In sweden we dance around a huge pole covered in flowers, and pretend that we are frogs - and we listen to this kind of music all summer. No joke.

Anyone else have anything fun to share about their home country?




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Update: just re-discovered this old classic!

This week seems to be full of surprises - mostly from my own part!

This, my friends, is what I'm having for dinner:

... And I'm actually enjoying it!

(Yes, I would have prefered regular coke, but the diet one was the only thing I found in the fridge.. sorry phil!)

I got home just over an hour ago; looked at the time and decided to take a quick shower, check my facebook + my regular blogs and be in bed at midnight. I don't know how many times I've told myself the same thing, and I don't know how long it's gonna take me to understand that it's just not going to happen..

Anyway - sliding into my pyjamas now, tuning in to an episode of friends, and then I am going to sleep. I promise!

Maybe...

Today something unusual happened. Something that does not happen every day, something that made me very proud...

I had breakfast!

About 1000 mosquito bites, the cutest 2 year-old in town, libanese food (yes mom, I thought of you!), blurry memories of last night, trying not to melt in the sun, one beer at WOS, Tamarama, hugs with Rudy and a walking to the last metro in a sleepy haze.

How was your sunday?

Spent most of last night in a little park in the fifth, with friends & beer - wearing nothing but a skirt and light top, I love the summer!

Now - work for a couple of hours, then hopefully Rudy and Isabel are still up for something. Talk to you later my darlings!

Pretty Laura

 

Moi

 

Beautiful day, beautiful people!

Now off for drinks at Place de la contrespace, happy saturday lovers!

... there ain't a cloud in sight. Summer's finally here in Paris!

A sure sign of that sunny days are here to stay is when picnics by the seine starts becoming a regular routine again..


Wine, cheese, baguette, olives, chorizo and tsatziki - yum!


My new pal Isabel from Australia
(yes, I have a thing for australian people)


My not so new friend Duncan joined us after a while


I was one happy camper


Duncan brought beer!


Before I knew it, the sun came up again and I stumbled out of Pub st Michel...

Sunbathing at the tennisclub, long swim in the pool, Häägen Dazs with young Luca and a free taxi-ride home - just another day at the office!

"Bring a bathing suit today!"

As some of you may know, I seem to have some kind of thing with bouncers. I'm not sure what it is, but I have lost count of the times I've been asked out by a guy letting people in at a bar or club. And no - I'm not bragging, it usually makes me quite uncomfortable.

So, the other night I went into the Galway, and didn't think much of it when the guy in the door wanted to give me a flyer about something. I smiled, folded it and put it in my pocket - and forgot about it immediatly.
Until yesterday, when I was wearing the same jacket. I pick up the flyer, ask myself why he might have given me a piece of paper about an african clothing-store, does that seem like my style?

And then I look a bit closer, and what do I see? Yes, you guessed it, his phone number... now I'm afraid to go back!

(Since I am such a nice person,

I blurred out his discreet writing in the picture)

I've been feeling pretty low all day, the sun helped a little bit and the fact that I don't have to get up at 7 tomorrow helps a little bit too.

But what really helped me get out of the worst stage of my gloom, was this message when I got home:

"Ami" was the first word I learned in french
I don't need to understand it all.
I don't need cable tv.
I don't need to wait for the weekend.
I don't need to chat.
...I need to return.
I need Paris
I need France.
You.

Love, I need you too - time to book a flight back!

Barrowing a quote from ms Carrie Bradshaw today, couldn't find a better way to say it myself - "He might be the one with the whip, but I'm the one tying myself to the bed"

All tears aside, fête de la musique was fun!

Today is music's day in all of Paris - musicians everywhere and the metro running all night. Now if the sun would just show up, this day would be perfect!

Checked some old blogposts, and exactly one year ago this is what went down...


Mom was in town, and we started the night with sushi in quartier latin


Sushi was followed by quiz-night at the princess, with darling Emilia (and a lot of free beer)


Strolled around the 5th for a while, and ended up around the Pantheon


Popped in to WOS bar where Stephen, Luke and Pierre were playing
(as everyone can see, I was just pretending to take their picture, so I could get a good shot of the hot guy by the bar)

People visiting, new job on the go, pints of gin & tonic, a new australian friend, a long overdue 'I'm sorry', tapas, "When you're strange" and zipping around the city in taxis.

It's been a good weekend!

Took a walk along memory lane the other night, and stumbled apon dear Emilias old bachelor pad! Can't count how many insane nights we started and ended in that place last summer...

88 days to go until the 13th of September - also known as the day I will be the happiest and most excited person walking the face of the earth.

I got tickets to go see Guns n' Roses!!!

 

(back online at home, YEAH!)

I had the strangest night (I'm skipping the welcome back-speech), it started out with a clown show in Mairie des Lilas, carried on to pizza and champagne in a cute little garden - and from then it just went downhill...

Café Oz (not as insanely crowded as it usually is), Highlander (crowded, with lovely people), Pub st Michel (eh... no, there's no excuse) and (I say this very proudly) not breakfast at Le Depart! Duncan went on a hunt for his lost cell phone (he found it, on the metro?!) and I took an early metro home, phew.

Now Phil (new roomie) has left me for work, fish (not new roomie) is on his way over from the eurostar and I'm just doing my best to keep my head from exploding...

Oh, it's good to be back!

(lot of parenthesis in this one...)

(...puss puss)