So many books, so little time

Am I am a bit late for a new year's resolution, hm?
It's just that I didn't want to chose an impossible resolution like... "I want to learn kick boxing, lose 10 kgs, quit smoking (done, 4 years ago, phewww), cook with passion, etc etc"
Nenenene. My resolution isn't a huge one. Not an Everest :)
I simply wanna read my pile of books, 1 chapter everyday maybe? T'is all I'll officially try to do. Me lazy bum :)

When I think of Martin, who spends about 1 hour everyday reading while he's in the metro, I'm a bit jealous. Ermmm, not so much of the metro ;-)
Reading is a real *Xtra* that requires xtra time, which is hard to find when you've to take care of your babes, house and biz!



Right now I'm in the middle of an exciting trilogy, The War of Souls, by Weis and Hickman. Great Fantasy, with the beloved Tas'.

And in the past weeks, I've kept my imagination busy with...

The Soulforge
by Margaret Weis. Informative (about the twins). Pretty good.

Everything's eventual
by Stephen King. Irregular. Some great short stories though.

les dents de la mort
by Xavier Maniguet. Informative, frightening! (wavin at Oz ;-)

the charnel prince
by Greg Keyes. Wunnerful, brilliant, exciting Fantasy!

Now we wait for a new second-hand books' order... my pile's gonna get higher ;-)

while I'm stuck to the heater...

...I can't help thinking about all these homeless people around.
It's being so cold that I dunno how one can survive even one night outside :(
I will put that thought quickly away though because you just can't stand people suffering this way while you enjoy your own comfort, can you?
Or we could make a revolution to provide a home to anyone. Yeah. Well... (back to my heater) :(



And this fooking neighbour who let his cat outside, frozen, mewwwing all night.... baaaaa a cold night for many, huh!

my daily ticket to Australia and Japan

...I get it via blogs :)

Why Australia and Japan today? Because I've just discovered 2 new bloggies.

Australia...
A country I've discovered through a very unique woman/friend/sista, Penny Sillan, and I've got naturally addicted to it! :-)
I wonder if I'd feel like at home overthere, probably I guess, even if it's incredibly exotic ;-)

And Japan...
Well, I've watched Lost in translation, I enjoy Japanese food, my heart beats fast thinking of Captain Harlock and I am a huge fan of his papa, Leiji Matsumoto... I listen sometimes to japanese music too, not often... in the family house when it starts snowing, dunno why, there's always someone to put japanese music. Funny, no?
Anyway my knowledge is limited. But improving!:)

Since a couple of weeks, I'm having a great time discovering Hiro's blog and mean Maude's one. Both are very different but full of humour too. No frontier to humour, huh :)

Mozart and I

... do not have much in common, except that he died in Vienna and that I enjoy ermmm... viennoiseries !

Actually I know about nothing about classical music. I know I'm not sensitive to classical operas, but it's different with classical music.
My parents were more a Led Zeppelin-Pink Floyd-Rolling Stones kind of fans, so Mozart had no chance at home.



One day Martin compared some heavy metal composers to classical ones and that sounded suddenly logical.
I listen to Metallica, right, and I wonder which composer would have brought me so much pleasure back in the 16th or 18th century?

New doors to open. It's exciting, my virgin ears have so much to discover!
If you have a classical favourite composer, or a piece of classical music you really LUVE, let me know, I need lights...

Freedom tastes of reality !

Our book is done... DONE!
It feels so guuuuuud, it's been 3 months I've been working on it, forgetting peaceful evening, long nights and any kind of moment for meself!

It's so kewl!
Now I just have to gather all the elements (original illustrations, Cd-rom, etc) and send them to the editor.

3 new Herman are supposed to be published. And I hope they will be (you never know)! I've delivered the 4th Herman on May, the 5th on September and now it's the 6th.

It's been pretty frustrating to work on several books without them being published, so I can't wait for this next step :)

Now, I feel free, free, free. I'll will start with zillions of other projects, completly different, more dealing with my paintings, a new book with Martin as the author too, etc.

But before, a break. 2 weeks without pressure. Enjoying my evenings with Martin, spending time with the kids avoiding multitasking, *listening* at music, reading my books, blogging like a newbie, etc!

Yeeeeeeeepeeeeeeee!!!!

And for this wunnerful occasion, I've decided to spoil my stylish (ermm) blog with ugly smileys here and there! Just 'cause I'm in the mood!

I forgot how to multitask !!!

My babies are sick now, while I'm still recovering... arggg

And I've just heard from my publishing house, they ask for the last book to be ready quickly now.
I'll be back only when I've finished these illustrations. I just can't do more than that at the moment.

But I work fast sometimes ;-)

Mademoiselle Otter

From my *quizz guru* ;-)

You Were an Otter

You are a faithful friend who guides others toward success. You are also light hearted, and love to play around.

What Animal Were You In a Past Life?

that reminds me how much I like otters! not because i've been one once (spending my time eating fish, they're kidding or what! ;-)... but like donkeys and camels, I really find otters ermmm... cute :)

Holy Nowhere Man

I enjoy a lot of different kind of music (as long as it's not reggae, most of French stuff, rap or death metal), and when I'm in the mood, I can listen to an album about 50 times without getting bored.
At the moment I'm discovering Alice in Chains, which pretty good. And since a couple of weeks, I've kept listening to Pink Floyd's albums (I luve them all) 'cause I'm in a Floyd's mood :P

I also LOVE discovering funny stuff, like Beatallica (I wrote a bloggie on them one or 2 years ago, this funny band playing Beatles songs in a Metallica's way! lol)

And while I was at my mama's, I've discovered another funny stuff (my mama's hubby has zillions of qualities, including being a music lover, he spends hours looking for an album. You wanna discover Japanese music? He'll pick up 15 albums from his collection and will comment them passionately. He is like that. A music lover).
Anyway, to get a zen atmosphere, he put a gregorian song book... but not a traditionnal one... Beatles' songs played in a gregorian way. Pretty good and definatly funny!

antibiogoil

I've just left my mama! sniff, boooo, waaaaaaaaaaa ;-)

hehe
My lil trip there really helped me... My mama took care of Lola and Loup till Martin joined, and she treated me like the third kid (hehe) : "stay in bed, eat this, drink that". Wunnerful, I had forgotten how mamas can be precious in this way too.

I'm still sick with a big tracheitis now, but no more fever.
On Friday, I was so stoned with fever that I managed to lose my tongue piercing (which I usually never take off) and forgot my pill (which never happens either!).
DAMN!!!!!!

Anyway, Lola and Loup are coughing only (...) now, but no fever, no headaches, no trembling, etc. Phewwwww!

I can't believe I can get sick like that... Too stoopid!

2 aspirins and my bed

Dat's about what I'd give my soul for today ;-)

Lola and I are sick, both coughing like grannies and sneezing as if we had turned allergic to winter (hahum, would there be some truth in here!)

We've both fever and it seems we're developping a bad temper ... what a wunnerful synchronization!

So I guess I'll use the last bits of energy I have right now to work instead of ermm blogging //oO\
The men of the family are doing fine! And Martin being at work, I reckon Loup has to take care of us, lil natures :)

CinAmore

Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith
Yes, well, Star Wars is Star Wars and hmm ... ok I expected it to be a bit better, because Martin had read the book in which Anakin has much more psychological problems... He just does not suddenly feel like he's a baddie, neee, it's much better and developped in the book. Got disappointed.

Charlie and the chocolate factory
Very original movie, not even a classic among Tim Burton's movies! I enjoyed!

War of the Worlds
When the critics for a movie are over positive, you probably expect too much. I expected something pretty good but at the end I found the movie visually entertaining only. For the rest...(yawn). And lil Tom has turned to be such a pain in the arse lately that he tends to spoil a bit the movies in which he plays at the moment, doesn't he?!

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (les orphelins Baudelaire)
Ohhh very entertaining, with a Tim Burtonesque atmosphere! ... despite a Jim Carrey who's just way too carricatural for me, even if his character requires it... (I enjoyed him so much in *Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind*!)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire
Yusss we had a real good time, pop corns and laughs included :)

28 days later
The biggest surprise here! I had seen and REALLY enjoyed 3 movies from Danny Boyle so far... The Beach, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave. This one is pretty different.
It was actually a Xmas gift from Gwenola, my sister. I did not know anything about the movie... we started to watch it... eeeeeck... a ZOMBIE MOVIE! LOL! The kind of movie I LOVED as a teen and which makes me tremble in my boots since I've turned to be a mama (an hormones thingie I guess).
I started to watch it with some big reluctance then, but it turned to be a very GOOD zombie movie, in which finally the ugly zombies are not the worst. A rich movie at many levels. No lesson, no moral but many things given to think about.
And just to watch an empty London and a UK under quarrantine is something too. Scary. Brilliant!

Have you watched any of them btw?!!!

a gooood joke, no?

have a look at that...



ermmm.....LOL!
Sooooo?
Tell me, how long do you work everyday?
Martin, being in lazy PARIS, starts at 9.00 am, finishes at about 8.00 pm! (and comes back with work at home!) Do you call that lazy?! grmmphhh :P

Oh and of course, they've forgotten housewives and househubbies here who work night and day, no holidays, no weekends!

Emotional, overly organized and overly talkative goil...

For once, a *serious* test... with serious results... ouch! ;-)

Global Personality Test Results

Stability (43%) moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious. Orderliness (56%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun. Extraversion (73%) high which suggests you are overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense too often of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

Take Free Global Personality Test
personality tests by similarminds.com

I agree with most of what is said here... worrying and very organized, yes, since Lola's birth actually!
Sociable, I think so... but only when I want to. I can't force myself with that I think. But definatly not sociable at the expense of my individual interests! no opposition between the 2 for me:)

Purrring Moon

I'm on a woooooooosh mode, but I just had to come around to share 2 wonderful pieces of news:
1) I've finished the painting part for my new book, been working night and day on it...jeez, never again!
2) I can celebrate with CHAMP' our wedding anniversary tonight... no more antibiotics for me! Yeepeeee! lalalaaaaaa

Drooling (not!) for an oily fish'n chips

While I often do quizzes to please my lil ego ("what type of goddess are you?" etc lol), I find the conclusion of this one not very lady-ish!
But I found it funny to "belong" to London last week, and now to "UK"! When I say I luve dem Roastbeefs... :)

You Belong in the UK

Blimey! A little proper, a little saucy. You're so witty and charming... No one notices your curry breath

What English Speaking Country Do You Belong In?

The key to become a George

Today I am a real George.
If you don't know yet who's George, here is the cuttie:



You've always dreamt of becoming a George too? Then grab a pen, I'll share my secret:

-have a wisdom tooth removed a day ago or so
-try to work only between 10.00 pm and 2.00am
-with luck, make it possible that your 2 kids wake up 3 times in the night, in the most synchronized way

You just do not need anything else to turn into a George! Cheers!

Petit quizz du matin n'arrête pas le pèlerin

I think I've done this one already, but fook, as it's a *good-for-your-ego* one, here we go :P

Your Brain is 60.00% Female, 40.00% Male

Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female You are both sensitive and savvy Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve

What Gender Is Your Brain?

to the lil Chef in you

I've just noticed that marmiton was now available in English!!!



Marmiton has been my bible for a few years now. The principle? People share their recipes, others try them and give their opinion about it (was it good enough? are the quantities the right ones? what can you add? etc)

So I thought it would be kewl to share it with ewwws *non-French speakers*, you'll find here recipes that we cook here regularly. If you know similar websites for other kind of recipes (whatever "not French": Aussie, Japanase, American, German, ermmm English, etc), I'd love to hear about them. That might inspire Martin when he's stuck in the kitchen :P

wedding present

for our 7th wedding anniversary -today-, Loup has just made his first night, from 9.00pm to 8.00am!!!!

Yeeepeeeeeeeeeee

4+3

It's been weeks I've seen this lil questionnary here and there, and when I saw it again on Fennelin's blog, I finally decided to do it too. So here we go :)

Seven things you want to do before dying:
1.living another hundred years with my *other half*, my children, grand children, grand grand children and hundreds of cats
2.improving my painting skills
3.selling more paintings than illustrations
4.being the proud owner of a lil medieval castle
5.driving without stressing
6.making a trip abroad with Martin only every year for the next 100 years
7.finding a way to live in a place where my neighbours would be my real close friends

Seven things you do pretty well:
1.multitasking
2.swimming when the sea is in some extreme bad mood
3.remembering birthdays
4.making plans for when I win lottery
5.driving a boat
6.having champ' without getting drunk
7.taking the time to listen when my babies have something to tell me

Seven things you don't/can't do:
1.parking my car in a narrow (=less than 10m long) parking place
2.eating eels
3.refusing a yummy cake even when I'm not hungry
4.admitting oppenly I was wrong (but I'm improving)
5.not having the last word
6.trying to get along with people I do not like
7.going to bed without cuddling my babies

Seven things I enjoy in women:
1.their feminity
2.the complicity we can have together
3.everything that we have in common and makes that we understand each other
4.the lack of violence
5.the way they can hardly separate sex from feelings
6.the sister and mother who are inside all of us
7.the almost purrfect combination between strength and fragility

Seven things you enjoy in men:
1.their sensitivity
2.the way they try to understand women
3.all what makes a man a *man*
4.their seduction
5.their way of taking distance with everyday lil problems
6.their cooking talent
7.the man's unique touch

Seven things you often tell:
1."Foutrocul" or "Dickheads"
2."I need more time!"
3."When I win lottery..."
4."I am happy, I am lucky"
5."I think I have forgotten something"
6."but, see, I AM right!"
7."I Love you"

Seven famous people that makes you faint or almost:
1.Clint Eastwood in the Good the bad the ugly
2.James Hetfield -when he sings-
3.Spike -no comments- lol
4.Willem Dafoe
5.Henry IV
6.Jack Nicholson -20 years ago-
7.Brad Pitt in Troy, sowwy but true!

loving my kitchen ;-)

I officially start today (wattaday!) my new life as housewife!
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

If you only knew how much French lack consideration for housewives (we've to find an other word for that me thinks btw)... stopping an "official job" to take care of the babies makes of you a weird creature here. My foreign goilfriends here find it very difficult to have a social life without having a job, just because it's not well perceived to be a housewife. Strange!

That means I've stopped receiving any financial help and that we 're gonna trying to live with one salary. Till I get enough money from my paintings :)

That's one of our biggest *Life choice* so far. Taking care of our babies, and giving priority to our family life. We hope it's gonna work!

Gawd save ze Queen

Thank you, Mel', for the new lil test!

You Belong in London

A little old fashioned, and a little modern. A little traditional, and a little bit punk rock. A unique woman like you needs a city that offers everything. No wonder you and London will get along so well.

What City Do You Belong In?

now i just *need* to win the English lottery!

Glogg à la Norvegienne

Brrrrr, it's bloody cold outside, huh!
So welcome around, have a seat here or there, we need to warm up a bit, don't we? (nothing salacious here! tssss :P)



Today, why not trying a good hot Glogg?!
But not the killing Glogg (which includes vodka and wine together), nooooo a alcoholfree glogg.
(yeah I can't believe either I'm about to give a cocktail recipe without alcohol, it just feels like something's deeply missing :P)

Anyway, you just can't have 10 hot wines or traditionnal gloggs in the middle of afternoon, whereas you can have hundreds of mine whenever you want!
Yeeepeeeeee!

It's a recipe we've got from Martin's papa who's fond of Norway and its culture and traditions, he got the recipe from there.
So you need:

1 liter of grape (raisin) juice
1 liter of blackcurrant (cassis) juice
1 liter of apple (pomme) juice
5 cinnamon sticks (edit: 5 bâtons de cannelle)
15 cloves (clous de girofle)
1 fistfull of almonds (amandes effilées)
1 fistfull of dry grapes

You cook all that together gently for 1 hour (1 heure à feu doux)
You get rid of the cloves and cinnamon sticks
and you can serve it with the almonds and grapes.

Usually you don't need to add any sugar, but it depends on juice quality really.

It feels wonderful, smells wonderful and is purrrfect for wintertime
Prost!

Xmas Postcard

Here's the lil postcard I've brought back from our holidays :)
Soon, we'll receive a new toy to take photos... a very very nice toy. I can't wait to get it!!!


click here

Joe's gone

We went to the vet' for the last time on saturday morning.
A few days ago, Joe had bitten and scratched where his tumour was growing. It started to bleed a bit, which was not so worrying. But the wound then turned to grey and would get bigger everyday with no chance to heal. The skin and flesh around were dead. That's all.
Joe knew what was happening.

There was no choice, or at least not an acceptable choice. Operating him to save a couple of weeks, painful ones, or making it quick and without pain for him to join the cats' Realm above.

We did not expect it would be that quick. We saw the vet' on Thursday, on Saturday it was over. Not funny time waiting for the end.

Now I think I'm feeling hm ok, though deeply missing him.



I wish I could have closed Joe's adorable eyes once it was done, but it did not work. Strange how things do not work the way you want sometimes :-(

Bubye 2005

So far, and it's 8.54 am, 2005 has been a real purrfect year!
Loup has joined the family
Lola's getting more and more adorable
Martin and I are definatly ... happy! oh yeahhhh! :)

Joe's meowwwwwing right now, asking for food, purrring already **~~*^*

oh, and I've just (yesterday) signed a 6th contract with my publishing house!

A blessed year, so far.
What do I expect from 2006?

New adventures, like another book published, improvements in my paintings, a trip at the other side of the planet, Lola's being clean during nights and Loup actually making his nights :)

I wish you a perfect 31st of December, and a really happy New Year with... Love and zillions of spicies around, yup!

Psycho-killer questionnary

Thanx to Nim, I finish the year with another lil game! Yeeeepeeeeee!
Ok the questions are a bit strange, but (hand on heart) it's a question of honour (& pleasure :P) for me to answer and play any lil online game when I'm asked too !

1) Which questionnary would I love to answer ?
Hmmm, the one you're about to send me!

2) If I was a crushed animal on the road, which one would I be ?
I'd be a

Lola's just watched the cartoon, and I saw the lil devil recovering from 2 big trucks that ran over him :P

3) My favourite dictator:
I have TWO favourite ones


4) My favourite sexual object:
It is the one which opens the hundreds of lil doors to more pleasure (huhuh)


5) My favourite physical deformation
The one I'm *suffering* right now! Martin's nodding (rolling eyes :P)


6) If I could burn a car in Clichy-sous-Bois, it would be the car of
Any fookin dickhead who parks his car on pedestrian crossings!

7)if I had to execute a Care Bear, which one would I chose?
the one in chocolate, naturally

I've no time to select new ones to answer the questionnary, but pulllease, help yourself!

Spoiled feet and nose

Now tell me, what did you get for Xmas? Been spoiled? over spoiled? Or do you wonder when is Xmas really? ;-)

If lucky, you've been as spoiled as meself... with real cowboy boots, yeahhhhh!!!! I wanted some since -oh Gawd- AGES! Having my lil feet in them feel wonderful, really comfortable and having the inner power to kick every ass around! I Luuuuve them!



And then, Santa Candy spoiled herself (sowwwy, dunno why I'm talking of meself this way, next time I'll use a plain "I", "I" promise! oops! hehe) with a new perfume. I usually wear with much pleasure Flower by Kenzo... this time I found Flower by Kenzo "Oriental"! ...which has about nothing to do with the first one, but which is as delicious (said to be made with Bulgarian rose, violet, vanilla, musk, Sichuan pepper, and Chinese incense) and which I find purrfect for winter! (fainting with pleasure)



It's so easy to please me in a material way, I almost feel ashame of it! (but not really, huh ;-)

back & tapping foot

(...only because my foot's freezing! grmmppphhh!)

How is it going on your side of the (cold/hot) planet, ewws all?!!
We came back to Paris a bit earlier than expected, Joe's being more sick, Loup and Martin too (both caught a bloody cold!)
But we spent a great week in Hamburg, in shops, in pubs and at (cosy) home. We spent actually too much time in shops, Xmas stuff, huh. So no time for another tatoo or anything that pleasantly frivolous! (what? Xmas shopping is frivolous?! tsss)

Ermmm (cough cough) I've to admit though that Santa Claus spoiled me in a most generous (frivolous again? naaaaa) way... I can tell I have very HAPPY feet right now -even if they're still freezing-...oh and a very happy nose too! more about that later ;-)

Lola's doing really well, even though she's turned to be CRAZY about anything related to princess stuff ... Now each time I see a toy or a magazine or whathefookingever with "Cinderella" or "White Snow" on it, I run away screaming... These things are dangerous I tell you (I must take a pic of Martin dressed as "le beau prince" for instance!)

Now Loup ... Haaaa 2 months-old now (happy sigh) and still developping a "wolf" kind of personnality! He does not bite, no, not yet, but he's fooking improving at the full moon howl!
Since a few days, he's also started coughing, sneezing... but despite all these new adventures, he still enjoys VERY MUCH waking up 2, 3 times every night! Youplaboum!

Bonjour Hamburg

A couple of hours and we're off for 10 days! Yeeepeeeeee!!!!
We'll be back just after Xmas... so I wish you already a happy, groovy, BUBBLING (most important! hic!) one **~~*^* *
Don't behave (or, okok, just when your lovely grand-ma' is around :-)

Mwaaaaa! Mwaaaaaa**~~*^* *

Ol' Santa is taking notes

Following Alix'idea, I wanted to add a lil survey to my blog :-) (crossing bits here, hoping it will work!)

So here you go, a survey talking to the material boy/girl in you (don't expect Santa to bring Peace on Earth or anything like that, nenene ;-)

What do people really want for Xmas?
the best high tech package (new puter, cam, ipod, etc)
a trip around the world
a 5 rooms flat in a big city
a nice cottage in Ireland
a Chef cooking for you at home
free tickets for any concert during all your life
1000 books of your choice
800 pairs of shoes + the 800 clothes that go with the shoes!

And you never know, Santa Claus might be REALLY taking notes!

10 secrets about food

I've just caught Obni's thread which consists in revealing 10 *secrets* about your tastes/habits/feelings for food! (what a perfect topic!)

(oh, have you noticed how much I luuuve knowing about your "secrets" lately? But I'm fair, I always tell you mines before asking about yours!)

okies...
1. I'm not a feminist in the extreme way, but I trooly believe men are wonderful in kitchen!
2. I'd sell my soul for a good rum, make it a real ti'punch and ... (faint)
3. I like having my veal liver still raw inside
4. I love raw mussels, I'm crazy for anykind of seafood anyway, but ... I'll turn green if you give me fish.
5. I have a great 6th sense and much intuition (lol, yeah), but for some reasons, both do not work for me when I cook
6. When we travel by car, we desperatly look for Mc Donald's on our way, cheap and so great for ermm kids to have a break :P
7. I love the American way when people join for a party, everyone bringing a different dish
8. I love these restaurants in London where you can bring your bottles of wine, even if it feels a bit weird
9. I could never be a vegetarian
(pssssit Candy, "never" say "never" :P)
10. I love chinese food in France, not in UK, I love Indian food in UK, not in France...oh and I love Italian food about anywhere, but more specially in.. Germany! (running to pack the luggage)

I send now the bottle to hmmm... Miz Penny, Jack, Martin, Etolane!
...so that we get an Aussie, English, German and Canadian (on peut dire que t'es canadienne la belle, oui? ;-) view on it!
and of course... whoever wanna catch the bottle is welcome (like ermmm.. Mel' for instance! hehe ;-)


my last "what-the-f*ck*-is-it" creation
(proud smile)

exposing oneself in 6 bits

Since Mel' definatly knows I enjoy tests and quizz, no way I can escape any new ones ;-)

The random facts' questionnary

How does it work? (comment ça marche)

Write 6 random facts about yourself, and then list the names of 5 people whom you in turn infect. (écrivez 6 faits aléatoires sur vous-même, puis listez 5 personnes à qui vous souhaitez refiler ce truc)

I've to add that of course the facts you'll talk about are like lil secrets, nobody here really know about them ;-)

okies, my 6 random bits:

1. when I was 25, I realized my shoes' size was 38 and not 37

2. I will die in a car accident, at least I've always felt I will

3. I luve sitting for a morning coffee on Saturdays, in front of the city hall, to watch wedding gangs

4. I hate sarcasm, though I use it sometimes (against my own will!)

5. I buy something on the internet almost once a week

6. Unlike what some might think, I am not patient and gets into bad mood pretty often (most often against my -old fart type- neighbours)

I won't ask blog writers to answer these questionnary, but for once, non blog-owners:
(wake up, ewws readers, my friends, yess, you, you and you! hehe ;-)


-Tammo
-Esox
-Marie L.
-JL
-Gwenn


I can't wait for your answers, naturally :P
(don't thank me, no, it's my pleasure ;-)

edit: after a scond thought, and since Mel' reminds it to me :P, I add Lalaith to the list :P (merry Xmas, Lalaith ;-)

If only cats had 9 lives..

.. we would not be that upset with Joe :(
His tumour getting more and more visible, we finally went to the veterinary.
He confirmed what we thought: this time, nothing can be done against it . The bloddy tumour has reached Joe's back, muscles and legs.
12 months maximum are given to Joe.
Nothing to do except waiting for the first signs of pain.
The tumour will get bigger and bigger, will turn pretty huge, but might not be painful before the last moments.
So far, if you do not look at it with attention, you don't notice it. But it's already 10cm long and dunno, 2cm thick. Hard as a rock.

Joe's not feeling any pain, I'm sure of that. No, actually, he's even doing like on top of the world!!!

He's gonna be part of the trip to Hamburg. We don't want to let him for a day. Besides, he loves it there. It has to be a great Xmas for him too. For him specially.


Joe,
proud lil tiger of Siberia
**~~*^* *

Vikings vs devoted monks

Haaaa Alinet is always very good at finding treasures! :-))

Have a look at this and then only you can tell your prayer ;-)

Have a warm Monday, ewwwws all (I make an exception for Penny, I wish you a colder one :P)
Mwaaaaa*~~*^* *^^* *

4 certitudes and a Christmas mise-en-bouche

1) When you are really RILLY tired, the glass is definatly half-empty
2) Being of same blood does not make everything
3) I'm a city girl, and I'm not ready to live in the country side right now. Not in an isolated hamlet. Impossible. A chock, I thought I could. We don't change our plans with Bretagne though... The hobbit house is far from being finished, and I'll probably change my mind again:)

After these certitudes, I'll *need* to write down a proper Xmas wishlist :)

4) Truffes are simply delicious
Not feeling on top of the world, I just *needed* something special. The epicurean in us made its job and for the first time in our life, we bought a real truffe! A unique experience!
It was really affordable, the truffe + a lil fois gras for about 40€ (lol well, ok, that's expensive! But pleasure for the body and the soul has no price sometimes).

The fois gras and truffe slept together for a night, let's call it a yummy quickie!
It was unexpected, revealing, delicious





Today the glass is rather half-full :)

Answer a quizz, you will know what you believe in ;-)

(so easy to know about oursleves with all these tests and quizz!!!
;-)

You fit in with: Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.



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Hmm, organized religion is definatly not important for me, they put walls around one's own beliefs. But I do not say religions are not to be considered, I just don't spit on religions at all.
And the rest is pretty exact :) (and I think 80% of people would see themselves this way too ;-)

It's been a hard day's night,

..and I've been working like a dog
lalalaaala

I should not be lalaalaaa-ing this way, I'm too tired for that too!
I still think it's great to be able to work from home but sometimes it is not easy. really!

Like yesterday for me...
I woke up, at 6.00 am (as Loup decided ;-), thinking I had many illustrations to "prepare" before the end of the weekend, and that with the help of Martin, it would be fine.

Martin really helped, but with the kids and a lot to do outside, I could not start before 6.00 pm... Bloody clock, too fast for me!
Anyway, I started at 6.00, stopped 2 times to feed our hungry lil wolf, and finally decided I should jump into bed at 1.30 am
2.15 am, Loup woke up screaming for milk.
(arggg, have we really slept?)
Martin gave him a bottle and I used that time to work again.
3.30 am back to bed.
6.30 am, Loup's night is over apparently :)
I feed him and while he's falling asleep on my left arm, I start to work again.
11.30 am, my doodles are organized! No more work for the weekend!!!!!

Now I'm dead, but too dead to sleep, you know?!
Loup's looking at me, installed on my left arm again, happy lucky lazy lil angel :)**~~^* * *^^~~*^*

Harry Lennon

When Lola saw this pic this morning...



... she asked why Harry Potter was angry here! LOL
And I reckon John Lennon had not the most welcoming kind of face, almost looking as if he always had a lil fart to let go...

Anyway, 25 years he passed away and that reminds me I do like the Beatles!
That was not the case when I was a teen, but times have changed :)

When I'm in the *right* mood (like *Spring* mood), I LUVE St Pepper's, Yellow submarine and other Abbey road albums!
Their songs usually make me want to run nekkid in some beauDiful forest like a lil rabbit! LOL
See, I don't need any kind of speed, music makes that job for me :P

How many again? 38, 40, 58 candles?

(huhu)
Happy birthday to sir Esox, our blogless (nobody's purrfect ;-) dear friend!!!!
(We see each other after Xmas, k?)
Mwaaaaaa
Mwaaaaaaaaa!!!



Pssshit: si je me suis plantée de date, pas grave, ça sera comme d'hab'! lol

ein curry wurst fur mish!

yummmm yummmmm!!!

Yeahhh I'll have one -at least-... by next week! (drooling)
We've decided we'll spend a whiter and colder Christmas... in Hamburg!

Yeeepeeeeee!
(doing the happysunnybananas's dance around the totem)

Loup does not make his nights at all... but fook, we all need holidays! So that's decided, we'll go there. Tired or not. (well, "tired" for sure! lol)



The trip will be long and probably noisy (;-)), but once there I'll love it and will repeat again how much I'd luve to live there (isn't it always the same when you spend great holidays somewhere? You'd want them to last forever!!! -and don't tell me that is childish! tssss:P)

(running to my xmas wishlist to add this last one!)

Petit miracle

Have you ever seen a wolf smiling?

Well, I've just seen that miracle!
Loup has been smiling for the very first time... not a smile like that, in the air, but a smile answering my clown-ish efforts!

So far I knew his face crying, being upset, angry, calm and asleep (yeah that happens), hungry but... smiling, never!

(happiest sigh)

A wonderful miracle that I could not catch with a cam' so far. No way, too quick, too precious for me to go away even for one second and grab my cam ;-) **~~*^* *^^* *

Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tock

I'm am blogging and THAT is not reasonnable at all... I'am running after every minute and I feel I will never be synchronized with the clock again. I'am late at everything, taking Lola at school, waking up, paying bills... working...even laughing at jokes!

arggg...

I've just started the preparation for illustrations for the new Herman's book (this time, it deals with "change")... doodles so far, it takes so much time to "illustrate"!!!



You've to create behind words, you've to interprate in the best way. The preparation work is simply huge this time. I must give my 20 illustrations by february, I have no idea if they'll be finished by then.

I need time!!!
(but honestly... I'd give anything to spend my free time in zillions other ways)
(sigh...)

the 74 bands' game

Wanna have fun for 5 minutes (5 minutes if you're VERY VEY good at it!)
Penny has found a real nice lil game.

You see that image below? click on it and try to find the names of 74 bands that are hidden in it (so far I've found 18 only!!!!)


click here

PS: it works this way... you can see on the left guns and roses...so Guns'n Roses!

Shhhhhh...don't tell anyone!!!

Your darkest secret is:

You wore parachute pants


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Do they mean "parachute pants" in my grand-mother's way you think?
LOL
Ouch, gotta start my new quest to find the sex appeal's graal again!

Not a starving Loup ;-)

We're just back from the Doc and a month ago his weight (birth weight) was 3kg800, now he's 5kg300!
Not bad in a month!
(wondering if it has anything to do with the tons of chocolate I'm having ;-)

Loup has 2 Docs, a married couple that work together. Sometimes I see the man, somtimes the woman.
This time I saw the man and he said the weight was all fine. Last time I saw his wife who worried a lot he was too big and ate too much. Tsssss, sometimes I find females strange, who would worry that a few weeks-old baby eats too much ???!!!

Anyway, I insist on the weight because it's a source of stress for parents of a new born baby!
As the Doc checked Loup, Loup farted like never! Jeeez! Poor baby, that seemed to be painful :(
That makes me think about the other day when we went for shopping. Martin was carrying Loup, hidden in his coat and when he went to pay... Loup farted almost in an adult way (on every aspect)! ...The guy in front of Martin looked at Martin in the most strange and disgusted way! LOL! You've to be careful with a farting Loup!

So Loup sleeps, eats and farts. All the basics to start one's life! :P

Oh he's now 56 cm tall, a month ago he was 51 cm.
I find that fascinating, he grows up almost as quickly as a flower :-)

Weihnachtspyramide

Among zillions of stuff I LOVE in Germany during Xmas time, there's the (atcha!) "Weihnachtspyramide" (God bless you!) and the delicious Xmas biscuits that I've just had, and which tastes and smells like (a sugary) Heaven!

We've installed our own pyramide and I luve the way the candles make it turn.
I find this *helicopter(Da Vinci type)-xmastree-creche-pyramide* creation very inspiring. It's the candles, I tell you :)



So that you learn something today (s): Christmas pyramids are the precursors of the modern Christmas tree. In the past, the pyramid was known as the “poor man’s Christmas tree” because many families could not afford actual trees of their own. More details here

All that makes me think that in a couple of weeks we should leave Paris for Hamburg, to celebrate Xmas (and friends, and pubs, and clubs, and tattoos, etc etc).
But it will depend how we *feel* it. On one hand we're very excited by the idea of going to Hamburg for party time, it would be the best break...
On the other hand, Loup does not make his nights, and if we go there to spend half of our time sleeping, it would not be fun.

And we want FUN! hehe

We'll see... :)