End of 2006!

2006 passed so fast!
The high lights of 2006 for me besides being relatively healthy and have my family healthy too are as below:
-I got my current job, which was so important to me. This is my ideal job and I hope I can stay in it as long as possible.
-We had a legal issue with the pervious owner of our house, thank god, it is all resolved without going to court or paying any money from our pocket!
-We had a nice vacation to Europe!

Since I have started blogging, every year I set some resolutions for myself. I should say that my resolutions for 2007 are not that different from last year.
I should be more positive and try to be relaxed as much as I can.

There are two big plans in my head for 2007 though! If you have read my blog last year around this time you know that I was talking about making my mind to have another kid, although I am not 100% sure yet but I think I will try to have another kid . I am doing it just for my son; I feel he is lonely and would like to have a baby brother! I cannot guaranty the sex of baby. I myself prefer a girl! I hope I don’t change my mind though!
Before any trying for baby I want to go to Iran for visiting. I have not seen my brother and other relatives for more than five years now! If I can take off from work, I will try to go in May. I really miss Iran!

I hope I can do my plans! You never know what happens in life!!!!!!!

I wish you all a very happy new year full of health, success, fun and $$$$$$$$$$$$$!!
Thank you for visiting my blog and live your comments. I always enjoyed them and I am happy to have you as my virtual friends!

The Game!

It’s been couple of days that Persian Bloggers have started a game and so every Blogger writes 5 things about herself/himself that readers don’t know about that person! At the end she/he invites 5 other bloggers that she/he knows to take part in the game! Every blog that I have been visiting in last couple of days has taken part in this game. I was thinking to myself that I am not going to be invited because I am not a popular blogger! Anyhow I saw that Natalie has invited me. I thank her here and I take part in this game too!

Since I mostly write about myself, and my family in this blog who ever is my blog reader, especially the ones that has read it from the beginning must know a lot about me, but there are few things that you may not know and I confess to it very honestly here:

1-Some people think that I am pretty (!) but I always wanted to be taller! My height is 161 cm but I always wanted to be somewhere around 170 cm!! Sometimes I think if I had played Volleyball or Basketball when I was in growing stage I could have my ideal height now!

2-Since I was a child I always thought I am going to be a very rich person when I am a grown up! I have a comfortable life but am not rich. Whenever I buy Lottery ticket I think to myself that may be I win and then become the rich person that I always thought I would be someday!!

3-When it was revolution time in Iran , I was about 5 years old and we were living in Isphahan at that time. We had a neighbor that had two girls around my age; their family was so much into revolution and took part in some demonstrations! I and their daughters used to go to each other’s house to play, one day my Mom had some shopping to do and left me there to playing with their kids. Their Mom got a call from a friend that there was a demonstration going on close to the house, so she decided to go and take us with her! People yelled and said things against Shah Regime, I would repeat with them along with my friends! When we came back home my mother found out and got very mad. Now that I think about it I cannot believe what our neighbor did. How she took the responsibility to take me to such a dangerous event without my Mom knowing about it! Any way I was banned playing with neighbor’s daughters for a long time!! Now I can say that I was part of revolution in Iran !!!!!!!!!!!!!

4-I usually get upset fast if some one bothers me or say something or do some thing unpleasant to me but I can easily forgive and forget. There are two people though that I cannot forgive them at least not yet, one of them is the boyfriend that I had in Iran before I moved to US and the other is my ex-sister-in-law. She is already divorced from my brother. These two persons broke my heart really bad and I am still mad at them! Hopefully I can forgive them some day soon!

5- I have read Daee Jaan Napelon book ( a very famous funny Farsi story) at least 10 times and each time I laugh hard with it and at the end I feel sad that Saeed could not marry Leily or at least go to San Francisco with her!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok Now I think I should invite five bloggers to take part in this game, most of bloggers that I read their blog already took part in the game so I invite those who may not have taken part yet: Jessica, Sahar, Nazanin, Jan (he is not a Persian blogger but may be he likes to take part too!) and Natalie again since she did not do that much of confession!!!!!!!!!!!

Misc

-It is holiday season again and people are going crazy with shopping and holiday planning. The bad part is I see that lots of people feel obligated to buy presents for their family members and friends. That put too much financial pressure on people, some big families make it like a raffle, they pick a name and just buy present for that person, which is more reasonable! I am happy that we don’t have such a custom in for Persian year and is mostly giving presents or money to younger kids.
Not only buying present for every one is expensive but also is so time consuming! Yesterday I was passing buy the biggest mall of our city and the line of cars in freeway to get to the mall was so long! I myself just buy present for some kids around us and that’s it! We have bought good stuff for my son though, he thinks Santa is buying them and will bring it at Christmas night and leave it under the tree! Whenever he misbehaves these days I tell him, do you want me to call Santa and ask him to return your presents to the store! And he says, NO please no! This trick is at least working for now!

-We are going to Las Vegas for New Year! Since we are taking my son we need to take my Mom or my mother-in-law so when we go out at night someone will take care of him or at least be there while he is sleeping. I obviously preferred to take my own Mom but she does not like long ride in the car (it is about 6 hours drive to Vegas from San Diego), and my husband wanted to bring his Mom so we finally decided to take my mother-in-law with us! I hope it goes well and she does not go on my nerve!
They say the coolest places on New Year’s Eve are either New York City or Las Vegas. I also heard that people go crazy and we should be careful about the drunken people!!

-Last night I was flipping a Persian magazine which has usually interesting articles and is locally published here. The title of “ the will of great Dariush( Persian king) to his son Khashayar shah” caught my eyes and I started reading, it was so interesting, he was so open minded and his advises to his son was mostly about human rights and keeping empire safe and prosperous! One part that was really interesting to me was that he said to his son that Persian Empire contained 25 countries, and there were countries with different religion and different culture, he advised his son to never interfere with people’s religion, beliefs and culture!
The other good advise of him to his son was, visit my tomb every now and then so you remember that no one lives for ever and you will go some day too so never be too proud of yourself!
There were lots of other great points in the will, but I was amazed that how open minded our king was about 2500 years a go and how closed mined are our so-called leaders today! What happened to Iran? Why we lost all that glory? My husband believes if Arabs had not taken over of Iran we would have a better country today and we would not loose all that great culture and glory! May be he is right! Who really knows?
Any way it always makes me sad to see we had such a civilized country with rich culture and now our people are suffering from injustice and human rights violation every day, they are not free to pick their own religion or speak up when they are unhappy about laws and rules! I wish someday not too far Iran gains back the glory that deserves; at least most of Iranians deserve it!

Small World!

Last night we were invited to a family friend’s 50th Birthday party! It was very nice party and every one was dancing all night! I did not expect such a cool environment and some people were dressed up in 60's attire. They had written in on invitation card to dress up in 60’s attire but I myself did not really pay attention to it! Anyhow the interesting thing that happened was I saw a familiar face from Iran, He was my first love's cousin. I fell in love with this guy’s cousin when I was 21, but we were not really right for each other but even after our relationship we stayed friend and some how lingered on our relationship but when I came to US I decided not to stay in touch and start a whole fresh life. Any way seeing his cousin after eight years that I had not any news of him made me anxious to ask about him and see how is he doing. The cousin said he is not married yet and like before he is back and forth to Europe. He was confused soul and could never decide what he wanted in life and that made me think that he was not right for me. Any way I thought to myself what a small world!
I told my husband the story at the party too. I never hide any thing from him and he knew whom I was talking about! It is interesting that we are always curious about people's life that had a role in our life some day, that does not mean we still love them or any thing but our past is part of our life and we should just keep it distant but respected! I hope he is happy any way, the cousin asked me if I was married and I said "Yes". He could see the ring in my finger any way! That was a dumb question!
I am happy that I am so open with my husband and he is so understanding and respectful, that has created lots of trust between us.

Santa Clause

Yesterday my son was telling me that he wants a new CD/Tape player (He listens to music all the time and he has ruined the one I got him when he was just born) and I told him if you are a good boy Santa Clause will bring you one and put it under Christmas tree for you. He still does not know much about Santa Clause! He was happy about it! Later he asked me what that Lady’s name was. I said what lady? He said the Lady, The one that you were talking about! I still could not get it what he was trying to say; now he was frustrated that I did not understand him. Finally he said I mean the one that is going to bring me the present and put it under Christmas tree! I burst to laughter! He thought Santa Clause is a lady!! I explained to him that he is a guy and my husband said he will come to your school tomorrow and visit you when you have your Christmas celebration at school (they are going to bring Santa Clause at school to take pictures with kids)! He added that Santa Clause has long white beard! My son said beard? I don’t like beard!! That’s because he does not like it when daddy kisses him and he is has not shaved!!
Any way the whole story was so funny to me.

We thought that now that we have the Christmas tree we should put presents underneath for him and pretend that Santa brought it for him! So when kids talk about Santa’s present the day after Christmas in school he does not feel that he was not good enough to get some thing from Santa!!

I should confess that I myself enjoy all this a lot! Now I should find time to go do shopping for him alone and hide every thing some where in the house! And then put them under the tree at Christmas night!!
Don’t you want to be a kid and enjoy all this again! I want to!! But his joy is my joy anyway!