My gift to everyone

The nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Boxing Day!

Boxing day was……….it was just ok. I like to shop. Its fun. Particularly when its for me! haha   I hate the big crowds of ppl and waiting and oh man do I hate trying to find a parking spot! Its soooooo annoying. Anyhow, all I went out shopping for was movies and books. And I was kind of dissappointed, not a whole lot of great deals out there. Kind of makes me miss the states, things are definitely cheaper there. But I went about square 1 a bit, futureshop, bestbuy, and chapters and I did get a few things.

Some of the movies I got were:

The Wizard of Oz
Hell Boy 1& 2 (my mom wanted to see them)
When Harry Met Sally (an old but great movie)
Lord of the Rings trilogy (i know its long, but i like it)
Big Trouble in Little China (an old classic), and a few others.

I have to say I’m more excited about the books. Some of them include:
The Tipping Point
The Bottom Billion (a book about the poorest billion ppl in the world)
Blink
And 2 books I’m really excited about are a collection of stories from 1001 Arabian Nights! I`ve heard a few here and there but I`m more familiar with the mother goose, brothers grimm, and  hans christian anderson stories so I`m really looking forward to reading these and seeing what they are like

I`ll have to wait for a couple weeks on those though. I checked the store and it was just cheaper to go back home and order them online, from the same store! Weird.

Finally, I also go 2 boardgames. Risk and Mindtrap. Anyone want to play? hehe?

Accept, Decline, Tentative

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings”.

Story#6 – What is that?

A good reminder that we will not be here forever and to treat the ones we love with all the respect and patience they deserve.

The Job

Story#5 – The Necklace

The cheerful little girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five. Waiting with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them, a circle of glistening white pearls in a pink foil box.

“Oh mommy please, Mommy. Can I have them? Please, Mommy, please?”

Quickly the mother checked the back of the little foil box and then looked back into the pleading blue eyes of her little girl’s upturned face.

“A dollar ninety-five. That’s almost $2.00. If you really want them, I’ll think of some extra chores for you and in no time you can save enough money to buy them for yourself. Your birthday’s only a week away and you might get another crisp dollar bill from Grandma.”

As soon as Jenny got home, she emptied her penny bank and counted out 17 pennies. After dinner, she did more than her share of chores and she went to the neighbor and asked Mrs. McJames if she could pick dandelions for ten cents. On her birthday,Grandma did give her another new dollar bill and at last she had enough money to buy the necklace.

Jenny loved her pearls. They made her feel dressed up and grown up. She wore them everywhere, Sunday school, kindergarten, even to bed. The only time she took them off was when she went swimming or had a bubble bath. Mother said if they got wet, they might turn her neck green.

Jenny had a very loving daddy and every night when she was ready for bed, he would stop whatever he was doing and come upstairs to read her a story. One night as he finished the story, he asked Jenny, “Do you love me?”

“Oh yes, daddy. You know that I love you.”

“Then give me your pearls.”

“Oh, daddy, not my pearls. But you can have Princess, the white horse from my collection, the one with the pink tail. Remember, daddy? The one you gave me. She’s my very favorite.”

“That’s okay, Honey, daddy loves you. Good night.” And he brushed her cheek with a kiss.

About a week later, after the story time, Jenny’s daddy asked again, “Do you love me?”

“Daddy, you know I love you.”

“Then give me your pearls.”

“Oh Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have my baby doll. The brand new one I got for my birthday. She is beautiful and you can have the yellow blanket that matches her sleeper.”

“That’s okay. Sleep well. God bless you, little one. Daddy loves you.”

And as always, he brushed her cheek with a gentle kiss.

A few nights later when her daddy came in, Jenny was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed Indian style.

As he came close, he noticed her chin was trembling and one silent tear rolled down her cheek. “What is it, Jenny? What’s the matter?”

Jenny didn’t say anything but lifted her little hand up to her daddy. And when she opened it, there was her little pearl necklace. With a little quiver, she finally said, “Here, daddy; this is for you.”

With tears gathering in his own eyes, Jenny’s daddy reached out with one hand to take the dime store necklace, and with the other hand he reached into his pocket and pulled out a blue velvet case with a strand of genuine pearls and gave them to Jenny.

He had them all the time.. He was just waiting for her to give up the dime-store stuff so he could give her the genuine treasure.

So it is, with God. He is waiting for us to give up the cheap things in our lives so that he can give us beautiful treasures.

Are you holding onto things that God wants you to let go of?

Are you holding on to harmful or unnecessary partners, relationships, habits and activities that you have come so attached to that it seems impossible to let go? Sometimes it is so hard to see what is in the other hand but do believe this one thing.

God will never take away something without giving you something better in its place.

Don’t worry about tomorrow!

After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. 

Some random stuff

Some random stuff since I haven’t been able to blog in awhile.

• The TTC is an annoying pain with how its overpriced, hard to buy tokens.
• People that wrap themselves around the poles in the subway when its full bug me. Hello, I need to hold on to something too! Not to mention, while I generally don’t gross out about touching public poles/handrails/etc wrapping yourself around it….ok, ya thats a bit gross now.
• My favourite restaurant of the moment is the Donar Kebab House! Veal on rice with their special hot sauce is soooooooooooo good!
• I got a new tv in my basement. I love it! Its big and my games and movies look awesome on it. $10-15 to go to the movies or $15-25 on buying a movie I can watch with others as much I want…hmm….
• I’m going to a raptors game today for free! Woohoo!!!
• The raptors have the best offense in the league!
• The raptors have one of the worst defenses in the league :S  Makes them fun and frustrating to watch.
• I am so exhausted these days. I really need to make myself go to bed at like 8 one day just to recharge. Actually what I’d really like is a vacation. Would anyone like to plan something and let me just tag along?
• I love chocolate. And I’m eating m&ms right now.
• I’m jealous of the americans getting a short work-week and a long-weekend.
• I need to buy some clothes for Eid.
• I feel cold thinking about cold.
• My coworker went down for lunch. In the elevator he bumped into the CIO and talked a bit. He went for chinese and they gave him an lcbo bag to carry it back in. He again bumped into the CIO on the elevator up. The CIO saw the bag and just smiled
• I got a $5 coupon for Chapters today. I have a whole pile of books I’m backlogged on reading but I’m still going shopping! Books are one of my shopping weaknesses
• I think I have an inner Pysch nerd within me. If only I had more time to feed him. Which reminds me I learned of a cool experiment on discrimination that I’ll post more about another time. I’m sure some of you may have heard about it before.
• And I think thats all I have time for right now.

Productive Thumbs

So I had today off from work due to Remembrance Day, got to love working for the Govt   Anyhow, I had some banking I wanted to do. Thought I could complete this application for some stuff I want to start next month. Finish up some other forms for some other stuff I need to submit. And maybe go to the gym. And get a haircut.

Instead…..I played  basketball for 6+hrs…….on my xbox 360   And had some ice cream. It was a good day

Bears are dangerous

Apologies for the language…just thought it was funny