Well it was my turn to get up with the boys this morning and when my half-opened crusty eyelids peered out our family room window i saw white stuff. i figured it was just those little sleep cookies that get caught in the corner of your eyes kinda floating around in the muck after rubbing my eyes... but i was wrong! it was snow!

here are some pics of us enjoying the snow!

how it is snowing @ 34 degrees beats me... but just enjoy the neat-looking weather widget pic.



















































































"what is this white stuff!?!?!"

he was actually having fun... just a weird moment picture.






























i'm melting!

i was having trouble sending this pic to a friend... so i decided to just post it on the blog. we went to washington dc a few years back and a buddy of mine snapped this baby.

the mullet was a real fashion statement in the late 80s/early 90s. it has since gone out of fashion... the way of z. cavaricci, black turtle necks with gold chains and tight-rolled jeans.
may the skullet live on forever!

i went to the local etisalat building (communications company) to setup my DSL. i wasn't terribly shocked to discover that it was going to take 2 weeks for them to make their way out here to actually start it up. well 28 hours later i received a call saying that they were on their way! they sent two guys who each had about 1/2 of a clue... so in the grand design they were supposed to compliment each other. the problem was that these two both had the same half. regardless... i knew what i was doing so i set it all up myself and had it going in just a few minutes. my mom said that the service was obviously better here than it was in egypt... i wish that were the case... i know that i just got lucky... or was it more than luck?

Here are some pics of our new flat! Yay! We have a home again!

You can click on the slideshow to take you to the site where they are stored and see bigger versions :)

Here are pics of Christmas... the actual one as opposed to the Christmas in November.


You can click on the slideshow to take you to the site where they are stored and see bigger versions :)

We celebrated Christmas in November... when we were home in the states for Thanksgiving. Yvonne's parents, her sister and her family, and my mom were all there.


You can click on the slideshow to take you to the site where they are stored and see bigger versions :)

Christmas is on the 25th... today is the 25th... and this is my 250th post on the blog.
Coincidence? I think not!

i love it.












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Phone Pics

well as many of you know we went back to America for thanksgiving with our families. it was a great time of decompression and refreshment. you really have no idea of some of the stresses that you live under until you are out from under them. we're back in country now and adjusting back to the middle eastern time zone. it is really messing with me.

we got in about midnight a few days ago and we got the boys in bed around 1:30 or so and we went to bed at 2:30. they have some stinkin' sweet shutters in our country where you can lower them and the interlocking slats block out any and all light from the outside... it can seriously be pitch black in the bedroom at high noon. it's wonderful. the phone woke us up and when yvonne saw the clock in the family room, she thought it was broken because the time was exactly the same as when we went to bed. my cell phone was still set to eastern standard time so i called my buddy here and said hey and asked him what time it was. he told me it was 2:30 in the afternoon... the clock wasn't broken, it was just 12 hours later exactly.

the night after that though we didn't get to bed until 5am and woke up at 9:30. last night we got to bed at 3am and woke up at 11:30 wishing we had set an alarm to help us adjust to the time difference. so tonight we went to bed at 2am and set an alarm for 9am. it is now 3:10am and i just watched an episode of 24 because i was wide awake.

jet lag is seriously lame.