My Phone Miracle

Yesterday I lost my phone. Biggest tragedy of my life (not really, but really for my thumbs). I left class with books in one arm and my phone in the other. I got to my car and put my books and phone on top of my car to get my keys from my bag. I got the keys out, unlocked my car, put my books inside my car, got in the driver seat and drove away. A few miles down, I drove over something and at that moment I thought it was something dead but boy was I wrong; it was my phone! After I didn't find my phone in the car, I decided to check use iCloud to locate it. Guess where it was? On a highway, a few miles away from campus. It was too dark and I had no motivation to drive back to get my phone (30 miles there and 30 miles back) so I took a risk and decided to go during work the next day. I checked my phones location on iCloud, made a prayer and went on my journey to find my phone. I drove to Washington Boulevard, pulled over and began my search. I looked and looked and looked. That crazy person you saw walking in the median on the highway was me. I almost gave up but then there it was, my beautiful phone just lying there. No broken screen. Just pure beauty, with a few scratches. My miracle phone. 

The was my wonderful start to a wonderful Friday.

Then for lunch, Eisha and I enjoyed our food coma from Elevation Burger and Sweet Berry (which by the way is amazing--crepes AND gelato? Yes please!)

My Elevation Burger with lettuce, tomato, pickles, elevation sauce and cheese

Eisha's Elevation Burger with lettuce, pickles, ketchup and cheese

Eisha's Chocolate Gelato Crepe with Bananas and Strawberries 

My crepe with Vanilla Gelato crepe with Nutella and House Cream

Joke on a Box + Date Night

Yesterday I had lunch with one my favoritestest (yes, thats a word) person from GMU, Michelle. But before I get to that, I would like to discuss how aggressive my new dentist is. 

I went to the dentist for a regular clean up and man oh man, was that an experience. Other than finding out I have a new cavity, thats number 4, I learned how strong teeth are. The dentist was using her tools so aggressively I thought she was going to pull my teeth out. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure she is a wonderful dentist and knows her stuff but geesh, as Sadiah said it, she must have fought with her husband before my appointment because she was pissed. 

So yesterday I decided to break in my new shoes I bought online (I saw them on some online fashion blog and wouldn't resist). I got the Ecuador Sandal from Nisolo and I love them (don't hate Sadiah). On their website, they recommend you get a size smaller than your actual size because the shoes are made out of stretchable leather--I usually wear a size 7 but I got a 6.5 instead. When I wear the shoes, they feel very snug but the company swears that they will stretch so I am sucking up through the pain (the things you do for fashion), hoping that one day they will be the perfect fit.

How cute? They'll go with everything!

This looks a bit blurry for some reason

In addition to loving the shoes, I also love the company. When I was ordering the shoes online, under the "special instructions" box I told them to send me a joke (I saw someone doing this online and thought it would be fun to see if people actually did this) and guess what--they actually did! I think I'm going to start doing this for everything I order online. 

How clever!

Okay, enough about shoes, now about Michelle. Michelle is one of my closest friends from GMU (undergrad). She was a psych major and I was a psych major so we had some classes together. I will never ever forget this but for one of our exams,we had to memorize the stages of grief and Michelle came up with DABDA: D for denial, A for anger, B for bargaining, D for depression and A for acceptance--best mnemonic ever--to this day, I think about this every time someone talks about the stages of grief. 

We decided to meet at P.F. Chang at Potomac Town Center. I think this may be the fanciest place we have in Woodbridge. I like P.F. but its not my favorite--the food is decent. I got the Coconut Curry Veggies and we both split a Great Wall of China (I miss the small "shot" desserts they had). I think we were at the restaurant for about 3 hours (I may have missed a make-up class) but you never get bored with good company and topics like being adults and getting married (AHEM, MIKE--just kidding (not really)).

Ball game

I must post these pictures tonight or otherwise Bushra might just commit an assault and battery on me. Today we went to the Nationals game against the New York Mets. The kids schools start Tuesday and Bushra wanted to take them out before the studying started again. Although I'm not a big sport follower, I do enjoy going to a baseball game. My first one was in 2008--my awesome neighbors (Amy & Brian) took me. The best part about the experience was as we were leaving the stadium, a foul ball came towards our direction and Brian actually caught it (or attempted to). After a struggle with some other people who wanted to claim the ball, Brian finally got control of it and gave it to me! First ball game and I got a foul ball. I'm not bragging but come on, that's a pretty good story. Here are my quick phone shots to prove my story. 

Anyways, today my sister dropped the kids off at my work and I drove them to DC. Even with navigation, I got lost for about 29 minutes (that's right, 29 minutes). I hate driving in DC and on top of that, I'm horrible with directions. Horrible. Finally got to Bushra's work and like always Bushra didn't show up 20 minutes later. We drove to the park and found an incredibly close, too good to be true, parking near the stadium. After paying for the parking on the phone we finally read the sign that said "no parking during events" (oh and the cars parked nearby were all cop cars). I really wanted to move the car but Bushra convinced me to leave it there (mainly because she said she would pay any parking ticket I would get and was a parking ticket "expert").

We then walked to our seats and enjoyed the Presidents Race and the game (excuse the quality of the pictures, these were taken from my phone)

The Nats were so close to winning but lost 3-2 or is it 2-3 (my knowledge of baseball comes from playing the Wii). After the game, they had a great firework show sponsored by American University (it lasted much longer and was much better than I expected--definitely worth the wait).

After the fireworks, I rushed out to make sure my car was still there and hadn't been towed (I took a quick shoe shot during the walk back--I love these shoes!)

As I got closer to the car, I didn't see any of the police cars parked near my car but before I could have my panic attack, I saw my beautiful blue civic parked right where I left it. When I got closer to the car, I realized I had not only not gotten towed (that made sense, I think) but I never got a parking ticket! Alhamdulillah. As if that wasn't a great way to end a Friday, we had Taco Bell on the way home. A happy end to a happy day :)