Exhausted

I am sitting in my room and I don't want to go downstairs because my other aunt and her husband came from Iran recently and they are over now, they spent the night. So I should go downstairs and say hi. It's just a bit intimidating since they are SO religious. As soon as I woke up (around 11 a.m.) I've just been checking e-mails, facebook, and reading all the blogs I keep up with.

Right now I'm craving the typical chai and noon panir (bread & cheese) breakfast so badly but I will feel so guilty since they are all probably fasting. I would be fasting too except I'm on my rag. *shrugs*. I'll just bring it in my room and eat it while watching an episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Sounds perfect actually!!

I have to study so much this weekend!! I already have a test this upcoming week! BOO! And I have just been SO exhausted everyday 'cause of school, the walking, the heat, the buying of books, the staying out till late 'cause a good friend is leaving. So very exhausted! For example, yesterday after school, me, my friend and sister went to the Monarch bar at the hotel Zaza in the museum district to get some drinks. There, I decided to put some of my camera-taking skills to use and took a pic of our delicious drinks and of the big classic church nearby:

Also here is a pic of later in the night and I have no idea who took it or how it turned out the way it did but I just think it looks really colorful and kind of reminds me of trance music

After the drinks we went to the Museum of Fine Arts to watch the screening of "The September Issue"as I absolutely had to go see it! And it was so wonderful, Anna Wintour is everything I expected her to be. But most of all, I fell in love with Grace Coddington, she is truly an inspiring character. A dreamer and as she said herself, a romantic. She has such a great vision! Both her and Anna Wintour. They just have such an eye for fashion, style, and beauty.

Anyways, need to go eat. TEA FIRST!

I took this pic and posted this blog after I ate breakfast...it was very appetizing and everything I imagined it would be. Haven't had Iranian-style breakfast in a while!

Update: just now my mom called me downstairs and apparently, my aunt brought pesteh tazeh (fresh pistachios) from Iran.

Hehe, I guess there is an upside to your overly religious relatives coming to visit. Not that I have a problem with religion, I mean I am fasting this year for crying out loud (although I have been drinking while on my rag). I've also been praying 5 times a day since fasting (except when on my rag of course) so I guess I should get a little credit. I never took it this far before. I just never got the concept of praying to God in a language I don't understand and having no idea what I'm saying to Him while doing so. It just never clicked for me. But this particular aunt of mine is very very religious to the point that they just never felt comfortable here in America. Her husband wouldn't even look at us in the face since we don't have hijab. Also, once when I was in Iran, I think I was about nine and was going to a mehmooni (Iranian gathering/party) and all I was going to do was hop in a cab and go straight to the all-women's mehmooni and straight back home. And so I didn't want to bother wearing my pantyhose underneath my montoh (I guess in english this term would be trench coat, a much lighter trench coat). I hated wearing pantyhose at the time, although now I find them quite stylish. So do you know what my religious aunt told me? She said if I didn't wear the pantyhose and continued to show my legs, that God would take his hot, fiery scissors and cut the meat off my legs for exposing them. I was nine. And let me tell you, the imagery of those words were terrifying. Needless to say, I wore the damn pantyhose.

So, you can see why I am a bit skeptical towards my religious aunt and her husband. But I am older now and I believe they have grown a little bit more liberal so I think this visit should end up o.k. Here's hoping!