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[castalie]

Victory! I finally managed to meet up with whitevanilla and her lovely sister after work \o/ It was so good seeing her again. She was a doll and suggested we went to a Starbucks but they were packed so I decided it was just fate and thought it might be better to go to a bakery instead, so we had our hot drinks - yummy milk with vanilla - and pastries at Paul's.

Twas a nice way to end the day. Though admittedly today at work was far from being traumatising. Cookie and I even had time to have a lightsaber fight in my office - courtesy of our co-worker J who lets us play with his iphone whenever we want! Also? Iphones are made for dorks!

Wanna hear something ironic now? It snowed again this weekend in Ile-de-France. Where was I when this happened? In the south of France. Where it didn't snow a single snowflake. But the truly ironic thing? Is that Antibes is, like, an hour drive from the mountains. And real snow. An hour drive only! And because the weather was rotten - it basically rained cats and dogs all weekend - we had to stay at my friend's flat and couldn't go. So here I was, just an hour drive from the mountains and the snow - I could see them from the window! - unable to go, when it was snowing at home. Life, it hates me sometimes.

But whatever, we had a great weekend at my friend's. Tbf!Rissy and I hadn't seen her and her kids in way too long and it was grand. Also, five-year-olds and seven-year-olds are a hoot. Oh, and I had my first Christmas decoration session on Saturday evening. With Christmas songs as background music. Just after having hot chocolate in the Christmassy mugs I'd bought for the kids. And myself. So yeah, definitely my kind of program :-)

Like I said, it rained pretty much all weekend but we still managed to visit a little on Saturday before we just gave up and went back home. Our clothes were soaked. I thought we'd all get pneumonia, but turns out I'm a bit of a drama queen because nothing of the sorts happened. So, anyway, I took some pictures of the old Nice - we landed there - and I'm sharing three of them under the cut, for those who like that kind of thing.








Okay so this isn't a) Nice or b) a pretty picture at all but it's one of the views from the flat and look! Mountains! SNOW! The other mountains looked even snowier, but alas when I took the picture they'd all disappeared from view. Because of the clouds and the rain.

And it's December today! They lit the decorations in the streets in Choisy! And I ate the first Kinder from my Kinder advent calendar. And our Big Top has been put up this morning so Big Top season is officially on! And we have our first Big Top weekend this weekend so I can also officially say goodbye to my weekends for the next three weeks! But I don't care because it means it's Christmas season ♥ ♥

Comments

[jedicathy.livejournal.com]

I HATE SNOW !!!

bon ct pas juste pour dire ça lol (et chez moi il n'a neigé que samedi soir), mais je sais pas si si tu les aimes aussi ou quoi mais je passe l'info au cas où, concert de fob en mars, billets en vente le 3 décembre.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Lol J'espère bien que c'était pas juste pour me dire ça :-)

Hee FOB! I LOVE THEM! Okay so not to the extent of Panic or My Chem but yes, yes, I do love them! C'est même leur album à eux que j'ai acheté en premier l'année dernière, avant même d'être dans le bandom :-)

Qui d'autre y va ?

[jedicathy.livejournal.com]

je crois qu'il y a moi, myself and I XD
les autres aiment pas fob lol

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Bon bah déjà y'aura toi, yourself and me :-)

Et Cookie me dit qu'elle viendrait peut-être, donc on pourrait même être trois. Ou quatre si crazybutsound peut se le permettre.

Enfin en tout cas, je viens, c'est sur ! Je compte sur toi pour me tenir au courant dès que les billets sont disponibles à la vente ? O Gig Girl Extraordinaire !

[jedicathy.livejournal.com]

ils sont mis en vente demain (mercredi)
je sais pas si y aura des différences de prix mais moi jeprends dans la fosse (je préviens, mais je ne supporte plus les places assises ou les gens restent assis à dormir lol)
par contre je crois que les billets vont partir vite (c au zenith mais bon)

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Demain déjà ? Ok. Tu m'envoies un mail ou un texto quand tu prends ta place ? Que j'aille voir ça ?

[http://users.livejournal.com/oceana_/]

Yay, Nice! I love Nice! I go there every year, since my parents friends have an appartment in old Nice. Never been there in winter, though, but it looks Nice. So, gathering from your tags I figure you went to Antibes? How did you like it?

[castalie.livejournal.com]

It was my first time there and I'll have to go back to really enjoy the whole area. It was just a for a little weekend and because the weather was so rotten we couldn't visit anything.

So, to answer your question, I really can't say anything about Antibes because we only saw a tiny wee part of the old town before it started raining again, and raining hard, forcing us to go back to the flat. I did love what I saw, though, it's something at least :-)

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

That's the second one of those Christmas style icons I've seen, is there some secret place that is giving them out as gifts?

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Lol No secret place at all and they're all shareable, promise; go here (http://iconseeyou.livejournal.com/72036.html#cutid1) and you'll find them all. There're TONS of them and they're all pretty awesome. Making a choice was difficult, I have to say. When you're in so many fandoms like I am, the temptation was great to use around a dozen of them lol

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

Lightsaber fights at work. *approves*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

J is all kinds of awesome like that because he indulges us a lot. So we can have lightsaber fights at work whenever we want! \o/

[aswanargent.livejournal.com]

Love the photos! And I was wondering why you went from talking about lightsaber fights to iPhones; then I clicked on the link and all was made clear. :-D

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed them :-)

And, yes, I guess clicking on the link did make everything clearer lol

[witchy78.livejournal.com]

Yeah it really felt like christmas when I woke up on sunday morning and saw that everything was white (I live in the Yvelines) ;o)) I wanna do my christmas tree right now !!!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

You saw white everywhere? Lucky you :-)

My Christmas tree shall be done on Saturday after work. It'll be my reward *nods*

[simonesa.livejournal.com]

I like that kind of thing! Awesome pics. I wish I could travel to all the wonderful places you go.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed the pics :-) And it's always easier travelling in your own country, especially when it's so much smaller than some others *g*

[nicelyobsessed.livejournal.com]

Your pics are gorgeous!! I think my favourite is the first.

"Cookie and I even had time to have a lightsaber fight in my office "

And we did it again today yoooouhouuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And it's my favourite too :-)

Yes, J is so sweet, always indulging us like that!

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

It snowed today - and apparently this time, it's going to last for a few months... -9 today (feels like -19 according to the weather network, thanks to the lovely wind coming from the prairies *facepalm*). I am definitely bracing myself for the upcoming months lol

Thanks for the pictures - I hope next time I am in France I'll be invited to Juan-Les-Pins (my step-mother's vacation home is over there) and I'll get to go back to Nice!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I'm totally hoping you'll take some pics and share with me :-) Bracing yourself is good, imho!

You're welcome, I wish I'd been able to take more but alas the weather was absolutely NOT cooperating. Too bad because it was my first time there and I really enjoyed what I saw. Still, a little sample is better than no sample at all :-)