Here & There

I've been so busy lately with work and family events that it's hard finding time to blog and visit my regular blogs. I do apologize, but the computer just turns me off now that everyday time I check the Peel website for jobs there's absolutely nothing there that I can apply for. It's frustrating!

My week/weekend was filled with wonderful things like fun field trips, birthday parties, playing mini golf with my extended family (the course in Oakville is so beautiful), stuffing my face at Demetries (mmm cheesecake and Tiramisu ice cream), and of course the wonderful event on Friday - getting paid for my first two weeks at work and finding out that there's been a significant increase to my pay.

I feel so blessed. Alhumdullilah. There's nothing in my life I can complain about right now. Not even the mosquito bite the size of a golf ball on my hand. How can I complain? I'm lucky I have a hand. A hand - well two hands... that have never had to cover my ears to ignore the sounds of bombs, two hands that have never had to wipe the tears that fall when you see someone die right before you...

Yesterday I went with my mom, sister and brother, to the protest downtown.



Click for Toronto Star article.

A special "guest" joined my sister.



It was raining buckets when we got there and one speaker duly noted that the "heavens were crying tears" for the situation in Lebanon right now. It's said that 10,000 people showed up but I would have liked to see more. Wake up world...