A-Z Blog Challenge

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Me, being the big blogging procrastinator I am (I still have half written drafts yet to be published from months ago), signed up for the A-Z Challenge a few days ago spontaneously.

Why, you ask? I'm not sure myself. It might be exactly what I need to get back to blogging more often. Either that, or make me never want to write another blog post in my life. We'll see.

What is it? Bloggers participating are supposed to post something on their respective blog every day in April except for Sundays.  In doing this you will have 26 blog posts--one for each letter of the alphabet and each day your post is supposed to involve the letter of the alphabet for that day.

Will I really post every day for a month? We'll see. I hope so!

I think the biggest challenge for me (even more than actually posting everyday) will be keeping the integrity of my blog already. As in, not to just post for the heck of posting... but to have blog posts that actually make sense and seem as if I would have written them anyways.

Are you participating?

By the way, is it a bad sign that I still don't know what I'm writing about for tomorrow?

 P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.

The Versatile Blogger Award

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Ms. Blasé nominated me for a blog award about two weeks ago and I completely got caught up in everything! It just caught my eye in my inbox as I was clearing my way through it so I'm posting about it right now before I give myself the chance to put it off again.

Thanks for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award! And I apologize for taking so long!

Anyhow, I am supposed to share seven things about me. Wasn't that one of the most difficult things you had to do for introductions in school? How am I supposed to share 22 years of life in said amount without talking about the generic stuff!

Here's what I just came up with:

1. I love love LOVE the color purple. As if you couldn't tell by my blog that's all purple. My room is purple too! 
2. I was born in Pakistan. Grew up in Canada. And now reside in the U.S. Talk about confusing! :)
3. Until the eighth grade, I was absolutely positive that I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. So much that at every family get together or when my younger cousins came over, I would play school with them, teaching them what I was learning then in school. Can you imagine teaching a kid five or so years younger than you what you are learning when you are in elementary school?
4. Then in the eighth grade, in my history class we discussed the constitution in great lengths. I could not be more interested! I immediately became more and more interested in the law. I remember I went home that day and researched online as much as I could. Soon, studying law and becoming a constitutional lawyer was something I aspired to do. Let's see what happens with this one.
5. I met two U.S. presidents in two consecutive days. In my own state! One of them came to my university.
6. I love politics and ESPECIALLY elections! Click here to see what our living room looked like for the 2008 Presidential Election night. It's never the same and oh so intense.
7. In sixth grade, I got the Principal Award (I think that's what it was called) for having the best grades in my entire middle school (sixth, seventh, and eighth grade). We had an assembly for the awards and after all the other awards were called like the honor roll (for everyone who got all A's I believe it was) I started crying because I thought I did bad in school for the first time in my life. I was so upset with myself that I completely missed the whole introduction about the principal award and the only thing I heard was my name and then applause and my whole class smiling and urging me to go up to accept the award. 

By the way, crying should have been a number on it's own - I am the most sensitive person I know! I cry about everything -- happy, sad, whatever.

Thanks Ms. Blasé! It was a nice way to reflect back!


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BBQ in 38 Degrees

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Call me crazy, but we just BBQed right now. I believe it was around 38 degrees outside... but who cares? Certainly not me :)

Doesn't it look delicious? I marinated the chicken yesterday during Earth Hour  :)

P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.

Earth Hour 2011 Follow up

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The candle below was the only "light" we had on in our whole house during Earth Hour earlier today.

And you know what? It was great.

Not only because it felt nice to do our small share for our planet... but because all four of us sat around in the family room (in the dark) and talked about old memories and such.

I mean, come on, how often do you do that?

It was like for an hour, everything else was put on a stand-still, and... it was just nice.

You know what else I did? I marinated chicken to BBQ tomorrow. Yes, in March. I've been craving it for a while, so figured why not? :)

So did you take part in Earth Hour? What did you do? I'd love to hear about (and even see pictures) if you posted some.


 P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.