...OK I guess they're not "live" if you don't read this within minutes of my putting it up. Or something like that.
First things first! I'm really glad to see that the world didn't end, not that I ever expected it would... A day or two after the Raptor didn't come I learned that all this fuss came from ONE crazy dude in the US. One guy?!?! What is wrong with the world that one single moron can cause such ado about nothing? Or I suppose more incredibly, how did anyone believe him when he'd been wrong before? I guess it won't be the last time... But boy, I bet there are some red-faced fundamentalists out there!
Anyway. I decided that I'd like to go out in style...
& I got my favourite chair in the whole world!
When I was really little (let's say birth to five years), my parents had a papasan chair and foot stool. I know this because I saw it in photo albums, and while I don't remember actually sitting in the chair I DO remember it wasting away in the garage for a while before my mum got rid of it. Years later, when I was 18 and moving out, I gave her a lecture on why that was the greatest chair ever and how sad I was that she didn't save it for me. (I'm quite sure she poo-poo'ed this and went on with her day.)
Then after I'd lived in Montreal for a few years, I discovered a papasan buried under a mountain of stuff in a friend's apartment. She didn't really want the chair and I did, but a) she wanted $70 for it, and b) I was soon off to California and didn't want to spend money on a chair I'd either have to get rid of or pay to ship. So no chair for me.
But a few weeks ago when I was moving out of my apartment in Victoria, I ran into other movers and they were getting rid of a papasan frame. I claimed it immediately and brought it to Vancouver. Then one day my dad sent me a cheque with instructions -- "for the completion of your chair" -- and off I scampered to find a cushion! I did, I dragged the damn thing home on the bus and skytrain, and now I have the greatest chair in the world.
Since I wrote so much about the chair (if you're even still reading) I might as well show you...
The rest of my apartment pretty much looks like this:
...hurray for piles against the wall! I swear, if I don't find some freebie bookshelves soon, I'm gonna build something myself! I'll probably lose a toe in the process or something, but I've never done that before so it could be fun.
Next blog will have boobs in it, promise! 
