Power Yoga and Justin Bieber!

Today was my first class in power yoga, I mean WOW!! I didn't know that I could sweat like a dog, no, no, actually my two Chihuahuas don't sweat at all! so I retract my claim, so they won't get offended in case they read my blog! First the room was a mere 95 degree! talk about being in a sauna for an hour while working out!! oh boy, oh boy, how much can a women's body endure to feel and look better? and for whom? for her husband of couple of decade who barely look at her.... ( well, she doesn't look at him either! so, there is equality in marriage after all) or does she do it so other women can admire her new LOOK, while saying under their breath, " that bitch looks better that me". Maybe this will motivate them to do something about their extra 50 lb or so that they are carrying, as for you miss twenty something! I don't want  to hear you bitching about gaining two and a half lb and that  you weigh now 118 lb instead of 115 and a half lb! come back in ten years or so, and join us, you will get it all by then! For now save you breath and complain to someone who cares, like an anorexic girl who considers herself obese for gaining couple of ounces. She might understand what you are  talking about. But  "US", middle aged women, we have to be  overweight by over 30 lb, before we start even to complain, otherwise, we thank our gene pool for keeping our figure, not our munching habit! We are obsessed with our looks just like teens are obsessed with Justin Bieber! We even think about it during our dreams, just like teen girls are thinking about Justin in their daydreaming and their nightdreaming.  Come on women! you know what I am talking about! Standing in the front of the mirror day in and day out, disturbed by the bagginess dangling under our sagging breast!

Will there be life after Facebook?

Let's roll back to seven or eight years ago! Do you remember how you spent your day? A day without checking your Facebook page at least once? Come on, don't deny it! it's OK, admit it, I won't tell anybody, cross my heart! Just like over 15 years ago when we got our first email account and started checking it a couple times a day! Even spam email and chain letters were cool! Boy we came a long way baby! Today, most of our so called social life is centered around our Facebook status. How many friends do we have? What kind of friends do we have? How many comments or likes did we get on today's posting? This lingo didn't make any sense just ten years ago. Do you still remember My Space? Facebookers of today won't even admit that at one time of their life they had a MySpace account. They claim that it was so lame and only for trashy and uncool people! (Don't tell anybody, but I still have mine...I only check it every five months or so. I thought, well, you never know, maybe it will be back in fashion one day again, that's if I will still remember my password by then!)

 

I wonder if I would've been as involved in Facebooking the way I am now if I had lived in a place where my friends and family were close by? I probably it wouldn't be into it as much as I am now. I feel that Facebook is my direct interaction with friends and family; phone calls have become inconvenient due to our even more individual lifestyles. We don't want to be called or call the wrong time. We'd rather leave a facebook message than pick up the phone and call. Facebook makes me feel as if I am talking directly to my family and friends without worrying whether they are having dinner or a guest or they are in an important meeting. Sometimes they respond with a comment, and other times with just a "like."

Even if they don't respond it is OK with me, as long as I got what I wanted to say out of my system.

 

How about what I am doing now? BLOGGING! I don't believe the word even existed in the dictionary over ten years ago. Isn't it weird? Before blogs were invented, diary books with keys were the only way people expressed their personal feelings on paper, unless of course if they were writing their autobiography, which in that case would've been somebody interesting enough or known enough to find people interested to take the time to learn about their struggle with math! Today we are able to let the whole globe know how angry we got because our husband didn't pay us a compliment on our new dress!! Go figure!! Some people might say, why would we expose our so called dirty laundry for the whole world to READ! Well, we can always blame it on globalization like we do most other issues that we have no direct answer for. To some degree it is true. Globalization in general, and the Internet in particular, allowed us to get in touch with people and places we never knew even existed.

Let's not forget about cell phone and text message evolution. I was one of those who resisted the temptation of catching up with the rest of the world of having a cell phone as a must have device as important as TV or microwave in my life (if not more). With laptop it was a different story, I was a firm believer in the evolution from desktop to laptop from day one. the only complaint i have back then that I should have my own, since I hated sharing my computer or wait for my turn to check my email. but today, even laptop is not enough, since it is not convenient to drag your laptop to the grocery store or the  Sunday mass, cell phone proved to be the winner on the must list. when it come to texting, it will eventually turn us into mute people. some people even text or send a picture message to people sitting next to them, we all have done it at some point.

I would like to get over a list of words that didn't exist or didn't have the same meaning like today, as back as two decades ago, yet they became part of everyday language, people who do understand or use more than 50% of them, must have been in a cave. (except Bin Laden) well, I take it back, he turned out that he wasn't in a cave, but i will save this one for another blog...

Here is the new tech lingo that we didn't have couple of decades ago

feel free to add more if I missed something

1. BTW
2. laptop
3. iphone
4. smartphone
5. download
6. screen froze
7. computer crash
8. USB
9. blog
10. online
11. you tube
12. google
13. yahoo
14. amazon.com
15. website
16. URL
17. netflix
18. upload
19. search engine
20. twitter
21. messaging
22. link
23. online banking
24. HTML
25. spam
26. tag photo
27. status update
28. poke
29. .com
30. .org
31. mobile phone
32. share
33. news feed
34. log in
35. log out
36. app
37. update
38. recent activities
39. post comment
40. delete
41. undo
42. bluetooth
43. wireless
44. print preview
45. copy and paste
46.  alt delete
47. webpage
48.  the like button
49. limited profile
50. browse
51. pop-up blocker
52.  file attached
53. www
54. http://

I would like to come back to this blog couple of years down the road and check to see how many words we will be adding to it
 Some of my future's predition:

1. book stores will go out of business, (it's already happening)
2. news papers  will be without paper instead will be read online
3. mall number will dwindle more than 70% and department store with be things of the past.
4. satellite dishes will become a fade and disapear
5. will find a cure for cancers and Aids but new fatal  disease will replace it.
6. more school and college will become online
7. camera will be only a part of the phone.
8. desktop computer will become absolete
9. Electric cars will become a common site on the road
10. a new drug will be discovered for overweight people
11. plastic surgery will be replaced with wornder drugs and laser surgery
12. people with look younger, and live longer
13. pens will be rarely used
14. people will read more summaries and less books.
15. more and more people will be working from their home
16. wars between countries will be reduced and replace by wars between corporations.
17. Facebook will intergrate or merge  with other social network like skype where you will be able to video chat while you are on Facebook

A New Phase of My Life!

This year (2011), has been a milestone year in my life, I closed an old chapter, and started a new one, for the better.

First of all, I became half a century old; yup I hit the big O! This year, I have been questioning life more than ever, looking back at my life, at what I have accomplished so far, being grateful for good and the bad and the ugly, and looking forward for what I am going to accomplished in the rest of my life, learning from past mistakes, appreciating and accepting things, yet, enjoying and accepting people more than things. I am watching nature with admiration, something I didn‘t do or have the time to do before, I take pleasure listening to birds talking to each other, breathe more deeply, taking things slowly, living one day at a time, accepting everything that comes my way, in another word, I am truly living the NOW,

This year, I moved to a new place, new house, new city, and new state. I met new friends, and let go of some people that left me drained. In all, it has been a pretty stressful year, it was good stress at best, I tested my ability to get rid of most of my belonging, gave away four of my beloved cats, (Tooti, Bibo, Baby, and Im Riche,) Endured the loss of my dog Mister and two of my cats, Roori and Bibo. I have been away from my kids for over two months for the first time (they are over 700 miles away). But  best of all, my beautiful daughter got married, I impressed  myself with my ability to put together a beautiful wedding in less than two months, of course not without the help of my wonderful family and friends, and the blessing of my dear mom and dad. I sold two properties, and rented third one. And I finally became vegetarian, feeling better than ever. I am taking an hour and a half walk with a wonderful new friend Mia. Best of all I am now closer to my favorite place, the BEACH!

My wonderful husband and I have more time to spend with each other, regardless whether we are talking of not talking, being with each other it's all what’s matter, we love each other's presence. after 31 years, you don't have much left to say to each other, yet, you can read each other like an open book, I don't know whether it is good thing or not,  for that I will need another blog to cover it.
 After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. Hemant Joshi
 but overall, it has been a great year!! this doesn't mean I am satisfy where I am now, I am far from that, I am still in search for my calling in life;  I hope to find it before I hit my late seventy, that if I live to that age...my goal is  to leave this world a little better, or at least live to see it a better place, no war, no bigotry, no racism, no suffering, cure for disease, and the lists goes on....

"I been always fascinated by quotes, but now more than ever, I feel quotes sum up life experience in a sentence, sometimes in a funny way, and other in a serious one, either way, it give us short cut on life so we can learn from people who has been there, done that! I collected below some of my favorite quotes that sum up this blog.

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein

Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Budha

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." Robert Frost

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace.


Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickinson

Things to know about me

Names I go by: Hadhood, Mommy,  Hoda, 
Jobs I 've had throughout my life: sales person, Credit Manager, Medical Office Manager,
Place I lived in:  Lebanon, Germany,  USA.
 TV Shows that I like watching: House Hunter International, Saturday Night Live,  Queen of NY
 Places I have visited: Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Mexico, England, Spain, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Bahamas, Malta, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, USA, Greece, Haiti,Porto Rico, Dominica, Tabago, St. Martin, Barbados, Granada.
 Places I would like to visit: Morocco, Jerusalem, Argentina, Chile.
 My favorite food: Thai foods, Pasta, Beryani, Couscous.
 Things I like to do and make me happy: Talking to my mom and dad on the phone. Visiting my children in D.C. Curling up with my dogs and cats in bed.
 Pets that I owned, or owned me: dogs, cats, hamster, bird, Rat, crabs.
  Favorite drinks: Sparkling Water, Thai Tea, Water.