My reci-passé is in my hand!
Well, for all my worrying, getting the reci-passé actually turned out to be quite easy. On Wednesday I got a convocation from the muncipal police saying that my reci-passé had arrived from Soissons, so this evening I went by and picked it up. I made a reservation at a hostel earlier this week, so now I’m on track to go to London. Right now I’m working on my list of JM Barrie sites to visit in another window.
I left my Christmas shopping until the last minute, so the last two days have been absolutely crazy. I spent much of today and yesterday shopping, and it took forever, but I did manage to find something for everyone. I usually wrap Christmas gifts in newspaper because I feel wrapping paper is wasteful, but this year I did things a little differently. I saved the box and the wrapping paper that Grandma’s gifts arrived in, and I stayed up late last night wrapping all the gifts I bought in Grandma’s pre-used paper. Today I finally got to the post office just before it closed and mailed everything home in Grandma’s pre-used box. I couldn’t decide whether to mail it to Mom or Grandma’s house, but I finally settled on Mom’s house, even though there are several presents in it for Grandma et al. (I doubt if it will arrive in time for Christmas.) I’m so happy to have all my shopping done with that I celebrated by eating an entire buche de Noël by myself. I really wish we had these buches de Noël in the United States. The one I had was cake, but Nathalie told me there are ice cream ones that are even better.
Yesterday Mom’s Christmas box arrived. I loved everything, but I have to admit that there was a clear favorite. Sparkly rainbow gloves and socks! I have already gotten compliments on them, and this weekend I’m going to look for a more colorful scarf to wear with the rainbow gloves and the purple-striped hat Aunt Connie sent me. I’m going to scream of multi-colored geekiness so loudly that you’ll hear it in Louisiana!
My room is an absolute mess. Every surface except my bed is covered with clothes, groceries still in their shopping bags, trash, or bits of wrapping paper and tape. I had meant to clean it this evening, but I’ve been so busy these past two days that I was just too tired. I also didn’t make the pecan pie muffins and bacon & eggs that I had wanted to make for Nathalie, but I’ll do that sometime this weekend.
I left my Christmas shopping until the last minute, so the last two days have been absolutely crazy. I spent much of today and yesterday shopping, and it took forever, but I did manage to find something for everyone. I usually wrap Christmas gifts in newspaper because I feel wrapping paper is wasteful, but this year I did things a little differently. I saved the box and the wrapping paper that Grandma’s gifts arrived in, and I stayed up late last night wrapping all the gifts I bought in Grandma’s pre-used paper. Today I finally got to the post office just before it closed and mailed everything home in Grandma’s pre-used box. I couldn’t decide whether to mail it to Mom or Grandma’s house, but I finally settled on Mom’s house, even though there are several presents in it for Grandma et al. (I doubt if it will arrive in time for Christmas.) I’m so happy to have all my shopping done with that I celebrated by eating an entire buche de Noël by myself. I really wish we had these buches de Noël in the United States. The one I had was cake, but Nathalie told me there are ice cream ones that are even better.
Yesterday Mom’s Christmas box arrived. I loved everything, but I have to admit that there was a clear favorite. Sparkly rainbow gloves and socks! I have already gotten compliments on them, and this weekend I’m going to look for a more colorful scarf to wear with the rainbow gloves and the purple-striped hat Aunt Connie sent me. I’m going to scream of multi-colored geekiness so loudly that you’ll hear it in Louisiana!
My room is an absolute mess. Every surface except my bed is covered with clothes, groceries still in their shopping bags, trash, or bits of wrapping paper and tape. I had meant to clean it this evening, but I’ve been so busy these past two days that I was just too tired. I also didn’t make the pecan pie muffins and bacon & eggs that I had wanted to make for Nathalie, but I’ll do that sometime this weekend.