IKE

Ever since Ramadan started my head hurts. I'm even up at midnight with a cup of coffee in my hand. It is all I crave. Ramadan is tough specially with IKE coming through. This past week has been hell and I wish it was just the food that made it so bad. We lost our electricity and the heat did me in. I swear I got so bloated. My body retained water like a plump chicken. My joints stopped moving and I am still walking with a limp. It took Osameh several days to get to us and I was cooked by then. The minute he arrived our bags were packed and we drove to Seguin (the only place we could get a room). You would think we arrived at Disney Land the way the kids were excited over the air conditioning. We slept for like 12 hours. We went home hoping to find our electricity back but we were not that lucky. So after we couldn't take the heat, we found another room, this time in the double tree galleria, and stayed till we did get power back. I have to say I felt like we were going through Katrina, not IKE. People were acting like maniacs. The hotel had to call the police several times because people were throwing things off the balconies, running down the halls, and disturbing others. I took a picture of westheimer traffic (the pic is sideways). It was horrendous!

I am looking forward to starting class this week. I am taking a writing class at Rice. I also landed a J-O-B!!!! I am still keeping the lid on it though because I don't need anyone to jinx it. I will fill in the blanks when I get everything finalized.