Work

-Everything is almost same in my life. My boys are growing fast; my older son will turn 9 years old on Sunday. Time flew. It was just like yesterday that my husband and I were so excited when we found out I was pregnant. My first boy was a very challenging kid to raise but recently he has become a lot more mature and is a very polite, loving kid. The second one is still my baby, he is very cute and personality wise very different from his brother.

-We have a new member in our team at work. She joined our team about 3 months ago. Unfortunately she is working on some pieces of the project that I have been leading. My boss told her from the beginning that I have done almost the whole development and she should ask her questions from me. I tried to be nice and helpful to her but from the beginning she had bad attitudes, especially whenever I tried to explain how we do things here and what the standards are. She acted like she knew it all and she did not need any guidance. Any way I tried to have as minimum interaction with her as possible. To me she is rude and wants to act that she knows better but she does not, we all can see that she is struggling and is not in the level that my boss expected. One of the things about my work that I always liked was working with people in my team that were not pain in the neck. But since this woman has joined our team she annoys me a lot. Usually when people come to a new work place they try to follow the new team's standard at least in the beginning but she just keeps arguing with us about how we do things!! The funny part is she is not that knowledgeable and does not know some basic concepts! I wish I would win the lotto and would not need to work!!!!!!

Misc

-I have been lazy for writing a new post lately. Being busy is not a good excuse because I am always busy! Any way everything is OK. My kids are growing fast and they play together a lot but they have their own fights too. I think having second child was one of my best decisions in life! My older one is getting more mature and doing better in school, he is a very loving kid. The other day I was reading him a book about a real polar bear in Berlin Zoo and part of it was about the baby bear having lots of pain because of teething. I told him that he had lots of pain when he was teething too and some nights he would wake me up every one hour. I would go to his room and tried to calm him down and put some calming jells on his gums and wait until he would go to sleep. He suddenly hugged me and said. "I love you Mom, you are the best". That felt great, being a mom is the most challenging thing in the world but when your kids hug you or say I love you, you think it is well worth all the challenges, lack of sleep and sacrifices.

-Election in U.S. is close, I truly hope that President Obama gets re-elected, if people choose Romney over President Obama, we would go back ward again! I really don't like Romney. He is fake, phony and too rich to be president. He will work for rich people like himself, give them more tax breaks, let them move more jobs out of the country, start a new war so defense industry will sell more, etc.
I hope people understand all Obama has done in last 3 years and finally things are getting better, he needs more time to completely clean up the mess he has inherited!

-I become 39 on this coming Sunday. I will be officially middle aged person next year! I cannot believe that my 30's passed by so fast, all my 30's were filled with motherhood responsibilities, as I said above was well worth it! Hopefully I get more breaks in my 50's!!!!!!!!!

Happy Noruz

Happy Persian New Year. I wish everyone Iranians and non- Iranians a great year full of peace and prosperity.
May god help Iran to have real freedom.

This year I will be 39, last young year of my life. After 40 will be considered middle age! But I want to keep my heart young. My serious resolution for this year is taking it easy and be more laid back! I have to stick with my resolution ,I seriously have to...

Better

I feel better today. I have to stay present and keep the meditation practice more consistent.

I am down and depressed. There are different reasons for it.
One reason is that Persian New year is around the corner and I am
So nostoligic these days. I feel I have lots of good things in my life.
But nothing is the way that I like it to be.
I feel that I am too sensitive to be a parent. Overall I feel I am not the strong person that I have to be...

Mix

-I like lots of Iranians all around the world watched Oscar with more excitement this year. Lots of people had predicted that "A separation" would win Oscar for foreign language film but you never know until the end. Any way it was nice and pleasant to see that director Farhadi won and mostly because as he said it himself in these days bazaar news about Iran and shadow of war with Iran, Iran's name was announced for a good thing and for wining an award in art not for making nuclear bomb, human rights violations, extreme inflations, etc. I saw this movie couple months ago and for the first time after watching an Iranian movie the first thought in my mind was, how real was the movie and how real all actors and actresses had played their role! Anyway, many congratulation to Mr. Farhadi and all his crew.

- My aunt left in 2nd week of February. It was a nice visit. It is amazing that when you spend time with your relatives after you have been far from them for a while and now you have your own life and are a grown up, you see and feel different characteristics that you never paid attention to it. It seems that you know that person a lot better. For people like me that have immigrated and have not been with relatives long enough and visits have been short and sweet, spending more time with them for a while is like knowing that person all over again. The interesting thing at least for me and may be some other people is that when you grow up, mature and become independent in life you see more differences between yourself and other people even if they are your relatives. When you are young you do not pay attention to lots of details but later on in life you feel and sense differences a lot more which is not necessarily bad, you just learn to cope and tolerate everyone and try to look in positive sides more than negatives sides. That is why it is easier to find friends when we are younger!!


-Persian New year is close, about three weeks from now. I hope Iranian people get free of devilish regime in this coming New year.

Iran's bad situation...

I just read on Google news that Iran has cut off internet and has left millions of people without accessing to emails and social networks. These days I am sad and worried about Iran's situation. What will happen to Iran and Iranian people? I heard from my brother that everything is so expensive and prices go up day to day. People are so scared by government and nobody says anything. They are just stealing from people and put everything (Oil, Gas, etc) on sale to China and Russia and other allies that they have.



I truly hope that there won't be any war. U.S is seriously avoiding it but how far this can continue? I think the only solution is people start demonstrations in huge groups like millions of people come to street and make government off guard. If they do that U.S. and other Western countries will support them and may be can over throw theses vampires!!



May god help these people. Amen.