I'm writing to you via my newly delivered birthday gift...yippee!!! My gorgeous Dell laptop finally arrived today. I can't even begin to describe how cool and NASA-ish it is. It has every technological bell & whistle I could possibly wish for. I told Ed what three colors I liked and asked him to surprise me. He got Midnight Blue for me, but I prefer to call it Cubs Blue. :-) It is BEAUTIFUL.
Speaking of B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L, this laptop of mine allows me to tell you of how my love is having my engagement ring custom made. An amazing jewelry designer with the most quaint shop in Little Italy, Miss Jenny, is going to create the ring of my dreams for me. For as long as I can remember, I've wanted a cutting edge, modern, strong yet feminine ring. I would have purchased it on my own, all for myself, that's how much I've wanted my dream ring. Now, I won't have to. My baby dolly, Edward, the love of my life, will bestow this band of love upon me. It is going to take a few weeks to create it and I'm finding it very hard to contain my excitement. Ooooooooooooooooooh!!!!
We told our mothers on Saturday. Whew. I knew my mom was going to flip out, which is what happened. But, poor Edward thought that maybe, just maybe, his mom would be thrilled to pieces that he's marrying a Muslim girl. Ha! Yeah, right. He was wrong and his feelings were hurt. Since Saturday his mom has come around a little bit and seems to be adjusting her feelings to deal with our upcoming nuptials.
My mother, on the other hand, made sure that I understood that she is not sanctioning our marriage because she doesn't want to be responsible for my passage into hell. Marrying Ed, the qufar ('non-believer'), will buy me a one way ticket straight to the burning fires of hell. At first, after 6+ hours of crying and talking, she told me to do whatever I want to do and leave her out of it. Then she called me today to tell me she changed her mind...she will not ALLOW me to marry a qufar. Who will wash my body after death and prepare it for a proper Muslim burial? Not a bloody Catholic, that's for sure!!!
Aaargh, it is so frustrating that I don't even want to blog about it right now. Suffice it to say that if it weren't for the love of our friends and the rest of our family, this whole marriage journey would be soul crushing.
Speaking of the rest of our family, Baba (my dad) and Ed's dad are supportive and just want us to be happy. I find that interesting since it's usually the father who is more a stickler for tradition than the mother, but not in our cases. S is ecstatic for us. Ed's sister, Anne, is happy and I'm enjoying the process of getting to know her. She's got 7 year old triplets and I talked them on Saturday. They're so excited they kept shrieking. It was funny.
I've been the recipient of another beautiful gift this weekend. Yesterday morning, I was invited to hike with Lynne. She took me to Torrey Pines State Park and we hiked for about 4 miles. There was a lot of steep terrain in the canyons, tons of fascinating native California plants and amazing ocean bluffs. We were out shortly after 7 am, so the marine layer still clung to the shoreline. I felt as if I was wading through a cloud as I stared in awe at the beads of moisture suspended in the air around us. I felt like Arwen in Lord of the Rings in her fairy tale forest.
Lynne soothes my spirit. I love listening to her talk. I love her advice. I love her story of love with Amos. They had their share of family adversity when they first married and people must have sworn they wouldn't last. They are more in love than many couples I know and have known, and they have a college bound daughter who would make any parent proud. Their life together gives me hope for my life with Ed and for our families one day playing a loving, accepting role in our marriage.
I do want to say that while Torrey Pines is breathtaking, it kicked my ASS!!! My calves and glutes are so sore right now. Now I know how Lynne keeps up her fabulous legs. But, even with the soreness, it felt incredible after we descended from the canyon highs. Sometimes Lynne reads my blog.....I'm hoping she'll read this and invite me along again. :-) I had a blast!
I love this laptop. I'm sitting on our couch, our doggies sleeping at my feet, Ed's watching TV and I'm comfortably typing on my schnazzy new machine. Pretty soon I'll type on Ed's birthday gift to me while wearing my dream ring. I can't wait to wear it.
I am loving life right now.
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