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Latest post on 16 September 2011 - 15:36
I hope you have a great day at the museum! Thanks, just debating if it's better to take the Metro or the car, apparentley you can take the green line to Al Fahidi station and it should be nearby :). I believe you can, the only trouble taking the car is that finding parking in the area is a bit of a nightmare.
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Latest post on 16 September 2011 - 15:21
I hope you have a great day at the museum!
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Latest post on 16 September 2011 - 15:07
I've been here for quite a long time too, but haven't gone yet but some of DH's cousins went not too long ago and told us it was free but I could be totally wrong though. Let me know if it's as interesting as it seems if you get to go!
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 23:07
Crazy, I was naughty and I did caramelize the onions first before I put them in it. it really makes a difference :) I'm half tempted to pass along a few other good 'tea' or party munchable recipes lol
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 22:51
I suppose some people just have to have something to gripe about :) EW has been immensely helpful to a lot of women, no matter how 'overdone' some threads may be, for some people it's just faster to type up a new thread to ask about something important than to slog through all the old posts, or use a not always handy search function.
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 20:26
way too funny! The anchor did a great job imitating their voices :D
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 19:34
If all else fails......here's some ideas I fetched online: -Leave something stinky in a bag by the door( you have a dog, don't you? *wink wink*) . The smell will make them move away. It will bother you for a while but they won't sit by your door ( and you will probably be the talk of the corridor for a while....LOL) - Buy one of those "ding dong!" electronic sensors. It will keep ringing at the slightest movement. They will figure out they're causing it and move away. (probably the best solution) - Can you decorate your doorway with some pots and plants? So buy a few large ones, leaving no room for them to sit near it. Plant something "thorny" like Cactus. Even fake ones, as there might not be much light for real plants. - Download some Halloween songs and screams. (I have a whole playlist we used to leave playing at home when we would go trick or treating, from Psycho themes to AAAAAAAAHs to BOOOOOOOOs) , ya know, "scary stuff". It will hopefully scare them away, leave it playing loud when you are not at home. Might scare the kids too but hey, you're in your home. - If all else fails, borrow a bigger dog from a friend (or maybe two.... or three) and come home with them a few times....... Good luck (AM i EVIL? MWAHAHAHAHA!) :D That is brilliant especially big noisy dogs that bark even if someone is just walking past the door! and I'm sure you have a wee gap under your door as most apartments here seem to, jab the maids in the back side with a stick or something till they get the point! :cool:
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 11:52
Chocolate also has magnesium I believe :)
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 11:38
crazyleochic, i read this post this morning and loved the idea of your quiche using potato instead of pastry (because DH doesnt like pastry, i cant be bothered to make it anyway and the potato sounded much more interesting and healthier) so i made it and want to thank you, it is really great. I put thinly sliced tomato in mine then eggs, onions and lots of cheese. Nadia, have a go if you have time, its yummy! :D I'm really glad you enjoyed the recipe :) it just kinda happened out of the blue for me one day as I'd wanted to try my hand at making quiche but had no experience making pastry and once my DH tried it, it's since become a weekly thing! BTW caramelized onions seem to be pretty awesome to add in :)
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 11:35
awww! that's just so sweet! Put tears in my eyes.
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 11:29
Old fashioned girls sleep over party? Borrow/rent/buy a big screen for a couple of great girlie movies to be watched while in their PJs in sleeping bags munching junk food, popcorn, nachos, hotdogs, chocolate etc. Buy a candy floss machine + let them make their own or chocolate fountain. A bit of freedom from watching adults for sure. I just ran this idea by my 11 year old niece + she said she'd like this. I like your idea KT, and why not let them build a huge blanket fort/tent too that can be so much fun!
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 11:27
I only put mine in a trolley when I'm the one pushing it, or if the hubby is, once one of us is about to step away from it, I take my purse again.
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Latest post on 15 September 2011 - 11:22
it happens to me too, either when I've had one too many cups of coffee or when I've taken madicine that has a strong sedative in it and I'm resisting the urge to sleep due to said sedative.
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Latest post on 14 September 2011 - 23:38
they usually want to hold the passports so that they're sure you don't abscond your visa though it is illegal for them to do so. Unfortunately it's quite a common practice here, I had one HR guy pestering me for mine (and I was on my husband's visa) :\: I wasn't giving it up for anything.
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Latest post on 14 September 2011 - 19:11
You could throw a noisy tea party with some friends who are particularly good at being loud and obnoxious around that time. :) I think you're well withing your rights to say something, enough is enough. I've been in that situation too, my DH works 6 days a week, and he'd be home on Friday trying to catch up on sleep and wouldn't be able to because all the kids on that floor would be playing in the hallway, so he'd wind up grumpy the rest of the day.
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Latest post on 14 September 2011 - 12:00
Loving the ideas....can't really make a dozen things since their is little time between nursing the baby and running after a toddler, school runs etc...most of you know what its like!! On the sweet end, have decided to do one of Nigella's esspresso and walnut cakes....always looks very fancy and tastes fab with coffee so would make for a sweet ending. Doing watermelon, mint and feta cheese skewers....they look lovely with almost no effort! Perhaps will get some petit fours - anyone know where to get some nice ones around the Springs/Meadows area? I would love to do some kind of pie/quiche but I have to admit that I don't know how. Can I pick one up ready made or order?? Am happy to make sandwiches but need some ideas for fillings. Oh and did I mention that there will also be five kids between the ages 7-2yrs!! Thinking of just doing some sticky drumsticks and some pasta for them since that is close to dinner time for most kids. What do you ladies think? making a quiche is insanely easy in my oppinion, though I've usually just gone with a potato crust because I'm horrible at making pastry and DH won't buy it ready made. Just get a pie tin/brownie pan/smallish cake pan and oil it a bit, preheat your oven to 175-180. Now the potato you can do two different ways, you can either slice it really thin and layer it on the bottom and sides (which is what I used to do as I didn't have a grater) or you can grate the potato and spread it all on the pan put a little salt over the potato (and I tend to use some curry powder too but that's up to you) and bake it for about 20 minuets or until the potato is just starting to crisp up, mix up 5-7 eggs with a bit of milk salt and pepper and pour over the potato crust, add whatever you'd like into it, cooked chicken, cheese, tomatoes, whatever you like, and bake for about 30-40 minuets till the egg is fully cooked and voila! potato crusted quiche :)
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Latest post on 14 September 2011 - 10:44
you could make a potato crusted quiche, it's so freaking easy and you can put whatever you like in it
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Latest post on 13 September 2011 - 21:22
oh I wanna go so bad! :'( a pitty my DH isn't into concert going Take a friend instead :) would that I could Chocs :( I haven't really got any close friends in Dubai yet.
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Latest post on 13 September 2011 - 20:52
oh I wanna go so bad! :'( a pitty my DH isn't into concert going
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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 22:29
I'm 5'3 and always wear flats as I like being petite :D Just to counter balance the taller > shorter theme of this thread ;) Wear what you like and what you think looks good, don't dress in what you think you should or shouldn't wear. I'm right there with you at 5'3 dairylea! I think in it's own way it's fun and kinda cute being short (sucks finding jeans short enough) though I think tall women in skinny jeans and heels look great too. Just dress how you like, what's comfortable and makes you happy.
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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 17:58
your best bet would probably be to get it from Amazon if they'll ship it here.
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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 17:56
I haven't tried any of the fish and chips places here yet, but I've been dying to! My husband only goes for fresh fish though, or grilled etc :( sometimes I just want some that's battered and fried and clogs my arteries lol :D
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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 13:25
I read somewhere that the U.S. are planning to use MRI technology to scan your shoes so you won't have to take them off anymore at the airport. oh plesae I doubt they'd be able to pull something like that off really.
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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 12:54
I read somewhere that the U.S. are planning to use MRI technology to scan your shoes so you won't have to take them off anymore at the airport.
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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 12:36
one big problem is the scanners aren't particularly safe health-wise. I've had more than one doctor tell me that the radiation in them is too high, I don't feel like getting cancer in ten years just so the rest of the world is assured that I'm not carrying anything dangerous. We went through Chicago's airport just last month and I refused to go through the scanner and took the metal detector + 'enhanced' pat-down.
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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 12:22
make him a nice pan of brownies as if to 'bury the hatchet' but put plenty of that laxative chocolate in there :cool: for a split second i thought you were going to suggest something else.... now that [i'>would[/i'>[b'>[/b'> be funny :D one of my sisters and I actually did that to a brother in law who is one of the biggest jacka**es you could ever imagine, he ate the whole freaking pan of them but it had the opposite effect rofl :D
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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 12:04
make him a nice pan of brownies as if to 'bury the hatchet' but put plenty of that laxative chocolate in there :cool:
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Latest post on 11 September 2011 - 23:07
oh dear... as if I didn't already have enough reasons to wait that one extra hour to get the apartment cleaned!
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Latest post on 11 September 2011 - 21:25
I'd heard from my sister the other day, her 2 year old's new phrase is 'Oh G*d' and so one day he was cleaning off his little play kitchen (as he'd gotten lotion allllll over it) and the whole while he was cleaning it he just kept saying 'oh G*d, oh G*d.' lol
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Latest post on 11 September 2011 - 20:09
it seems most of the brands of yogurts that have fruit in them have shrunk in size :( it's such a pain in the rear!
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Latest post on 11 September 2011 - 19:21
Chilli you'll get tartan material/ribbon etc in Satwa! Do you suppose that they'd have a range of clan tartans? I'm so excited about this already though it's not till March! I hope I'm able to go :)
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Latest post on 11 September 2011 - 19:09
I was taking a personal day from high school, and was still asleep when my nutty mother came in and declared 'We're at war!' and walked back out without saying anything else. I got up a ten or fifteen minuets later and sat watching the news in the living room in absolute shock.
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Latest post on 11 September 2011 - 11:36
totally agree with QF on this one, parents need to take responsibility for these things regardless of the babysitter's actions. Children need to be taught to understand that vitamins are medicines, and not candy thought he design of children's vitamins bothers me a bit too. They're made to look and taste like candy, which makes them all the more of a problem. Parents need to put these things out of sight completely, somewhere that's closed and locked.
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Latest post on 09 September 2011 - 23:23
personally no longer than a year or past the expiration date on the box/bottle
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Latest post on 09 September 2011 - 22:30
Vikings fan here... we purchased the NFL package online. You can use a cord and hook up your laptop to the tv, the website archives all games so it is really nice to watch them whenever you want instead of getting up in the middle of the night to watch a game. Do they have a package for college football?
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Latest post on 09 September 2011 - 19:40
I haven't really found anywhere here to actually get to watch American football unfortunately. The only option I've found is to find websites that stream games live or radio stations websites in the states that play the games in audio etc.
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Latest post on 09 September 2011 - 02:19
I wish they'd do a Real Housewives of Dubai, that might be interesting.
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Latest post on 09 September 2011 - 01:24
I came to be with and marry the man who had my heart :)
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Latest post on 09 September 2011 - 00:06
I suggest getting yourself a magicjack, it will help you save a boatload whenever you want to call home.
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 22:19
whenever I've attempted to, Amazon simply wouldn't ship food items here unfortunately, though you can get away with quite a bit when you bring stuff with you. Though if you live close to the Marina area, I go back stateside in November if there are any favorites you're needing by then I'd be more than happy to add a few extra items to the luggage for you. :)
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 18:55
sorry it's Jumierah Islands ...... just behind JLT... nuts :(
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 18:27
whatever happened to letting kids be kids? I think the child pageant shows are just as bad. Too many parents try to live vicuriously (sp?) through there children.
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 18:19
oh my! :O That is so wrong!
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 18:10
i know right, imagine? especially with their pie deals and all that they would make so much money, lol, how bout you open one, and i will be the first pie buyer : ) oh goodness and the chillie beans and corn bread.. yum! : ) There's an idea! :) the first Marie Callendars' franchise in Dubai :P your first pie would be free :D Thinking about that place almost makes me homesick :'( especially with Thanksgiving coming up lol I'll open Marie Callendars if you'l open a See's Candies :P <em>edited by crazyleochic on 08/09/2011</em>
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 17:33
if you're a Dr. Pepper fan, pack that it's expensive here! possibly your favorite shampoo depending on the brand. I love Aussie hair care stuff, and cant find it here so I stock up each trip. Ranch dressing (if you love it and can't live without it), your favorite makeup/skincare stuff etc. Though if you get here and realize there's stuff you forgot and are kicking yourself, I go back stateside in November. It shouldn't be a problem for me to bring things back for you.
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 17:19
love it!
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 16:59
it sounds really tempting, I've got nothing but free time but am lacking in transportation through the day since the hubby has the car. Where in JLT will it be? if it's one of the towers close-ish to the metro bridge between JLT and the Marina I may be able to.
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 16:01
cool thanks i will google black eyed peas just so i know what they look like and see if i can find an alternitive name.. : ) my eyes will be peeled. for toniht i decided to make cornbread, pork chops, mashed potatoes, with the pork gravy and green beans, i havnt had time to go buy a skillet, but, i will buy one next week, this will be my practice run, i just talked to him and said i will make him cornbread, and he sounded so grossed out, and said with disgust, lol, "ooook, but no one makes cornbread with sugar or honey." i told him i do, and so does evryone else lol, he just said, no, "well real southerners dont" and well i just laughed and said you will eat whatever i ak lol! i cant wait to make him some non swwet corn bread, i will make myself some honey butter, like a marie calenders.. just for me : sorry for any misspelling i have my baby crawling around and have no time for corrections.. lol... OMG! The Marie Calendars corn bread is soooooooooooooooo amazingly good! I miss that restaurant so bad :'( wish they'd open a chain here! their corn bread and pies and soups and so on. Oh! the black eyed peas are like a tan color, shaped like a bean with a little black dot kinda on the part of the bean that curves in (hope that makes sense) <em>edited by crazyleochic on 08/09/2011</em>
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 15:47
awww thanks ladies i am excited to get help and ideas from all ofyou, i will be looking at the sites you shared too. i really want to make my hubby something special, that reminds him of home, he is really picky, and my cooking "just isnt the same as grandmas," poor guy, too bad lol, but i want to do my best and try to make it special, i wish there were raw penuts her for "boiled penuts," if any of you see them will you le me know... i have never had them, but he talks about them all the time. oohhh and francieB, he loves his P.O.R.K. me too yum yum! i was thinking pork chops mashed potatoes, cornbread and veggies, i have to make due, with what i can find here in the uae... are there any black eyed peas around, lol, honestly i dont even know what to look for. can you think of a healthy souther recipie? i am not into fried foods really, except i am at some point going to attempt beignets... I'm pretty sure you can find black eyed peas here, but they're labeled as something else, I know I've seen the dried ones in most markets where you can by the dried lentils etc, and I think I've seen them canned but I can't place my finger on just where... maybe one of the co-op stores but not sure which one. The greens would certainly be a really healthy part of the meal. You could always try some of Alton Brown's recipes, technically he's from the south :) and his show's are pretty informative with pretty good ideas.
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Latest post on 08 September 2011 - 12:56
No children, not married, usually happyish until we have an argument and then he never backs down. I suppose I will have to swallow my pride and talk to him. or just smack him round the head with a cast iron frying pan until you knock some sense in :D Edited as i cant spell edited by Princess_I on 08/09/2011 I second your idea Princess! Some men just need a little sense knocked into them, especially when they're being so childish!
 
 
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