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OUCH!

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Spring is in the air...no more hair! Buds on the trees, no more snow. Spring is in the air. Time to start starving myself, depriving myself of those extra grease-filled calories so that I am brave enough to put on a swimsuit in public..2 months and counting! But that's not all. This is also the time of the year when I start slinking past the estheticians checking out the waxing prices...OUCH! Being quite " fair" this was one of life's tortures I managed to get away from for a very long time. But now at 40-something,there's no running, just screaming!! The french are obsessed with waxing. If its got hair, wax it! I remember, with horror, the first trip to the local salon d'epilation.. I was there for a mere eye-brow tweak. A woman, who resembled the Brunhilda of my nightmares came out every 5 minutes to call up the next victim, a bit like a school dental nurse.. Mme Dupont, half leg wax...Mme Faure, full leg please....Mme Gigot, eyebrows, up

FH (french husband) STRIKES AGAIN!

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...and I am not a romantic! Happy Valentines Day,  He said... Kiwi, rather surprised by this sudden intake of american " romantic" culture....but also rather pleased.  Tiffany, flowers, dinner, ...glass of wine, at least? Does a girl dare to dream?? My heart was on BOTH sleeves until... " Let's go out for dinner tomorrow when its cheaper and there are less people!" Promise: if I was a vibrator owner it would be out on matrimonial french pillow and buzzing furiously, even if un-used, until bloody dawn!  Did I say, "bloody? Love words from another era??  " That's Amore" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6-b7CONDI

CO CO CO COMMUNICATION...

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your instrument or me! At cocktail parties or dinner parties alike, "it used to" be conversation and other people which took over one's attention. Today I often find myself battling between human and smart phone/pad!!! I do feel it is important to tackle this subject. I am not, in the slightest, anti-technology. But technology itself does wear thin when it simply takes over. Isn't it a question of bad manners when you are chatting away to somebody and the fact that their phone message bipped at them becomes priority over conversation? In my teenage days...it was the phone ringing during meals. We weren't allowed to get up from the table to answer, even if we were sure it was some gorgeous 7th former heart-throb calling..it was to be ignored. As adults, as 40 somethings, I am amazed and repulsed by the lack of self control. It appears that iphones, ipads, blackberries and company are number one. Why do people need to check their email every 5 minutes