Love Day: Warrior Queen Noor

Happy Valentine's Day! 

In the spirit of love, I'm here to share one of my favorite bloggers, Noor! This blog lady is so sweet and runs some of the most fun blogger social events - like the #socialblogger Twitter chat and the Grab a Friend Bloghop. Get to know this lady and give her some Valentine's Day love! 

1. What do you love most about yourself?

I (personally) think that I'm so kind. I hate disappointing anyone so all I do is to BE happy and LET everyone happy. It's my most favourite trait , as I think #wink

2.  What do you love about your blog?

I take my blog as a fun place. It's funny , entertaining , connecting in a way and a little bit of real. I'm so proud of where I've taken my blog . From passion to hobby , and even I can brag about my blog . I LOVE it , I blog and it's the most lovely thing about it.

3. Who or what is most important to you? 

Family. I am too close to my twin sister than any other person on Earth. Plus I have always been a kid who's always around family instead of any other party.

4. Do you have a favorite love song or quote?

Umm love song? I have been loving "Jai Ho" from Pussycat Dolls and "Story of my life" from One Direction. They both are a little fierce to be called a love song but I'm currently in love with them both. Even I take SOML as a mean-ish song . But chica , love is even mean sometimes.

5. You've  been posting all about the wedding love - what can you tell us about Pakistani weddings?

Pakistani Weddings are SO traditional. There are lots of events but the main are three events. Henna (or Mayon) , Nikah (or Shaadi) and Valima (or reception)

I'm NEVER able to summarize it in this answer , you better read this post and this post. 

6. Who is your favorite love interest in a movie? (For example, Noah in The Notebook)

Jamal Malik (played by Dev Patel) in Slumdog Millionaire. He fell in love with the girl in film , I don't remember much but I crush Dev Patel (so hard) so this character is still alive in my mind. I loved his love.

7. What is your favorite thing to do on Valentine's Day? 

I'll be honest.... eating Lays or Cheetos with Pepsi . And a many cups of tea. I'm a team-forever-alone right now so it suits me WELL.

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48 Weeks of Doing Good

Erykka and I decided to do the #dogood52ways challenge from the Do Good Bus. Every Wednesday night, we draw a new paper from the jar; complete the task; and invite our blog readers to partake. For more information on how this started go here.

I really hope you took part in this past week's challenge because it was so easy to do! 

I didn't take any pictures of this, but I did pick up trash every day. As I mentioned last week, picking up trash is something I do daily. I just hate to see trash on the ground. We should care more about or environment and take care of it better [maybe then our weather won't be as crazy as it is].

This week's challenge is absolutely perfect for Valentine's Day and I swear that I picked it at random from the jar...

I managed to lose the slip of paper on my way to work today, so I wrote it down on my favorite notebook paper :) 

To be honest, this next one probably won't have a fun picture either...since I will be camera-less! I am so excited to do this tomorrow night at our Valentine's Day sushi date. 

I hope you have fun with this week's challenge, too! Unplugging is very important! 

#dogood52ways,


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Love Month: Warrior Princesses

Ooh, I am so excited to introduce you to these two lovely bloggers today!

I don't quite remember how I met Areeba and her twin, Noor, but these girls are the absolute best! They're so, so funny and keep me laughing late at night when I can't sleep [they're in Pakistan!]. Areeba is one of the sweetest hearts I've ever met and she is obsessed with blogging and blog design! If you're looking for a laugh: head over to her twitter! 

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1. What do you love most about yourself?
I can make people laugh. I can make them feel better. That's like my super power and I seriously love this thing about me!

2. Who is the most important person in your life? Why?
My mother. I know she's always here with me when I'll need her. Can anything beats motherly love or needs a reason?


3. If your life was made into a movie, who would play your love interest?
Murat Yildirim, please? Most of you might not be familiar with this name, he's Turkish. I've seen only one English-dubbed Turkish drama of his work and I wanted to be his heroine and I ain't even kidding. So I'd choose him!

I met Erin about a month ago and I just love her blog...who couldn't love a blog about favorite things? She's posted a delicious banana bread recipe recently and I was drooling reading it. She's also a teacher, just like me!! Head on over to her blog and check her out...and wish her warmth in that polar vortex! [Although...she looks pretty warm in this picture here].

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1. What do you love most about yourself?
I love my red hair! It's very bright and a unique shade, which I just love. :)


2. Who is the most important person in your life? Why?
My parents are the most important people in my life--they are so supportive and fun to be around. I feel so fortunate to have such a strong and close relationship with them!


3. If your life was made into a movie, who would play your love interest?
If my life was made into a movie, Ryan Gosling would be my love interest! Actually, I'm pretty sure we are meant to be together anyways, but just haven't met yet. Hahaha! ;)

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Wedding Wednesday: RSVPs and Feelings

I am so excited!! Last week, we sent out our wedding invites and the RSVPs have started pouring in!! 

Tastefully scribbled out the address / guest name :P

I made our invitations and RSVP cards myself using Photoshop. I printed the invites at Vistaprint because I got a Groupon, and the RSVP cards through Kinkos. [I print everything at Kinkos...]. The RSVP cards were postcard size so all they had to do was fill out the front and stick it in the mail!! 

I am so happy and surprised that people already started replying (I was sure people would procrastinate). I am sure we will still be receiving cards in March, though. 

Our first RSVP :) 

I was so ecstatic when we got our first RSVP card, that I posted a status on Facebook. I should have known that this would spark problems. People started replying to the status saying that they had never received an invitation...because they weren't invited.

Maybe my thoughts on this are irrational, although, I have been told they are not. But excuse me, what? Why would you write something negative on my exciting status? Why couldn't you just say "Woo Hoo!" like it, or just ignore it? 

We're having a large wedding. There are 200 guests - most of them family members, our bridal party and then a few friends that we see regularly. My definition of regularly would be "whenever we are in the area." Therefore, we invited some of our friends from up north that we see every few months, some Ohio friends that I see once every few years, but talk to often, etc. Unfortunately, we weren't able to invite everyone - not even some of our oldest friends. To counter this, we've decided to do a barhop in the evening after our reception. Most of our friends are understanding and attending this festivity. 

Can someone please explain to me why someone would publicly say that they didn't receive an invitation? 

Personally, I would never say something to someone about not being invited to their wedding unless
a) they're a close family member, or b)they're one of my closest friends that I see/talk to daily. 

If I were to say something, I would definitely be doing it in a private way...most likely through a phone call (but I suppose text or Facebook message could work, too). But publicly? On my excited status? It makes me feel so weird. 

I, of course, then had to make some embarrassed statement saying we couldn't afford to invite anyone besides family when I shouldn't even be embarrassed at all! We are paying for this wedding ourselves! We've lived at my mom's house for the past year, saving money. Iman is still driving his car that could break down anytime to save money. I worked 70 hour weeks to save money. 

But, I decided not to let this negative reaction taint my excitement at our RSVP replies!!! :) 

With these replies flooding in, I found renewed energy for planning. Today I am heading to Macy's to fix our registry items (what a pain!), tomorrow meeting with someone to get our rehearsal dinner planned, Sunday hopefully asking our officiant and Monday we are hoping to do our food tasting! 

65 days till the wedding! 

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