hells_half_acre | Today and Distant Memories (Reply)

I apologize for not updating in over a month. Time escaped me. Everything has been very busy. My mother is moving house this summer, I am planning to move to Vancouver in the fall, My brother got married on May 9th....

My trip now seems like a distant memory. Something that I did last year, not just two months ago. I did want to get more stories up, at least one about Vancouver - but I also just wanted to write a post that said, "Hey, what's up? Sorry I haven't been around." So, I decided to do the latter first.

My brother's wedding was great. I am happy for him, and I'm happy to have a sister-in-law as nice as the woman he married. Currently, I am staying at his house in Waterloo while he is on his honeymoon. I'll be here until the end of the month. They have two tree frogs that need to be fed crickets every two days, and watered every day...and there are an amazing number of plants that I have to water. I kind of messed up the watering a bit the first week, but hopefully this week I'll get it right.

I also have to mow the lawn. I don't think I have ever mowed a lawn. Hopefully it is as pleasant as vacuuming - in that I won't mind it so much, even though I would prefer not to do it at all. One thing I don't have to do is vacuum. My brother has one of those robot vacuums. It makes a lot of noise at 9am every Wednesday and annoys the crap out of me - but at least that's one day of the week when I don't need to worry about sleeping in.

The picture I choose for this entry is from the Botanic Gardens in Singapore. (And please note that it isn't a typo - they are called the Botanic Gardens, not the Botanical Gardens). So, that's a little glimpse of my trip. I haven't written much about Singapore. In truth, mainly because I didn't really get too much of a feel for it as an entity onto itself. It was, I suppose, a little too much of an international city. I didn't get the same sense of ...being...as I do in other places. That being said, it was a very pretty city-state, and I certainly enjoyed my time there.

Anyway, that's where I'm at.