ready to volunteer

until my permit is acquired, i will essentially be volunteering. my job will consist of brushing up on skills and learning the systems, and organizing said permit. that all begins tomorrow.

that kinda makes today my last "holiday". we slept late, because in addition to being tired the bed here is so ridiculously comfortable that it's really hard to leave it. after sending off an email begging my previous employers to sort out my last payments - one really shouldn't have to resort to this - i went out to buy cereal and ate a large breakfast, partially while talking to my mother.

i hope she listened to me.

i read while drinking coffee, then pg woke up, and soon afterwards we were on our way downtown to find vega samples. because we're not buying $40 containers we're not going to consume. it's a shame we took an umbrella with us because it never rained; after the earthquake off vancouver and with hurricane sandy looming we kinda assumed that the weather would be as crap as they said it would.

it was a nice day, biting wind notwithstanding. and the piles of yellow leaves all over the place were beautiful.

we found the store easily, i grabbed an energy bar in addition to the sample packets and while it's a little bit too sweet, it's definitely edible and a far sight more comforting than the regular crap.

we ambled all over the plateau, half looking at apartments and half shopping for stuff for pg's family. on the way we found an amazing gaming shop on saint denis, and i bought oversized gloves*. then we hit sainte catherine but by that time most of the stores we wanted were closed. we found some cool baby toys for her sister's kids, though.

* it was an accident! i swear! i even asked pg to help me and she only noticed that they were too big when it was too late!

we walked all the way back home, mostly discussing israeli housing arrangements (like renovating), and arrived just in time for a delicious dinner and only a few uncomfortable moments with my uncle. it wasn't too bad, i guess.

since then i've been doing all sorts of nothing, including

1. understanding amazon prime and being disappointed by their canadian offering. not because they don't have anything, but because i can't find the relevant pages on their site.

2. being disappointed by netflix offerings.

3. installing the kobo app on my iphone and deciding that darkness really is as awesome as the mongoose says. now i know that pg and i need an ipad. we were thinking perhaps a kindle fire or a kobo, but the ipad has apps for that.