I'm beginning to feel a weird sensation. I'm not exactly sure what to label it.... suspended....? a state of higher awareness.....? detached....? detached... Yeah, that word seems to fit the sensation. I feel present in the lives of the people I left behind in Kuwait, but at the same time I feel like I'm seeing everything that's happening there from a distance. Obviously, it's from a distance, right? It's like, I don't know, 3000 miles of distance... so, I guess the sensation isn't all that weird after all.... I feel hologramic in New York... I'm here in spirit more than anything else.... Like my body is still sitting somewhere on the runway at Kuwait International Airport.

I'm in a weird mood today... must be all the cold medicine I've been taking.

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Last night, FB and I made our way up fifth avenue to watch the lighting of the Rockefeller Christmas Tree. However, the lighting was supposed to take place at 9pm, so we started making our way up there around 6:30 pm..... A bit too late by Manhattan standards. The place was P.A.C.K.E.D.! The only place to watch the lighting was from this huge plasma screen set up on 51st street. So, we said "Screw that, we might as well watch it from the apartment." So, we started making our way back to our place only to get sidetracked by clothing stores and indian restaurants... Bottom Line: We did not see the lighting, from home or anywhere else.... So, that and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade makes two New Yorkie things that we haven't done.... My mom is gonna be so bummed..... Anyway, no sense dwelling on what was (or in this case wasn't), New Years' Eve. Times Square. We are SO there!! And just to make sure we stake out a good spot, we're gonna be there all day waiting!! Suck on that, New York!!

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What else has happened that is worth mentioning?? hmmm.... well, FB and I have been suffering from itty-bitty, but very annoying, colds these past few days and in order to curb our boredom, we have become Scrabble enthusiasts. And for the record, FB is kicking my a** at Scrabble! I think the score stands at FB= a quite unbeatable infinite/ Krispy = like 400 or something....

It's quite pathetic really.....

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And I will wait to find
If this will last forever....

Layla

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