And today, the buDerfly is 7 months (in *belly time*) :-)))
Yeeeepeeeeeeeeee, 2 months left and wooooosh (if only it was just a wooooosh ;-), she'll be around here!

What has changed in a month?
Well, the size of my belly, sure thing (no comment 'bout the pic, puleaaaase), it is bigger everyday and it gets complicate to dress.
She's now 40 cm long (which I can hardly imagine when looking at my belly), and her weight should be about 2kg :-))
She sleeps about 20 hours/day (ermm.. I can hardly believe it! ;-)

She now can hear us (which is guuuud since we talk to her all the time).
And we have a whole pile of cds that we want her (us? ;-) to listen. Martin will play the Irish flute to my belly (hehe). You never know she might develop a musical talent! :P

and she still moves a lot (but soon she won't have space enough to move as she uses).
Since we've learnt she was very low in the womb, we've started to "learn to know where she was" in the belly.
Since weeks, we manage to feel where's her head and back.
We often give a sweet massage the womb when I feel she's pushing down or when she starts to kick (and it feels like talking by morse code with her, very funny!)

So what has changed to me (and certainly to Martin) is that relationship which is getting more and more *real* **~~* *^* *

I love dem Friday evenings... well usually!
It's 10.00 pm and I'm just back from the emergency services!.... not for my belly, neeeee (thanx gawd).. but for my teef!
Dem again!

You would not believe these lil thingies can hurt that much. And I must be doomed with toothaches, it seems to happen so often.
I will change of butcher, I think he has not done his job.

In 2 words, I have a nerve that is painful since a few months. But my butcher did not dare to do anything serious since I was preggie. He said it would be ok and that can wait after the birth.
Since the beginning of the week, it has started to hurt more than usual. Well, finding a dentist in middle of August is like winning 4 numbers at the lottery.
So I thought it would pass. I drank liters of icy water to calm the pain. But last night I could not sleep and the pain turned to be so intense that contractions started.
Shiteroo!

I resisted (which was stoopid) till tonight when Martin had to take me to some emergency service near Montparnasse.
And now I'm back, much reassured to have seen a dentist (he did the scariest injection I've ever had, I heard the needle coming into my bone (to reach the nerve)!! eeeeck :P). It was pretty expensive (90 €) but he apparently did a good job.

Right now I'm blessing the effects of the injection (feeling no pain), and I hope all will be ok now, then I'll sleep like a babe :)))

I thought Elvis had died some 40 years ago, not just 25!
Maybe because I only keep in mind his glamourous face (when he was in his 20 !)...

I find that so strange to see all these fans all over the world, worshipping him as if he was still alive... but what's even more astonishing (to me) is the Elvis' fans desire to look like their King! ....specially those who try to have his 1970's look!
eeeck!

Bloody business world!
We've been waiting for moooooonths for LOTR (lord of the ring) to be available in video or dvd... and now it's everywhere, I discover the "real" version (longer one) will come out only in November!
Actually I can wait, but I would have been kinda angry to buy the normal version now and discover 3 months later the longer one!

Sooooo, I expected a bit what my gyno told me yesterday.

He first found I was in good form (and he was right, I was feeling really well). I've still the same weight as last month (which sounded as a miracle since my belly has now extreme proportions ;-).
Before he checked for the womb and everything, I told him he'd beDer confirmed the mermaid and I are really doing well (S)

But as soon as he started, an upset look appeared on his very serious face... He was repeating -as to himself- "no no...arggg...no no it's not good...no not good". And I was there, watching the ceiling, waiting for him to come back to me to give me explanations.
Oh nothing critical, but now it's sure that even if I hardly move, the buDerfly will go on pushing to go out.

He confirmed there is all the symptoms that the babe is a prematured one. Of course, I don't complain, I'm already at the end of my 6th months, there plenty of prematured babes everyday,etc.
But I don't think you can be peaceful when you know there is always a risk with a prematured babe. And I would hate that the buDerfly arrives too soon and be forced to stay at the hospital for a couple of months..

Anyway, I'm not expecting to be reassured, I know there's a risk whenever from now on.
The gyno asked I stay on bed now 24h/24, and I'm only allowed to get up for a shower, for the third scan (next week) and to come back to the clinic. Of course, he said I gotta rush to him whenever I feel something wrong (sigh).
Time looks very long now. But it's ok, as long as the mermaid keeps kewl :-)))

The gyno has also doubled my treatment to calm down contractions, every 2 hours I gotta take the drugs. I hope they will be efficient:)

Now I worry for Martin, he has to take care of everything, from his research of a job to the cleaning of the flat, etc. This afternoon (he has a week of holidays now), he'll go to try to find the basic equipment for the mermaid, just in case she arrives quickly. Not fun to do that alone :(((

Sooooo, the only thing I can do for him is cuddling him as much as possible and giving him lil massages whenever possible :-)))
Not that baaaad for the future Dad, huh ;-)**~~^^** * *~~* * ... but very frustrating for me not to be able to help him more!
RoaaaaRRR!

Tomorrow I've to go to the clinic and this time I hope the gyno will have guud news for the mermaid and I **~~* * *^^*
I've been rilly riiiiilllllyyyyy reasonable!

My belly is now really huge and I start to think the mermaid will be a big baby! It won't be easy to ermmm... *open the door* to her ! That gonna give me new nightmares :P
huuuuuu

I heard the Americans wanna launch an attack in Irak. Of course, they have planned how the country will organize once they'll have got rid of the *baaadies*.
And Georges W. is trying again to impose his rules to Israelians and Palestinians.
I don't want to focus everyday on Americans but why do they always intervene in external affairs -too often with military options-, and besides without the agreement of intenational institutions?

Because they're economically the first power and wanna remain such? Because they feel they've a kind of sacred duty ("we gonna save the world") and have to involve in every conflict?
I wonder.

I had such nightmares last night! Huuuuu, nebber again!
First one... I'm at the hospital, giving birth to the mermaid, far too early. Everything goes wrong, we lose her.I remember the details, but I'm not in the mood to type them I guess..
Jeeeeeeeez
I woke up, sweating. Fell asleep again. Started to dream again.
Martin is helping me to give birth to the mermaid, again far too early. The mermaid arrives, beauDiful smiling baby. She seems to have troubles to breathe, she's a bit red.
We call the nurse, I cut the cord with my hands (huuu), and Martin gives the babe to the nurse who takes her in a towel.
We tell the nurse the name of the babe. She turns back towards us asking if we're sure for the name... because the baby is a boy!!!
We laugh, we did not expect that at all of course.
The nurse asks if we want to check if the babe is a boy. We agree. She opens the towel and there we see a mincroscopic kitten.
Argggggggggg!!!!

I woke up and felt Joe sleeping with his head on my breast, pushing me to have a maximum of space. No wonder that influenced my nightmare.

Yesterday, the weather was so fine that I did not resist to go and try to swim a bit.
I knewwwww I could not go far anyway, so we went down to the river (2 min by car, 10 min walking)... Just 2 min by car provoked contractions!
Argggg, I arrived there and could not even put a foot in the water. I just lie down and waited for the contractions to pass.
Huuuuuuuu, I promise myself to have very active holidays in the next years...very "physical" ones!I wanna sweat and feel da muscles aching, puleeeeease :P

I read in the news (serious ones, I swear! :P) that 1/3 of Americans think Canada is an American state, just like Louisianne or Nevada ...

I don't believe this can really be trooooooe, 'tis not possible... hm?

Martin's been in an Austin Powers muuud today, here's some of what he told me again and again with a purrfect accent!

"Are you hungry, Mini-Me? Want to eat something? An eggo? No, stop that, Mini-Me, we don't eat Mr. Bigglesworth! Yes, come here. Give a hug to papa.." (Dr Evil to his living ego Mini-me)

"My dad is at the head of an evil organisation and wants to take over the world" (Dr Evil's son)

"Watch my sexy body, hmmmm, hoooooaaaaaaaaaaaa, come here baby, I want to eeeeeeeeeat ya" (The Scottish obese one to the blond babe)

"You're not evil enough, son, you're QUASI-evil" (Dr Evil to his son)

I can't wait to see Goldmember which will come out in November! Weeeeeeeeee!!

Have you heard about the English couple who booked tickets for Sydney via internet?
They kinda did not expect to arrive at the town of Sydney... Canada!!!
hehehe
As they said in the news.. it's just not like Oz, but at least they can enjoy Canadian lobsters :P

Sunny Monday... 2 beauDifully opposite words~~^^** ^^**~~
If it gets as hot as yesterday, I give myself a couple of hours before feeling like a tiger in a cage.. I wish I could follow the others on the boat or to the beach..argggg!!!!

On the other hand, I've caught a big cold (big one, like a winter cold!) and I couldn't move much anyway. Phewww, that cold is a kind of relief (G)

I can't walk, swim, dance but (s) I can still share lil probbies as anyone on holidays! (G)
After 20 minutes of intense sun, I found myself with 2 burnt sausages with a pair of feet at the end of dem.
Da legs hurt!!! Arggg... but it feels like holidays ;-)

I had news from some relatives today... and they managed to turn me into baaaad muud
They openly said I was completly unconscious to have come to Bretagne and added I should have stayed at home... "it would have been way more reasonnable".

I really got angry, who they think they are to tell we're consciously taking risks!
I discovered they knew me really badly, I would nebber take a single risk concerning the buDerfly!

You know, that makes me so mad to even suggest I'm not a responsible *mom*! Arggggg
Gimme my bazooooka, nowwwww!

:P

We arrived pretty late in Bretage (about 1.OO am), both tired but happy :-)
The smell outside was fantastic, the perfumes of the wet grass, the wet night and the chimneys, all rushed into me. It was very intense, as if nature was embracing us.

When we finally jumped into bed, a huge thunderstorm broke out. As usual I got scared and exited, the sky was really farting hard!
While trying to sleep, I suddenly felt something wet at the end of my nose... I opened big eyes and had the strangest view! During a light of thunder, I saw Joe standing in front of my face, his nose against mine with monstruous ear-rings (yuss yusss!!) hanging down his hairy ears!
Joe did not look like a cat at all then, more like a creature of the Dark coming to haunt me!
Huuuuuuu
It took me 10 secondes (which is finally long) to realize the creature was my Joe! A joe who had just visited the most dusty parts of the house and decorated himself with cobwebs! hehe

We woke really late to discover that the weather was wet and quite grey, but it smells even beDer!
That smell... oh Gawd... these perfumes all around.....
I love it ***~~* *^^* *

I wonder.. Is it really "inappropriate" to talk of serious subjects (as the death of a relative) in a bloggie?!!
(thinking)
The more I use blogger the more I consider it as a part of me. The bloggies I write are always very personnal and important to me (even the lil funny pics I add sometimes)... and I see them as a way to share whaveter feeling with friends, without imposing really those feelings to them.
And to me, the bloggies let a complete freedom of reaction. I like that a lot.

I am reorganizing my archives to print them. It's fantastic, I have all of them since beginning of january **~~* * *^^^** * * *

Two days ago, I thought a lot about my grand-mother who lives in Lyon (south France). Very often in the day, I thought about her death. I dunno why.. I have not seen her since about (I dont even remember) 8, 10 years.
I never took time to go and visit her. Then I thought the fact I cannot travel during my pregnancy sounded like another excuse (though real one) to postpone our visit.
I finally thought the situation was kinda absurd, for years I did not make the lil effort to visit her and now I'm preggy I just cannot.

And yesterday my dad called me to tell me "Mamie" had just died :-((((((((
Ok she was 95 and not feeling so well, but it still feels like a blow you receive in the middle of the heart.
You can't tell I was very close to her, but we wrote to each other very regularly and called each other pretty often. She was the "typical" grand-mother, long wite hair always brushed on top of her head, lil voice like one of a mouse, playing scrabble everyday after lunch (s), cooking like a chef (specially jams), etc. I wish Martin had known her:)

I coud not stop contractions yesterday after I learnt about it, even staying on my bed with medication.

Now I have only one grand-mother left (to which I am very very close), I call her "bonne-maman" and I hope she'll be around us for years and years again.
That scares me to see this generation disappearing, it's like part of your childhood going away with your grand-parents (souvenirs are not just the same)... and somehow you become aware next step will be your own parents.

booo:(

Anyway, I cannot even visit her a last time, which would have felt terribly ironic to me anyway. But she would have deserved at least that last visit.

Martin and I will try to leave for Bretagne on Tuesday (if I can travel "horizontally"...), I should not travel at all, but I need to breathe fresh air and to leave the walls of da flat for a few days:)

I really can't stand torrida and it is full season for it south of France! Grrrrr
Aren't bulls adorable!

Yeeeeeepeeeee, we've just bought the domain www.candyfroggie.com!!!
Then we have (bought) space on an hoster's server to build our webpages, websites, etc. We have access to databasis, stats, etc!
(it costs 7 euros/month... 12,99 AUD or if you prefer 4,43 £ :P)
It will take time before you can see anything at this adress but.... first stone of my pyramid :P

Oh and I have named Martin as candyfroggie's technical manager! (G)

Instead of counting sheep to fall asleep....(G)

I really wonder if you can sell anything on the internet without making it official...
I spend hours looking for information about the French legislation. So far, I did not find anything!
If anyone knows about it, I'll share a glass of champ with him or her :P

Well, dat fookin toothache disappeared as soon as I took rendez-vous with my dentist!!!
I went there though to be sure... He found nothing. Soooooo, I guess that strong medication I'm having provoked all that.

I'm getting used to the treatment now, I've almost stopped trembling and I have only headaches for a couple of hours! Huuuuuu, that's a relief!! :-))))))

Wooo, the medical treatment I follow seems quite strong.
The gyno had warned me about it, but it's a bit tough. My heart seems to beat faster, my hands have started to tremble (a normal reaction to this medication) and I have got a continuous headache. And last night, I suddenly felt a toothache (why everything at the same time! ;-)... I have hardly slept and I will wait till tomorrow before going to the dentist. It might be another reaction to the medication (sigh)

Now the good "physical" piece of news, the mermaid is over active, she's spending her day *telling* me she's in great shape and mood ;-)

Ha welllllllll.... everything can't be just purrfect and the gyno was not happy with my belly this morning :(

It's strange cause I've really felt guuuuuuud in the last week and today even more!
But the buDerfly pushes again and again, provoking contractions, and she gotta be stopped a bit. I had not realized babies had already such a taste for freedom:)

The gyno sounded pretty serious and asked I hurry to the hopital if I feel anything unusual happens (I worry I might not "realize" when something serious happens though).
I have new medication to take, stronger one for women with risk of premature birth. I tell you I did not like at all that "premature" word on the paper.

Anyway, now I'm not about enjoying summer as I wished I could. I'm not even sure I can leave for any holidays.
I hope I can because it's so hot and I'm tired of looking at the walls of the flat without being allowed to go out (anymore).
...(will I tell it?...hmmm .. ok).. I wish it was full winter right now (wink@Penny), with snow and a temperature of -10°c outside!
Oh it would feel so well to be forced to stay under the covers (sigh)...

I hadn't expect pregnancy could be that tough and stressing (and I don't really complain here, it's just an obsevation:) ..I know other preggie goils who are having much worse probbies!!!)

Anyway, I really feel like a bird sitting on its egg now. What matters is this "egg" of mine, I gotta keep it warm and safe:)
**~~^^**^ ^^^**^^~~~* * * *

Yeeepeeee, today's another month to celebrate!!! :-))))

(grabbing a book a friend gave me)... let's see.. my 28th week :
The lil buDerfly must weight about 900 grammes and measures 33 cm....
the diameter of her head is about 7 cm and she has already hair.
A real lil damoiselle, hey :-)))) ***~~* * *^^* * * *

As for me, they say now I should take on about 350 to 400g every...week!!! eeeeeck!

If my visit goes well enough (I don't expect the impossible, just the minimum of good news), we've a pic-nic planned on Sunday:)))

We organize that pic-nic with Clara and Aymeric, the couple we met 2 weeks ago at the Luxembourg garden:)))
We rilly get on well with them and wanted to see each other again!

Paris is organizing a summer project from next Sunday to mid of August. The project is called *La plage à Paris* "(the beach in Paris)... Instead of the yukkky traffic along the Seine, there will be beaches all along the quays. Sand beaches, grass beaches, with "guinguettes" here and there (guinguettes are hmm typical places along the rivers here where you dance "retro" dances like chachacha :P).
There will be also beaches for beach volley, places where you're allowed to fish, etc

Nice idea, hey?!!!
So we decided it would be purrrfect to see that while enjoying a pic-nic on one of those grass beaches! **~~ * * *^^* *

Now I can hardly wait for my visit to the gyno on Saturday.
At the same time, that stresses me a bit, but I *neeeed* to know:)))
It's the 6th month' visit! (proud smile -6 months already!)

I want to hear my gyno telling me the baby is up again and that my contractions are disappearing.
I've been so careful in the last weeks, I'd almost deserve an award (which could be -right now- a yummy strauberry pie) :P

Apart from that pub yesterday (which was close) and the Octobrettes' meeting, I haven't taken any metro or bus in the last weeks, sooooooo... it should be better!:))) **~~* * *^*

Haaa, it had been a while since we went to an English pub!
It was the choice of Rod, our Canadian friend (from Toronto). He was in Paris for 2 days and that was great to see him!!!

It's the first time I ordered a glass of milk in a pub. Which I did not get, of course (sigh)
I was not the only preggie goil, Fanny (Parisian friend) also expects a baby for December! And Rod has a lil "Noah" who's 3 months-old :-))))
So many babies around! It must be the last trend of fashion :P

I think guys talked more of babies than we did yesterday. It was very funny and their words were the most tender and sweet I've ever heard. Sometimes I think they manage to developp such a "maternal" instinct, it's really astonishing.

I hope we'll visit Rod and Karine (he married a French goil) in Canada in a few years. Canada, including Québec (s)
It must be a very beauDiful country and so far the Canadians I've met are rilly the kewl type:)))

Ohh we've also talked about Oz yesterday, a couple of friends have just made a World tour for 8 months.. and when they started to speak about Oz, they said it was very very strange to cross Vietnam, Mongolia, China, etc to arrive finally in such an occidental civilization as Oz!
Suddenly they found the civilization they knew, they could understand people again, etc.. hehe:)) They loved their trip!

They told us about the last new year's eve they spent, just the 2 of them sleeping on a mexican beach, drinking mezcal and watching the stars.... haaaaa, that sounded great!

I'll play lottery on Sat', and if we win, I'll plan a world tour once our buDerfly can follow us! Weeeeeeeeeeee:-)))))

And just before going to check the first details about how I can create a lil online shop, you can have a look at Des fleurs et des abeilles, a painting certainly inspired by what I'm living; and besides that, I've realized preggie women are hardly represented on paintings or drawings. I think they make a real interesting subject though!

I hardly dare telling we've watched Scooby-doo (g). Oh I like the original cartoon, but the movie.... one of the worst of the year! That was kinda predictable but ha well..we've to use our cinema cards sooooo it's a good excuse, isn't it?!! :P

We should know this week *how* Martin will be fired (conditions, etc). Then we'll be able to start to plan our next weeks on solid basis.
Even though I'm not allowed to travel by car, I hope we'll be able to leave Paris for a few days. I thought I wouldn't be able to rilly enjoy holidays... but a few days away won't change anything and I *need* to breathe fresh air (and to expose my whale-ish swimsuit ;-), and I think Martin too :-))
In any case, Joe will have his lil injections tomorrow, so he'll be ready to play with all the nasty tigers of Bretagne (s)

huuuu, lying down and working hard on the puter is real exercise! (nossing)

This morning I've spent more than 4 hours working on my English books... I like so much that language that I wanna improve! ... and it feels like holidays in comparison with learning German ;-) ... I'll go on with both in the next days.

I have found new offers for Martin, now it's up to him! (I love dat team ;-))
We've received a couple of answers.... finally! Negative ones though, that's the bad side of it...
Anyway, I've done my part, I'll start again in 2 days:)

Now I'll try to find a right position to draw a bit and tonight... Dungeon Siege time!!!
What a great role game (on PC)! Martin and I spend hours on it together... So far we've a team of 7 soldiers (magicians, warriors, etc) and one old mule (which I protect a lot, against Martin's advice...tssss) that are supposed to help the heroe (a goil, named candide :P)
Yesterday, we realized we forgot dinner when it was over midnight!
hehe, we'd be teens, we wouldn't be *worse* than that!
... but it's a guud way, among others, to forget the stress :))

Okies, for now I'll put mini-Gulli (laptop) away and grab a pencil :-)))

So Saturday was the Octobrettes'day!!!
We were 4 preggie goils, 3 future Dads :-)))

It was really great, though the weather was not with us really (boooo).
We met a very nice couple, Clara and Aymeric, with who we instantly got on well! And it happens that they know exactly where we live..and a bit more...!

When I told Clara the stairs were a bit hard for me now... she said they also know friends in the 15th arrondissement who have "troubles" with their flat on the 5th floor. Just like us (!)
They said their friends live rue Blomet... well, like us!
Then they asked if there was a big wooden door then another one in glass, etc etc... they were describing *our* building! And it finally happened that their real good friends live just at the same floor as us! hehe... they told us that, before, their friends were living in the flat in which we are! So Clara and Aymeric knew exactly our flat!
It was very funny, such a coïncidence!

I think we'll have an aperitive or something like that with our neighbours and Clara and Aymeric!

Anyway, here are the pics Aymeric did with his webcam, to give an idea :))

This one shows Clara (on the left), Phantie, the fattie and Martin. Rain was threatening, so we were looking for a pub near (s)


Here is Clara, who expects her babe for the 1st of October, a daughter! :-)))


Here is Phantie, who repeated she'll make sure her "Octobret" join next time :P She expects a...daughter for the 29 of October :-)))


Now you can see Pauline and her other half (they were the youngest, 22 years old... the rest of us was more around 30). They expect a lil boy for mid of October!
You could hardly tell she was preggie, she has almost no "belly"!


And finally, Martin and I at the pub (I was telling him which beer I'd love HE takes :P)


We spent a real good moment, and I think it was quite an experience for the future Dads too! They could share this feeling of beeing also *preggie*!
:-))))
We shall all meet again before August. I did not think we'd get on so well with all of them. The Internet is kewwwwwl!

Before starting again with *my* job research, I've just had time to finish my Tete-a-tete Lunaire
:-))

Now let's see if we've got any answer for a job.... even negative, I hope there will be answers.
woooooosh

That is the best fortune cookie I've seen! hehe
(glad I did not open it though!!)

I'm not like all these *cute* (and charming!) old ladies melting in front of every *cute* creatures but (G) ...
... let's say this pic shows exactly the way I feel about our buDerfly (lol, yeah including feeling like a fattie ;-) :P



and well... they are soooooo CUTE, aren't they?!! hehe
(running to wash my mouff)

Not a fine moment to celebrate one's wedding in Afghanistan.

What a barbarian world!

I'm just back from my *butcher* and right now I'd take watever yukky drug to calm the pain!
He refused to give me any injection before and now my bloody teeth hurt!
I came to visit him just for a checking and everything felt fine to me.... till I sat down there!

Arrrrrg, I hate dem butchers:)

One day almost without any contractions... it feels guuud!
It should be that way for the next 3 months...

Anyway, Martin has installed a sofa or a bed in each room here so that I can lie down wherever I go, and that has already helped me!!
:-)))))

I hope Martin is not too stressed... well I know he is but he refuses to admit it.. to protect me. And I start doing the same... to protect him!
Isn't Love really BeauDiful?
hehe
:-))))

Okies, time for me to get horizontal-ish :P

If there's any job available around, it will be ours! :)

We've spent half of our (so sunny -sigh-) Sunday sending CV, looking for offers, etc.
We've selected tens of offers and answered to 3 (not easy to find the right offers).
I think in a couple of days, the CV will be on every specialized webpage.

We *need* to get a good feed back :)

The Parisian Octobrets (men "expecting" a babe for October) and the Octobrettes (goils "expecting" a babe for October) shall meet next week in le Jardin du Luxembourg (quartier latin)!

It gonna be fun, even more for the Octobrets I think. Martin really enjoys the idea to meet future dads sharing the same experience as he does **~~* *^^* *^^* * *
And I can't wait to see all these round bellies around!
hehehe

We'll look like some aliens I'm sure, people will run away and children will cry as soon as they'll see this herd lying on the grass :P
hehe

and psssst... I'll try to make pics! It will be a memorable meeting :P
Mwaaaaaahaha

Tonight, I'll start to work with dreamweaver to make my own webpage, without the help of any geocities or whatever online tools!
I'll just re-do this one and improve what has to be re-done.
Martin will teach me how to use this dreamweaver thingie; he warned me it would be complicate at the beginning (I just hope it will be in French!!!!) but then it should be the best (and most pleasant) way to create new pages!
Yeeeeeepeeeeeee!

hehe, guess who's holding a dualshock controller hmmm?
I mean a controller from a Playstation 2!

Yup yup, dat's me!
It comes from Martin's work, where they had gifts for customers (like dvd players, etc) which could not be distributed..... :-))))
Woooo ooooooooo

Nice game, I tell you :P

Wooooooosh (running from Gulli to the playstation :P)
I've just finished a new painting *Livraison X-presse*! Yeeepeeee (I like it)
I got inspired by several thingies (g), included Dune (the movie), which I really enjoy :-))

Tomorrow, we'll give 2 of my paintings to a professionnal printer, so that we see the result as a postcard and as a poster. I cross my bits so that it simply looks guuuuuuud :P (very hard with water colours)

Hahaaa it seems that the Germans are in final now!
What a nice lil (huge) revenge against the media which had not really believed in them since the beginning!!!
And I had not realized there have been only 1 goal against them during the whole cup!! Wawww, brilliant defense!

Okies, now I gotta go and grab all the billions I've won with my bets (G)

The last 2 days have been really weird, I've spent my time feeling "overwell" or really dowwwn... kinda hypersensitive!
Now I just feel too tired to feel such extreme sensations.
huuuuu

Talking of pregnancy, I've spent some time surfing on magrossesse.com ("mypregnancy.com"), and I got registered in the "Octobrettes" forum (a forum in which goils expect a baby for October! :-))))
We're organizing a meeting in some Parisian park in July or August to compare our bellies and enjoy as many candies and cakes as we wanna :P
hehe
We'll look like a bunch of funny whales, lying on the grass, but I like the idea ! (S)

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Haaaa, M'am Penny, aka ze Phantom, aka ze Ghoslette :P...... has just reappeared!!!!

She's been working almost nights and days on this very complete website Easy-Refills, while Jack and I were thinking she was having the time of her life with chippendales downtown :P
hehehe

I'm very impressed by the amount of work there .... now let's all cross bits so Easy-Refills turns into a big success!!!
RoaaaaaaRRrrrRRR

Tonight is la Fête de la Musique all around in France **~~* *^^* *
The concept is that once a year everybody is allowed to play music everywhere, in the streets, at home, etc., as long as they want till the end of the night.
We'll go just around to see if there's any guuud band, but I think Martin would rather take the opportunity to play urdy-gurdy and bagpipe (smiling while giving a glance at the ceiling...poor neighbours :P)

I really should have bet a few $$$ today! Footie matches happened almost as I thought they would (sowwwy Jack, but I always win my bets, except when France plays ;-) :P
I was a bit surprised by the way Brazil played, even with only 10 players. They might win the cup!
I think Germans must be surprised that their team goes that far in the cup, it's really great for dem :-))

Now I cross my bits for Korea and Senegal!
The advantage when *your* team loses at the world cup is that suddenly all the matches look interesting :-)

I've heard this morning people talking of footie as the new symbol of Peace between the nations!!!

LOL !!!

(and why do people always need a *symbol*, hey?)

I think no sport brings more violence in the streets than footie! It might be a kewl sport for the fans, right, but a symbol of peace...//oO\\

the Buderfly is 5 months today!
I can't realize there's only 4 more months to come and woooooosh, she'll be around!
Yeeeepeeee:-))))**~~* * *^^* *

wat a cuttie :P

Ohhhh waaaaaooooooo, I did not expect Spiderman to be that guuuud!
(actually, I thought it would be the opposite).

We're just back from the cinema and we've really spent a kewl moment! Spiderman is muuuuuch better than Batman or really worse, Superman!
hehe
It was often very funny and the actors were great! Oh and it felts a lot like the original comic, the spirit of it was there!

Martin enjoyed it too (:P): "very well done, with much humour. With a very sympathetic hero, not like some stooopid clark kent. It was so pleasant that it could have been 30 minutes longer".

I've spent my last euros to buy books today.... a huge and very complete (and expensive!) book to improve my english skills at translation (I have decided maybe I could start to work as a translator). I might follow extra courses next year to be really guuuuud for that job :-))

Then I found 2 books to improve (or rather to revive) my Spanish... I've studied it for about 6 years and I think I really *need* to re-start with it. It would be a pity to lose it!

And finally I found 2 books to help me and my almost non-existent German :P
One book for children like "my 1000 first words" (s), and one book of grammar which should be useful... one day! hehe

I've a good opportunity right now to *study* again, and that's exactly what I'm about to do :-)))

huho....Argentina, Portugual, and now la Squadra.... "we" ' re feeling far less alone :P
I regret Japan lost though, I was starting to enjoy that team!

I cross my bits for Senegal (they play tomorrow, no?), they're pleasant to watch!
I also wonder about England and Germany, both could win I think... hmmm

Ohhhh, while I'm talking footie...... for the first time in my life (waooooo), I heard Beckham talking..... hehe.... hmm... I shouldn't have!!! He's a real footie heroe but I did not expect such an acute voice! It somehow did not suit the guy! lol, that was too funny:)

Ohhh but I've not said in here that the babe I expect is a mademoiselle!!!
hehe

Ouiiiiii!!!!!

Everybody (except Gwénola) expected that the babe would be a boy. They (friends included) really thought it would be a boy!
Actually, we had started to believe it too because on the day before the scan we had repeated aloud a series of names for boys and girls... and each time we said a specific name (of a boy), the babe kicked in the belly!!!!
That happened successively 2 times and I called Martin on the third time for him to check, and that happened again!!!
hehe

Sooooo, we thought it would have been really a "sign" if confirmed by the scan (s)

But nenene, as soon as the babe appeared on the screen the doc said *it* was a SHE :-)))))**~~* *^^* * *^^* * *

We're both extremly happy (as we'd have been with a boy) and we've started to talk a looooooooooot to her!
(-laughing- as she is moving right now as I'm typing!)

What a guuuud weekend we had in Hamburg!!!
The weather was really fine there (not as hot as in Paris!!) and we managed to see all those we wanted to! (it's always a kind of marathon when we go there, in the way that we gotta check which relatives and friends are available, when we can meet, etc.).

This time, as I could not walk much or spend too much time in the transports, we mainly spent (a ferociously guuuuud) time with Martin's parents :-)))
On Saturday, Martin's cousin, Zonke (I'm not sure of the spelling), came to visit us and introduce us his goilfriend, Anja... Anja has just learnt she was preggie too! She'll have a baby in January! Woooo oooooo!

And in the evening we came to visit Thorsten and Tanja (friends)... Tanja is preggie (!!!) and her babe is due in 3 weeks!

That's fun because last time we all saw each other, we had talked of everything but having babes! hehe
Guud synchronicity (s)

Talking of babes, Martin's parents offered me 2 dresses for preggie goils :-)))))
I start to seriously *need* them... since about a month I feel my belly is getting bigger each time I wake up in the morning!!!
I've had to tell adios to most of my trousers and at home I only feel very comfortable in a bikini (which is also due to the very unpleasant heat since 2 days).

Anyway, it is wonderful to see one's belly growing that way, and the round shape of it is very fun!

Now I can't wait to see the belly button popping out! hehehe
(well, I can wait actually!!!!)

Ohhh jeeeez, the rendez-vous at the national agency for employment was not that fun. But nebbermind, I forget that right now ;-)

I have my sunglasses on the nose and almost a foot in the plane (s)
Since our visit at the clinic yesterday, I'm the happiest in the Universe!!!
It feels so guuuuuud to be a woman, and to be a *mom* !!!

dancing around**~~* *^* *^^* *~~* * *

What a busy day tomorrow (I had started to forget how such a day was ;-)
I start with a rendez-vous at 8.30 at the "national agency for employment", then a bit later, back to prepare luggage to leave for Hamburg (where we'll spent Friday, Sat', Sunday), then woooosh to the clinic, then woooosh to visit friends we have not seen since weeeeks!
If I don't have cramps, it should be a kewl day!!!... a bit stressing too, for different reasons, but stress is not always baaaaaad :P

Grrrrrrrr!!! My last painting has been rejected from Elfwood by one moderator (probably a rican :P)... here is his/her reason:

"Sorry, but some of the items you chose to submit to Elfwood was not accepted by a moderator. We have deleted them from our storage space, and you will recieve a copy of all removed items in a separate email.
blue_lagoon.jpg is too explicit and will not be published!
==> blue_lagoon.jpg was REJECTED! Reason: Too explicit porn or violence."

"porn"..."violence".... no kiddin! A certainly frustrated moderator!

What a barbarian attitude! Great I have this webpage here to express myself in the most free way! :-)))

I've tried my whale-ish swimsuit yesterday! And it's wayyyyyyyy too large (victory scream here!!!! hehe)
Anyway, we've been to the swimming-pool then jakusi (happy sigh). It was a bit expensive but very relaxing!

The only probbie was the chlorinate in the jakusi (LOL, that sounds a lil posh :P).The water was so hot that the chlorinate was rushing massively into your lungs. I'm still having a headache from it!
I'm a little nature, rilly!

Waaaa, I spent the day working on my c.v....huuuuu....
It took me the whole day 'cause I had no idea how you call my job and how to define it, because my job is not extremely precise. I found a nice title that represents well what I can do: "assistante polyvalente"(I don't translate it because it sounds far less guuud in English :P). It means basically I can adapt to many kind of different projects.
Been a hard day, trust me :P

Oohoh, Martin just showed me a great tool (no nooo, not wat ya think!!! tssss)
Have a look at this BabelFish thingie.... very practical for quick translations!!!

see: Os diamantes são os amigos os mais girls'best
(diamonds are the girls'best friends! in Portuguese!! hehe!!!)

Okies, I've finished a new painting, *Blue Lagoon*, which I rather like!
Martin finds it quite sexy (shaking head), though my aim was basically and innocently to present two blooooe-blood creatures, posing like statues! Yup yup
It's almost the first time I see some improvement in my way of drawing a male-ish one!
It's a good beginning at least! hehe

Have you ever imagined the feeling when you gotta buy a swimsuit for preggie goils, hm?!!!
Lemme tell ya what it feels like... well...hmm....it simply feels like you are about to occupy (making huge circles with arms) muuuuuuuch space!
I'd rather turn into one of those tiny fish than into some imposing whale....huuuuu

A fine week that ended in a strage way.
Martin's company is having probbies. Not that the business isn't good enough, but they are linked to a big German group which want to get rid of that French branch.
Argg.
Well, we'll know about it before the end of the month. I just can't imagine both of us without job right now, it is not possible.
Martin's going to start to look for another job... but all that is not the piece of news we expected. Shit.

Joe and I loved this one ;-)

I hope the weekend will be warm enough for some wet times at the swimmingpool!
I think it's the only real exercise I can do safely. Since yesterday morning I'm having cramps again and I think just swimming might feel very guuuuud and relaxing for the babe and I :-)))

I really can't wait for the moment I can type "he" or "she" for the babe.
Emmanuelle told me it was a moment I should really enjoy. She remembers hers with immense happiness, she says it's like the second stage after learning you're preggie. The babe you can see on the scan is a real lil human, and knowing if it's a goil or boy pushes you to talk and to share more with him/her. Just because it feels more real :-))))
Waaaaaaaaaa, I just *noooooe* what she means (happy sigh)**~~* *^^* *

Haaa Footie.... the Frawnch played so badly again, which was not that surprising after their first brilliant show (g).
You really wonder if they can still remember what's a goal :P

Anyway, now I gotta change all the bets I made... and I put 100$ on my other team, the German tigers! RoaaaaaRRRRrrrrR!
I won't watch the games, just the results though...It just takes too much time for very little pleasure ;-)

So far it's been quite a busy day!
I've spent da morning calling several administrations to take rendez-vous, then I started with my German intensive lessons (s). Well, I've been learning to count only, but from 0 to 1000 ! Now I'm supposed to pronounce and write all the numbers well, and it's not easy, trust me... when you get a "sechzig" (to be pronounced like "zech'tssich) to repeat 10 times, you're happy not to wear a "set of false teeff" :P
hehe

I've also had time to start to read those new books I've found and to work on drawings. So far I'm into "male studies". I'm studying all the body parts... the right proportions (s), etc. I am unable to draw in a realistic way, but that helps me to feel more comfortable with da male-ish subjects :-)

Okies, I gotta take medication and wooooosh I'm out to breathe fresh air!

Yeeeeepeeeee, Marine and Lionel (those crazy French living in London) come to visit us tomorrow evening!
I should thank the UK Queenette because with the celebrations happening, they just found the opportunity to come back to Paris for a few days!
Weeeeeeeee:-))))

When they learnt I had to be more than careful with my pregnancy, they offered to bring me all what I needed (heavy stuff...like liquid stuff...juices, etc ).
How kewl from dem :-))))

laaaalalalaaa**~~* * *^^* * *^^* *

I hesitated a loooooot before including that new painting to my gallery because I'm very angry with my hands at the moment. Troooe

I have found enough books in the last 2 days to get all the technical advice I *need* to improve. Even if I'm told my paintings are nice, I'm not happy with what I do in the way I feel unable to draw what I've in mind. And I get frustrated :P
I have inspiration, oh yup, that I have... but it's not enough. I find what I do far too naive, lacking real work. That's it!

Soooo, wish me guud luck, I'm on my way to work hard as long as it will be necessary! And I won't publish any other work before getting satisfied! RoaaaaaaaRRRrrrRR!
**~~* *^^* * *^^* *

What a beauDiful Sunday!!!
So warm and sunny, let's hope the coming week will be that way.. in every way possible (s) **~~* *^^* *

Phewwwwwww........


which Episode II character are you?



Probably the greatest Jedi Knight of all. Like Obi Wan, you are wise and keep your feet on the ground at all times. You will not be outsmarted by anyone. You are always faithful to your friends. Be careful though, danger lurks around every corner - you could even be betrayed by those closest to you.



Haha!! Obi Wan KenoCandy !
I would have really hated it if I had been Yoda or "Ani" :P

Which era in time am I ?


Which era in time are you?

I could have hesitated between the wild 13th century and the stormy 18th....but 2002 suits me far better! :P

Tomorrow Christa and Achim (Martin's parents) celebrate their 40th year of wedding!!!!

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And they really look as if they married yesterday (happy sigh). I wish the same happiness to everyone (including me :P)
**~~*^* *

Yesterday, all the people from the company gathered for a last lunch :-)
That was pretty sad, people finally left wishing each other to have "good holidays", as if it was just a lil break...
(sigh)

:(((

And today I've received my "redundency notice"... well, I prefer bday cards (s)
I'll spent my whole next week at different administrative bureaux to officialize my personnal situation. It gonna be boring to gather the right papers, etc, etc.
(sigh)

Viva Senegal!!!

The Frawnch deserved to lose! Mwaaahahaha!
If only that could stop the fever here about footie! I watched the game while painting, it was so ... soporific!
I asked myself if I found it really boring because we did not win or because footie has neber been exciting....

Let's see....You wait (I don't know how long is a match) for about 1.30 hour for wat... 1..2..3 goals (if you're lucky!!)
Waaaaa
Rugger is wayyyyyyy more entertaining! :P

I hope the next games will be of a beDer quality :-)))

Ohhh I've been a bad mouff about that aperitif yesterday in the the hall of the building!
It was organized by an old lil couple, the most adorable persons! :-)))

The doorkeeper had prepared many yummmy goodies and everyone had brought enough to drink for a whole week! :-))
hehe

There were real kewl goils of my age, one being also preggie (G), also some weird -but nice- couples, and a family half-french/half from New zealand (strange cocktail, hey!).
The mother told me her brother lived in Oz and she could have the best adresses for cheap flights, etc!!! She also insisted we'd be welcome at her bro's if we ever go to Melbourne!
How nice!! I would have nebber guessed I'd find guuuud plans for Oz via neighbours! hehehe

We spent just 2 hours there, but that was brilliant. I highly recommend this concept !!! :-)))

(I think) I've felt the babe moving!!!!

It feels like bubbles, but not bubbles I am used to! bubbles that goes from right to left or down to up!
I'm going to observe carefully that belly!!!
:-))))
**~~* *^* * *

It seems everyday there's something to celebrate!
And today is the "Immeubles en fête" day (meaning buildings are partying, or something like dat).

This celebration has started a couple of years ago I think, and the aim of it is that you meet your neighbours.
The concept first looks bizarre and boring... but finally it's a guud idea (though still a bit boring ;-).

Someone in every building takes the initiative to prepare an aperitif and invite all the neighbours for a drink. That way, neighbours can meet each other at least once.
Soooo, we'll make a jump there and say hello with the most delicious smile to all dem nasty lil grannies ;-)

Ohhh changing topic, I've spent quite time on audiogalaxy today and I've just found an amazing version of Ave Maria.. by Nina Hagen!!! hehe It's very baroque:-))
I really enjoy finding new version of classic pieces made by the most unexpected artists!

Tadaaaa....It should the last time I come to work today!

Now I totally see it as a guuud thing cause I'll be able to start a new *chapter* and... to take care of my bellybits!

Since I've been to the clinic the other day, I worry a bit, my belly keeps hurting, and I don't want to take any risk, of course.
Hm, I gotta follow Jack's advice and behave like a princess, lying down, being fed with grapes (hehe, funny image).. relaxing as much as possible (s)
That should not be too hard to do ;-)

Oh! Gwénola (sister) found a job and signed last week! Today is her first day :-))
She will work in an association which play a role (which, I don't know yet) in the boat races.
She works in a lil wooden house on the Seine, that looks terribly fine :-)))
....but....I'll REALLY miss bothering her everyday!
(S)

Talking of jobs, I'd beDer go and check if I've won at the lottery of last Sat'!
(G)...
....wooooosh!

Haaaa new painting's done and scanned!
I still have probbies with the red colour, it does not give the shades required, so all what contains red (yellow, purple, brown) do not show as I expect! Argg!

I'm just back from the clinic :-)))
The scan of the "second quarter" will be on the 12th of June! Yeeeeeeeepeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
If we can see well the babe, we'll know if we'll have a princess or a knight :P
Laaaaalalaalaaaaaaaa**~~* * * *

We have no preference, really. I just know that for us it's wayyyyyyy easier to find a name for a goil than for a boy (s).. And nenene, we won't tell the names we have in mind :P

I've heard the babe again today (his heart beating and his movements inside)... awwww, it was fantastic, I'm so surprised that there is such a lil treasure down inside me!!!**~* *^^* *
(happy sigh)
The Gyno was surprised though that my uterus is actually very low and should not be. He said I gotta be very careful and behave as a preggie goil! ...which meant I gotta stop any kind of exercise, including walking too much or going upstairs and downstairs too often!
//OO\\
I told him I had reduced a lot my activities, but he answered I had to be specially careful ....otherwise... from the 6th to the 9th month I'll have to stay lying down..
Eeeeeeeeeck!!!

He thinks I've already had some little contractions and gave me a big list of medication to calm the belly a lil bit.
From what I understood, the babe will keep on pushing a lil bit till the S-Day.......so the higher the uterus is, the better, and the less active I am, the better.
huuuuu

Anyway, I'll be even more careful and I think I won't go dancing too much (siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh)
The guuud point is that I stop working, it's exactly what my belly *needeeeeeed* :-))))

Ohhh I've been told that from now on I should be able to *feel* the babe inside!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
So far, nothing... but when it happens I think I'll simply faint into some hysteric and ferociously happppppppppy lands!
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28 years-old since 2 days (happy sigh...hey it's young! ;-)
Ohhhhh I've decided in a real "dictator way" (g) that my bday was not to be over on yesterday but that it will go on for the whole week (poor Martin :P)

I've had a wonderful Tuesday, during while Martin treated me like a queen (as usual actually! me lucky one!)
First I had the best piece of news when I went to the clinic in which I had forgotten to "book" a room for Ze S-Day (birth :P). Usually the lists of preggie women booking rooms are quickly full and I was not sure it would be simple to get one. But it was!!
hehe
Yeeepeeeeeeee, I won't be left in the middle of the street on the S-Day!

Martin came back home with 28 beauDifuuuul roses and offered me 2 "seventies" trousers he had made on the weekend (you can't find them in France at the moment, only in Germany). Waaaaaaa I was so happy!!!
Then we wanted to go out for a drink and restaurant but I spent my evening on the phone answering relatives and friends who had remembered my bday! I was astonished because I have the baad habit of forgetting people's bday !!!!... I gotta take notes of the birth' dates of my friends and relatives, rilly :-))))
hehe

So Martin and I will celebrate dat bday again tomorrow evening and another time with the family on Sunday. Haaaaaaaa, happy moment, happy week :P !

That illimited cinema card is really brilliant!!!
Yesterday we went to watch Star Wars -Episode II- The Attack of The Clones (woo, that makes a long title!)
The atmosphere in the cinema was really kewl, we were surrounded by fans :-)))

As I was telling in the DHN, it's been a discovery weekend, we went to cinema twice and had two guud surprises!
Well, I *knewww* I was to enjoy these movies because before I read lots of critics from people who went to watch them (no professional critics from magazine). From the positive and negative critics, I almost always manage to get the idea I need of a movie.
I enjoy feeling that way how a movie will be because it's just not fun to waste time and money to watch a flop :P

Sooo I went first to watch Le voyage de Shihiro / Spirited Away, which I wanna see again because there are so many details in it, so much creation (with the weirdest creatures you can imagine), and then we went to watch K-Pax which I really recommend; I keep asking myself what is people's interpretation of the K-Pax' end... but no one I know have seen it, damn! :P

I wanna see the last Star Wars, I think it will be really kewl (I enjoyed a looot the last one), even if I worry a bit about the love story they've put in it (which you don't really expect going to watch such a movie :P). They say it's to attract female teenagers (rolling eyes)... hehehe!

I've finally included the pics of the last few sculptures I've done.
I start to think that working on images with Gulli is far more difficult than making paintings or sculptures, it took me maybe 3 hours just to be able to prepare these pics for the web!
Huuuuu, it feels guuud when it's done :P

And today is a special date! .....hehehe :P

Hmmm, I'm being in a strange muud right now. Feeling a bit down.

Being at home like that just feels unappropriate. I should be enjoying free time, but I think I have to get used to that.
I won't be working for months and I fear to lose all my capabilities for a future job, to feel a bit useless, etc. I worry for money too, but I know, who does'nt?! (s)

It's just like being put aside, forced to *summernate* (should be the opposite of hibernate, hm? ;-).
I have to get used to the situation, that's the point :-))

Such a bewwwDiful weather outside (with almost 30°c), that I hardly found time to sit behind the Gulli !
Anyway, I managed to add a painting, which was really hard to scan, because of its size and original colours. The result on the screen is "ok", but again the colours are different and you really can't see details. Nebber satisfied, hey!! ;-)

Wooooooooo, I'm ermmmm....yussss.... in weekend!!!!
No kiddin!
That's too unfair for all you hard workers around, I noooooooooooe !!! (But I've been told today that legally I'm not forced to come to work till I'm fired, because I'm ... preggie!!!
//OO\\
Sooooo, I said I'll be go to work on mondays only and for the rest of the time.... nada!
I'm so tired right now I can hardly believe it :-))

I guess I'll find time for blogs tomorrow, hey ;-)
(happy tired sigh) **~~* * *^^* * * *

Huuuu, much electricity in the air around here at work. People stress and get nervous...
...including me (!!), I've had a shaaaarp talk with da boss, and just now another one with our accoutant.. shiteroo! I'm about to sock him one, I'm not even sure he understands Franch when you talk to him!
And I'm usually the patient type!

Anyway (s), I've just read 2 guuuud jokes that instantly turned me into the most giggling mood :P
Exactly what I needed :-)**~* *

The expectant fathers

Four expectant fathers were in a Minneapolis hospital waiting room, while their wives were in labor.

The nurse tells the first man, "Congratulations! You're the father of twins!"
"What a coincidence! I work for the Minnesota Twins baseball team!"

The nurse returns and tells the second man, "You are the father of triplets!"
"Wow, what a coincidence! I work for 3M Corporation!"

The nurse tells the third man that his wife has given birth to quadruplets.
"Another coincidence! I work for Four Seasons Hotel!"

At this point, the fourth guy faints. When he comes to, the others ask what's wrong.
"What's wrong? I work for Seven-Up!"

**~* * * *

The Rope

There were 11 people hanging on to a single rope that suspended them from a helicopter trying to bring them to safety. Ten were men; one was a woman.

They all decided that one person would have to let go because if they didn't, the rope would break and all of them would die.

No one could decide who it should be. Finally the woman gave a really touching speech, saying how she would give up her life to save the others, because women were used to giving things up for their husbands and children and giving in to men.

All of the men started clapping.

I've just arrived (1 hour late) at work, and what do I hear ?
we stop working at the end of the month!
"this is the end ...(balalam)... my only friend...(lalam)... the end"

But I also learnt we can benefit from "social security" for 4 years after we stop working. That was 1 point that had me worried because pregnancy finally "costs" a lot :-)
That's already a good point!
"Can you picture what will be...(lalala)...So limitless and free (If only!)"

hehe

Ohhhh I've spent a reaaaaaal guuud week!
Absolutely yes, cause I've won 3 times at the trivial pursuit! (laughing) ... Well we had not the best weather this time, soooo, in the evening we all (the house was full this time) sat around the fireplace, some tasting the best of the best liqueurs (rum+ginger, yummm!!), others screaming victory when winning games :P

Eva was also there, in a very cuddling muuud, what an angel she is! She spent her time caressing my belly asking if I needed her help to make the babe go "out" ;-) hehe
She already has much success with boys, she has given the biggest kiss to a boy her age (4 years-old) who was playing near his parents' boat! Well, I think the boy had no choice actually ;-)
Rilly, at 4 !
hehe

Anyway, the weather here in Paris looks fantastic, which a bit is motivating when you've to go back to work. I really wonder how it gonna be there.. If there is no work to do at all, I hope at least the web connections will work, so that I can start to check all the administrative steps I'll have to deal with... eeeeck! I promised myself I wouldn't talk of it today!

(washin mouff vigorously)

(s)

With more than 82%, it's a brilliant victory!
What a relief :-))))
Champagne!!

The fact we apparently all took seriously the political threat and imagined the worst could happen really motivated the crowds :-))**~~**^* * *

(I've finished with my political chapters, no worries :P)

Weeeeee!!! I just got a message on da mobile from the doc, no risk of trisomia 21!!
Yeeeeeepeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
**~~* *^* *dancing around!!!**~~* * * * * *^^~~* * *
Now yesterday we went dancing in a fest noz till about 3.00 and woooooo, my belly hurts now! I should have taken the medication!
But the dances were so fun!
It's just that you have to jump all the time to dance a scottish, a mazurka or a gigue! Ha well, that will make of my babe a very active one! :P

Back to a rainy Paris! Argggg, it was so sunny in Bretagne! Great I'm back there in a couple of days :P
Okies, I went to vote and now 40 minutes to wait before getting the results.
It's very stressing for everyone around, we've imagined the "impossible".. if Le Pen wins, it's nothing less than a civil war here! I almost smile typing this because it sounds soooo surrealistic...:)
That won't happen, thank Gawd, but you never can tell before. I have no confidence in people, in their choice, soooo...(starting biting lips here).
To be so close to an evil political situation at least makes you think twice about the future.
Okies, now 35 minutes to go. We'll be *in the streets* tonight whatever the results are! RoaaarrRR! hehe

Waaaa, holidays seem to be highly motivating :-)
In 2 days I've made 2 new sculptures (a record for me!), one of a girlie dragon keeping her 3 eggs, one of a lazy dragon boy sleeping on his back.
They're drying right now, maybe I'll have time enough to make another one before coming back to Paris **~~*^** ~~*

Those presidential elections worry me. I still hear people telling there's no need to vote because we already know the results: "the extreme-right party won't win anyway".
(shaking head)
Well as long as the demonstrations are representative of the votes of next sunday.. 1.5 millions in streets to defend human rights yestertday, 10.000 to support the extreme-right party!
A good point for Democracy :-))