So this is what happened...

Yes, it is true, for the first time in 25 years, I´m spending Xmas in a far off land, without my beautiful family and friends.

WHY???

Well, France is reporting one of the harshest winters in a long time, and trains get cancelled and delayed and pushed back and blocked for 17 hours in a tunnel with no heat, light or food...(Did you see the news? I feel lucky now)

So, my plane left in the morning, which is really terrible, because I live 2:30 hours away from Paris...So it gives a really small margin of error...and that´s exactly what happened...

My train would arrive only 1:30 hours at the airport before my departure...and as soon as I got inside, and it started going away from Lyon they said this:

Dear passengers, due to weather conditions the fast train is going at a limited speed, so we will be traveling with a delay of 40 mins to 1 hour...thank you for your patience...

So...For the next 3:30 hours of the SLOW TRAIN I was totally panicking and like mentally slitting my wrists...

So, needless to say, when I got to the airport, my plane was already boarding, and as I got in line for check in, and saw one hundred people lined up before me, my heart just fell...

I got in line at the costumer service line, to try and get the next flight out...There where maybe 35 people in front of me...2 hours later, there where maybe 32 people in front of me...

And behind me, about 100...

So it seems that everyone had trouble with their holiday trip this year in France...

When I eventually got to the front of the line (after the longest 5 hours in my life) I was told that in fact I had to go somewhere else, to try and pay a fine for missing my flight and get the next one out...

But as I got to that counter, the horrible HORRIBLE man told me, Im sorry, I´m actually alredy closed!

I tried to explain my miserable state, and he said, well, you´ll not getting outta here before the 26th anyway...

At that, I didn´t even respond...I walked away with tears in my eyes, bought a train ticket back to Lyon (Which was delayed two freaking hours) and came to my cold empty home...feeling worse than I have felt in a long while...

So...that´s the story morning glory...weather, trains and the man got to me...and at the end I kinda gave up, I admit...

I´ll probably spend xmas at vecino´s parent´s house in normandy...which gives me the oportunity to:

A) Be with someone who loves me
B)See what french people eat on xmas (and miss my grammas tamales)
C)Get to know a new and exciting part of France (Normandy is like the opposite side from me)
D)See the ocean (they have the ocean there)

The only downside to all of this is that I get to TAKE THE FREAKING TRAIN AGAIN!!!

At the moment, all of the trains going to Paris tomorrow are blocked for reservation...But I´ll try

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Well, anyway guys...

I´ll miss you all, and I´m very sorry that I won´t get to see you and catch up as soon as I wanted,
but it will be as soon as I can in any case..

Love,

New habits...

It´s funny the little tricks I pick up along the way after millions and billions of break-ups and heart breaks and aches and let downs and tears and Ben and Jerry´s...

For example, I no longer buy clothing items for men I´m dating, I consider it the ultimate bad omen, when I go into a store and instead of looking at the pretty clothes for me, I go, OOOH!!! This sweater would look great on whatshisface! Bad sign...

Also, I will never ever spend more than 40 bucks on a man...I´ve done it more than once, and A LOT more than 40 bucks...

But most recently I stopped listening to music...I think this is a very weird subconscious thing my brain did to save us having to re-do all of our play lists on my i-pod!!! But it´s kinda practical, I have given up some seriously good music for the sake of bad men out there...

IT IS!!!!

Oh my God, cada vez que escucho esta canción pienso en shopping...creo que es mi lado americano que me pone como poseida...

So!!! It´s been pathetically snowing here for a couple of days, so, not really snowing, but there is snow coming down from the sky, but only enough to get you excited, not enough to get you REALLY excited...so no white trees or anything like that, it´s only really cold....like, it hasn´t been hotter than 3 degrees in about a week...

The best day was Sunday, that will be forever known as Laundry day. The day where Dany and me went to do our laundry and turned the freaking laundromat into a raging party...which later moved to vecino´s place, and ended with butternut squash soup and a lap dance for yours truly...

Yeah, between Dany, Scott (another american that lives in the neighborhood) and me, we downed 7 bottles of cheap red wine and one muscat...

So, it was very very fun...

Well..what I can remember of it...

At least my clothes smell fresh!

Soon soon!

It´s almost time to go home!!!

I´m excited as hell!!! But I´m not so excited that I am poor as a Nuggets (I don´t think she has any pockets to store cash), So this year for christmas I´m going to describe all of the amazing things I have seen that I would have bought for you if I was rich (and if I wasn´t a selfish bitch, because really, if I had money right now, I would probably spend it on jamon serrano and shoes for myself, and maybe some stupid chocolates for you guys :p)

So, ultimately, this year for christmas, you´re all getting MEEE!!!

Permission to celibrate!!!

YES!

I think my boyfriend is sooooo cute!!!

Oh, Diana...

It´s funny how the brain works sometimes....Or in my case, does NOT work sometimes...
Just now, while I was brushing my teeth before going to bed I thought to myself, hhmmm I probably smell like a very athletic goat right about now... (as I had just completed an 8 hour shift at stbks)...

Normally this wouldn´t bother me right before going to bed, but as you know these days I´m camping at vecino´s, I thought it would be polite to reapply deodorant and maybe a little spritz of perfume.

So, the moment I decide this, my brain goes, ok do it! Take your shirt off, which I proceed to do...

Only I forgot I was washing my teeth at the same time...

Needless to say, I got toothpaste spit everywhere and also got caught inside my t-shirt...

I good time was had by none...*

*Oh no wait, the fat cat was watching me throughout, so I am very confident that she was laughing her fluffy cat-butt off (since today I yelled at her twice, and sprinkled her with water once for jumping up on the table)