Cup of tea with Aisha

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah dears :) jummah mubarak! It has been a nice Friday, ma sha Allah. I had an job interview at 12 for caretaker work, and at the end of the call the interviewer lady welcomed me back. Alhamdulillah! I'll start to do gigs as soon as possible. I actually have applied for certain customers, but this gig work we agreed on is even better in my situation, because I can control better when I'm ready to make more work and when less. I also went to do grocery shopping and bought everything. I feel so happy when our fridge is full. Simple blessings, but not to be taken granted of. Then we had dinner, prayers, watching tv. Suttis has been so calm lately, mostly he wants to sleep and eat. But he has been active too. I need to wear wool socks around the house when he is roaming freely because he likes to bite toes and doesn't hesitate. Luckily he is a bit slow (but sometimes he manages to surprise me... ouch!).  ... I'm happy with this progress. I have ...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh :) how are u? I better make some tea! Today has been fine, alhamdulillah. I went to grocery shopping and the pharmacy. Spent the day home with hubby. Oh, and I got accepted in one cosmetics testing group, I'm happy about it. I will tell more about it later in sha Allah. So yeah, easy day in my own bubble.. I do worry about news, and finances, but I try to be on the positive side.  ... I see you have gone, dear readers. I was hoping for similar reader rates than November and December, because I was thinking to monetize my blog. But it's ok, I'm glad that I didn't, because it wasn't such a good idea anyways. It would have meant that you could have still read free, but there would be those annoying ads and pop-up ads. It's ok, I try to figure out something else.  And I do see you, who come back still. Not individually, but I have seen US in the statistics for a long while, and of course I have some Finnish readers ever...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah everyone :) how's your weekend? Greetings from the sofa corner. Today it was -16 here in Helsinki, Finland, and I did what I had to do as a Finn: go for a nice, crisp walk in the forest. I love the cold, at least these temperatures. More than -20 degrees starts to be too much, hehe. The walk did good, alhamdulillah. Even hubby said that my face looks brighter :)  It feels good to just go out and enjoy my time. But I enjoy being at home too. We ate our dinner and then I baked some cookies with the ingredients I could find (cocoa cookies it is). Now the guys are sleeping, other in the bed and other in the curtains, and I made a nest in the corner of the sofa. ... I'm on my period. This time it came early, I didn't even have time to think of a pregnancy test. This is a big test for me. There's not much that I could do right now. Except keeping the hope up. It is difficult, like tests are, and this is really wearing me out. But it also remin...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah :) how have you been? I read the news every day, and I wonder what to say anymore.. I just hope you all are safe.  Monday we had a glimpse of sunshine, Tuesday I met a new friend, alhamdulillah, and today I did some grocery shopping. No work yet. Next month I will start in another anxiety tackling group, in sha Allah I will learn something new there. Days pass by steadily (but how it is still January??). I feel stronger sometimes, and sometimes I don't care. But I take it as positive growth. Not every battle is mine, or it's not the time for it.    ... I also got my makeup package today. From France 👒,  Avril cosmetics . I ordered mascara, refillable lip balm and a lip oil. I normally buy the mascara from some Finnish online shop, like  House of Organic , but the brown shade I'm using was sold out everywhere. So I went to Avril's site and found the lip oil too which I was looking for before. The mascara is my favorite for m...

 Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh dears :) jummah mubarak! Today I didn't have anything to do, minimal chores and stuff, so as it is snowing lightly, I headed for a small walk to enjoy the cold. Yes, I do enjoy the cold. I like how the frost bites your cheeks a bit, and can use the fluffiest puffer mittens without them being too hot. The snow makes everything beautiful and people seem more calm, just doing their thing. And it's nice to come back in and have a hot cup of tea.  ... I promised last time to bring out my winter wardrobe heroes, and here they are :)  1. Black college pants I don't work or study, so I hardly have to look presentable. So I basically live in these college pants. I bought them years years ago from the local supermarket, and they have stayed as new all these years. These goes with tunics, long shirts and knits, and it's easy and comfortable to wear leggings under them for extra warmth. 2. Shirts + knit vest Shirts are nice to layer wi...

Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah :) how are u? I've had a peaceful day, alhamdulillah. Now I'm in the kitchen, boiling some water for my tea, while my husband and our dinosaur are sleeping in the living room. So cute, ma sha Allah. I finished my chores, so I have free time now. :) ... Sunday evening I got terrible anxiety, like an anxiety attack. It was hard to breathe and my heart was beating hard, I felt dizzy and sick to my stomach. And it just didn't pass. I tried to relieve it as well as possible, but my usuals didn't work so well. Hot shower did though. And some sisters made duaa for me ♡ I did have a nurse's appointment the next day.. Before that, when I was leaving home, I told my husband that I'm so nervous that I'm about to faint and then we laughed about it, and that helped. And at the nurse's I got to vent my emotions, and that helped too. I got a prescription for these kind of situations, a medicine I can take when needed, so I went to pick t...