a gazzillion laughs and quite a few drinks later...

I have come to the conclusion that sometimes you need people in your life that you can sit and laugh with. About anything. About people, funny college stories and maybe even yourself. These need not be life long friends that you sit and speak to for hours together and have heart to hearts to confess all your ambitions and fears. They just need to be people you can hang out with, have fun, and not care.
I made quite a few at work.
One of them being - Alastair (aka Allibean)

Alli to me is just someone I can go have a gazillion drinks with and be mental and not be judged because he doesn't judge. He doesn't care what people think and he says it straight out - he can be a very mean person.
I had a few friends meet him and they didn't quite get him. They thought he was obnoxiously rude. I however, love him to bits. I could be crying about something one minute and he will come along and give me a sensible talk to get me to stop because he doesn't believe in crying and then just make me laugh till my tummy hurts. In crazy Dubai, you need people like this. Real people. Anyway, he is moving back to the UK on Tuesday. To say I am sad would be an absolute understatement.
Allibean, if you are reading any of this - don't take it to your head.I don't mean any of this.
I just want to fill blog space. And I know you told Nicole and I not to, but after a couple of drinks, I will cry on Sunday night at your leaving drinks thing.
So there it is. It sucks when people leave. But what can you say? I left some awesome people in the states and I felt terrible about it. Cried a little. But when it came down to it, I figured that sometimes, actually most of the times, there is nothing you can do. So we need to thank God you met them to begin with, and then laugh at everything crazy you have done together.

Thank you bean for the funnest Chi trip ever. And yes, it was a total fun time yesterday evening bar the brief moments of drama. I will really miss having someone being that ridiculously mean to me all the time. Even when I'm nice.

laugh-a-lot.

so i have been a little blue lately.
just stuff going on.
and i have also been super bored which makes me feel bluer (if that's a word).
and to solve the problem, boo decided he should find a quick, easy way to make me laugh and make me not so bored and so on and so forth.
so the darling of a boo bought me Dostana.
and before i say anything else - no, i had not seen it before...i know, i know. everything you are saying, i know.


but anyway, stayed up watching it last night and couldn't stop laughing.
and i think it is one i can watch over and over again hence, good movie to own! and it sorta motivated me to loose weight again because piggy chops looked nothing short of a Goddess. and which girl would NOT want to look like that huh?
but anyway, laughing does help and takes your worries of everything.
for everyone who has not seen the movie - and i bet there isn't a living person who likes bollywood who hasn't - watch it. and please don't think too much. it is just one of those awesome, colorful, bollywood movies where the best part about the movie is, you really do not have to think. :)

another visitor...

I got to spend a whole day with T. A whole day = 13 hours.
We went over to the Madinat, had some coffee and food at dome. Then walked about, spoke about home decoration and the whole world.
Then we went over to the Park Hayat for a drink. And God knows how pretty it is out there. Anyway, we spoke again about home decoration and the whole world.
After which - we went to watch Luck by Chance. It was a good movie but just really slow.
And after having Andy scream at 4 Filipino movie attendants by accident, we dropped her off to Sharjah and got home.
At the end of it all, I'm home sick again. As in Minnesota home sick.
But anyway, its great to keep having visitors from there. Reminds me that I do want to go back some day.