The Eid Wrap Up Part 1
Hey yaars,
At this point I'm enduring the hangover or Eid celebrations (no pun intended). It was a long, but enjoyable two days which led to me being exhausted last night when I just fell into bed. It was still well worth it though!
As I mentioned previously, many orthodox Muslims in Canada celebrated Eid on Monday, which meant we had to attend a party of one of our family friend's on Monday evening. Of course this was unknown to us until about 4:30 Monday, minutes after I had picked up my Mom from working a gruelling shift at the food packaging factory. Despite her normal grumblings, my mom insisted I get ready. She wasn't too pleased when I mentioned I would be heading out to get clothes for our Eid the next day.
Now, I was suppose to meet with Melanie and Jeff to help out on the clothes thing at 5:30, unfortunately my Mom took until about 5:15 to get ready. It was then a 20 minute trek to Markham to drop her off, which included a pit stop at the TD bank so my mom could give out Eidee (Eid money) to kids there. Through all of this, I was quietly avoiding my cell phone rings in a strategic move to pacify my mom. And after enduring rush hour traffic, I finally managed to meet my advisors at about 6:30.
I had no idea that last minute clothes shopping could be so fun! For the first time ever I managed to step into a Banana Republic where with the help of my fashionably conscious friends, I managed to find a pair of slacks and a few shirts to wear. At Aldo I managed to find my first pair of proper dress shoes, and ties at H&M. All things said and done I had dropped quite a coin, and was hoping things would work!
Got back to Scarborough at 9 to pick up Zan and take him to the party. While we were getting dressed to the nines my Mom calls to say to come immediately, and to NOT BOTHER changing as only two families remained! Since we already were dressed, we biz-ounced over there and managed to have some excellent trifle, whilst collecting some of our own Eid money!
We got back home around 1 and suffered the ignominy of seeing my mom's "it's nothing special" face when she saw my clothes. I felt like mock-strangling her at that point! If only she knew how much I spent!
Coming in part 2....my real eid!
At this point I'm enduring the hangover or Eid celebrations (no pun intended). It was a long, but enjoyable two days which led to me being exhausted last night when I just fell into bed. It was still well worth it though!
As I mentioned previously, many orthodox Muslims in Canada celebrated Eid on Monday, which meant we had to attend a party of one of our family friend's on Monday evening. Of course this was unknown to us until about 4:30 Monday, minutes after I had picked up my Mom from working a gruelling shift at the food packaging factory. Despite her normal grumblings, my mom insisted I get ready. She wasn't too pleased when I mentioned I would be heading out to get clothes for our Eid the next day.
Now, I was suppose to meet with Melanie and Jeff to help out on the clothes thing at 5:30, unfortunately my Mom took until about 5:15 to get ready. It was then a 20 minute trek to Markham to drop her off, which included a pit stop at the TD bank so my mom could give out Eidee (Eid money) to kids there. Through all of this, I was quietly avoiding my cell phone rings in a strategic move to pacify my mom. And after enduring rush hour traffic, I finally managed to meet my advisors at about 6:30.
I had no idea that last minute clothes shopping could be so fun! For the first time ever I managed to step into a Banana Republic where with the help of my fashionably conscious friends, I managed to find a pair of slacks and a few shirts to wear. At Aldo I managed to find my first pair of proper dress shoes, and ties at H&M. All things said and done I had dropped quite a coin, and was hoping things would work!
Got back to Scarborough at 9 to pick up Zan and take him to the party. While we were getting dressed to the nines my Mom calls to say to come immediately, and to NOT BOTHER changing as only two families remained! Since we already were dressed, we biz-ounced over there and managed to have some excellent trifle, whilst collecting some of our own Eid money!
We got back home around 1 and suffered the ignominy of seeing my mom's "it's nothing special" face when she saw my clothes. I felt like mock-strangling her at that point! If only she knew how much I spent!
Coming in part 2....my real eid!
posted by Naveed at
4:27 PM
1 Comments:
You did not say, "biz-ounced."
By
YYZ Girl, at 10:48 PM, October 26, 2006
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