Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Jesus plays chess too
This was a chess board in a café.
Jesus is funny for 2 reasons. (Did you know Jesus is funny? It's true.)
Jesus is funny because he is playing chess
AND
because where does someone get a mini porcelain Jesus to play in their game of chess? Well, I can tell you -
This tiny figurine was in a tarte. This tarte is eaten at the beginning of January in celebration (but really in more of a bakery tradition) of the 3 kings. The youngest person in the room decides who gets each piece of tarte and whoever loses their tooth because they bit into a solid porcelain Jesus gets to be the king for the day -crown included!
I have been the king 4 times.
I am not only smart, but lucky too.
But I have never gotten a Jesus.
If this was my house, we would be playing chess with a solid porcelain briefcase.
or a star
or a mini dog
mini Jesus eludes me.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Spring Salad
Spring is the best time to come here. Consistently for the last 4 years, Yes I have now been living here for 4 YEARS!! And oddly, the people just seem less cranky - and don't we just know what that means. Assimilation.
That or the spring weather is making everyone happy.
So perfect weather in April/May September/October. Gray miserableness in November-mid March. June-August - roulette. Yes really - you could have miserable gray cloud cover or perfect blue skies. But spring...
That or the spring weather is making everyone happy.
So perfect weather in April/May September/October. Gray miserableness in November-mid March. June-August - roulette. Yes really - you could have miserable gray cloud cover or perfect blue skies. But spring...
Tulips - if I leave them alone they last 2 weeks |
Warm spring sun |
Lila (leee-lah) Lilac. The lone survivor. |
AND
Salad
Plants don't survive - but people do. |
First lunch on the balcony
Mixed greens/Spinach, shrimp cooked in garlic/olive oil butter, onions and paprika.
grapefruit, carrots, tomatoes
lime vinagrette.
Spring...so good
(+ cheaper airfares! totally a win-win)
Plan your Parisian vacations accordingly
Monday, March 19, 2012
I think I have a problem
I actually went to two different stores to get this 'Breast Smoked' - Pwoi treen fuu-may
I was never a big fan of bacon. As a kid I found it too salty and oily.
I can't think of what would have changed my mind.
Maybe Magical Frantasyland has special bacon with Magical Frantasyland crack in it that makes it addictive.
Or maybe I am just getting older and the full fat ice cream on my ass wanted company.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Pinch Hitter
You remember we went to a wedding up in Oslo, Norway?
Where I got this little pearl
(bacon in a tube!)
You can imagine the other treasures I found in Oslo.
Well I have been to my fair share of weddings. Crazy last minute necessities, missing hair pins, unruly family. So I offered my helping hand to the bride. I told her I was a pinch hitter and just to let me know. She thanked me and said she'd keep it in mind.
The bride (Norwegian) having spent more than half of her life in foreign countries, including 1 year in the U.S., had clearly not come across this saying - she was recently talking to b on skype and I overheard the following
b: Dinner was great, but that part of Paris is not nice at night.
Norwegian: but you had KB with you. She told me she is a pinch hitter.
Hm.
No.
Yes!
She thought I offering to take down her weird uncle instead of distract him with conversation and booze.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Amiens
This is regular winter sky. It is miserable - especially after 4 months non-stop. We have to entertain ourselves through travel.
A short hop, skip and a jump from Paris is Amiens
Amiens also calls itself the "Venice of the North". Watch out for places that call themselves "Venice" if they are not Venice. |
I love cemetaries - creepy but true
They are quiet like parks and full of beautiful hommages to people
The Amiens Cathedral
Built in the 13th century, it is the LARGEST in France.
(notice extra mini-boy on scooter, bottom left)
The sun came out for our last 3 hours and we went up to the ramparts
passing the enormous rose window on the way up.
The cathedral deserves a post of it's own.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Weird but true...
I had never seen a dog with balls until I arrived in France
I find this strange only because it means every dog I had previously seen had been altered. Which means that when I first saw the dogs here I was shocked and slightly embarassed for them..having their balls...just right out there...in the open.
Not hiding* like all the other dogs.
Which then also strikes me as weird that I would even say that.
In short, I was embarassed for this animal being in its natural state.
yea, something is not quite right about that.
(*And by hiding I mean chopped off by a licensed physician.)
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Bon
Bonjour Madame at the Boulangere's (Bakery)
Bon courage to b for his project and going to work in the rain
Bonne journée from the Primeur (produce man) after I pay him and leave to go home
Bon appétit before eating lunch
Bon shopping to friends stopping by the the Grands Magasins before heading back to work
Bon yoga from b over the phone as I hang up to go to my yoga class
Bon chance and Merde! to R going into a job interview
Bon film to friends going to see The Artist at the cinema
Bonne soirée when leaving a restaurant
Bon continuation to the crazy from AttractiveWorld.com that A blocked because he wouldn't stop texting
and finally, Bonne nuit
make handsome dreams
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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