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Waiting for Iftar · Obnoxiously Pleasant

0:04
SPEAKER_00: Welcome back, everybody, to the Obnoxiously Pleasant Podcast.
0:07
SPEAKER_00: I'm Helen.
0:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm Lena.
0:09
SPEAKER_00: And it's so nice to be back.
0:12
SPEAKER_00: Um, what are we talking about today, Lena?
0:14
SPEAKER_00: We're what?
0:14
SPEAKER_00: A week into what?
0:16
SPEAKER_00: Ramadan.
0:17
SPEAKER_00: Ramadan.
0:18
SPEAKER_00: So today is Friday, the seventh day of Ramadan.
0:21
SPEAKER_00: And um I just wanted us to utilize this.
0:24
SPEAKER_00: Well, one, it's the seventh day of Ramadan, and it's also Lena's birthday.
0:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, why do you have to even mention that?
0:30
SPEAKER_01: You know, I I you know I deactivated my Facebook, right?
0:33
SPEAKER_01: You can always do that.
0:35
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I always deactivate.
0:36
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, I don't need people wishing me uh a birthday on Facebook.
0:39
SPEAKER_01: Happy birthday, which is so weird because I'm like, I guess I get it.
0:42
SPEAKER_00: Like if people know it's your birthday, they should just go ahead and wish you a happy birthday.
0:45
SPEAKER_01: Exactly, exactly.
0:46
SPEAKER_01: And you know, speaking of birthdays, um uh my one of my best friends, Fidat, you know Fidat.
0:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know Fidette.
0:54
SPEAKER_01: It was her birthday yesterday.
0:55
SPEAKER_01: And because of Ramadan, I completely forgot to message her.
0:59
SPEAKER_01: And I just get a text message at like 1 45 a.m.
1:03
SPEAKER_01: Eastern Standard Time, yeah, with uh with a middle finger, an emoji of a middle finger from her.
1:08
SPEAKER_01: She was like, Oh my god, why is she why is she sending a middle finger?
1:11
SPEAKER_01: And then it clicked, and so I responded to her.
1:13
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Kulichara, it's still April 7th on the West Coast.
1:18
SPEAKER_01: So I still wished you a happy birthday, but she hasn't responded.
1:21
SPEAKER_01: So I don't know.
1:21
SPEAKER_01: Fida, I love you, I'm sorry, and happy birthday.
1:24
SPEAKER_01: That is um so anyway.
1:27
SPEAKER_01: So, how are you surviving Ramadan?
1:29
SPEAKER_00: It's good.
1:29
SPEAKER_00: Well, are we just gonna glaze over the fact that it's your birthday?
1:32
SPEAKER_00: By the time you guys see this, it won't be Lena's birthday anymore, but we're recording it on Lina's birthday.
1:36
SPEAKER_01: You know what?
1:36
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't count, it does not count.
1:38
SPEAKER_01: The last three years do not count.
1:40
SPEAKER_01: I'm still, I haven't no.
1:42
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the pandemic now, Ramadan, stakhfalalim.
1:45
SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm good, I'm good.
1:46
SPEAKER_00: But like you, I understand.
1:49
SPEAKER_00: You get it, right?
1:50
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, it's like another day, it's like another day, and I'm just like so annoyed by that.
1:54
SPEAKER_00: We didn't do anything, yeah, and that's what I like.
1:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh I was no, I always say is yes, I completely understand because we both turned 40 in the pandemic, and it really sucks because that's like a mild, big milestone birthday, anyways.
2:06
SPEAKER_00: Besides birthday, so when we we're gonna post this, we're gonna clip this out so everybody is gonna know that Lina's birthday is is the seventh day of Ramadan or in the in the Hijri calendar or April 8th.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
2:20
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, how have you how have you been surviving Ramadan?
2:22
SPEAKER_01: Because you you've been struggling.
2:23
SPEAKER_01: I've been struggling.
2:24
SPEAKER_00: I have been really, really struggling.
2:27
SPEAKER_00: Like this has been really tough for me.
2:29
SPEAKER_00: I I want to say that like it's a combination of like a lack of sleep and the no coffee, uh, just a lot of stuff.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: I've I you know when you look at your like you do an assessment of yourself, you're like, I am not well.
2:41
SPEAKER_00: I am not well.
2:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I do that assessment like once a month.
2:48
SPEAKER_01: Is that terrible?
2:51
SPEAKER_01: No, it's you know what?
2:52
SPEAKER_01: I think it's part of the like all the responsibilities that we have during this month.
2:56
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I thought I was it's the like the first week, there's all this craziness of like cooking all these different kinds of foods and making sure that like everybody gets to eat what they want.
3:06
SPEAKER_00: And all I'm thinking is like I just want to sit down and do nothing.
3:10
SPEAKER_00: And then with work on top of that, like I'm I'm I'm definitely, definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, we can all agree that this first week for me has been a struggle.
3:22
SPEAKER_00: Alhamdulillah, I've been good on all other fronts.
3:24
SPEAKER_00: Like, I've been able to like to to fast the full days, I've been able to do like my prayers, everything is fine.
3:30
SPEAKER_00: But if I can just focus it just on that and do nothing else, I'd be great.
3:34
SPEAKER_00: But the fact I have to do all this other stuff too.
3:36
SPEAKER_01: That's the problem, though.
3:37
SPEAKER_01: That's the issue.
3:38
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, I was excited, I'm still excited, but it's like it's tiring, man.
3:42
SPEAKER_01: Like it is very especially because I have to go to the office, and so I have to go in and then come back.
3:47
SPEAKER_01: And then, like, I was telling my husband, like, even though there's not a lot of traffic, like I get tired from the drive.
3:52
SPEAKER_01: And like, by the time I get home, I'm just like, I don't want to do it.
3:56
SPEAKER_00: I'm tired and I feel sleepy, like midday.
3:58
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, Yes, yes, yes, and then you have to make food, and then like it's fine.
4:02
SPEAKER_01: Like, I I mean like the other day I did lasagna and I had to make spaghetti too because Rai doesn't eat lasagna, and like she's fasting all day.
4:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, you have to, you have to do these.
4:09
SPEAKER_00: Can I please tell you that by the time we got to last night, which is the night of day six, I looked at everybody in my family and I said, We are eating Panera tonight.
4:18
SPEAKER_01: Well, today, today, um, we're bringing we're getting food from outside.
4:22
SPEAKER_01: Good.
4:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm just I'm just like I'm not gonna have time with work and whatever.
4:27
SPEAKER_01: So they're like, I want chick-fil-a.
4:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, that's what you can eat for a thought.
4:30
SPEAKER_01: She's like, I'm eating chick-fil-a.
4:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm like, okay, that's fine.
4:33
SPEAKER_01: And I'm just gonna make like frika, shorabit's frika.
4:36
SPEAKER_00: And honestly, I I've just I don't know, like it's been so good, but I'm always like this the first week.
4:44
SPEAKER_00: The first week I'm constantly like I'm really tired, I'm really exhausted.
4:47
SPEAKER_00: And like I said, it's a combination of like um the no like the cutback and coffee, and then the lack of sleep is really what gets me during Ramadan.
4:54
SPEAKER_00: It's a lack of sleep, it's a lack of sleep, it's a lack of sleep for me.
4:58
SPEAKER_01: It's the non-stop, non-stop.
5:01
SPEAKER_01: Like the whole, like, and the thing is like the the I haven't been hungry, I haven't been thirsty, alhamdulillah.
5:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's just like and I don't feel the day.
5:09
SPEAKER_01: Like, I know like we break fast around 7:40, 745, but I don't feel that like the day goes by so quickly, it's not that it's just exhausting.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: And by the time you actually sit down, you can't do anything.
5:19
SPEAKER_01: And you know how you're supposed to check in on Instagram or get on.
5:23
SPEAKER_01: I have not done a single thing, and like even the last episode, I'm just like, whatever.
5:27
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, sorry guys, this thumbnail, whatever, this title, this is what you're gonna get.
5:31
SPEAKER_01: That's all you're gonna get out of me.
5:32
SPEAKER_01: Because it really is by the time the day ends, that I can't be productive.
5:36
SPEAKER_01: Like, I was thinking, you know, after I break my fast, I'll be productive, I'll work on some stuff.
5:40
SPEAKER_01: I have not been able to do a damn thing.
5:43
SPEAKER_00: I literally was like thinking last night, I was like, Why is it that every day after I break my fast, I feel like I just got hit by a car?
5:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it's not like I said, it's not the fasting, it's all the other things that we have to do.
5:54
SPEAKER_00: It's like I feel like it, I feel like all the other things like catch up with you, and then you're like, okay.
5:58
SPEAKER_00: But I will say the highlight of uh the first week for me, first week of Ramadan, is the fact that my seven-year-old son fasted two full days.
6:08
SPEAKER_00: He's so proud of himself.
6:09
SPEAKER_01: Oh, mashallah, that's awesome, Adam, right?
6:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
6:12
SPEAKER_01: What I wanted to ask you, any other um struggles you wanted to have?
6:16
SPEAKER_01: Because you you are usually way more energetic and I know, I know.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: This year's like really gotten, I would say this week has really surprisingly gotten like the um the best of me.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know what it is, but it's just this week.
6:30
SPEAKER_00: So I'm hoping by next week I'll be more like into the swing of things.
6:33
SPEAKER_00: And I think really what's really catching up with me is the lack of sleep.
6:37
SPEAKER_00: The the lack of the fact that I'm constantly, yeah, not I don't feel like I'm sleeping well.
6:42
SPEAKER_00: I just yesterday, like yesterday, I mean, I mean I texted you yesterday.
6:48
SPEAKER_00: Not good.
6:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because I messaged you about something I was I wanted your opinion, and you're like, I have a really bad headache right now.
6:55
SPEAKER_01: And I'm just like, you know what?
6:56
SPEAKER_01: Once you have your coffee and you take your medicine, then text me and let me know.
7:01
SPEAKER_00: That's that's exactly how, but you know, it's funny, it's like I had I I had after thought I had Advil, like forever of thought I had Advil and I had food and I had my coffee.
7:11
SPEAKER_00: And then when the headache went away, I was just tired.
7:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you just want to you seriously just want to like find a seat on the couch and do nothing else except sit there and be like, Yeah, but I think this is an experience only reserved for certain people in Ramadan.
7:27
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: Like it's just the people responsible for the food, you don't get ones, you do not get a break.
7:34
SPEAKER_01: And and the thing is you can't just eat anything either, you're fasting all day, so you have to you have to prepare.
7:40
SPEAKER_01: You have to do that.
7:40
SPEAKER_00: Some days, though, like well, some days, like I looked at them yesterday and I was like, Y'all are eating Panera.
7:46
SPEAKER_01: You're like, I'm off today.
7:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, mama is off today.
7:49
SPEAKER_00: No, because honestly, like the weekend it was my family and my husband's family, and then you have uh Monday at home, you're still doing stuff Tuesday was awesome.
7:59
SPEAKER_00: I have like like I'm very happy and blessed to have like really sweet next door neighbors who like we're very good friends with, and they also happen to be observing Ramadan, so they came over and broke their fast with us.
8:08
SPEAKER_01: So that was really nice for Panera or was it something else?
8:11
SPEAKER_00: No, no, on Tuesday.
8:12
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
8:13
SPEAKER_00: Oh, Tuesday.
8:13
SPEAKER_00: Yesterday was the first day.
8:14
SPEAKER_00: Why would I I would do that?
8:15
SPEAKER_00: You think I'd do that to the neighbors or to anyone who sometimes come over?
8:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, listen if I'm gonna if I'm gonna invite anybody over this Ramadan, I'm freaking ordering food from outside somewhere.
8:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm sorry.
8:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but not from not from Panera, yeah.
8:28
SPEAKER_00: Not from Panera.
8:29
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, but other than that, I would say now that we've spent some time talking about our struggles, let's talk about the things like have you started to accomplish anything of the things you wanted to do in Ramadan?
8:40
SPEAKER_00: Like I know you said you wanted to read like Quran, for example.
8:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was good.
8:44
SPEAKER_01: I jinxed myself like the first day I read two or two parts, like I was way ahead of schedule, and I was so proud of myself.
8:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was so proud.
8:52
SPEAKER_01: And then literally the third day and the fourth day, none whatsoever.
8:56
SPEAKER_01: I just so now I'm behind, like I'm behind uh like a one and a half, like I'm halfway through one.
9:04
SPEAKER_01: So today, hopefully, I can finish that after we finish recording.
9:07
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it's hard, man.
9:09
SPEAKER_01: It's that's that's one thing, but I think I'm doing it.
9:12
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, like you said, fasting has been easy, alhamdulillah.
9:15
SPEAKER_01: It's not the lack of food, it's not the lack of water, it's just the non-stop, like the the days the constant being constant going.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
9:23
SPEAKER_00: The day being full of stuff, you constantly having to feel like, okay, I need to do this and I need to do this, and there's still that, and there's still this.
9:29
SPEAKER_00: And then, like, it's funny because the days that you um, the days that you have work, like the days that I have work, once I finish work, I'm like, oh, well, maybe you know, like I'm lucky in the sense that like I can work, I could I get to work from home during Ramadan.
9:42
SPEAKER_00: So I don't have to go to the office.
9:44
SPEAKER_00: So the nice thing about this is that you're like, okay, I can finish work, I sit for like 30 minutes, and then before I get to making food, and then you're like, no, actually, I can't because stuff needs time to like get prepared and there's chopping and there's the cleaning.
9:56
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
9:56
SPEAKER_00: And then setting up the table.
9:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
9:58
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the thing, the thing with me is like I always think I have enough time.
10:02
SPEAKER_01: And then literally the last 10 minutes, I'm like running around like crazy, just trying to make sure everything is set in place and everything is great.
10:08
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I mean, it's fine, alhamdulillah.
10:11
SPEAKER_01: Like I said, I'm not, I can't believe we're on day seven already anyway.
10:13
SPEAKER_01: Like it's gone by the way.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I agree.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: It breathes by.
10:17
SPEAKER_00: And I was, I will say another thing that I really, really was so happy about is usually the first like four or five days, sometimes seven days, I have a headache every single day.
10:26
SPEAKER_00: When I say headache, I mean like the one I had yesterday, just screaming, you're not feeling well, your head feels like it's on fire.
10:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm so happy that this is the first year in a long time that it's just been only on one day.
10:36
SPEAKER_01: That's good, alhamdulillah.
10:37
SPEAKER_01: But you know, can I just say I want to go back to me saying only certain people, like I don't think, and no offense to anybody, and like I'm talking about my husband here, like no offense to any men out there, but like he's almost done with the Quran.
10:50
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like looking at him, I'm a little resentful.
10:51
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, that's not fair, you know, and like haram, like he helps out so much, and I get that, but like they just don't I mean, yes, he can help out and everything, but it's not the same, it's it's not the near the same as it's not the same, it's it's not the same as like what we're doing.
11:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, it's like no, it's not the same as what we're doing, right?
11:07
SPEAKER_01: God loves it.
11:08
SPEAKER_01: It's okay for me to say that.
11:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's fine.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: They're trying, but it's so not the same.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: I agree with you.
11:13
SPEAKER_01: It's not the same at all, and um just the other thing is I was thinking, like, how did my mom do this?
11:17
SPEAKER_01: Like, she had six kids.
11:19
SPEAKER_01: I know, and the table was always only have two.
11:22
SPEAKER_01: I know.
11:22
SPEAKER_01: Like, how did she how did she manage all this?
11:25
SPEAKER_00: I know.
11:26
SPEAKER_01: I mean, how did they do it?
11:26
SPEAKER_01: I don't know, man.
11:27
SPEAKER_01: They just made it seem so easy, and like we grew up thinking, oh my god, yeah, this will be easy, but it's not so.
11:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, did you did you um have any social gatherings?
11:36
SPEAKER_01: Did you go anywhere?
11:37
SPEAKER_01: Didn't anyone come over?
11:38
SPEAKER_00: No, just just yeah, well, that's my family, the weekend.
11:41
SPEAKER_00: So, like my family, my in-laws on the weekend, and then it's just like my neighbors, and that's it.
11:45
SPEAKER_01: And then what about you were complaining to me about uh making all those uh some sambusas or some busas or whatever you want to call them?
11:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
11:53
SPEAKER_00: That is actually a very good thing that you just brought up.
11:57
SPEAKER_01: Well, I scratched my body.
12:03
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, that's gonna that wasn't necessary.
12:07
SPEAKER_00: But it really but no I mean I I had to Okay, go I was gonna actually talk about the fact that you said symbusa versus symbusek, right?
12:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what is it?
12:18
SPEAKER_00: So I mean which one is it?
12:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
12:20
SPEAKER_00: I say symbusa.
12:21
SPEAKER_00: Some people say symbusekeeping.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: I say symbusa, yeah.
12:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so some people say symbusek.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I don't know what the where did the cake come from?
12:31
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
12:31
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: So like we should talk about that.
12:33
SPEAKER_00: I want to ask where you come from like where you're from, or or or you know, in in your in your language, do you see symbusa?
12:41
SPEAKER_00: Do you see sambusak?
12:42
SPEAKER_00: Sambusa, yeah.
12:43
SPEAKER_00: And what is it that what's the correct?
12:45
SPEAKER_01: Can somebody help sisters out here?
12:47
SPEAKER_01: Like, what is it called?
12:48
SPEAKER_01: So, depending on the people around me, it's I I either say sambusa or sambusak, but it's really starting to annoy me.
12:54
SPEAKER_01: I just need a an actual word, like someone tell me what is that what is the correct word.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: Speaking on the sambusa thing, yeah, I agree with you.
13:00
SPEAKER_00: Please, somebody let us know if it's sambusa or sambusak, and if that's the case, can somebody help us out and tell us like why?
13:05
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I have a friend who we were talking specifically about uh, you know, Ramadan prep and all of that stuff.
13:12
SPEAKER_00: And you know, some people are really good, like they marinate all their meat in advance, they roll all their sambusa in advance, they do all that stuff.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: And so when I was talking, telling her about rolling sambusa, she goes, Where did that concept even come from?
13:23
SPEAKER_00: When I was growing up, we only ate goulash.
13:25
SPEAKER_00: Why we can't we just do that?
13:26
SPEAKER_00: Why can't we go?
13:27
SPEAKER_01: What is gullesh though?
13:28
SPEAKER_00: What is that?
13:29
SPEAKER_00: So it's layers of phyllo dough.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: It's like yeah, and I don't know if it's this, yeah, it's layers of phyllo dough with some people put ground beef in the middle, so like some people make it sweet and some people make it savory, or some people do.
13:40
SPEAKER_01: I think I've had it.
13:41
SPEAKER_00: I think I've had it, but it's not a Palestinian thing.
13:43
SPEAKER_00: That's strictly Egypt.
13:44
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no, no.
13:45
SPEAKER_00: No, it's it's uh not, you know what?
13:47
SPEAKER_00: Actually, let me let me tell you what uh because it's definitely not just Egyptian.
13:52
SPEAKER_00: I know that.
13:52
SPEAKER_01: Okay, well, uh, we don't have that.
13:54
SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know.
13:55
SPEAKER_01: I've never really like when you said that, I'm like, okay, like I think I know what it is, but so it's called gulesh, not to be confused with gulash.
14:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, it's not to be confided, gulaj?
14:06
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: No, gulesh, gulish, gulash, yeah, gulash, there you go.
14:11
SPEAKER_01: Not to be confused with gulash, you know.
14:14
SPEAKER_01: I don't want you coming after me after the hummus.
14:17
SPEAKER_00: Okay, go ahead.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: Can we please move on from that?
14:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm just I'm done.
14:21
unknown: Whatever.
14:21
SPEAKER_00: All right, go ahead.
14:22
SPEAKER_00: It's all good.
14:23
SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, so she was like, Why, why, why all this sambusa prep?
14:27
SPEAKER_00: Well, all this other why can't we just make gullesh like we used to back in the day?
14:29
SPEAKER_00: I was like, girl, I don't know.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's a lot easier to make, too.
14:33
SPEAKER_00: I think it is.
14:34
SPEAKER_00: Gullesh is a lot easier because it's just a tray, you know.
14:37
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, we have some friends who are like major overachievers, they just go hard and they prepare and they do everything.
14:45
SPEAKER_00: And I get it, you know, they have their busy schedules, families, lives, like like us.
14:49
SPEAKER_00: I'm just more of like a procrastinator and I'm yeah, I'm just gonna wait till the day of.
14:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm sorry, I got it.
14:58
SPEAKER_01: I don't have that luxury.
14:59
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I just don't.
15:00
SPEAKER_00: Luxury, I think it's just planners, and I think you and I are like, this is not something we want to plan.
15:05
SPEAKER_01: No, right?
15:06
SPEAKER_01: I have other things in my life that need planning that I haven't planned, but whatever.
15:09
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I can't.
15:09
SPEAKER_01: I'm not one of them.
15:10
SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm day of kind of person.
15:12
SPEAKER_01: Like, let's do it what I'm eating too.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: Like, sometimes I have to see what I'm feeling, yeah, what we feel like eating, and sometimes like that you get a request or something, and someone's like, Oh, I want to eat, you know, X, Y, and Z.
15:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, give me a request, it's so much easier.
15:23
SPEAKER_00: Just tell me what you want to eat.
15:25
SPEAKER_00: Nobody, nobody is happier for like then in Maghrib and T Tar time than the child who hasn't been fasting all day.
15:32
SPEAKER_00: That's true.
15:33
SPEAKER_01: That's true.
15:33
SPEAKER_01: And you know what?
15:34
SPEAKER_01: As as as as difficult as it's been, I love the fact that every day, like every night, like Raya sets the table and we sit and they do the lights and everything.
15:45
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
15:46
SPEAKER_01: And I we make the table look nice and very like welcoming, and the food looks great.
15:51
SPEAKER_01: And I sent you a picture, I think.
15:53
SPEAKER_01: And it was very simple, but at least it's like a nice, it looks nice.
15:56
SPEAKER_00: And so when when you see that it's a tradition, and I'm so big on that.
16:01
SPEAKER_00: Like it's building a tradition and building like a like that's what I was saying.
16:03
SPEAKER_00: We remember we're talking about like building traditions or working out habits or something of things you want to do.
16:08
SPEAKER_00: I think that is such a lovely thing, like what you're doing, which is there's a routine you set the table together, you bring out like specific dishes, you know, you make sure that there's this kind of food and that kind of food, or it's a nice and yelling at my son that's all the dates.
16:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
16:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like you don't gotta like take it easy.
16:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
16:27
SPEAKER_01: Like they're not like us, like mashallah, like these kids, like it's just they can put food down.
16:32
SPEAKER_01: They can put food down.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: I'm just like these boys, boys, I that's true.
16:36
SPEAKER_01: Because Raya is like me, halfway through, she's like looking at me.
16:38
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, just a couple more bites.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you need protein, like please just finish the protein at least.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's me.
16:43
SPEAKER_00: Like, after you know, after I have soup, I'm just like, I don't want to eat anything else.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to skip the soup.
16:48
SPEAKER_01: I haven't had soup since day one.
16:50
SPEAKER_00: Maybe today, maybe I'll have soup today.
16:52
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I like having it.
16:53
SPEAKER_00: Like a day like a day like, well, like yesterday I didn't have any soup and I lived, but I like having I like having soup.
17:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:02
SPEAKER_01: We have that before.
17:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
17:05
SPEAKER_01: So, um, what's the next thing you want to talk about?
17:09
SPEAKER_01: Anything else?
17:10
SPEAKER_00: No, that's it.
17:11
SPEAKER_00: I just want to I hope everybody is having like you know, a my my goal, because I have oh, my other thing.
17:18
SPEAKER_00: Be complete because you know, I'm completely honest.
17:20
SPEAKER_00: I my goal is to really start doing tarawih this week.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: I didn't do okay this first week of Ramadan, these first seven days, which is I we my goal is to always do a tarawih during Ramadan.
17:30
SPEAKER_00: So my I'm gonna try to do it this week.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: Do you do eight or twenty?
17:35
SPEAKER_00: Eight.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 20 is uh you're gonna tell me do eight or twenty.
17:39
SPEAKER_01: I know 20 is a commitment.
17:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, look, listen, I'm not gonna lie.
17:42
SPEAKER_01: If I can read the Quran like the Tarawi, I can yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, of course.
17:47
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I gotta I gotta pick.
17:48
SPEAKER_01: I gotta pick which one.
17:50
SPEAKER_01: I can do both.
17:51
SPEAKER_01: Maybe one day eventually, hopefully, that'll happen for me.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: But as of now, it's not looking like it's gonna happen.
17:56
SPEAKER_01: No, where I do both.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: No, you know, I know, but honestly, I wanna I wanna try to do it.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: I really inshallah you will, inshallah you will.
18:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean it's it's like I said, it's that's great.
18:05
SPEAKER_01: My goal is to is to you know catch up on the Quran and actually finish the Quran, inshallah.
18:11
SPEAKER_01: Which I think is great.
18:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's that's my thing.
18:13
SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'm sorry guys if we don't look too like enthusiastic or happy or excited or you know, it's just we're filming this tired.
18:20
SPEAKER_01: Well, like we're recording this while fasting because after tired, yeah, and I couldn't plan, like I had no time to plan for anything specific, but I told Hanam, like, we're just gonna come on and talk and just check in on uh you guys and just let's that is honestly the goal of today's episode is just to check in and tell you like here's how we're doing.
18:34
SPEAKER_00: I hope everybody that is observing is doing great.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: And if you're not observing, I hope that you are enjoying watching us struggle a little bit.
18:43
SPEAKER_00: No, I'm kidding.
18:43
SPEAKER_00: I know you're not enjoying watching us struggle.
18:45
SPEAKER_00: I mean, your hair looks great.
18:47
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
18:47
SPEAKER_00: But I hope if you're somebody who's not observing, I hope that this is like fun to listen to and cool to understand.
18:55
SPEAKER_00: Like, this is why you know, we don't vague sometimes, or at least I look busted sometimes during this month.
19:01
SPEAKER_01: It's okay, you don't look busted, but it's for people who don't observe, uh, it's a way kind of like to look into how Muslims are feeling during this month.
19:10
SPEAKER_01: You know, you get a perceiving of what we're going through.
19:14
SPEAKER_01: And um, I think that's it.
19:16
SPEAKER_01: I have nothing else really either.
19:18
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do this again next week.
19:19
SPEAKER_00: I want to check in.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: And like I said, my goal for this coming week, we're gonna talk so I can remember to talk about it, is to make sure I get like tarawi under my belt to start like really like.
19:28
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna check in on you.
19:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna see if we I'm gonna see if you did your tarawi.
19:31
SPEAKER_01: And I you're gonna check on me to see if I'm caught up with my Quran.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
19:34
SPEAKER_00: And I think that would be like really great.
19:36
SPEAKER_00: And honestly, like, like I said, my goal, my goal always as Ramadan was to just kind of take it easy and really like enjoy it and really make sure, like, you kind of you know what you were doing with saying, like, oh, we're gonna set the table, I'm gonna do this, we're gonna do this.
19:48
SPEAKER_00: It's just nice to have like to build those memories, you know.
19:51
SPEAKER_00: Like we did, we decorated the night the first night before, we took some great pictures and yeah, and then you know, making sure that like there's something like delicious food or different kinds of food every night, even if it's something super simple, yeah.
20:04
SPEAKER_00: Um, but just making sure that we have that moment where it's really nice.
20:08
SPEAKER_00: We break our fast together and then we pray maghrib together, and then we sit down to eat together.
20:11
SPEAKER_00: And I think just that is something that we don't really get to accomplish a lot during the regular months of the year.
20:16
SPEAKER_00: Yes, so that's been something really great about the first week.
20:19
SPEAKER_01: So I just yeah, sorry, I just wanted to because you were talking about like had like cooking like delicious things or dishes or whatever.
20:27
SPEAKER_01: I just want to like talk about my brother who was who was hating on me.
20:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, no, he was hating on me because he's like, What are you cooking today?
20:36
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, it's from yesterday.
20:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, left.
20:38
SPEAKER_01: He's like, Oh my god, he's like, It's a Ramadan, you're gonna feed those poor kids who are fasting all day the same.
20:43
SPEAKER_01: But I'm like, listen, okay, some of us just don't have the time, my friend.
20:48
SPEAKER_01: Like, I just he he loves to cook, like he's cooking every day for them.
20:51
SPEAKER_01: Like, he loves to cook, but I'm just like, dude, leave me alone.
20:53
SPEAKER_01: He's like, Haram Aleiki, you know, those cases.
20:55
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, they're eating fine.
20:57
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, there's food.
20:58
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, and it's not good, it goes against the whole concept of Ramadan to waste food.
21:02
SPEAKER_01: So that's the other thing.
21:03
SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't want to waste food.
21:05
SPEAKER_01: So exactly.
21:05
SPEAKER_01: I just thought that was funny.
21:06
SPEAKER_01: He was hitting on me and making fun of me.
21:08
SPEAKER_00: Um, well, he's like in the category of overachievers during Ramadan.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: Yes, who makes definitely different every single night.
21:14
SPEAKER_01: Yes, he's an overachiever, definitely.
21:16
SPEAKER_00: I'm not but yeah, that's it.
21:18
SPEAKER_00: I am not even like a just a regular, I'm just like I'm in the barely making it category.
21:23
SPEAKER_00: So I'm good with it.
21:24
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, I mean I'm usually uh barely making it.
21:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's true.
21:28
SPEAKER_01: But um check in with us, let us know how your Ramadan has been going, and we'll check back in next next week.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: Next week.
21:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, next week.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: And everybody go on social media and on TikTok, on Instagram, and on YouTube and wish Lena a happy birthday because she no no no no knows when people do that.
21:48
SPEAKER_00: So I would love for you guys to go on there and be like, happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday.
21:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she she hates when people do that.
21:53
SPEAKER_01: So, I'm just gonna keep my I'm gonna keep my Facebook deactivated for like a week longer then.
21:58
SPEAKER_01: It's fine, it's fine.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: You're good, you're gonna be anyway.
22:01
SPEAKER_01: Um, so do you wanna say goodbye?
22:04
SPEAKER_00: So I just wanted to um say thank you for stopping in and for checking in with us.
22:08
SPEAKER_00: I hope your first week of Ramadan is going great.
22:11
SPEAKER_00: Um, I hope you had a happy, healthy, blessed first week.
22:14
SPEAKER_00: And if you're not observing, I hope you had a happy, healthy, blessed week as well.
22:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, and we will see you guys next week as we continue doing our Ramadan check-ins.
22:23
SPEAKER_01: Yes, inshallah, and let us know how you're doing, like Hanan said.
22:27
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22:31
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22:34
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22:36
SPEAKER_01: So thank you again for watching, for listening to us, and uh, we'll check in with you guys next week.