The dinner, IFTAAR* was brilliant! I made the food man, I MADE IT. ME! By myself! Ok I have cooked before of course but it’s mainly been for family members (like my own house of siblings and parents which doesn't count much since they have a kind of 'I'll eat it, even if it's not that good' attitude - but my sister not the one with the kids, thinks i cook pretty yum food) – So yeh cooking for close members of the family aside, I haven't made much (I'm talking proper big meals) except once – where my sister (the same one I just mentioned) and I (I made the main) had to make enough food for over, let me count.. Ok I can’t actually be bothered to count but it was definitely over 20 people, maybe it was 30!

Anyway today was my first ever dinner where I did everything (had a little help like cutting potatoes - thanks to my sister who I don’t talk about as much but exists all the same and is really quite the Star, ahem the one I mentioned twice up there *Arrow Up* or folding the shawarmas). I am officially a grown up! Ha yeh whatever that means.

I actually wanted to upload a picture tonight but with the hectic running around I couldn’t find my phone (or a charged camera!)so used my friends phone who has decided to stay over my other friends house which means that the friend whose phone it is, can't actually send me the pictures until she leaves the other friends house and goes home. (There are too many friends involved!) If you get me.

Given, the Tabbouleh, I thought, had a little too much garlic or was it ginger? Give me a second to remember the taste..

Garlic. It was. But hey it was still cool. I also added Jelly to the dessert section, (nothing really Lebanese about it) simply because um hey it’s jelly - Halaal of course!

Oh anddd my friend asked me for the recipe of something – yay thumbs up, that’s always a good sign!

Anywayyy so you know how when you go over to someone’s house you give them a little something, usually a bottle of wine or something (I mean in Come Dine With Me –NOT that, that’s what I usually give or get. Come Dine With Me is cool) anyway I got Baklawa (the exact one I had bought just hours before) chocolates (we’ll conquer them tomorrow) and a plant. A PLANT! I loved it, it was my first ever plant present. It’s got little flowers growing which smell lovely. I love getting ‘my first.. presents’ I always remember them most.

My first perfume present was actually quite recently (given for my birthday), last year i think - ok not thattt recent (probably because I don’t really wear perfume that much – mainly the scented oil so no one bothered to consider it a potential present for me – I wasn’t really, *aren’t* thought of to be as girly as my sisters).

It was really good, I even decorated the seating area – we sat on the floor, I decided that my mum, my sister, nephews and brother deserved the table more than we did (also because I thought that this way we can follow the Sunnah – I actually thought that, grinnnnO – emphasis on the O!)

On a side note, the story of the ‘?!’: I rang the number from another number (as in not mine) and some girrrrl answered, one of those ‘Hello?!!?!?!’ people who answers the phone in a rude way so I put it down. (I know I dead-ended it again but I didn’t like the way she answered so I thought ‘yeh whatever’)

Um um um, ok tis the season to be jolly fa la la la la, la la la la. Ok what am I talking about?! I don’t know.

Time to wind down (do you see the ‘referring back to the title’ thing going on here)..

Woosaaaahh