2006 Highlights

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Happy New Year, ye faithful readers!

I can't believe that 2006 is already behind us! It's insane how time flies by so quickly. Some highlights of the year included (not in any particular order):

1. Traveling to Madrid, London, San Fran, LA, Vegas, and Paris. All for work, but I also had a lot of time to spend exploring or with family. My favorite city to visit had to be Paris. The history and romance of the city is pretty enticing. Madrid was great because in order to be a girl living there, you have to be hot, which bodes very well with me. Vegas was both entertaining and excessive. LA was beautiful (Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, Santa Monica). SF was gay; just kidding, SF was also beautiful and the Ritz-Carlton there was kingly. London was pretty cool, too, and I can never tire of the coolness of the British accent.

2. Nadia's wedding. Easily the best and most well done wedding I've ever been to! Fireworks, fish broils, tents that are more elegant than fancy homes in Oakbrook, midnight basketball, dancing, food, etc. These words don't do the experience justice.

3. Umar's graduation. Finally, all my hard work paid off in May when he graduated from med school, mashaAllah. His source of inspiration, I was paramount for him achieving this monumental and awesome goal in his life. Now he's in Milwaukee. Is that supposed to be his reward?! Ouch.

4. Umar's graduation gift from his brothers & mom. A phenom MacBook Pro; the best Mac laptop you can buy (literally). I try my best to steal it on weekends when he comes back home. Haven't been successful as yet.

5. The Night of Plainfield. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2329345767604374161. Enough said.

6. Work. I guess I should mention the "thing" that takes up most of my life. Through stressful and highly stressful times, it continues being a great learning experience.

7. The blog. The money, respect, women, and power. Okay, perhaps one day. My brothers would contend that the blog has gone through a metamorphosis of PG rated entries to R rated entries. There was also Jessica. Sigh. Those were good times, but then she broke me heart and never commented again. :( We, of course, cannot forget "Empress J" (Jonelle) and Zareen. Jonelle continues to patiently await an ode for her. And Imran patiently awaits Zareen to hook him up with a larkee (just kidding -- she's sensitive about that).

8. Da Bears. NFC Central Champs again. Best record. Best defense. Urlacher. Devin Hester. Lance Briggs. Mike Brown (injured). Tommie Harris (injured). Berrian. Grossman (I still support him). Thomas Jones. Cedric Benson. Moose. Bradley (eventually). Griese (when needed). Ogunleye. The Manning's. Tillman. Vasher (though not quite the year he had last year). Kreutz. Tank. Hillenmeyer. Oh, forget this, just go to www.chicagobears.com and check the roster! Everyone on there, baby! Miami, inshaAllah!

That's it for now.