Reminisces of a Voodoo Doll

Many things happened during my blogging dormancy. But they can be classified under two W’s: Work & Wedding!!

Wedding Memories!

Amoon’s wedding FINALLY took place on the 5th of Jan.
Though I was marginally involved in the preparation of the wedding, the week just before the big day got me exhaustively entwined! And I thought I would be able to unwind and relax just before the wedding, Huh!!
Highlights of that week:

• 28th December: Amoon & I spent her last weekend of freedom getting pampered at the Kempinski Spa and then the night at the suite enjoying the sisterly bond. She had on a red T-shirt that said it’s her last weekend of freedom while I had one that said I’m still very free! :D
• 29th December: Roamed the malls to find a decent dress for my cousin who came from Yemen especially for the wedding. It would have been normal, except that I had that damn red t-shirt on as she and Zein wore their own red ones. It was fine with me till I had to go to Wafi with it!!! The shame!
• 30th December: 1st Eid with Dahman & Zein!
• 31st December: The bride saw her gown finally. So did Hippo, Nana & Shosho. I also got to see mine. However unlike the others I cried! HORRIBLE GOWN that I would never wear even if I was paid to do so, and the wedding is in 4 days!! Mom & Manal as well as the flower girls still did not see their gowns!
• 1st of January: Depressed and stressed, I started working on Amoon’s life story to be shown during the wedding.
• 2nd of January: I went shopping for a new dress. Found the first dress I ever tried on at Dior for half price!! Excited and somewhat relaxed, I reserved it till Thursday when I’d get to see the other gown the designer promised to create for me. At least I have a plan C!
• 3rd of January: I went wild. I’m officially blonde and blondes are supposed to have more fun!!
• 4th of January: Kept calling the designer but with no luck!!!
• 5th of January: 1 am – I got to see my second gown, a bit large but I didn’t care by then as mom’s gown was a disaster!! Manal’s fine.
  1:30 am – Went out with Amoon to check on the ballroom’s preparations.
  7 am – convinced mom that she should let me take her shopping the second they open the shops (midday as it’s Friday!!)
  130 pm – Went shopping, find nothing for a gown, mom decided to wear a gown she had bought for another occasion but never wore before!! We bought the accessories needed as both us were prepared for gowns with completely different colours!!
  3 pm – Hair & Makeup started. WOW that was great makeup!!
  6 pm – Back home to get ready and go, & the bride called in tears. The flower girls just saw their dresses and they are crying!! Their dresses were DISASTEROUS as well. Amoon asked me for a favour: go to Wafi and get them something decent!
  7 pm – Hair in rollers under scarf & FULLY made up, I went shopping again on the wedding day and this times for the kids. Lets just say that I’ll wear that red shirt any time to this!
  8 pm – Headed to the wedding!!
  830 pm – Made it through the door, and mom did not recognise me! I love my make up!!

Then it was All Blur!!! I just remember that I ran a lot to and from the ballroom to Amoon’s room, and danced in between the running and I’m not even sure what songs they were, and cried when Amoon finally walked in. I don’t think I even saw who came from the guests! Then Jassem came in, and I remember having to go up and down the stage to help Amoon with her dress each time she decided to dance! Oh and I remember when I took off my sandals at 4 am to change from gown to jeans and the pain that made me almost cry when I tried to put them back on again.
I remember thinking Thank God It’s Over!!

One thing for sure, if I ever get married, not that I think there is anyone who deserves to be my husband, there will be no wedding!!! Give me the money, and I will spend it my way, have fun my way, and I will wear a very comfortable white jeans and top!!

A month since the wedding and I miss Amoon. I miss her presence. I miss the fact that she is just next room. I miss her annoying habits, how she never caps the toothpaste, leaves her shoes just in front of the toilet and places the shampoo bottles inside the bathtub. I miss the ability to just yell her name and tell her to come to my room and then whisper all the gossips. I know she is an hour drive, and I can call her whenever I want, but I was never good at calls or visits. But as some wise man once said C'est la vie!


Work Tragedies

The voodoo doll is not working!!!
I don’t really have a voodoo doll. It’s a Ross cute and ugly voodoo doll with one button eye and “issues” stitched on its ass. It came to the office to relieve Hodz’ pains.
It was very popular with many others however. We all loved to stab it and came up with new places to pin it.

Then Hodz left!!!
Hodz have escaped the zoo we work in!! Though Di & I were sad to see her leave us, we were so excited that she did. She gained back her freedom, and her sanity would soon follow!!
She got a great job in a great place with people who actually understand the business and she does real work and not just ego caressing! It’s so refreshing to know that such places exist!

The voodoo doll was then inherited by Di
Di needed the doll. She needed to stab something that would not land her in jail!
We were still allowed to pin it now and then.
For a couple of months, Di and I would go to work just so that we can bitch. And did we bitch?!!!
Now really, we NEEDED to vent.
No one can understand the pain except if they worked under the same roof with Capitan Clueless, AIDS, Abu Alhoul, Balls Scratcher, Kinder Surprise & Cobra and added to the mix the dim-witted Sylvester.

Then I got Chicken Pox
And did I get it?!!

Then Di left me!!
The bufukers did not fulfil on their promise and they tell Di just a couple of days before I take my leave for the wedding. Di resigns and walks out immediately.
I almost cried that day. How am I going to survive without her?!!
I mean of course I’m happy for her. She felt the relief immediately. I can even envy her. But we were the last of the Biatches. Prince Monk, Hobase, Hodz & Di are all gone and I’m the only one remaining!! Wasn’t I always the one remaining??

And I return to work after leave.
To hear that my presence ruined the day of the woman who has no professional ethics, the woman who was behind Hobase’s being let go. It cheered me up that I could make someone like her cringe. And of course I hear later that she is after me and that she will get me F I R E D!
Darn!! Now she ruins everything! Now I have to stick on to prove her wrong!! And make her cringe some more!! AND MORE!!

Today….5th of Feb
5th of Feb 2002, I was an innocent sweet girl who walked into her new job looking forward to meet all the new people. Today, I thank Allah that I met so many people during these five years who most became friends. And I mean many cause we have a high turnover!!
Today I feel like I’ve served a prison sentence and that I need to escape soon before it turns out that I was just waiting for the day of my execution!

Move out people…dead woman walking!!

Where is that voodoo doll, I need to stick few pins in it!!