Category: Navel Gazing

  • Free to Be You And Me

    I’m going back even further here. I think Free to Be You and Me must have been my first album. I remember it playing alongside Kenny Rogers (Lady was my mothers favorite song) and Casey Jones, which I’m a little surprised to find out is a Greatful Dead song because I thought I’d never heard…

  • Arthur’s Theme

    My sister used to play Arthur’s Theme by Christopher Cross on the clarinet and our enormous mutt, Sam would howl along with her at the bottom of the stairs. I need to figure out if it is possible to link to the music snippets on iTunes music store. Hearing this stuff again is fabulous, even…

  • Rollerskating at church camp

    Def Leppard’s Pour some sugar on me reminds me SO much of rollerskating at church camp. The next year they changed the music to all Christian bands… but that first year was excellent. I still remember the boy who I invited to the banquet — I was a tomboy and practically ran him over on…

  • Phew!

    Alexandra has found her wedding dress. She asked me to be her temoine, something like a bridesmaid without the pink taffeta, last week and I happily accepted. I’d love to post a picture of her beautiful dress but we don’t want Etienne to see it!

  • Extroverted !?!

    But I’m and INFP! I just retook the Myers Briggs test, and granted at this point I know a little bit too much about it to be sure it is objective, but I scored extroverted. Kind of. I got a 1. I took the test once before moving to France and then again after being…

  • BBC Sex I.D. test

    I finally got my results from the slightly broken (only test 6 and the results section) BBC brain sexID test. It turns out I am 50% male, 50% female. Not that much of a surprise, I may be a carpenter, but I still love pink.

  • Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars

    J’ai vu Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars au MK2 Odéon. J’ai trouver l’histoire du jeune journaliste un peu pénible, mais en même temps nécessaire pour donner perspectif a l’histoire du François Mitterrand. J’ai trouvée c’est petit phrase le plus impressionnant du film. “Quelle est la couleur de la France? Non pas la couleur politique…

  • Happy Birthday

    Today would have been the 29th birthday of my Nana. I still miss her so much.

  • Why I Love My Husband

    because when I get a brilliant idea to have a half-cherry-tomato salad, he is completely willing to play along.

  • One mullet, two mullets, three mullets, four.

    Five mullets in three weeks. And not your trailer park mullet where your mom shaved the top of your head and left a line straight across the back where the long hair begins, no no, this is a Parisian mullet. Its unisex, 3 out of 5 were women. So cute with overall short haircuts, shortest…