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Shooting in the Eatons Center Mall!

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I’ve been watching the news for the last hour or so because there was a shooting inside the Eatons Center Mall here in Toronto. It happened at approximately 6:30 pm in the North Food Court and at this time it looks like perhaps three people have been shot.


It looks just crazy downtown. Everyone has been evacuated from the mall but there were large crowds outside everywhere and of course the media started closing in too. They still don’t know if the shooter is still inside the mall or if he’s in the crowd that exited the mall.

I’ve lived in Toronto for over 25 years and I’ve never seen anything like this. Oh yes I have – on an episode of Flashpoint, but that wasn’t real!

When I first moved to Toronto I worked in the jewelery trade – which for the most part is located right across from the mall, so this area feels very familiar to me. Almost like a home base since that’s where my business was and since my sister still has her business across from the mall.

Now the news is saying that they have an unofficial source that says there might be up to 6 victims. I hope that’s wrong!





The sound of music

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My husbands been practicing a particular song on his guitar almost daily in the last few weeks. He’s even bee bringing his guitar to work with him to play on his breaks and to practice with a few other people.

Why you ask? Well … Next Monday he’s playing at a special retirement dinner for the chief of surgery at our hospital. The doctor herself is going to be playing an instrument and singing and there are a few other people playing instruments and singing as well. I guess they’ve formed a “medical” band.

Chris always talks about going and playing in bars or at free Mike nights but he never seems to do that, however, he does end up playing at hospital related events every couple of months. It could be a talent show or the annual Christmas party or some special event – everyone seems to know and like Chris’ music so they ask him to play.

Since he’s been practicing so much at home I was thinking of getting him some nice headphones so that he can listen to the music as he plays even better. Headphones that will tune out outside noise. So I went searching and I found some Sennheiser studio headphones for sale so I might get him a pair of those. I’m sure he’ll like that.

I wonder what the next music project will be once this one is done?

Looks like the weather is getting better

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The weather is getting nicer. Finally! April was cool here in Toronto. That probably wouldn’t have been that bad, but when April turns out to be cooler than March and has snow when March didn’t .. well .. I’m happy that May has arrived. So are my plants! My garden is looking lovely.

The other day is was nice enough out that I spent some time working in my front yard. I was weeding the garden beds and fixing up the look of the front boulevard. I have a planted boulevard, but crab grass was starting to grow in the flower beds there so I spent a lot of time pulling it out. Hopefully it doesn’t grow back.

Everyone was enjoying the nice day when I was working in the garden. Lots of neighbors were outside either working on their own yards – cutting the grass etc, or out walking around. I said hello to a lot of people as I worked on my garden. One of the people that passed me was wearing one of those funny t shirts that made me laugh out loud .. but I can’t repeat what it said on here .. it was bad! I just about fell over into a bush when I saw it!

My front yard looks great. Now all I have to do is work on the back yard! The back yard isn’t that big, but compared to my front yard it’s a lot bigger – it will take longer to tidy up. Perhaps this weekend if the weather is nice. How is your yard and garden?

Lots of things going on today

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I’m having an interesting day … one that I think I’m more than ready to be done with.

My husband finally had a couple of days off in a row so we’re busy doing some much needed renovations on the house. Yes we’re actually doing the renovations – not just talking about getting it done sometime, someday. It’s started. The living room dining room reno will finally be finished – soon. LOL

My poor dog is totally baffled by what’s going on. She’s wondering what all this banging is and why everything smells like spruce wood and saw dust all of a sudden. Not that she minds the smell.

One thing threw me for a bit of a loop today. I finally got the call I’ve been waiting for from the Human Resources department at my workplace. I’ve been waiting to hear from them ever since I had my first appointment with them two weeks ago regarding going back to work. You know, that appointment that ended up with me being interviewed by five people for over an hour! Yikes!

Well, now they want to see me for at least half an hour. I’m not sure what it’s about this time. It could be yet another interview type meeting or maybe they’ve found a place in the hospital for me. I don’t know. All I do know is that it’s nerve wracking each time. I just want to get back to work – get my life back on track again. I’m starting to feel like a yoyo – back and forth, back and forth I go … Hmm but I bet I don’t compare to the best yo yo at yoyoplay. Uh huh.

A while back I thought it would only be a couple of weeks and I’d have my old job back. That was in January or February … here I am after convincing my doctors that I’m healthy enough to go back to work, and convincing the occupational health department at my workplace that I’m healthy enough to return and getting cleared to return to work and I’m still waiting. Hopefully it won’t be much longer.

Here doggy doggy!

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I got some unexpected exercise this afternoon. Just when my husband was about to go to work he opened the door and we both saw a scruffy little dog running loose on the other side of the street. I just hate seeing a stray dog in my neighborhood. I always worry that the dog is going to end up getting hit by a car since the street I live on is fairly busy.


I decided to try to catch the dog if I could. Usually when I’ve seen a dog on the loose in the past the owner isn’t too far behind. So I put on my coat and grabbed one of my dogs leashes and off I went in the direction that I’d last seen the dog run in. As I walked down the street I caught sight of the dog running across the street in front of a car. I cringed – but luckily it made it safely across.

It took me a few blocks, but I managed to start to catch up to the little dog. Naturally just as I did it turned down a side street and went off towards some Housing for seniors. That was actually better because it was a quieter street so it was safer for the dog if it started to run across the road again.

I did manage to get close to the dog. Not close enough to pet it or to put a leash on it. I think I would have gained it’s trust but it’s owners finally appeared and the dog ran to them. They were nice and they thanked me for trying to help their dog. They said their dog slipped out when they opened the door to get the paper. Hopefully that doesn’t happen too often!

Do you ever worry when you see loose dogs running around your neighborhood? Do you try to go out and help them like I did?

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