I got my first blog award!

Assalamu'alaikum all,

So thanks to BluePearl...I received my first blog award and completely didn't realize it!  I was awarded the following award:

So I really don't know how these blog awards work...but thank you so much BluePearl!!  It made me feel so special :).

Aside from that...today I had an interesting day.  My husband left for Lyon, France yesterday morning.  He is doing some sort of project and the model that they are referring to is located in Lyon.  His company just flew him out there to attend a training session to learn about the program and how to start it in Bahrain.  It's very cool.  Anyways, when he first found out he would be flying to France...he was going to take me with him and try to get his company to pay for my ticket.  It didn't work out and his company bumped his flight up two days earlier and didn't even notify him until the day of the flight.  It was way too late to get me a ticket by then....everything was way over our budget.  He was just telling me how beautiful it is, how much I would have loved it, and how he wishes I was there with him.  Oh well, Alhamdulillah.  Everything happens for a reason. 

I'm trying to get used to this constant traveling my husband will be doing at his new job.  I have to admit that I hate the feeling.  I start to think horrible things.  I really do believe that it is all triggered by the crap we watch on TV.  I just make du'a that Allah (swt) protects my husband and keeps evil far away from him.  I have a crazy imagination.  I just start to think a woman might seduce him or something crazy like that.  I know my husband is a good Islamic man with a high set of morals.  He's always making me better and he tries to bring me along everywhere with him.  It's just that I also start to think that things like that can happen to anybody.  You hear of the most religious people having affairs or doing crappy things no one ever expected from them.  I just keep reminding myself to trust my husband and most importantly make du'a and trust Allah (swt).

My husband's co-worker (Ben) that I mentioned in the previous post is still here.  He is supposed to leave for a flight to England today and I've been waiting for the past 4 hours for him to get out of here.  He's still here, though!  I guess he has a late flight or something.  He's really nice and everything...but when he is here...I stayed locked in the bedroom. 

I'm kind of going backwards...but earlier today I went to the Seef Mall.  I ate McDonald's.  It sucks because I don't enjoy fast food like I did when I was a little kid.  Every bite felt like I was putting garbage into my mouth.  The only thing I truly enjoy is the french fries.  It sucks...but that was my only option really.  Everything else was also fast food and the restaurants are just too expensive.  Plus...I feel so weird eating by myself at a restaurant. 

The highlight of the trip was that I bought myself a copy of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.  I've decided I'm going to go back and read or re-read classic novels I took for granted when I was younger.  Well, the lady at the bookstore told me I could choose a free book from a pile.  She let me take one even though you had to spend 5 Barhaini Dirhams and I had only spent 1.4.  That act of kindness really put a smile on my face for the whole day.  I can't believe how that really put me in a good mood for most of the day, Subhanallah.

Anyways...my husband comes back tomorrow night so Insha'Allah something to look forward to!