it's been ages...

or at least, it seems that way. But the time has also flown by. Finally finished my fall volunteer training, which just takes up so much time - working 2 nights a week is hard! It means that I can't play at all at night, or Sam starts to get whingy - "you're going out again? But you're never home..." And, for the last couple of weeks, I have been out 4 nights each week. Which, even to me, seems a bit excessive.

A quick plug for my bro - he's a vancouver-based artist/designer, and I am really impressed with his new designs - both furniture and spaces. Here's a link to his website:

http://www.zilliondesign.com/

If you click on the absolutely middle picture on the bottom, "split bookshelf", that's one of my (old) favourites - I bought this piece, but Ben is storing it for me while I live overseas (which seems sort of indefinite at the moment).

Sam continues to be his irreverent self. He recently had a school assignment to create a dinner party made up of fictional, historical and "real" guests. He invited Mother Theresa, Queen Elizabeth, Mickey Mouse and Wayne Gretzky, among others. Part of the assignment was to write down a "memorable moment" from the meal, and his went like this:

The memorable moment during my dinner party was when someone farted, and I said "who did it?" and everyone said "not me" except for Queen Elizabeth.

Not a monarchist, I'm thinking.