Summer Loving**

It Sunday 06/24/07, The third official day of summer.
The days are longer and the nights are shorter. People can actually do something after work, go to the park, boat riding and definately do the summer favourite "cook out". Well i cant help but to wonder what my family members are upto, while i ponder my thoughts in my work cubicle being the only member who works odd days of the week. The sky is clear and blue with temperature of 85 degrees F.As i am looking outside the window, I can see couples walking their dogs, family sitting down for a picnic in the park thats across my work building. They must be having a good time,How i wish i could be there..:(

Then i realised, is this what every 25 yr old does. My life revolves around my work and my home. I neither have female friends nor boy friends. Not that am complaining, I have already had experiences with female buddies and am not looking forward to go back in my college days. Right now, I have no strings attached. I have no reason to lie to my parents that I am hanging out with my buddies at a wedding and yet i was getting my groove on in the clubs.There were times that i ran out of excuses and i had to wait for everyone to sleep so i could jump off the balcony to go party. Believe me this is just peaceful, but sometimes you get tired of peaceful and the multiple personality freak who i like to call "HALIMO" wants to come out. what do you do in such cases?

My mother is actually my best friend, Isn that weird?HAHA!
Thats why i have decided to write my inner feelings, thoughts to the blog so that i can release an escape "halimo" in me that i cant share with my HOYO.
I tend to give "Halimo" some loving and attend some of the family weddings. Although i am not a big fan of one. All somali weddings seem to have the same theme. Let me break it down for you.

1. The MAMA's get to get their groove on with BURAMABUR and HEELO dances ( hope thats the spellin, forgive my somali). chanting and praising the couple, family and last but not least the CLIMAX( tribes). Women get to dance and shake their tail feather just to show off their jewelry and what they have on.Mind you this starts around 10 pm.

2. Then comes the dinner, that is served around midnight when the couple have already arrived.
Alot of the younger generation prefer coming to the weddings at this time so that they can pass the noise of the traditional dances.Dinner consists of samosa, chicken legs, Anjera Habashi, alot of spices, curry which means heartburn at 1.am.I always pass that, dont want to spend the rest of the night living in the bathroom

3. After everyone is full , Then the somali band( FANANIIN**, hope that is the spelling) find their way through the stage to entertain us with old somali songs that have been remixed to fit the current beatz. Although i can say that is the best part of the night. T his will go on till the wee hours of the night, maybe even till morning prayers. Never the least 90% of the attendees have to work the next day. For what price do we have to torture ourself for the name of GOOD TIME.

In my opinion, gossiping is one of the reasons people come to the weddings.They want to know what the bride wore,how she looked.? Is the groom worth her or vise versa.? How much did it cost to make the wedding?. Last but not least, Just a recap on everybody' life e.g "You know who got divorced, and somebody's husband married a 2nd wife etc". That is all BS to me.
As they say if you are in Rome you got to do what the romans do".

Every weekend in Summer, there must be two weddings or more here in Minesotta. Its known to be the **STATE OF UNION**. If you want to get hitched you better start packing, and visit. One piece of advice there are alot of wolves here, Make right choices and you will do good.

I love SUMMER, its just full of drama,,,

~Long Distance,