Last night at our friends art expo, there was a photographer there doing what photographers do during these sort of soirées.  taking pictures of bordeaux's high falutin' society to eventually grace the pages of the kind of magazine that people buy just to see who has been where, with who, and 'she wore THAT there'!  The kind of magazines that ( Read more... )

If you knew what my street looks like on a sunday evening..this would infuriate you too. Trashbins-runneth-over in waiting for the trash brigade on monday.  no room for a candy wrapper.  Flies, poop, ripped open garbage bags by creatures of the night.  It is disgusting... and so are the smells that go with it.  Alexis so lovingly took out the trash ( Read more... )

I cannot express how over teaching english I am.  I really can't.  I passionately hate it.  I suck at it.  Things were be different I guess if I were a natural, but I'd rather curl up and die than spend 3 hours teaching someone how to properly string a sentence with the verb 'to be ( Read more... )

Life has been crazy this past month... Actually, since I started working, things have been the definition of hectic.  I don't even think that I saw November fly by... we are already in December and I'm leaving for New Orleans in 3 very short days.  I have had no time to do anything regarding Christmas.  I have orders back home that include wine, ( Read more... )

Never any time to post.  Never any time to do anything these days.  I've gone from too much time to too little time, and I'm not doing very well at dealing with it.  I am so behind on admin, laundry, groceries, general cleaning, etc....

Last week was great.... Cheeks was on vacation, and I took the long weekend and we all head off to visit the Brit ( Read more... )

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That was made clear to me on Monday when I had to endure the dumbed down 'welcome video' about life in France.  Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité was defined as was the fourth word of their motto Laïcité.  
They portrayed a Préfecture as a bright and cheerful place, with civil servants smiling with good teeth and hair, and handing over recipissés ( Read more... )

So now that the KID has turned 10, she thinks that she is now entitled to overuse the word 'bitch'.

SO. FED. UP.

I wish she would just start her f-ing period already.

It's been awhile.  It's not that I haven't been on the computer as much, it's that I had that 'staring at the blank screen' syndrome again.

The Brit and I are finally PACsed.  Everything worked out beautifully as far as paperwork goes.  We were at the Prefecture the next morning, and it was the best trip to the Prefecture ever.  He wore a suit and ( Read more... )

I'm not old... but I feel it.  
Cheeks turned 10 yesterday.  Ten.  I. have. a. ten. year. old. daughter.

I'm not ready for what's to come.

I'm tired.