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Not only do I enjoy cooking, but I like to try and make new and different things... that are EASY to make!

I may love cooking, but I do not like spending HOURS in the kitchen.

Over the last week or so, post Ami's surgery, I've made food on pretty much a daily basis... as opposed to when I feel like</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/iOsqiwZtryE/what-for-dinner-chicken-tikka.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-COPUQ1RO2Jk/T7_rwJiSLoI/AAAAAAAAiqk/aLeLDN483s8/s72-c/blogger-image--1049165214.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EPFhM4iMot4vcnry9Ooc_HbXkcQ/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EPFhM4iMot4vcnry9Ooc_HbXkcQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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Each time, the conversation and/or debate would conclude without an answer -- just both sides very stubbornly attached to their argument. While it is nice that each side was so passionate about it just as I am, I left</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/-xTwJbjaHqA/organ-donation-in-islam.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0p_2RG-zXm-to35AEq4yOF3oCvg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0p_2RG-zXm-to35AEq4yOF3oCvg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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Instead, I decided to throw some random spices in and grill it on our George Foreman Grill (which, by the way, I LOVE!).




</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/WoJzNcvr0fI/whats-for-dinner-grilled-tilapia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5-esGwMfuTM/T7_q-EkU7QI/AAAAAAAAiqU/D4bceFCaSHI/s72-c/IMG_1745.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QgBq4B49psy5mTZulU26HZvUIjE/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QgBq4B49psy5mTZulU26HZvUIjE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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It's from our (my siblings and mine) childhood. Our parents bought it for us back in 1991 -- yes that's 21 years old -- and almost as old as me!! We played countless hours with the set, building everything imaginable. We wore out the blocks, the people, and the board to build on a very long time ago.

Then, for many years, it sat in the back of our closets as we </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/zKNWGx23IE0/legos.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NbdnsoYfcDo/T6F0GwlqBPI/AAAAAAAAiBA/4_tvUnqHT8I/s72-c/photo+1.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CZD-QBfNemrFLyqkZOhOdVS1Cv4/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CZD-QBfNemrFLyqkZOhOdVS1Cv4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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I'd recommend it to all, especially those of you with young children!

It was very realistic, and showed how vulnerable young kids are </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/tqgDW_HuPJA/my-kid-wouldnt-do-that-stranger-danger.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MSA3aeKbmt4j-59-5UWctHm71Oc/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MSA3aeKbmt4j-59-5UWctHm71Oc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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 P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/LYNktNkIUtw/whats-for-dinner-grilled-chicken.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FOCLdg1QTXI/T5Cto6T1klI/AAAAAAAAhmE/2AJSFPdweuk/s72-c/IMG_1501.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TM_QmWQz_DsPM8WmXgSsskoW0pg/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TM_QmWQz_DsPM8WmXgSsskoW0pg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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If you are thinking "so what?!", here's what:

While I don't think I was ever addicted to soda, I was a fan. Had it every time I went out to eat (with a few exceptions). Had it at parties. And had it at home (sometimes even a few times</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/UgPKhecMC34/self-control-and-soda.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eYHBVeX6kCZH0ooroqhRsqnI19Y/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eYHBVeX6kCZH0ooroqhRsqnI19Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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We bought a Quesadilla maker from Macy's a little while back and my family absolutely loves it. Tacos, Fajitas, and now quesadillas are some of the favorites in our household.



Yesterday, I went to buy one as a gift for someone who really liked it at my house. I was pleasantly surprised to see the sign below indicating it would turn out to be a very good deal for us!



 







I'm no math </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/RpOeZ5zaoL8/marked-price.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9b7uYD0to9g/T3mdssofDTI/AAAAAAAAhFU/eGjojbr5NxA/s72-c/blogger-image-440652692.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r5mooxODf19BWSddtL8AsKOwKyY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r5mooxODf19BWSddtL8AsKOwKyY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r5mooxODf19BWSddtL8AsKOwKyY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/r5mooxODf19BWSddtL8AsKOwKyY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/RpOeZ5zaoL8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/04/marked-price.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-5169508391236031103</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-30T17:22:00.354-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Earth Hour</category><title>Earth Hour is Tomorrow!</title><atom:summary>The annual Earth Hour is approaching us!

Don't forget to participate in Earth Hour and turn off your lights for one hour on March 31, 2012 (tomorrow) from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m!

Here are a few other suggestions and tips for what you can do (besides turning off all the lights in your house):
Turn electronics and appliances off! This means coffeemakers, toasters, computers, video games, etc.
</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/jJ4hYNtJ9Dk/earth-hour-is-tomorrow.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rsTYk2oju0CGy4TPexllYEHivuU/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rsTYk2oju0CGy4TPexllYEHivuU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rsTYk2oju0CGy4TPexllYEHivuU/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rsTYk2oju0CGy4TPexllYEHivuU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/jJ4hYNtJ9Dk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/03/earth-hour-is-tomorrow.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-1365938318548431858</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-02T17:49:17.068-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Reviews</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Books</category><title>The Hunger Games</title><atom:summary>I finally caved in and read The Hunger Games yesterday.




I feel like that's all everyone has talked about lately. It's been all over my social network feeds, that's for sure.

It sat on my side table for weeks (probably longer) after Imran lent me the book and insisted I read it (along with Faraz). Two nights ago, I picked up the book and couldn't put it down! I read nearly a third of the book</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/bwMXdLtVwE4/hunger-games.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kor6hxfqxGTR8oCBLpMeMJLZcx4/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kor6hxfqxGTR8oCBLpMeMJLZcx4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kor6hxfqxGTR8oCBLpMeMJLZcx4/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Kor6hxfqxGTR8oCBLpMeMJLZcx4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/bwMXdLtVwE4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/03/hunger-games.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-3751468895144002946</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-08T11:55:16.236-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">What's For Dinner</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Food</category><title>What's for Dinner: Quesadillas</title><atom:summary>These particular ones were filled with chicken, cheese, and green peppers.

</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/wHo-Fb_DABw/whats-for-dinner-quesadillas.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6RYQ1nNANP0/T2J3_J36-bI/AAAAAAAAgmI/UjSE6Tok54U/s72-c/blogger-image--68971448.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/W44BLGlH3BrKC4SnQzFqb6Yyuj8/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/W44BLGlH3BrKC4SnQzFqb6Yyuj8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/W44BLGlH3BrKC4SnQzFqb6Yyuj8/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/W44BLGlH3BrKC4SnQzFqb6Yyuj8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/wHo-Fb_DABw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/03/whats-for-dinner-quesadillas.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-6960708356750578308</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-09T20:16:15.864-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Joke</category><title>Another Joke!</title><atom:summary>I've got another joke for you!! It's been a while since the last one, hasn't it?

Ready?

How do you organize a space party?

You planet!

P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/WFIvf07D9YA/another-joke.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MrZpW4tpnNE8AvaTNuHElZkiOJE/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MrZpW4tpnNE8AvaTNuHElZkiOJE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MrZpW4tpnNE8AvaTNuHElZkiOJE/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MrZpW4tpnNE8AvaTNuHElZkiOJE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/WFIvf07D9YA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/03/another-joke.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-2336114232823678429</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-29T12:45:16.783-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Halal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Customer Service</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Restaurants</category><title>Bad Customer Service from KFC</title><atom:summary>I don't know if there is anything I hate more than bad customer service.

Remember the Halal KFC I talked about back here? Today, my brother and I drove back there today because I was craving it. It took us over an hour to get there... and almost THREE HOURS to come back home. But I wasn't too annoyed because it was me who really wanted it.

You know what sucks?

Well, I only eat white meat... </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/y7dfuxz__V0/bad-custom-service-from-kfc.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rdr9djxAiVOb57-in7Ezgb3SYi8/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rdr9djxAiVOb57-in7Ezgb3SYi8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rdr9djxAiVOb57-in7Ezgb3SYi8/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rdr9djxAiVOb57-in7Ezgb3SYi8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/y7dfuxz__V0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/02/bad-custom-service-from-kfc.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-9136922477497694192</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-04T22:28:28.798-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">What's For Dinner</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Food</category><title>What's for Dinner: Chicken Tikka Wrap</title><atom:summary /><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/NbYDKHaGUrc/what-for-dinner-chicken-tikka-sandwich.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HqGeMunKBxQ/Ty32m7vgDHI/AAAAAAAAgNM/R20oIYV3P3E/s72-c/blogger-image--423817271.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tvYL6mXPm6sLl6Pyn5Rt6gjje14/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tvYL6mXPm6sLl6Pyn5Rt6gjje14/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tvYL6mXPm6sLl6Pyn5Rt6gjje14/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tvYL6mXPm6sLl6Pyn5Rt6gjje14/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/NbYDKHaGUrc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/02/what-for-dinner-chicken-tikka-sandwich.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-2354750496001337960</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-16T23:01:22.330-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Medical</category><title>Annual Screening</title><atom:summary>With Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation in the news so much recently, and the topic weighing heavily on my heart, I figured now would be the perfect time to talk about this.


Cancer. Probably one of the most despised six letter words in the English dictionary. 

I can't explain to you the number of times I've started a blog post on the ugly and scary word that is Cancer. Just in the past few</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/rcR4e0EZAn0/annual-screening.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rtQobl1PTIfsaRXbraXhFtPaCrA/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rtQobl1PTIfsaRXbraXhFtPaCrA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rtQobl1PTIfsaRXbraXhFtPaCrA/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rtQobl1PTIfsaRXbraXhFtPaCrA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/rcR4e0EZAn0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/02/annual-screening.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-879668377851768893</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-30T22:45:18.237-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Miscellaneous</category><title>The Power of Words</title><atom:summary>My cousin shared the following video earlier, and I had to share it.

It's funny how the same thing can be said so many different ways, and how they can have different connotations (that lead to different reactions).

Along the same lines, but not really related to this video directly, too often, we are so careless in what we say and how we say it... that leads to our words being misconstrued </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/0us08pkMFUQ/power-of-words.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/Hzgzim5m7oU/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Fcq7gKIV2f6bAtLnGAmfRh7_v-s/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Fcq7gKIV2f6bAtLnGAmfRh7_v-s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Fcq7gKIV2f6bAtLnGAmfRh7_v-s/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Fcq7gKIV2f6bAtLnGAmfRh7_v-s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/0us08pkMFUQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/01/power-of-words.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-447814204722439396</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-10T19:19:17.643-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Election 2012</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Elections</category><title>Iowa Caucus &amp; New Hampshire Primary</title><atom:summary>Being the political junkie that I am, I stayed up until 2:30 AM the night of the Iowa caucus until we FINALLY found out who the winner was after all of the confusion and back and forth... and probably one of the closest elections ever.

Eight votes separated the first (Romney) and second (Santorum) place last week, yet people still argue that they don't bother voting because their ONE vote </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/3GF3QCRQuDw/iowa-caucus-new-hampshire-primary.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/64gE6bdnifjVE6cCyg1qXkjK2kc/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/64gE6bdnifjVE6cCyg1qXkjK2kc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/64gE6bdnifjVE6cCyg1qXkjK2kc/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/64gE6bdnifjVE6cCyg1qXkjK2kc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/3GF3QCRQuDw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/01/iowa-caucus-new-hampshire-primary.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-4190628763197592407</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-16T23:11:40.011-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Reviews</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Food</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Restaurants</category><title>Red Lobster</title><atom:summary>I love seafood... and tilapia is one of my favorites!

So it should come as no surprise that one of my favorites when I go out to eat is the Wood-Fire Grilled Tilapia at Red Lobster. It's what I get EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. I go there. Without fail.

Love the Caesar salad at Red Lobster. LOVE their biscuits.

I finally convinced my parents to go there about a year and a half ago for the first time. </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/xzcvzgee9e4/red-lobster.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2-KjOjHuAaAI3YObVapTfHM85ac/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2-KjOjHuAaAI3YObVapTfHM85ac/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2-KjOjHuAaAI3YObVapTfHM85ac/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2-KjOjHuAaAI3YObVapTfHM85ac/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/xzcvzgee9e4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/01/red-lobster.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-2947107205996990876</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-05T22:53:48.162-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Miscellaneous</category><title>The Power of a Smile</title><atom:summary>There is this woman that I've seen/spoken to three days in a row now.

The first two days, she was terribly rude and had a major attitude problem (not just to me, to everyone she interacted with I noticed). I, in return, still started off with a smile and was courteous and polite throughout the conversation. On both days. Trust me, it was no picnic for me either!

By the third day, my patience (</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/sEZz_X4koEA/power-of-smile.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HVYAkvI_Zgokj7lVt9sKA7r6tco/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HVYAkvI_Zgokj7lVt9sKA7r6tco/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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Staff: 3
Atmosphere: 3.5
Overall: 3.0

Choopan Grill is a new Afghani Restaurant that opened recently in our area. It apparently has two other locations by the same owner in NY (or so I've heard). I tried it today with three of my cousins (and we all love Afghani food).

The service was... not so great? We were the only ones there for a pretty long time (it was around 7 PM) and the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/Ct-kKpPBx6U/choopan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-lkG_i5ukiwk/TwEltvFS5yI/AAAAAAAAgK4/df2XO0ZbWCA/s72-c/blogger-image--1887477971.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f0eMeF9LS5nuAZfqIR_1DaIpciA/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f0eMeF9LS5nuAZfqIR_1DaIpciA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y6xN0QqVj8m2zWIwsVOCH_lKsT0/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y6xN0QqVj8m2zWIwsVOCH_lKsT0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~4/5CIBxugjBMM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.summaiyahhyder.com/2012/01/brain-teaser.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4440936758269966963.post-2242091753769106459</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-17T14:48:04.396-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Medical</category><title>Bruise</title><atom:summary>Over the course of the last few months, my fear of needles and getting my blood drawn has lessened significantly (because let's face it... after the amount of times I've had it drawn, I really should be over it by now). Sometimes, I don't even feel it pinch when they draw the blood -- woohoo! I still look the other way though while it's being drawn -- baby steps!

Another positive thing (glass is</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/EBHPbWlt0iA/bruise.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IyJtFYK1CoFZtzsIN2gGt6KIWGk/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IyJtFYK1CoFZtzsIN2gGt6KIWGk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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What do you think?

P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/RX9gXHt3oXU/new-look.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/summaiyahhyder/Summaiyah%20Hyder%20Dot%20Com/th_8f0e39b7.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/b5rmiz5l0rPizCHbFJMJEAIOpdY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/b5rmiz5l0rPizCHbFJMJEAIOpdY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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She died in the hospital room of a local hospital surrounded by MANY members of her extended family.

Hers was the first death I experienced in my life. Losing her was so bittersweet because it was also comforting to see her finally be so peaceful after she passed away</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/summaiyahhyder/~3/-sMoBr5hd6k/precious-cousin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Summaiyah Hyder)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr323/pimpmyblog/2010%20orders/th_summaiyahsig.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7P8dlaNxWjyTr2mHVVz7YqXK7aY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7P8dlaNxWjyTr2mHVVz7YqXK7aY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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