7aki Fadi

 I have been tagged by Verbal Alchemy to list 5 scents i love so what the heck, why not!

1) I love the smell of book stores, we used to own a book store in Amman and I always remember how the store smelled like when we opened it first thing in the morning, the smell of new paper and magazines and stationary is just great!

2) I love the smell of some permanent markers, lol, my God I can’t get enough.

3) When you fry garlic with coriander ( kuzbara ) . Smells amazing, no? that smell when Mom makes the ti2layeh for mlukhieh , OMG so good…oh and the smell of when you melt butter on the stove. Good food smells good especially if I didn’t have to slave over it and cook it . I want my mommy .

4) Wood smells nice. When we first moved to our house and we got all this new wooden furniture and wooden kitchen cabinets it smelled really nice

5) The smell of the inside of a new car, be it the new leather or the smell of what ever it is that makes the smell nice. Did you know that some car companies actually work on the new car smell because they found out that the better the new car smell is the more cars they would sell and they experimented with different new car smells to sell more cars? Crazy isn’t it?

I tag Kinzi , KJ and Hamza

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I got tagged by Sam and Tala to list 10 of my simple pleasures, hmmmmmm, these things make me think a lot…………

Here goes:

1) When I pick my daughter up from daycare and I see her face light up and get very excited as she runs to me and gives me the biggest hug and kiss ever. Every time she sees me she gets excited as if I was away for days, it’s unconditional love, bottomless and limitless.

2) OK, this is going to sound lame but the first sip of coffee in the morning, just the first one, mmmmmmmmm it is sooo good.
And to anybody who doesn’t drink coffee…WHAT”S WRONG WITH YOU??? Seriously…I don’t trust people who don’t drink coffee, I think there’s something wrong with their wiring.

3) Hmmm, ditching work to blog….LOVE IT..LOL

4) Gosh this is tough, let me see…Driving with the music blasting and the windows open

5) Competing with my daughter to who’s swinging higher, seriously, sometimes I take my daughter to the park for selfish reasons…so I can go on the swings.. he he he…oh oh and the park we go to has this WIKCED huge slide..LOVE IT

6)In the morning my daughter climbs into my bed ,lies next to me and she puts her palm on my cheek and her nose touches my nose and she says, “are you awake Mama”, I just melt when she does that )))))

7) When I read the last page in a book…oh the sense of satisfaction

8) When a song I love comes on the radio. I get super excited and I sing along.

I give up. I can only come up with 8.

I am not tagging anyone. I guess the tag dies here.

R.I.P. Tag.

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OK this is my first tag ever ever from the Arab Observer

1. If there was a fire at your house and you could save only one thing (item) what would that be?
My Daughter. But if it was a thing it would be the box of all our pictures.

2. What is the most embarrassing situation you have been in?

Once at a parent teacher meeting my mother was meeting with all my teachers and I kept pushing her to meet my phys-Ed teacher because she was my favorite teacher.

So after my mom finally met with all the teachers we got to her and my mom asked her about me. The teacher said: “ She is good, but I don’t know why 7aki always gets tired and can’t participate in the class”.
I was devastated because I never missed a class and she had mistaken me for somebody else. 2a3adet abky :’( .

So at the tender age of 9 I learned that a person (me) can be obscure.

3. If you can do over a part of your life, what will you change?

Hmmmm, let me see, maybe traveled more? I would have definitely traveled more.
What else, maybe I would have forgiven my dad before he passed away ( I am still working on that one)?
Bas the rest is OK.

I tag, , Sam, Who’s Sane , Rambling Hal, Roba.

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