it for poor people in our own planet! Don't get me wrong I am not anti technology or discovering other planets and I absolutely support it! I am just talking about my personal choices here!

Googoosh

-We went to Googoosh concert (the most famous Iranian female singer. She is a legend for several generations) on Saturday night. It was so good, our seat was OK in first session of the concert but after the break, my husband’s friend who was the camera man of the scene told us that he could take us to the front section, since he had seats reserved for his friends and family, our seat was fantastic ($500 seat!!) and I really enjoyed the concert. She was singing for 3 hours in total, she was amazing with her unique dance. She sang all my favorite songs! I really think that nobody can replace her.

-I had very nice surprise yesterday. My cousin in Iran that I was very close to her when we were kids sent me her engagement pictures. I did not know that she is re-marrying again. She got married when she was just 17 years old and had two kids from her ex-husband (they live with father based on Iranian law and stay with her over the weekends). Her husband was very abusive and used to hit her a lot. She tried a lot with him but could not take it any more and finally got divorced, now she has met somebody after five years of being single and they are getting married soon. I am very happy for her; I hope this one is a good one. I think it was my uncle and his wife fault that let her marry so early! My uncle is a very rich man but most of his time is spent in making more money! He never spent enough time with his family and his wife always has problem with him, may be this was one of the reasons that my cousin got marry early, to get out of that house!
I hope she will be happy this time.

-Yesterday we were talking about blogging at work and I told my co-workers that I have a blog! They were so curious to know my blog address!! I told them, “NO way, I do not share my blog with any body that knows me in person “( actually I have just shared with a friend that was my ex-co-worker but she is different I trust her a lot!). They were telling me that they will search and find out!! I said:” Good luck!”

A grateful post!

We had a long weekend. Monday was Labor Day. Labor Day in US is different than the rest of the world. In most countries is on May 1st but here is the first Monday of September so people have a three days weekend! It was nice but hot!

I had a shock today when I was eating my lunch my cell phone rang and the ID caller was showing a number that I did not recognize. When I answered the phone there was a child with almost same voice as my son, he was just saying Mommy, Mommy with a teary voice. For a second I thought it was my son and the phone got disconnected I called back the number and now it was not answering, it was a male voice mail. You don’t know how many bad thoughts came to my mind right a way. I just thought some one kidnapped my son!!
I called his day care while I was shivering and my hand was shaking. The one minute that I was on hold until they transferred me to his classroom took like one year to me. I talked to the teacher and she said that he just had his lunch and is lying down for the nap. What a relief. Logically I knew it was impossible that someone could take him out of the school without me and my husband permission but when you are scared you lose your logic! I can completely understand the feeling of people that lose their kids. I think that is the worst thing that can happen to the parents! Thank god that it was just a misdial!

Oh I am so thankful that we are all safe and healthy! How we can forget about all the good things we have and nag about stupid things like my self over my last post.

I talked to my ex- co-workers that I am still in touch with them. Poor things, they are still up in the air they don’t know when they are going to be outsourced. My ex- boss is retiring on January 1st. So I have a feeling that the team won’t last more than the end of the year. I hope they offer them good options and they can find job in other departments so they won’t need to go to private section. Any way I feel so grateful again to be able to get my current job I know if I had stayed there I would go crazy! And on top of that I really like my job and am learning lots of new things.

God, thank you so much for all you have given me and forgive me for my ignorance towards all the prosperity that you have offered me in my life!