Maybe another Piscean trait of mine but I love fish watching. No, not endless staring in front of a fish tank, which is often a sad and contrived environment anyway. But actually going out into the ocean and watching them in their natural habitats. Yes, I heart scuba diving.
DB has his birds, I’ve got my [...]

So Bush is in town today and tomorrow and is creating mass chaos. He’s staying in Abu Dhabi but is in Dubai for a “meeting” at the Burj. Wouldn’t be surprised if he just wanted to have lunch there.
Anyway, instead of utilizing the Burj’s helipad, he is DRIVING! So the following roads will be [...]

I was going to blog about diving today but something very exciting has happened – It rained in Dubai!
Yes, it rains so infrequently here (it’s not called the desert for nothing) that when it does happen, it’s headline news, it’s happiness bursting from inside you, it’s wanting to do the rain dance hopping up and [...]

Hurray, I get DB to myself for 3 whole days! He normally gets Fridays and Saturdays off but due to the Islamic New Year the private sector received Thursday off as well.
Some tidbits about Al-Hijra:
Al-Hijra, the Islamic New Year, is celebrated on the first day of Muharram, the month in which Muhammad emigrated from Mecca [...]

DB has been nagging me the last few days about taking down the christmas tree so that’s what I’m doing right now. We only have 7 ornaments so shouldn’t take too long. Of course, I thought the same thing when I put it up.
Silly thing took me 2 whole hours to put up [...]

Back in day, when I first heard people joke about English or Scottish weather, I thought I could never live in a place that was overcast so often. But then I started to notice that many winter days in NYC are actually quite overcast. For long periods too. Maybe that’s what makes the winter so [...]

One of my favorite easy-peasy meals is Fish-in-a-Bag. Everything goes into a foil packet or parchment paper, it can be prepared and refrigerated a few hours prior to cooking, and then popped into the oven when you or your hubby gets home. In 20 minutes, you’ll have a nice piping hot dinner with hardly any [...]