My dress sense

My bestest friend came over to visit me last night, we ate out at my favourite veggie restaurant and pondered the life of the world we live in. It was nice, I havent laughed that much in soo long and it was much needed alhamdulillah. We rented a film called 'Caramel' about a group of girls working in a salon in Lebanon, was a good film... even though I was tres fatiguee!!! but alhamdulillah I watched it all and tried not to think about having to get up in the morning. She left mine around midnight to drive back to mississauga, we are planning on insha'allah gettting together to break fast on Monday.. will see how that goes :) Anyways, while she was here I showed her my 2 new dresses and she loved them, I knew she would :P she told me that my dress sense has gone more funkier... Im not sure if its a good thing :P actually the way she said it I assumed it was and when i asked how? she just said that it had changed since I met her (end of 2005) and that I was getting more feminine.. shows how much we are changing because in 2005 she totally wouldnt have realised that lol :D how we change alhamdulillah.

Resignation notice

Yup, it officially became official today after my boss sent out the notice to the whole of the company. Phew, it was hard.. I wasnt expecting the response I got from people, all good obviously saying they would miss me, asking why I was going all the usual questions. I got a thank you from a big boss for giving so much notice in, so Im glad I did that, everyone understood where I was coming from when I said I needed to use the degree I was in debt for! lol... Its been a nice day, and here are some comments I got

How sad for us. Although I don’t see you much I love your sense of humour. I
wish you all the best.

I’m very happy to see that you have new plans and you’re going back home. I will
always remember when I met you first time and I asked you from which country you
were, I was surprised to hear UK because I wanted to hear the name of an exotic
country. I’m still laughing about my awkwardness! Take care about you, you doing
a good job!! All the best in you new projects

These were emails, and I also got a nice comment from someone who used to work on the afternoon shift with me, but now we are on opposite contintental shifts so I dont see her much. However today she has swapped with a girl who went on emergency MAT leave on tuesday. So we were just chatting about it and she said she would miss me being around, that Im a breath of fresh air and fun to chat to, so I just said, well I will be visiting... you know what she said? well even if you dont, it was God's blessing to have met you in the first place... subhanallah :) you never know how much you truly touch someone until you are faced with the prospect of splitting up. I nearly cried :) ok.. well not that much, but it was touching alhamdulillah.
Im just looking around on the net to see when I will insha'allah be starting fasting this year. Looks like committee of North America say the 1st, although the moon wont actually be spotted then.. think I will phone the masjid and see what their recording says lol... well, Im working this weekend... only got 1 more hour left then Im off home to wait for my friend. We are going to the veggie restaurant and gonna have super girlie chats over food :) insha'allah, will be nice to sit with her and grumble about all things life like its been awhile since Ive done it. Peace and salams, Ammena

The day so far

All has been well alhamdulillah, I woke up late but I needed the sleep. I phoned my grandad, I dont know who reads this blog or how often but its the year anniversary of my nana's death. Its also my mums birthday today which doesnt make things any easier. People deal with death anniversaries different, especially family deaths... I think the way that this day is going, Im going to deal with it by not really talking about it and avoiding the people who will want to talk about it. I know that isnt good.. maybe in years to come things will be different, maybe when Im surrounded by that side of the family things will be different. Allahu alim.
Anyways.. other news... I got a letter about my firearms license stating that I needed a background check from the last 5 years as I havent been in canada for that long, so now Im running around trying to find out bits. I paid $30 for a background check in Waterloo that actually isnt what I need :( so that was a waste. Now Im trying to find little things that I will fax into them and hope and pray its what they are looking for, insha'allah
On a good note :) I went out with a friend from work today and her little one. This is me and her little one.. shes currently on MAT leave from work and I miss her loads but its always good to see her. She knows about my situation with bro A and is always supportive even though I know she doesnt understand everything. Alhamdulillah. I found out from here, and confirmed it at work that her first two weeks back (last 2 weeks in sept) I will be staying on days, which means Ill be fasting Ramadhan on days, alhamdulillah. Im wearing my new hijab that I bought at muslimfest, its slightly see thru and I thought it was ok but I was totally paranoid so gonna wear a white shayla underneath when i leave in a little while.
Also, I wanted to show you pics from my hand :) if you remember I burnt it with hot sulphuric acid oct 2006. I was off for 2 weeks, or 3 i think and Ive been having hospital visits until feb 2008 and wearing a pressure glove. Alhamdulillah it could have been so much worse, but today I got a cheque through from WSIB for... wait for it... lol... just over $3000 so im very pleased with that alhamdulillah... gonna def be buying my flight in the next few days now that I have the extra cash for it. On the second pic I circled the 2 scars I have on the palm of my hand, they probably arent noticeable from what you see you have to really look closely at my hand let alone a picture :P Also the pics I have here you can see the pattern of my other new dress from Old Navy, my friend said it was a very cute outfit :P masha'allah.
So thats whats new with me.. ok, now Im off to find my white shayla and get to work to fax this stupid thing off... take care guys. Fi amenallah

Went shopping today, specifically for a thin white cardigan and found it in old navy alhamdulillah. Also picked up this cute dress that is actually quite long for $7 Im really not a pink person.. ask anyone who knows me personally, but occasionally I see things that have a hint of pink that need a solid pink hijab and they are cute. Im also a very sporty dressed person, ask anyone who knows me personally :P and I live in my adidas trainers. I love this bag too :) so what dya think? I just added dark jeans to complete the look, and trust me the dress is really long.. like down to my knees (im 5ft 4) so it would be fine for those 'jeans a little tight in the thigh area'

Anti war protesting in Denver

I just found this over on Mollys blog... listen to what they are shouting in the background. Hilarious!!! I pray that maybe this message gets across to the people who have the power to do something. I love how hes like 'I guess u dont believe in freedom of speech!' what has not wanting to talk to Fox tv got to do with free speech?? silly man. I also love how she points out that Fox is giving them the chance to talk but all the people are doing are shouting at him.. pff.. who cares!! Its a demonstration love! not a tv interview!!!

This weekend

I had such a nice weekend with a new friend :) we decided to drive to the Busker festival in Toronto and it was amazing. We parked up around 3ish and stayed till around 8pm and I had such a good time.. I really needed to get out of Cambridge and I havent been to anything like that in downtown for so long now, almost makes me want to move to Toronto... ok, not that much! lol.. but makes me look forward to moving to London, so arty :) and i need things to keep my time busy as you all know :D so here are a few pictures of me, and the group of people I ended up with :D I had such fun.. it was such a good day, then we went for food afterwards and I got home late.. but all fun and games :D

Pics: 1. At the end of the stalls in one direction, you can see the people in the bottom of the pic
2. Some of the stalls, and a small number of people that were there on the day 3. One of the street performers all the way from Vancouver Island, BC :D 4. water fountain near the milk pic (see pic 6) 5. me by the previous mentioned skyscrapers 6. the milk pic.. we were trying to be natural.. which took 4 shots and this is the best in my opinion 7. Hungarian guy with puppets (was good) 8. french moving lady person :D