{"id":85,"date":"2010-08-28T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2010\/08\/28\/updating-my-life\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T11:53:00","slug":"updating-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2010\/08\/updating-my-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Updating my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><b><i>Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah<\/p>\n<p>Okay, here I go again. \u00a0Cleaning my virtual house, as it were. \u00a0I have spent the morning online trying to streamlline my presence on the web. \u00a0New e-mail address, import the old ones, change my FB name, Google Voice\u2026. Now I think I just have to check one e-mail address that everything feeds into. \u00a0Should make life a tad simpler.<\/p>\n<p>InshAllah today I will be productive. \u00a0Laundry, an ongoing process. \u00a0Making ta\u2019amaya. \u00a0Working on cross stitch. \u00a0Mediating disputes between my kids. \u00a0Whew, tired already. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still working on Surah Yasin. \u00a0I left it for several days after we all started coming down with tummy viruses. \u00a0InshAllah I\u2019ll get back at it this afternoon. \u00a0I really love this surah and memorizing by listening to Muhammad Ayyoub is really relatively easy because he is easy to understand. \u00a0Oh, and no particular reason for the picture here \u2013 just thought it looked nice. \u00a0It\u2019s one of my dragon avatars from Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>Fi Aman Allah,<\/p>\n<p>Nancy<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0yMZuk8QSeI\/THkw4yNKWLI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/jK289sI5EwE\/s1600\/medley_001.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0yMZuk8QSeI\/THkw4yNKWLI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/jK289sI5EwE\/s320\/medley_001.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Okay, nothing profound to talk about at the moment. \u00a0My mind is on getting into the kitchen before little Zaid wakes up. \u00a0Have to take the new food processor hubby brought me for a spin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8276196425188955527-4571289782839625127?l=muslimahinprogress.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah Okay, here I go again. \u00a0Cleaning my virtual house, as it were. \u00a0I have spent the morning online trying to streamlline my presence on the web. \u00a0New e-mail address, import the old ones, change my FB name, Google Voice\u2026. 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