Today was not well spent

So Sadaf came home today, Alhamdulillah, and for her I cleaned the toilet, did the dishes, and organized my room. I bought her a bed the other day, so I set that up, as well as going out 10 miles to buy her a desk (also a suprise) and a last minute idea to make her some tilapia filets for dinner (also a suprise). The result: no time to study. This morning I had a late start and sat in the lecture hall from around 8:30 to 10 and studied physio, only 2 pages short from catching up. My plan was to study from 3 - 7 and get caught up with yesterday's 2 lectures of anatomy. Then from 7 - 7:30 clean up everything. But when I got home, the dude selling the desk off craigslist called me and accepted my offer of $20 (he was selling it for $35) so I had to go wth my boy from UIC Usman. I kept on saying to Usman that I hope the desk fits in my car. When we got there and ALhamdulillah I really liked the desk, everyone said this isn't going to fit by any angle. Now, I'm waiting for the day when I ask Allah (S) sometime, and it doesn't come true, but so far, everytime Alhamdulillah that I asked from Allah (S) to help me with something, I've never been dissappointed. So I silently asked Allah (S) to make this fit, to make it easy for me, and Subhan Allah, after a few minutes, inch by inch, it fit into the back seat, AND he gave me a matching chair with it! Never underestimate the power of Dua, and the power of saying Bismillah.

When I got home I still hadn't studied nor cleaned, and I had to drop off Usman. So driving him to his crib, he says yo Shak I got this tilapia fish I'm gunna make it for you and we can eat it. He's been telling me about this tilapia since last Sunday when I picked him up from the airport, but he ended up coming to my place later on to watch the bears game and he ate at my place, So he's been on my case cuz he was supposed to invite me over and feed me, but instead he came over and ate food that I gave him. So since he took the time to help me with the desk, I felt obliged to spend time with him on his request. I'm not going to lie though, I was thinking to myself the whole time, what's the big deal with tilapia? Im Bangalli, my dad brings that stuff all the time, it's just a regular day for me if we are eating tilapia, lol.

So I come over and the first thing I see is the biggest scoop of "whipped" butter thrown into the frying pan and his mini sized george foreman grill, enough butter to give my retina atherosclerosis. I'll make a long story short, after expressing my shock and eating his food and seeing how gourmet-like tasty it was, I made a run to the super walmart, got me some tilapia filets, prepared the fish according to my own healthier calculations, and then quickly did the chores and cleaned up, and then ran to pick up Sadoodoo (her flight arrived late). So what happened: She was impressed with the food, happy witht he desk, ecstatic with the bed (even though I personally would be more excited about the desk)............... and I DIDN'T GET ANY STUDYING DONE =(

Now it's 10:15 PM, and as of right now I still have my 2 pages of physio to finish for me to get all caught up, but we did 2 lectures of biochem and 2 more lectures of anatomy, so now I have to catch up 2 biochem and 4 anatomy! And tomorrow morning I will get fed 2 more lectures of biochem AND 2 more lectures of physio, so as of tomorrow afternoon I'll have my plate full of 4 biochem and 4 anatomy and 2 physio (not to mention the 6 slides I have yet to finish from yesterday).

Oh and to put icing on this yummy yummy cake... I couldn't go to the gym today cuz of my messed up schedule and demand of things to do. Beautiful. Well, I ought to be studying right now but I took the time out instead to inform those who care about my situation. Tommorow's priority will be 2 anatomy lectures at least, Insha Allah, Ameen. (If I could do 2 anatomy and 2 biochem, that would be gold). I'm going to go to sleep now in my new bed insha Allah and hopefully I can wake up early around 4:30 ish and study. Piece.