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FRERARD ONESHOT! Frank is beginning to get worried about his slightly odd reaction to tickling his best friend...
Oh, and Josh? If you're reading this: DON'T READ THIS!
Um, sorry about that. To those of you who aren't Josh…on with the story- enjoy!
Frank Anthony Iero was a strange sixteen year old on many counts. Not least his height, which was, bluntly, most representative of a stunted, vertically retarded and diminutive elf.
Not that he took kindly to being described like that. In fact, the last person to call him 'small' was carted away twenty four hours later to the nearest hospital, twitching and muttering frantically with crazed eyes. And then there was that nasty incident with a six foot jock's ankles being gnawed viciously at by a certain pair of small, extremely sharp teeth.
Anyway, other than being the size of a minute goblin, Frank had numerous other unusual qualities; he had never dated any size, shape or form of human being in his sixteen years; unlike most of his moronic friends, he spent all his time playing guitar rather than drooling over the autonomy of the female body; his favourite food was peanut butter and skittles sandwiches; and he adored maths lessons.
So, all in all, Frank wasn't your average teenage boy.
But it was perhaps Frank's most recent addition to his collection of weirdness that was the strangest of all.
It was the fact that whenever he tickled his best friend, he got this really weird, tingly, turning-inside out feeling in his lower stomach.
And even Frank knew this wasn't normal.
He'd made this discovery at one of his little group's weekly Friday movie nights. Believe it or not, Frank had actually managed to find a little niche of people in his school who were equally strange, and who appreciated every moment of his weirdness. In fact, they were sometimes weirder than he was and seriously, that was saying something.
There was Mikey Way; severe coffee addict and straightener obsessive- the person who had been carted off, twitching, to the nearest hospital after calling Frank 'small'- apparently, having his coffee stolen as revenge had more of a drastic effect than Frank had predicted. But hey, at least he brought his skinny, caffeine hooked little friend several million Starbucks while he was in hospital. If he hadn't, it is very possible that young Mikey would never have returned from hospital.
Then there was Ray Toro; quantum physics legend and guitar genius who loved his fat, furry little ginger guinea pig, Clive, with all his heart. Loved as in past tense. He never got to the bottom of that suspicious incident where poor little Clive was found, squished in his hutch mere minutes after the poor little munchkin had urinated in Mikey's mug of coffee.
Seriously, that was a dangerous place to lose control of your bladder.
Not of course forgetting the school's resident manslut; Bob Bryar; the muscled, strawberry blonde guy who spent his life sometimes literally drooling over the tightness of school girls' shirts and acted as a personal bodyguard for the rest of the gang, despite the fact he was actually cuddlier than a teddy bear. He knew all too well how bad an idea it was to lose control of your bladder near Mikey's coffee after that nasty, drunken incident at a party, and after witnessing what happened to poor little Clive.
And last but not least, there was Gerard Way, Frank's best friend, renowned rebel and ditcher of all school classes. Oh, and a total and utter sex god who was constantly followed around by little flocks of simpering, sniggering girls, and occasionally very, very angry headmasters. You'd think the headmaster would have been pleased when Gerard decided to redecorate the mouldering boys changing rooms with a mural of vampires, bats and the entire collection of the school's staff having their brains nibbled on by zombies, but strangely, he wasn't. In fact, he resigned two days later due to dangerously high blood pressure- he hadn't been medically advised to take a year off and eat lots of broccoli, as that was supposedly good for the heart.
Anyway, Frank, Mikey, Ray, Bob and Gerard all been watching The Crow in the early hours of Saturday morning during one of their many sleepovers, and for some reason, Gerard had decided to steal Frank's bag of skittles. Frank had not been a happy bunny about this; skittles were his life and only love.
So he'd lunged furiously across the sofa, making Mikey spill his coffee and have a mental breakdown, and started digging his fingers into Gerard's sides in attempt to retain his skittles.
Gerard, usually a very cool and composed person, totally lost it; he was flailing and twitching and sucking his breath in like he was having some kind of seizure, wriggling about all over the sofa and showering Ray's 'fro with skittles.
And then Frank got that weird feeling in his stomach. Like, tingly butterflies and shit. In fact, he felt fucking hot. Like, the all the things Bob was always going on about feeling around girls. Except this was with his best friend, Gerard. Who was a guy. A guy who had his skittles.
Gerard was writhing and squirming and squealing girlishly, and Frank loved it. In fact, he loved it so much, he forgot the reason he was even tickling Gerard until Gerard wildly threw the, by that time, nearly empty bag of skittles at Frank and yelped "Take them!" while continuing to have some kind of strangely arousing seizure.
Frank reluctantly slid back to his place, heart thumping against his chest the way he'd only felt it do when he was watching Green Day on TV and Billie Joe snogged that fan. Lucky bastard. Frank would have killed to have been able to treasure the saliva of his favourite rock star for ever and ever.
A couple of minutes later, after Frank had returned somewhat distractedly to the movie, picking skittles from Ray's man-eating 'fro in front of him, his shaky fingers fumbled and he spilled two strawberry skittles into his lap.
And that's when he noticed something utterly and horrifically terrifying in the dark of the living room and the flickery light of the TV.
He had a boner.
So there he was, a week later, sitting in the school table with a tearful Ray, who'd just been reminded of his beloved little Clive when his biology class had to dissect small, furry rodents, a momentarily happy Mikey with a fresh mug of coffee, and a drooling Bob, and Frank was wondering just what the actual fuck was going on with him and the whole tingly stomach business. It had been bothering him all fucking week.
He was also wondering where the fuck Gerard was- it just wasn't right without him sitting there, smirking from behind his ebony hair and making darkly humorous comments. In fact, Frank found that his leg was jiggling up and down in anxious anticipation and he couldn't stop his head from jerking towards the canteen doors every two minutes to check if his best friend had appeared.
"You okay there, midget man?" Mikey asked, poking Frank's nose and jerking him from his confused thoughts with a pointy finger.
"Don't call me midget!" Frank growled angrily, flicking a stray bit of grated cheese from Bob's forgotten, limp cheese and salad sandwich at Mikey's face.
However, it missed and landed in Mikey's blessed mug of coffee.
Everyone held their breath, waiting for the explosion. Bob even managed to tear his eyes away from the girls at the table nearby and wipe the little trail of spittle from his chin.
Mikey, however, failed to notice where the cheese had landed, and it slowly sunk into the depths of his mug, leaving Frank, Ray and Bob to sigh in relief and return to their previous occupations; thinking, wailing, and drooling.
Just a usual day for Frank's little group.
"Sorry, sorry," Mikey rolled his hazel eyes in apology at Frank's touchiness over his abnormal height. "But seriously, what's up, dude? You've been acting funny all week- you didn't even try and shove that first year into a locker when they joked they were taller than you."
"That's because the first year wouldn't have fitted," Frank said grudgingly. "He was really fucking tall."
"Whatever," Mikey rolled his eyes again. "You just haven't been yourself. Something on your mind?"
Frank sighed, glancing towards the canteen doors again, fleetingly wondering whether to confess to Mikey when he saw a familiar slim, black-clad figure saunter through the doors and his stomach leapt for some unknown reason.
The school food did do strange things to the stomach, after all. It just wasn't right for gravy to taste like decomposing innards. Not that Frank actually knew what decomposing innards tasted like, thank god. But seriously, they couldn't have been worse than the school gravy.
"I'm fine," Frank said hurriedly before Gerard flung himself down beside Frank and grinned his signature crooked grin, showing off all his tiny little teeth.
Mikey raised a sceptical eyebrow, but returned to his coffee in silence.
"Howdy, motherfuckers," Gerard grinned, planting a small kiss on Frank's cheek and casually slinging an arm round the back of his best friend's chair.
Frank felt all weird and tingly again, but ignored it completely. It was nothing. Obviously. Nothing at all.
Gerard started telling them all some story about his latest addition to the mural in the boys changing room, while Frank, for once, zoned out, his mind trying and trying to piece together the confusing events of Friday night.
Eventually, he came to the temporary conclusion that perhaps he just got more excited than was natural over skittles, and maybe needed to see a therapist, because didn't want to think about his strange feelings right there- he wanted to listen to the husky Jersey accent of Gerard's voice and gaze into those bottomless emerald eyes ringed with smoky black until the bell rang.
Frank's daydreaming, Gerard's story telling, Bob's drooling and Ray's crying were brought to an abrupt halt as Mikey reached the dregs of his coffee and the soulful little shred of cheese floated limply into view.
Frank was just thinking how fascinating it was the way Gerard's eyes crinkled up when he grinned, when-
"WHO THE FUCK PUT CHEESE IN MY COFFEE?!" Mikey yelled furiously, making everyone jump. "FRANK, IF IT WAS YOU, I'LL FUCKING CASTRATE YOU WITH MY ART SCISSORS, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, YOU LITTLE MIDGET FUCKER!!"
The whole canteen went ominously silent.
And Mikey was actually starting to foam at the mouth.
"I'm not even fucking joking, you stunted little elf," Mikey whispered ominously, leaning across the table and shaking in fury. "I seriously will remove your cock."
Frank thought that this might not be such a bad thing; after all, he'd never get a mysterious possible skittle boner again, and he could stop obsessing over it all.
The second time it happened was in the Gerard's room. It was on a rainy Thursday afternoon, and Frank had gone round to Gerard's after a particularly fascinating maths lesson to listen to music and overdose on cookies as they frequently did.
It was all Gerard's fault, really.
He'd very mistakenly called Frank an 'adorable little elf', and Frank had huffed and puffed and blown the foam off Gerard's coffee in fury at his height being commented on.
Gerard had just laughed, showing off all his strangely cute, minute teeth, and poked Frank teasingly in the ribs.
Frank poked him back in retaliation, smiling slightly as the tiniest little jab of his finger into his best friend's ribs made Gerard squirm ridiculously, flailing and knocking his coffee all over the carpet as he wriggled and wriggled.
Once he started shuddering in that strangely hot seizure way, Frank, for some reason found it was almost impossible to stop what he was doing.
Next thing he knew, Gerard was sprawled on his back, gasping and writhing and tossing his head desperately on his deep purple duvet, Frank was straddling him, grinning evilly as he dug his fingers into his friend's sides.
Gerard sucked his breath in, digging his nails into the sheets and shuddering in a way that made Frank's already tingling stomach go completely wild, and resulting in his fingers only tickling poor little Gerard more mercilessly.
Perhaps it was the fact that Gerard was usually such a composed, cool and collected person that made it so strange seeing him writhing and thrashing and shuddering in a gaspy, dishevelled mess on his own bed. Perhaps this was why Frank suddenly felt a huge urge to ravish his best friend there and then.
It was only when Frank leant further over Gerard to tickle him further that their hips bumped clumsily and Frank felt a sudden hot surge of tingly pleasure, which made him freeze to the spot. Well, to Gerard's hips to be precise.
And yeah, he was pressing something onto Gerard that really shouldn't be there. And yeah, he really was going to die there and then. And…just…fuck.
Terrified, Frank leapt up, muttering something about the bathroom and bolting out of Gerard's room, onto the landing.
"Hi Frank," Mikey said brightly from where he was coming up the stairs with a large mug of coffee and a caffeine induced beam.
"Unughmopph," Frank gasped, stumbling past desperately.
"Nice boner," Mikey said causally.
"Thanks," Frank mumbled distractedly as Mikey's bedroom door clicked shut behind him. And that was when Frank realised what Mikey had just said.
Forgetting his mission to get to the bathroom as quickly as possible, Frank pounded on Mikey's door.
"Come in," Mikey's voice called.
Frank flung open the door.
"What the fuck did you just say?!" he yelped in anguish.
"Um, come in?" Mikey looked baffled.
"No, on the landing, you fucktard!"
"Oh. That," Mikey smirked, taking a gulp of coffee. "I complimented you on your boner. Must be your first, right?"
"It's not my first, you fucker!"
"Well sorry. I just assumed."
"Just because I don't fuck my 'fro-loving friend's girlfriends in the maths storeroom at school!"
"Hey, that was a one off," Mikey protested.
"And then you went and KILLED his fucking guinea pig!"
"He loved it more than his girlfriend- it just wasn't right."
"You squished it."
"That's not the point, midget! The point is that you just walked out of my older brother's room with a boner, which, by the way, is still there," Mikey said matter-of-factly.
"Shit!" Frank yelped, backing from the room with a face on fire.
"So are you two dating?" Mikey called after him.
"No!" Frank protested, his voice suddenly going all funny and high pitched.
"Then why have you got a boner?"
"It's a long story!" Frank snapped, slamming the door behind him and storming out onto the landing.
And that was when he realised.
Had he, Frank Iero, boy of sixteen, just got turned on tickling his best friend?
What kind of insane fuckery was this?! Perhaps he really did need that therapist…
After that little incident, Frank avoided Mikey at all costs, especially as the skinny little coffee addict smirked at him whenever he saw Frank blush when Gerard sat down beside him, or saw Frank draw little hearts all over his Chemistry jotter that, apparently, looked like the letter 'G'.
Frank, however, also found himself unable to hold himself back from tickling his gothic best friend at every possible moment over the next couple of weeks; in school, in the common room, the canteen, at Frank's house, at sleepovers, at the park. They got kicked out of the cinema because poor Frank couldn't stop tickling Gerard, and Gerard flailed so wildly someone called the ambulance because he thought he was having a seizure.
Gerard also very nearly drowned in the local swimming pool thanks to Frank's new lack of control over his tickling fingers; the gothic teen had to be resuscitated by the lifeguard with the disturbingly hairy arms.
Frank just couldn't seem to stop himself; tickling his best friend had become some sort of fucked up, unhealthy addiction.
He loved every moment of tickling Gerard; the way Gerard shuddered and gasped and writhed and screwed his eyes shut, hair flopping wildly across his usually composed face; the way Frank's stomach fluttered crazily with tingly butterflies and his lower belly flipped inside out with pleasure; the feel of Gerard's skinny ribs under his fingers, and the way Gerard snatched desperately at Frank's clothes as if he was going to tear them right off.
It was only when Frank realised that he had had more boners in the past fortnight than in his entire life before, he was forced to admit there was maybe something a little weird going on. Especially seeing as he seemed to be getting off on torturing his best, male friend.
Despite the obviousness of the situation, Frank tried to deny all this as much as possible- it was all just a little bit too weird for him, and there was no way he could be gay. No way at all.
However, when their French teacher, Mr. Partridge, lost the plot completely after catching Frank tickling Gerard for the seventh time that period, and sent them to the headmaster, it became harder to ignore. Poor Mr. Partridge also had to take a few days off due to stress and the fact that his classroom was being rebuilt; while Gerard had been writhing about on the classroom floor under Frank, he'd somehow managed to break three tables, destroy the bookshelf, and seriously injure a random student, who was now bound up in plaster cast and had a very nice little pair of crutches.
Frank was getting a little stressed out by this time; he was getting a little more than freaked out by his tickling urges, and the fact he was plagued by dreams of Gerard every night.
Everything came to a head when Ray called Frank up one Tuesday afternoon and asked him over.
Frank chucked on his converse and a hoodie before grabbing his iPod and blasting his music so loud he couldn't hear the thoughts he didn't want to think and had been plaguing his brain all week, as his feet pounded the familiar route to Ray's house.
He just couldn't be turned on by his male best friend. Tickling his male best friend.
There was NO WAY. Ever.
And at least no one had noticed.
However, it turned out that someone had noticed.
Once Frank had been ushered into Ray's small, cosy bedroom with the walls plastered with photos of poor little deceased Clive and his gingerness, Ray propelled him towards the bed, offered him a bag of sour skittles, and turned to look at him so seriously that Frank nearly choked on his pink skittle.
"I know what's going on, Frankie," Ray said quietly.
Frank's stomach jumped anxiously.
"W-what do you mean?" Frank stammered, totally failing at his attempt at casualness.
"You. You want Gerard's cock," Ray said matter-of-factly.
Frank did choke that time, and Ray had to slap him on the back until his airways were clear of skittles.
"W-w-w-w-w-what?" Frank gasped.
"I've seen you. The way you look at him. You've looked at him like that for years, but it's been getting worse recently with this whole tickling thing."
"I don't get aroused by tickling Gerard!" Frank yelped, leaping up and scattering skittles everywhere.
"Um, I didn't say you did," Ray smirked, while Frank wanted to die. Why couldn't Ray's 'fro just absorb him?! All that puffy hair had to be good for something.
"But I know that you want his babies."
"Ray, that's impossible. We're dudes."
"You know what I mean."
"Would you hate me if it was true?"
"Frank!" Ray exclaimed indignantly. "Of course not. But I really think you should tell Gerard."
"How?!" Frank panicked slightly, dropping more skittles on Ray's carpet.
"Well, I'd say the fact you get a boner every time you tickle him is pretty self-explanatory, but Gerard can be dense about these things…Just tell him straight out."
"Seize every opportunity of love you can, Frank. You never know when it'll end," at this point, Ray turned to look sadly at a framed photo of him and Clive on his dressing table.
Then he looked back at Frank with a disturbingly intense expression. "Tell him, Iero."
"Do I have to?" Frank whined.
"Yes," Ray said firmly. "You have to stop getting off on tickling him. It's not healthy, Frank."
In the end, Frank didn't need to tell Gerard. It happened all by itself.
It was third period on Thursday, and Frank and Gerard were alone in the form common room at school, having both been banned from French after the slight mishap of the week before. They were both meant to be doing French revision, but that was just never going to happen.
Gerard was sketching away at one of his multiple drawings, and Frank was staring at him. He might even have accidentally drooled a little bit, but he'd never have admitted it. It wasn't his fault- it was Gerard's. He was the one with those ridiculously and amazingly tight skinny jeans.
However, Gerard must have got fed up with whatever he was sketching, because he suddenly looked up and caught Frank staring and drooling. He smirked widely, showing off all his cute little teeth and making Frank want to jump on him and tickle him to death.
Well, not actually to death. He quite liked Gerard, and if he died, he'd have no one to tickle. And seriously, he liked tickling a lot.
"What you staring at?" Gerard smirked.
Frank blushed furiously, ducking his head. "Nothing."
"Oh really?"
"I was staring at your skinny jeans."
Frank mentally facepalmed and wished Ray's 'fro was there to suck him into the pits of hell.
Gerard smirked even wider and got up, sauntering across to where Frank was sitting and swaying his hips exaggeratedly in a way that made Frank want to expire even more than he had a minute ago.
He was scared. He was alone in the common room with the sexiest guy in existence and a hormone crazed mind and a tickling fetish, and fuck, Frank was really fucking terrified.
"Hey," Gerard whispered huskily into the shell of Frank's ear, sitting down dangerously close to him and leaning his face closer still.
"Ugowejwepg," Frank melted and then mentally slapped himself. He didn't do the whole pathetic and melting thing- he was the mighty midget, Frank Iero and he didn't do the whole soppy teenage shit thing.
"So, Bob was telling me something interesting," Gerard murmured even more tantalizingly into Frank's ear, making him squirm and clench his fingers so as not to suddenly tickle rape Gerard.
"Umherjii?" Frank managed.
"He was telling me about an interesting something you were dreaming about last night when you stayed over at his," Gerard grinned devilishly. "You were talking in your sleep."
Frank was dead. This was so, so bad. He dreamt of tickling Gerard last night. Why did he have to talk in his sleep?! God had no mercy on the little people.
"O-Oh." Frank breathed.
"You wanna tell me about it?" Gerard smirked evilly, tracing Frank's ear with his finger and making him shiver.
"Not really. Shut up, Gee," Frank said feebly.
"Make me," Gerard purred seductively.
And really, he'd asked for it. It wasn't Frank's fault his fingers were suddenly digging into his best friend's ribs once more, and that Gerard was sprawled on the squashy blue seats between Frank's thighs, shuddering and squirming and sucking in his breath.
"B-Bob-ngoeirywrjypjwperjopjyw-eeeeooppppgpg-was-oooogheiiep-right," Gerard gasped between breaths, and somehow managed to smirk at Frank, despite the fact he was currently experiencing death by tickling.
Frank flushed furiously, and tickled Gerard more fiercely in revenge.
Gerard was soon a writhing, sweaty, panting heap beneath Frank, and Frank's stomach was tingling more widely than ever before, not to mention the way he kept getting those delicious little surges of hot pleasure in his lower belly.
When Gerard squirmed so much his hips brushed Frank's, Frank couldn't stop a low groan slipping out of his mouth and that was all what exploded it, really.
Gerard's lips were suddenly smashing into Franks, his arms winding round the shorter's waist, crushing him down on his shuddering body as their lips meshed furiously against one another's; a panting, gaspy, fierce battle of tongues and lips and hands.
Frank's heart was slamming against his ribs as Gerard pushed his hands up through Frank's hair, sending goose bumps all down his spine while Frank ground his hips into Gerard's and they both moaned raggedly, kissing harder and faster, gasping desperately against each other's swollen lips.
Things were just really starting to heat up as Gerard slipped a hand between their gyrating hips, when the common room door slammed open and they both pulled apart, sitting up guiltily to see Mikey storming in, once again foaming at the mouth ant looking ready to kill.
"Frank, I KNOW IT WAS YOU WHO FLICKED THAT CHEESE IN MY COFFEE!!" Mikey yelled, beside himself with fury. "I'M GUNNA FUCKING CHOP YOUR BABY-MAKING BITS OFF!"
Luckily for Frank, who really, really didn't want to lose his 'baby-making' bits anymore, Ray appeared in the doorway, took one look at Frank and Gerard's guilty smiles, too-tight jeans, ruffled hair and pink cheeks, and then Mikey foaming and frothing at the doorway.
Without further ado, he grabbed Mikey by the neck and hauled him, kicking and screaming out of the room, shutting the door behind them.
Frank blushed as Gerard smirked triumphantly at him.
"I was right," Gerard grinned, poking Frank in the ribs.
Frank poked him back and Gerard had one of those weirdly arousing seizure-type reactions, making Frank's lower belly flip inside out so many times he thought it was going to explode.
Next thing he knew, he was crashing his lips furiously into Gerard's, crushing his best friend frantically against him and working his lips erratically against his, heart pounding right out of his chest as their hips ground together unevenly.
Finally, they both pulled apart, pink-cheeked and gasping.
"You're a fucked-up little horny midget, aren't you?" Gerard smirked, panting slightly.
And really, Frank had to agree there.
What did you think? I hope it was okay…sorry if it was a bit too random and crazy! Please rate and review and tell me what bit you liked best? That is, assuming you liked it at all…I'd love to know what you think and I could really do with cheering up right now. Thanks for reading! :D
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What happened to Preworkout?
I tried doing intervals on the bike a few times but my legs are so burnt up after the 3rd interval. For each one I only bumped it up to 15 and went all out for 15-20 seconds. What's your favorite...
You want to lift heavy. As heavy as you did before you started dieting to preserve muscle like Allen is saying. You can cut your volume down since your recovery won't be as good. Check out lyle...
I just thought my metabolism has slowed not that I was in starvation mode. I was in this position about a year ago. I crash dieted down to 180lbs at 1800 calories then decided to bulk and just shot...
If I do that won't I be in the same position I am now in 5 months trying to lose this last bit of belly fat.
I'm 6 foot 1 weight about 180. I lost around 14 lbs while cutting but this has taken me close to 8 months or so. I've tried not to drastically change my calories but right now I'm around 2100-2200....
Wow thats awesome! What did his training split look like while cutting? Any cardio?
So are mid week spikes and refeeds the same thing?
Looking great Allen! What are your calories at now and what do you shoot for with refeeds and midweek spikes?
Thats a great point. I never thought about it that way but it makes alot of sense. I will definitely start thinking in terms of muscle failure and not movement failure.
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Hey Allen, do you take creatine? What are your current supplements? Do you take creatine while cutting? or does your supplements change while cutting? I enjoy following this thread and wish you...
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I am 6 foot about 200 lbs and mid teens bf%. My push workout today looked like this:
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Hey Allen do you do straight sets or pyramid?
Is this per workout if you work a bodypart twice per week or total sets per bodypart per week?
Hey Allen Im really enjoying following your workouts. What does your diet look like right now?
how many off days do you have and how many sets per muscle group per day?
what have you guys seen most success with? Completely trashing a muscle group once every 7 days or split the sets between two days in the training cycle?
I experience some pain depending on what position I'm in but I am still able to do most exercises. Deadlifts Im too afraid to do, but I am able to squat 245. I just make sure I keep my lower back...
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On Monday, corn inspections were below trade expectations at 25.1 MB. But 34%, or 8.6 MB, were headed to China despite Chinese quarantine officials rejecting several cargoes of U.S. corn that tested positive for an unapproved GMO corn variety since mid November. Also hindering the corn market is a weaker export basis as river water levels fall. At St. Louis, water gauge levels were at a minus 2.27 feet on Monday afternoon. It was forecast to remain around minus 2.1 feet for the next week then recede to a minus 4.1 feet a week later, according to the National Weather Service. Several barges hit ground in the St. Louis area over the weekend due to the low water, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
For soybean's, Monday's NOPA crush for November came in below expectations at 160.1 MB, but was still the largest in nearly 4 years. Although it fell 1 MB short of expectations, soymeal exports bested expectations and helped put a bid under the soy complex on Monday. Also, USDA reported another week of big soybean export inspections - 62.5 MB for the week ending Dec 12.
In wheat, Egypt's GASC announced a snap tender to buy wheat for late January delivery, as prices continue to sink lower. It is unlikely that US concerns will win the business with much of the export capacity into January devoted to corn and bean exports. Weekly export inspections were reasonably strong at 17.5 MB. Year to date exports for wheat are still running over a 100 MB ahead of the pace needed to reach USDA's export forecast of 1,100 MB.


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After I have bore sighted my 17hmr scope what is the accurate range for making squirrel head shots
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You are gonna want to fine tune your scope before you hunt with it, but I would say if your proficient with your rifle you should be able to take em out from a ways off. Just my .02 cents.
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It's not hard to see squirrels over 50 yards away. When there are a few leaves on the trees it's much easier to see the squirrels. It really depends on the height of your scope mount. You want to be able to make shots from 10 yards to 100 yards. I would sight the gun in for 60 yards or more. If you sight the gun in closer you will have to much arc in the path of your shots.
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my ruger 1022 converted to .17hm2 was sighted @100 yds it was almost flat till there. after fell off fast .balistic tables are all over the internet study some proof it and hope for no cross winds
forgot to mention groups were 1 to 1.5 at 100 depending on me and the wind
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Students at Singapore Polytechnic have developed a plant that glows green when it's thirsty. They did this by genetically modifying a plant using a green fluorescent marker gene from a jellyfish. Apparently, seeing the 'glow' with the naked eye is difficult, but viewing from an optical sensor developed in collaboration makes the feat possible.
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Definition of upbeat in English:
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Pronunciation: /ˈəpˌbēt /
(In music) an unaccented beat preceding an accented beat.
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How to Do the Clothesline from Hell
The "Clothesline From Hell" is the biggest impact clothesline move in wrestling. John "Bradshaw" Layfield, or better known as "JBL", is known for this move. How do you execute this move? This article will show you how.
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You don't have to be a member of a country club or a nursery school to incorporate monograms into your home decor. In fact, if you're thinking about monogramming for a child, young adult or even a mature woman, please keep reading for a fresh perspective on modern monogramming.
Many years ago I thought the concept of monogramming was ridiculous. I didn't understand the purpose of embroidering initials on something. Was it pillow theft deterrence? Or, maybe monogramming was necessary in the event of temporary amnesia. You could wake up and have no idea who you were, but as long as you had a monogrammed towel you might be able to retrace your life and miraculously find your family again. (In the earlier 80's, temporary amnesia seemed like a plausible and common ailment). As I got older, the monograms seemed to morph into the modern version of family crests, meant to impress and intimidate others who were not part of a certain snobbish clique.
Now monograms are being used in bohemian interiors to lend lightness and humor to spaces that need a bit of fresh wholesome irony. The monogram's previous association with snobbish tradition is what makes it a perfect piece of modern design with humor. No longer relegated to childrens' rooms, college dorms with strong sorority sisterhoods and highly traditional interiors, the rules are changing. Monogramming isn't just for bed and bath linens anymore. Many sophisticated designers are turning back to monograms to create hybrid interiors, which blend unconventional decor with conventional decor in an effort to create original, artful, breathtaking homes.
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True story: I put a monogram on the header of my resume after a year of looking for a new job with no bites. Got an interview in a day. Coincidence? I doubt it.
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Kings' Willie Mitchell on his past, present and future
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Willie Mitchell has already revisited his past once this season and he'll be doing in again on Tuesday night when the New Jersey Devils come to Staples Center in LA.
"Where it all started. That's the first thing I think about when it comes to playing the Devils," the 10-year NHL veteran said. "It doesn't matter how many teams you've played for, and I've played for a couple, you always have fond memories of where it all started."
He debuted for New Jersey on March 25, 2000, nearly four years after they selected him in the eighth round of the 1996 draft.
Life's come a bit full circle for him, as he now hands out advice to younger players in LA about the experiences he went though as a prospect coming up through the New Jersey organization.
"I think in life in general, you try and learn your whole way. That's the journey of life, learning. If you ever think you can stop learning, you're in trouble," Mitchell said, as we reflected back on pieces of his career that have molded him into the player he's become.
"As a pro, I try to learn every day. I tried to learn from guys before me, guys who spent a lot of time in the league. I was fortunate enough to start in one of the best environments ever with the Devils – Scott Stevens, Scott Niedermayer, Larry Robinson, Jacques Lemaire, I could go on and on. There's a lot of Stanley Cups there. And you don't win those without having a good model for success. I tried to learn from those guys."
Some of those lessons have steered him towards being a certain type of player, just don't necessarily call him a leader.
He says he's simply tried to be himself since joining the Kings – not a "rah-rah guy who tried to be overbearing at times." Instead, he's offered to be someone who guys can talk to, someone who's there to listen and can offer a suggestion or two on how to navigate through difficult situations.
"A lot of times in this league, we think we're a lot better than what we are and when we're not playing well, we think we're a lot worse than what we are," he said. "That can be tricky. And I don't think that experience happens overnight, you don't learn that right away. That's how I try to help out. So be it if people think that's a voice or a leadership role. You don't strive to be somebody like that. If it comes to you, then that's flattering."
He entered this season at the mid-point of his present situation, having signed a two-year deal with the Kings back in the summer of 2010. Still, he thinks the two halves in Los Angeles will be different, with the most difficult part behind him.
"There's no doubt I was a player who had some risks (attached) to me coming in," the 34-year old defenseman said. "Although I had a wrist and a knee injury last season, with the head, everything was good."
This summer was different for him too, both on and off the ice. Last year, he wasn't able to partake in most of the extracurricular activities he enjoys in his free time, nor was he able to work out much. This summer, not only was he able to do more, Mitchell says he probably hasn't trained this hard in over decade.
"Outside of maybe when I was 22 or 23 years old, when you're young and full of energy and the NHL is upon you and you're just working out like a madman – and sometimes working out without a purpose, you're working out so hard – this was probably the hardest summer of training I've had in a long time," he admitted.
"The other part that's just as important, I think, was that I did a lot of things I wanted to do. When you have a concussion, you can't just go out fly fishing or go out on your boat and relax because the sun bothers you and all those things. Having a chance to get all of that out of your system makes you that much more excited for the season to start."
That's lead him to feel pretty confident of late – with one caveat, "Not that I'm going to run up and down the ice like a Drew Doughty. But, I'm going to have a much more consistent, better season."
He's not only happy about the work he put in this summer, he's more than pleased with the changes GM Dean Lombardi made to the Kings roster.
"The organization made some great moves. Being a veteran player, that's a place you want to be in. What goes a long way to players is when the ownership group and management goes out and brings in players like they did this year. To us, it says they believe in this group. And when you have your ownership, your management and your coaches believing in you, that says a lot. That gives you a big boost of confidence."
He went on to say, "I absolutely enjoy it here."
Which brings us to the future.
It's understandable if Lombardi doesn't want to talk contracts with any defensemen for a few months. But, if the Kings approached him at some point about signing an extension, is that something he'd be interested in?
"That stuff takes care of itself whenever it does," he said.
Well, that's not a very Willie Mitchell answer. All last year he was brutally honest – and insightful – when answering questions. And now he's going to pull up easy, with a cliche?
"No, I'm dead serious with that answer," he said when pressed harder. "I think no better experience than that for me was having my concussion and going into free agency (in 2010). I was in a similar situation than I am here. I was having an excellent season (in Vancouver) and if I got through that season, whether it's term or dollar figures, it might have been a little bit different.
"As a player, all you can do is control the things you can control. For me, that's going out and being the best teammate I can be for my teammates and being the best player I can be for the LA Kings. That's what I'm going to try and do this year. If I do that, that's going to work out quite nicely for the Kings and myself. I've done enough contracts after 12 years in the league. You come to know those things always work out how they're supposed to."
Fair enough.
There's a long season ahead, size things up for the team.
"I'm really excited about this year and what's ahead of us. I don't want to get too far down the road. But, I think the number one thing for us is to win our division. I think we have a really good shot at doing that. Then, if we win our division, we get to where we want to be and that's in the playoffs. That's our first step and that's our only focus right now. Once we get there, our next step is, obviously, the big prize. To have a shot at being one of 16 teams in the tournament is what it's all about it."
So far, so good. The Kings enter the weekend 4-1-1, with the overtime loss coming in New Jersey just over a week ago.
LA will take on the Stars tonight and then host the Devils for a rematch next Tuesday.
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Taylorsville • Even the normally all-business Titans couldn't hold back their grins. They knew how well they played.
The Syracuse girls' basketball team is widely considered the favorite to win the Class 5A state tournament. In their first-round game on Tuesday morning, the Titans played the part to near-perfection, notching a dominating 84-35 win over Copper Hills at Salt Lake Community College.
"We want that state title," senior forward Makenlee Williams said. "That's what we're thinking about. We don't want to let down."
Syracuse was never in any danger of an upset, building a 27-8 lead in the first quarter and never letting up. The Grizzlies struggled against the Titans' full-court press, scoring only five field goals in the final three quarters.
Williams led Syracuse's offense with 27 points, including five 3-pointers. She said she had been smarting from a few lackluster personal performances in the last few games, and was itching for a big day.
"I guess it was just the atmosphere," Williams said. "I just wanted to play great, and I guess that's what we did."
Jayda Bovero scored 15 points, and Brittney Martin added 14 in the win. Savannah Sandberg led Copper Hills with 13 points.
The most impressive aspect of the victory was the intensity — even leading by more than 30 points, the Titans never seemed to lose focus. They kept diving for lose balls and lunging for steals.
Even coach Rob Reisbeck couldn't seem to think of how his team could've started the tournament any better.
"The kids played well," he said, struggling to suppress a smile. "We'll celebrate this a little, but we'll get right to Lone Peak - that's the next thing on our minds."
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Kevin Love had 27 points, 10 rebounds and six assists and J.J. Barea broke out of a horrid shooting slump to score 19 points to lift the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 112-101 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night.
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Desert Biomes
A desert is a place that has few, or sometimes even no, life forms. Sometimes life forms adapt to living in deserts, but conditions tend to be extreme, and survival is challenging.
Some deserts can be visited but not lived in. Some deserts are so inhospitable that life as we know it cannot survive in them at all.
In terms of rainfall, areas that receive less than ten inches of rain a year are considered to be deserts.
Some deserts receive only three or four inches of rain a year. A few places do not receive any rain at all.
When we think about deserts, we think about limiting factors.
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Liquid Water:
on earth, liquid water is necessary for life. Some life forms survive periods when water is not available by becoming spores or seeds, or by becoming dormant (hibernation or estivation). Some plants can survive for many years as seeds. Insects and unicellular life forms can also wait out drought. Sooner or later, however, liquid water is necessary. Survival is essential, but it is not all of life. Without growth and reproduction, life is on hold, not progressing.
Salinity can also interfere with an organism's use of water. Fresh water fish cannot live in the ocean, and land plants watered with sea water will die. The excess salt in briny water pulls water out of the organism and dehydrates it. If you put a salt water fish in fresh water it will die, too, because the organism will retain too much water in its cells.
Sunlight: is the ultimate source of most of the energy used by living things on earth. Plants use sunlight for photosynthesis. Lack of light in caves and under deep water make these environments unsuitable for photosynthesizing plants.
Hydrogen Sulfide: a small set of life forms live around deep sea volcanic vents, using a process called chemosynthesis to extract energy from the mineral rich hot water. Without these chemicals, these cold, dark areas are almost lifeless.
Essential Elements: include nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. These are elements are captured by plants and circulated through food chains. Much of the open ocean is actually a desert because it lacks these nutrients and cannot support life forms. In places where cold water is upwelling from the ocean depths, some of these nutrients are carried up from the ocean bottom, and provide food for life forms at the surface.
Food: Food provides energy (fuel) and also amino acids and vitamins necessary for life. Animals need both fuel and vitamins. Without them, they do not thrive.
Life processes are chemical processes. Life processes operate most efficiently within a narrow temperature range. Think of how we put food in the freezer to keep it from spoiling: freezing temperatures stop those processes. Too much heat also kills: fevers of around 108 degrees Fahrenheit kill humans, because the proteins of which we are formed begin to break down at those temperatures. Both plants and animals have ways of protecting themselves from intermittent extremes of temperature, but need to stay within certain temperature ranges in their environments in order to survive.
Life forms are adapted to the atmospheric or aquatic pressures at which they live. People die at high altitudes because they cannot extract enough oxygen from the air. Life forms brought up from the deep ocean will explode as the gasses dissolved in their tissues expand.
We don't have radiation deserts on earth (yet), but we know that living things need protection from ultra-violet radiation (protection currently provided by the ozone layer), radioactive radiation (high around Chernobyl), and gamma radiation out in space.
The food web in the hot desert biome is a simple one. Life in this hot, dry environment is challenging, requiring adaptations from both animals and plants. The soil is often dry, and desert winds carry fine dust particles away, leaving a stony landscape. Plants that live in the desert year round have evolved special adaptations for capturing and storing water. Adaptations include secreting a waxy substance to protect their leaves from drying out, thorns and spines to keep hungry animals at bay, and body shapes that can expand rapidly when water becomes available. Plants have large networks of roots that lie near the surface and can capture rain when it falls. One bush, the creosote bush, actually secretes a substance in its roots that keep other roots out of its feeding area.
Many desert plants no longer have leaves, or grow only very small ones. They have chlorphyll in their stems. Many cacti do not have leaves at all. Their rounded bodies have a low surface to volume ratio, and the spines that protect them also cast a little precious shade on their green bodies. Annual desert plants germinate, grow, and flower quickly when there is a rainy year. They make small, hard seeds that may not sprout for ten years or longer. Some perennial plants store moisture in underground tubers or bulbs.
Desert plants are the primary producers. Animals that live in the desert feed on the plants' seeds, flowers, and juicy bodies and leaves.
The plant-eating animals are the primary consumers. These animals are small, and can get by on very little food. Some desert dwellers are insects, and some, such as snakes and lizards, are reptiles. Reptiles are "cold blooded" and they can survive on only a little food. The warmth of the desert sun heats their bodies so that they can move quickly. A few small warm-blooded animals, such as kangaroo also live here. They hide from the heat in burrows, and come out at night to feed.
The secondary consumers eat the plant eaters. Lizards eat insects: snakes eat lizards, insects, and little desert rodents such as deer mice and kangaroo rats. Scorpions and tarrantulas also eat insects. They have exoskeletons, which help them to conserve moisture.
All animals need protection from the sun during the heat of the day. There is no shade in the desert, but there are little crannies in the rocks where a small animal can find shelter. Some of the animals go into underground burrows, where the air is a little cooler.
Not all land classified as desert is equally arid. The driest parts may look very stony, but where there is more moisture there will be more plants, such as sage brush, seasonal grasses, and small shrubs. There may tree sized cacti, palo verde, and Joshua trees. These greener deserts may be home to quail, pygmy owls, and even desert foxes and hawks. A few tertiary consumers may be able to survive in these richer environments.
An interesting desert "extra" is the oasis, a place where springs of water flow to the surface, providing an environment where palm trees and shrubs may grow. Though rare, oases gladden the hearts of travelers, and provide a refreshing micro-world with its own ecology.
Hot Deserts
When we think of deserts, we often think of hot deserts with sand dunes. While it is true that some parts of deserts have dunes, desert landscapes vary widely. This picture shows a part of Monument Valley, which is an arid area. You can see sand in the foreground, but behind the sand there are some desert plants: probably rabbit brush. Notice that these plants are not close to each other — there is not enough moisture in the soil to support more plants. However, there is something here for animals to eat. There are probably some little rodents in this desert — mice or kangaroo rats, and some lizards. There will be a few snakes to eat the lizards and rodents. There will be insects, too. During the summer many of the animals will seek shelter from the heat by hiding in burrows underground. They will come out at night to hunt for food.
Deserts are described as areas that get an average of less than ten inches of rain a year. In the summer, temperatures may soar to over 120 degrees during the days, but will drop as soon as the sun sets. Winters may be cold. The dry desert air and clear skies do not hold onto the heat at night. The heat just radiates out into space.
Plants and animals make special adaptations to the desert environment.
Some plants are annuals. Their seeds wait in the ground for years until there is a rainy winter: then they sprout rapidly and grow as fast as they can. They race the sun to make seeds before the water evaporates and the heat dries them up. Some of these plants are so tiny that the whole plant could be hidden under a dime. Others spread colorful blossoms over the sand and rocks for a few brief days.
Some plants develop water-storing strategies. Cacti have chlorophyll in their fleshy stems, and they store the water that they gather in those stems. They defend themselves with sharp spines. They have large networks of roots that lie under the ground near the surface of the soil. If it does happen to rain, these roots can soak up the water quickly. Many cacti have corrugated stems which can expand quickly if water becomes available.
If you cut across one of these stems, you would see shapes like this. The first shape shows the cactus stem when the plant has plenty of water, and you can see that it is pretty full. The second shape shows how the sides fold in when the plant is dry.
Some parts of deserts are covered with stones. Sometimes the stones are huge and jumbled. Sometimes these areas are flat, with the stones set close together. Flat, stone-covered areas are called desert pavement. In the wet springs, tiny flowers may appear between the stones.
Hot Desert Animals
Animals in the hot desert also make special adaptations. Most of these animals are small, because food and water are scarce. Some are reptiles, lizards and snakes, animals who are cold-blooded ectotherms. These animals do not need as much food as warm-blooded animals, and can go weeks between meals if they have to. The sun provides heat for them, and they can find little niches in the rocks to hide in during the heat of the day and during the cold nights.
Warm-blooded rodents are also small, and can survive by eating seeds and nibbling on plants where there is enough plant growth. They have evolved to be able to live with very little water. They are preyed upon by snakes, and perhaps by desert foxes or coyotes or hawks if there is enough vegetation to support a good-sized colony of these plant eaters.


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So, yesterday Saleh and I went to the doctor, had our first big ultrasound, and got the lovely news that our little Wilderness Explorer is a…
Indeed, we are the proud parents of a future disciple of Ellie Fredricksen and Hello Kitty (that is, if she's anything like her mother). And she is a beautiful girl, if I do say so myself. We saw her little arms, her little legs, the top of her little head, her little tummy. And we could see her moving, too, especially as the ultrasound tech pushed my tummy around with the transducer, trying to get a good look at Simsim's (well, I guess technically we should call her Simsimah now, but it just feels weird. She'll stay Simsim for now) girl parts. Simsim did not like this at all. We could see her kicking her little legs furiously in protest. She's a tough little lady!
Everyone in the family seems pretty happy that we have a little girl on the way, especially my sister-in-law. She has been rooting for a baby girl since she found out I was pregnant. ("Our family is all boys," she said.) After Saleh dropped me off back at home and headed back to work (and went out for lunch with his coworkers to celebrate his daughter on the way), I sat and had lunch with my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law.
"Did you see her nunu?" my sister-in-law asked anxiously. Then, "You need to learn these words now. 'Nunu' is a cute way to say 'girl parts.' 'Dudu' is the same, but for boy parts."
"Good to know," I said. Then, "No, we didn't see her nunu, exactly…but we could definitely see that there was no dudu."
"Ohhhhh," she said, nodding knowingly.
In true Saudi male form, Saleh had a mild freakout upon learning the news that he has a child with a nunu on the way. He had been rooting desperately for a boy. Although he's very happy that we have a healthy, perfect baby girl, he had his hopes pinned on a boy because, as he put it, "Boys are easier." (Although I'm pretty sure my–American–dad, who also had a mild freakout in 1983 upon learning he was the father of a child with a nunu, would disagree with him on that one.)
"I don't know anything about girls," he moaned. "And I know will spend the rest of my life worrying about my baby girl. I will worry all the time. And baby girls aren't close to their daddies like they are to their mommies. She will grow up and get married and leave us."
We had a long discussion about why A) he knows more about girls than he thinks, B) we're both going to spend the rest of our lives worrying about our babies, no matter what sex they are C) baby girls can absolutely be as close to their daddies as they are to their mommies–it all depends on how involved the daddy wants to be and D) (okay, I blew up a little on this one) so it's fine for me to grow up and leave my parents a half a world away but our daughter can't grow up to make her own choices and live her life wherever she sees fit? Do you think I left my parents because I'm a flaky girl and I don't love them as much as my brother does? Well, do you? DO YOU?
Ah, the hormones are in full rage.
Despite this reassurance, Saleh held out hope for an hour or so that the ultrasound was wrong, and that we would discover on the delivery day that Simsim was actually a boy all along, a boy who was somehow hiding his dudu from us. Then I told my mom about this, and she replied, "Tell Saleh that we don't want that. We don't want him to have a dudu so tiny we can't see it. If the baby has a dudu, we want him to really have a dudu."
Good point, Mom.
So, resigned to the idea that Simsim is indeed the proud owner of a nunu (because, I guess, a nunu is preferable to a tiny dudu), Saleh decided we needed to do some shopping.
Until I laid out everything like this, I didn't realize that so many of our purchases were food-related. But come on, how can you pass up a receiving blanket that has a piece of cheesecake on it? But what sort of (delicious) subliminal messages will we be sending Simsim by wrapping her in a cheesecake blanket? I remember once, before we were married, Saleh and I had a discussion about what our children might be when they grow up. I mentioned that I would be fine if our daughter wanted to be a ballerina. Saleh replied that he wasn't worried about her becoming a ballerina when she grew up. When I asked why, he replied, "Her parents' genes." I guess he has a point. I can't see the next Alessandra Ferri being wrapped in a blanket that celebrates the wonder of cheesecake. A prima ballerina could never ever truly know the wonder of cheesecake the way Mr. Mostafa and I do.
But by God, Simsim, if you become a ballerina, you can bet I will be at every single one of your performances, cheering you on. And afterward, we'll go out for cheesecake, ballerina rules be damned. I don't care if you're destined to be the greatest ballerina in the world; you're still a Hunter/Mostafa.
Anyway, Saleh picked out the little cupcake jumpsuit and the pink tiger bib. He also found a little yellow onesie that said "I love Daddy" that he desperately wanted to buy, but the only size they had was preemie. (It was really cute how excited he got about it. It's like he's not quite sure Simsim will love him as much as she will love me, because she's not a boy, and, as he put it, "You'll be her best friend for life. That's what moms and daughters do. And especially here, I can't do as many things with her as I can with a boy. I can't take her to the mosque with me when she gets older. I can't take her to gatherings of my friends." But when he saw that onesie, his eyes lit up and got a little teary, as if to say, "It's possible! She does love me!") According to Simsim's ultrasound measurements, she is right on track, growth-wise. So if she arrives around the time she should, God willing, she won't fit into anything designed for a preemie. So we left the onesie behind, despite it being the only thing we could find in the store that said something like "I love Daddy." But in the States, you can't chuck a pacifier in a children's clothing store without hitting some jumper that proclaims how much this little one loves her mommy or daddy. So I called Mom and asked her to be on the lookout for outfits for Simsim that proclaimed her devotion to her dad. She promised she'd arrive in May with a suitcase full.
Of course, now that Mr. Mostafa is in full daddy-to-a-daughter mode, we trying to figure out a name for her.
Before we found out that Simsim was a girl, we had a girl name picked out, a name that we loved. And then, once we learned that she actually was a girl, things got real. And now we're not sure what her name will be, because as much as we love the name that we've chosen, we're not sure how that name will fit in Saudi Arabia. And I'm not even sure that that name fits her.
See, naming babies in Saudi Arabia can be a tricky business, especially when compared to the States. In the U.S., you can name your kid pretty much whatever you want. In Saudi Arabia, there are restrictions. When you go to register your kid's name, it can be rejected for pretty much any reason–not Arabic-sounding enough, not a nice meaning, too Western. So you have to choose a name that has a chance of being approved, or resign yourself to the idea that if your kid has dual citizenship (as ours will) he or she will have your chosen name on his or her American (or whatever) passport and a Saudi-approved name that comes as close to your chosen name as you possibly can on his or her Saudi passport.
Secondly, we both want a name that sounds good in each of our native languages. We want a name that won't invite too much ridicule on either side of the globe. Every time Saleh floats a suggestion for an Arabic name, I say it out loud in my brother's down-home Ozarks accent, and if it sounds utterly ridiculous, it gets nixed.
And an odd discovery we've made is that many names that I find cute in English sound like Arabic stripper names to Saleh (Me: "What about Lucy? Lucy is a cute name." Saleh: "Why don't we just ship her off to belly dancer school in Egypt as soon as you pop her out?"), and many Arabic names that he finds cute sound like English stripper names to me (Saleh: "What about Luluah?" Me: "Oh yeah, that totally sounds like a diplomat's name. More like a stripper for diplomats. I can hear it now–'Las Vegas, let's give it up for the lovely, luscious Luluah!'").
Go figure.
Thirdly, once a Saudi baby comes along, the baby's dad will be known amongst his friends as "Abo [baby's name here]" (abo means "father of"). (And technically, the mother will be known as "Umm [baby's name here]," and of course, umm means "mother of." But honestly, I'm not worried so much about that, because I'm not Saudi. I expect most people will just keep on calling me Nicole or Nikki.) So Saleh wants a name that won't invite ridicule from his friends, since he won't be known as Saleh much anymore. (This parental title that will be formed with the eldest child's first name is, by the way, called a kunya in Arabic.)
Oh, well. Despite not really having a name chosen yet, we are over the moon about Simsim and her nunu. And by the time she arrives in May (or possibly early June), I know we will have found the perfect name for her, a name that just clicks when say it as I go about my day, chatting with her and singing to her, as well as when Saleh talks to her intently through my tummy.
We can't wait to meet her.
So happy for you guys! Tell Saleh not to worry…I'm a daddy's girl, Susu is a daddy's girl, and there are plenty more out there I'm sure. And Susu goes to the mosque with baba on the regular…so he can do that too…for a while at least. And one thing is for sure…nunu or dudu…you two are going to be excellent parents!
yay a girl!!! how exciting!!! It's so funny how you're husband reacted. Mine said some similar things before we had our daughter and each time we picked a new name he would "test it out" by seeing how it sounds with Abu in front of it.
thanks! i guess new babas of little girls have a lot in common.
I have three boys and one girl. Tell Saleh she idolises her father. he can do no wrong! If I want her to wear something I bought her that she doesn't like all I have to say is "baba got it for you!". He has nothing to worry about! Also remind him that in most cases here it's the girls who ALWAYS stay close to their parents no matter what happens in their life (marriage, work ,kids) not to boys! Lastly I'm sure, inshallah, this won't be your only Simsim! So he may have one with a Dudu in the next few years!
Mabrook again!!
thanks so much! i am pretty sure that saleh has nothing to worry about. however, i'm also pretty sure i may have to worry about having a spoiled rotten little saudi princess on my hands.
so excited for both of you! and please tell saleh, that girls are definitely closer to their daddies! we have our dads wrapped around our fingers dont we? my brother has 2 boys and a girl, and i can definitely see the difference.. theres just something about girls and their dads <3
i will definitely let him know! i just love all the encouraging comments i've received on this post…i just told saleh, "have you read my last blog post? you really need to read the comments!"
I am a silent reader, but in this post I have to write
( my english is not the best to write)
I love this post. I realize how much are you looking forward to your baby girl, and it is so beautiful.
By the way…. i have three girls, and they love their father very much.
When parents give their children love, the kids that love will also give back, whether father or mother.
Maryam ( I am pregnant to, and my baby will come inschaAllah on June ;-))
thank you for writing! i wish you the all best in your pregnancy. we'll be delivering around the same time, inshallah! here's to safe, healthy, easy deliveries for both of us! <3
I had a girl first followed by 2 boys. The boys are lovely but physical. They have some genetic need to communicate by lying on the floor and wrestling. Not to hurt each other – just to mark their turf. My daughter is a blessing. She is sensible and kind and tolerant of the rugrats. When I am maled out we go shopping or paint our toenails.
As for names I like Elina/Aleena. No idea of the meaning. You can also have Natasha or Sophia.
thanks for your comment! you sound like you have a lovely family. we're definitely already sure our girl is a blessing, too!
Hay Nicole, just got recommended your post, and wow!! what a lovely surprise to hear your gonna have a baby with a nunu!! tell saleh my husband, who is british, had the same reaction he did when he found out we were having a girl after we had our boy, and as of today I have one boy and two girls, and I tell you the girls can make their baba melt just by looking at him. Yes girls get married and move away, but only for a while, they are the ones who come back and look after us when we are old (well at least that is what I am doing) so I am hoping they will do the same for me. Anyway, Congratulations, and I look forward to more posts.
thank you! i think a lot of people expected the dad-to-a-girl freakout from my saudi husband, but it seems like it's a pretty common cross-cultural phenomenon.
Girls might have an easier time having a middle eastern/western compatible names than boys do! Go biblical that is used in Arabic like Sarah, Hannah, Mariyam, Naomi, etc.
Also Layla, Alia, Yasmine, Maya, Karima, Reema, Daria.
A friend of mine married a Mexican and they chose to name the girl Jenna, go harder on the N and you end up with Jan'nah, paradise.
thamir, i thought the same thing until i found out i had to name a girl!
What about Sara? It's an Arabic and English name… Hannah… Susanne. Dina. .. Layla. There's a lot of them
i'm not a fan of sara just because it's so terribly common, both in saudi arabia and in the states. the others are nice, but they just don't fit her. it's tough to find just the perfect name! we loved the name we had chosen before we found out she was a girl, and we still love it, but it just doesn't feel like that's her name, if that makes sense. it's not just about choosing a name, it's about finding her name!
OMG, my ex, an Egyptian, called all babies nunu. I have never heard it in reference to the parts…lol! And she was the first, a daddy's girl and my son was stuck to me like glue. I could barely get anything done!


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I made this appetizer for Christmas and it was amazing. It was very easy to make and all the flavors worked really well together. I did not find the bacon overpowering at all. Note: I wouldn't recommend using blue cheese crumbles as it will be messy hard to keep the crumbles in the fig while you wrap the bacon. Use the solid piece of cheese and cut off chunks - which is easier to stuff. I will be keeping this one in my recipe file to make again and again!
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It's a lot of work and the bacon flavor overpowers the other flavors. I thought it would all work well together because it looked so inviting. It was disappointing.
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I am going to attempt to make the recipe using less bacon...I already bought all the ingredients before the previous review was posted...also, going to use blue cheese crumbles instead of gorgonzola...typically i think of blue cheese and walnuts going together, that might be good too :)
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Dave Eggers @ Green Apple Books Tomorrow
Dave Eggers, a shining beacon in our local and national literary scene, will be stopping by Green Apple Books tomorrow, September 14th at noon for an in-store book signing to honor his award-winning novel Zeitoun's paperback release.
If you haven't picked up Zeitoun, it's a harrowing tale of one family's experience of Hurricane Katrina and an examination of New Orleans in the wake of the disaster on a national and international scope. Said the book's New York Times review:
"Eggers, the boy wonder of good intentions, has given us 21st-century Dickensian storytelling — which is to say, a character-driven potboiler with a point. But here's the real trick: He does it without any writerly triple-lutzes or winks of postmodern irony. There are no rants against President Bush, no cheap shots at the authorities who let this city drown. He does it the old-fashioned way: with show-not-tell prose, in the most restrained of voices."
Forgo your usual lunch fare and head down tomorrow to meet Eggers!
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