Eid Mubarak! We made it through another year of Ramadan. Insha allah, God will accept all the good deeds, fasting and prayers of the Muslims during this period of time. I was relieved to come to the end. I was growing tired and weary of the slow pace and being stuck to the house. The traffic was a nightmare, if you can only imagine it worse than a regular day. Everyone's moving like a mummy, and I start getting irritable prior to Iftar. By the time you break fast, one just wants to sleep. Thirty days is surely long enough for me, I don't know how Jesus and many others did it for longer periods. I finally got a chance to go out and search for my new laptop. I have decided to purchase a new laptop since mine is unable to support new software and other technological gadgets. I hate to spend the money, but sometimes we have to do so. Yesterday was the first day of our feast. We went to Carrfoure out on the desert road (Carrefoure is a French version of Walmart) and it was completely packed. I hate to shop in a crowd, and Egyptian families move in herds. If you wish to get a can of Tuna, you have to push into a family of at least 8 to get to what you need. They are not buying, just spending time and enjoying. We went to check out the computers and printers...and ended up buying everything else but that. I even came home with new pillows for our bed.....this was not in my plan. We got home around 2:00 am and I still do not have my new PC or printer. The frustrating part is that when I buy this PC with all the whizbang features, in a couple of months it will be outdated! This will be my third laptop since 1999. The first was a Toshiba, the current one is a Sony, and I guess after my survey last night, the next will be a Hewlett Packard. I will keep you posted to my shopping adventures for regarding electronics. Should be interesting!
Until next time,
A Woman of Egypt