Her Life is a WIP

Day 2 of Christmas break (the weekend doesn't count - because I usually don't work then - it's really when Monday comes that you realise that something exciting is going on and that your alarm didn't wake you up. Such a beautiful moment ♥). We had ourselves a lovely weekend, which was much more restful somehow than Day 1 of Christmas break because we basically spent the whole day yesterday playing with Ikea items and turning the guestroom into a real study; that is, we moved stuff around, got rid of some others and installed our brand new desks \o/ Admittedly, ours has nothing to do with, say, Charles Xavier's kinda study but, well, we have desks, right? :-)

Don't think I (or she) mentioned it on LJ (she always means to update and then doesn't) but Cookie went back to school to study Arts - same system as me, ie distance learning. She enrolled at the same university where we work :-) Each of us wanted to have our own student-y territory, so yesterday we went to Ikea to purchase the desks we'd seen on Sunday (Ikea, or one of people's favourite place to visit during the weekend? lol) Between the visit to the store (which took ages omg), the delivery, the assembling of the desks, the disassembling of the old desktop desk, the moving around of some shelves, the putting things in their new place, the cleaning up, the putting things away in the basement and the throwing away of the trash, we were busy from 12.00PM to 12.00AM We were so sore in the end omg! lol

But! It was all for the good cause because we totally love the result, we felt very accomplished; there's still a lot of room to move around and we both have our respective space to work and it's pretty neat. The couch and the remaining bookshelves don't match anymore, colour-wise, but we'll take care of that in the upcoming months so let's ignore that little detail :-)

Let me reveal a sekrit, I love it when people post pictures of their homes, even if it's just to show off their new lamp shades (we happen to have a new shade in the kitchen, as a matter of fact!) but I always feel a bit of a voyeur so that's why I put pictures of my own place up there, for all - so inclined - to see. So that I can peek inside your own places without feeling guilty of never reciprocating ;-)

( In other words - a couple of pictures of our study :-) )

There you go :-) Today's program is: some work - sitting at our new desks \o/ - contemporary arts for Cookie and literature for me. Then! Some Christmas shopping in the afternoon and we'll end the evening - if we have the time - with Hugo before getting back and catching up on Once Upon a Time. We're all up-to-date with American Horror Story (I still can't believe how much I enjoy that show!) and we've heard some good stuff about OUaT so it's time to catch up and see what we missed since the last episode we saw :-)

Today is one of those days that make you wish you'd stayed home. Not due to anything bad happening at work (it's not even 10.00Am yet, so that's a relief) but it's all grey outside and it's been raining all morning - it looks like we fired Summer and jumped directly to Autumn - and I'm cold and tired and, really, that kind of weather is for staying home with a cup of cocoa and something good on the telly or a good book to read.

The good news is that, as of yesterday, our university closes at 6.00PM sharp so even if we wanted to, we couldn't do a lot of overtime *approves* Plus, you know, I'm on holiday next week so I might be tired today but in my head I've already started conting down the days and that is a great feeling.

I'll have to be disciplined and finish writing my thesis during the summer but I'm impatient to do so and really motivated (especially now that I've received the encouraging and enthusiastic feedback from my supervisor regarding the first chapter I sent her) so I think it'll be done with a minimum of tears. Note that I'm expecting some tears, just hopefully not too many lol

Plus, I'm really looking forward to my break: three days in London with Cookie and her mates followed with four days in Alsace with part of the FP and then later in the month two days in Frankfurt to see Panic! at the Disco with another combination of the FP (permutation is the spice of life and everything *g*) and Cookie. Should be fun :-)

PS: Ahaha, I stole a kiss from the girlfriend in the corridor and as my lips were leaving hers, one of our co-workers got out of his office; I thought they were all away lol Technically, I'm pretty sure everyone knows we're a couple even though we've never said it as such - we talk about "the bedroom" and "the study" and when asked about our vacation plans we haven't hidden the fact that while I'll be in Alsace, she'll be in Brittany with my parents, so, you know, we might as well spelled it out but, obviously, we avoid any kind of PDOA at work. Then again, I let a chérie slip the other day. But we weren't close to anyone so it went unheard. We like to live dangerously, see? :-p]

ETA: Oh and I don't know if you heard but XMFC has been nominated at the Teen Choice Awards in the (among others) Choice Movie Chemistry category. Honestly, best nomination for XMFC ever Y/Y?

Happy New Year, flist. 2010 has been good to me but a bitch to some of my best friends so even though I'm grateful for everything that it gave me I can't help but hold a grudge for what it put aforementioned best friends through. 2010 has also been kinda mean to my parents professionally-wise, so I hope 2011 give them a break. Let 2011 be a good year for everyone *massive hugs*

As far as I'm concerned, 2010 ended very well; this morning Cookie, my father, my BIL and I all went to Cookie's mother's place to get the last of her stuff. We're now officially living together, as in all of her stuff is in Choisy. And we certainly worked well today as we wanted to put everything away so that the study/spare room looked like a study/spare room again for greedy_dancer who was coming over, as opposed to a disaster zone. Add to that the fact that we had to go and pick up some new bookshelves at the store, that I had to go to my parents' to borrow some decorations for tonight and, of course, that we had to cook our NYE's dinner and you can imagine how unlazy today was. But we managed to complete everything in record time and had the flat look all normal, the table all dressed up, the dinner all ready and us both all showered twenty minutes before GD arrived \o/

As for the NYE celebrations, we had a nice dinner, watched the Mighty Boosh, lazed around on the couch, laptops at the ready, watched the traditional documentary on The Crazy Horse (the cabaret) and just spent a quiet evening together. The girls have gone to bed by now (and, hey, even quiet evenings can keep us awake past 3.00am) and I have a Jack cuddled against me and purring like mad so I think I'm gonna enjoy the peace and quite some more before going to bed.