A day in the life of...

I was tagged by Kasey and now I'm gonna tell you what my typical day looks like. Take note that my typical day did not look much like this before I became so closely acquainted with constant nausea.

My day doesn't start with an alarm clock, but I couldn't think of a better picture. My day starts around 2 AM when I wake up hungry and have to eat something


So, I roll over and grab whatever I can find to eat...yes, I sleep with food in my bed now.


Then I wake up again around 4:30 because I'm hungry again.

munch.munch.munch. back to sleep

Then I finally wake up around 6:30 and usually try to wait until 7:00 to wake up my sweet husband so that he can bring me breakfast. I eat grapefruit every morning and see what I can manage to eat after that.

Roll over, back to sleep.

Then I finally wake up around 11 AM and make myself get out of bed.

And head to the kitchen to make myself some lunch.


This is about the only thing I can almost always eat no matter how bad I am feeling. Fortunately, my wonderful family sent me many boxes of this soup!

Then I usually spend some time studying Kurdish or meeting with my language helper

This is Sorani, the language we are learning. Nope, I don't know what this says. I can read some of the letters, but that's about it.

Then I usually head to the office to get some work done. Here's a pic of our office


Then its time to go home and start dinner. I've just regained the ability to spend time in the kitchen without being sick. So, that's an improvement. Fortunately, my sweet husband is a great help in the kitchen.


After dinner we usually watch a movie or some DVD on TV or hang out with some of our teammates. I will probably eat a few more snacks before actually going to bed.

Then we start winding down for the night and read in bed.


Then it's lights out sometime around 11ish and then it starts all over again.