I woke up this morning to come on Revvy to write a blog about some very strange happenings that I was embraced with yesterday morning but then i got caught up with commenting on all the current threads and this site is just getting busier Alhamdulillah.

Two nights ago, my dad took away all of our gadgets and kept them in the frontroom because he felt like it. Whyyyy dad whyyyy is what was going on in my head. But yes, i guess after his little talk on making the most of Ramadhan i guess i know why he took them away. That's when i realised how ADDICTED i am to a screen. Well not the screen. Things that i do ON this laptop that i don't know what i'd do without.

During this 'separation' my youngest sister wanted to take out my YELLOW BIG GIANT WORDSEARCH so i let her and we sat on my bed to have a go at them. She won. I lost. How can an 11 year old be faster at me at completing word searches? How crap have i become at things i was once pretty good at? How can she finish when i still have 10+ words to look for and how have i let her ask me 'Can i find them for you because you're taking too long?!'

So the next morning i was up really early because my body has not adjusted to waking up late in Ramadan and i decided to get that GIANT YELLOW WORDSEARCH book out (to practice and get better?) and as i was looking through the pages trying to find one that hadn't been started i found out lots about myself and my sister - the one whose not much younger than me.

We used to 'share' this wordsearch book, but really it was MINE but i was nice and didn't want her to miss out back in the day and we used to write messages to each other like: [insert sisters name] Please can you tick those you have done AND she'd write message back to me like Hummus [insert real name] I can not [deliberate spacing between those two words] find anymore!.

I carried on with my observations and i stopped at wordsearch number 68. I stopped there because memories came back. I took this wordsearch book on my first EVER trip to Turkey and on the day we were leaving i remember walking down the steps of 'Garden of the Sun' hotel and i asked one of the girls that i'd met whilst swimming to write her name and address inside my book.

And there, in pencil was a girl's name and a very odd email address, the silly sort that you make when you're a kid and you think it's 'cool' to have it really long with all these weird spacings and underscores. (My first ever email address was one of the awful sort too)! So I want to email this girl and tell her what i have told you about finding her name and email address in my wordsearch book. I doubt she'll be using the same email address but it's worth the try anyway!

And on this same page was a quote. It said: 'Time is the herb that cures all diseases'. Benjamin Franklin said it. The first name sounds familiar. The surname sounds familiar. But the two names together don't sound very familiar. Does anyone know who he is and can someone explain what he meant by his quote?

Then i found a little, actually it wasn't little, it was quite a long rant written slanted across the top of a page about my parents and how they wanted my sister to clean on 22/05/2010 which was a very hot Saturday morning. Lol, it just made me laugh so much. Not far from it, i found: When you FELL angry keep silent. Not FEEL, it said fell. Probably just a spelling mistake.

Three years have passed and she would still say those exact same words. I think i should show it to her when she wakes up but i'm scared that she'll cross it out and i won't be able to keep it. I'm not going to tell her anymore otherwise i risk it being gone forever.

We were such crazy kids. Every time we'd find new words that weren't listed, we'd act all clever and make a small square with the word besides it and then we'd tick the square to make it look like we knew lots of words and had found more words than we actually needed to. 

Now I need to hurry typing this away and get changed but i'll just mention just a bit more. I went to the back page and found Hummus [insert real name] is a fat cow and ugly. HOW DARE SHE!? So that's why i wrote WHATEVER, WHOEVER WROTE THIS with an arrow pointing upwards to what she had written. I wonder why she wrote that? I must have annoyed her for some reason or another.

I can't believe how long i've had this wordsearch for and i can't believe it's not completed yet either. The earliest day i can find is on the 7th of October in 2006. BLIMEY! 2006 man and it was Ramadan at that time too. THAT means that this book is SEVEN YEARS old. 

Seven years old. Seven years old. I need to absorb that into my head. Now for those of you who still have word searches or who keeps things for memories, i would URGE you to have a look around in the places of your house where things are kept and look through them. You'll smile and you'll laugh lots.

I think i had a lovely childhood (minus the not-so-good things ofcourse).