The last time I posted on LiveJournal/InsaneJournal was August 7th, Sunday. Later, at around midnight after I broke fast and continued snacking and drinking water - ever since I was little I've thought of water as the elixir of life and when you're fasting/dehydrated it absolutely is - Matt and I found a scale in their house and I weighed myself. I ( Read more... )

So I succeeded at fasting the first two days of Ramadan. Monday was surprising. I was asleep most of the day. I think part of that was still recovering from Saturday. Thankfully I didn't push myself too much. Matt had to wake me up when he got back from work and I basically stayed upstairs until the table needed to be set ( Read more... )

but just in case I want to do it this year since I don't have academics as a reason/excuse to not, what with dehydration headaches interfering with my concentration:

We fast from dawn to sunset, not sunrise to sunset.

MONTHLY HIJRI PRAYER TIMES
 CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES
Ramadan 1432 AH1 August 2011 - 29 August 2011
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(Dawn)Shorook
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