I got my box of macarons so I’m happy. I still have a few pieces left and instead of using the actual picture as seen in my Pinay New Yorker blog, I’m posting one from the Laduree website here so you can see how delectable it is.
Literally melts in your mouth.. and I just heard the good news that Alan might go back in October.. hopefully I would’ve won the lotto by then or maybe I can wiggle out a gift of a trip from my honey. =) We’ll see..
Alan’s been in Paris for two days now and today he told me to send him the details of what I want him to get for me in time for him to do his shopping on Saturday. (He arrives late Saturday evening here in New York.) So I surfed for the DUPLO I had bought in Feb 2005 and will be sending him pictures of the item so he won’t go nuts combing the shelves of the food court of MONOPRIX near the hotel in CHAMPS ELYSEES.
Here I go again feeling a little wistfull about missing this trip. Then I get reminded it was in exchange for a bigger trip to Manila — and I find myself smiling again.
I do wish that I may one day visit Paris in the Summer or Fall — I’d love to see the trees all green and alive. The French have manicured their trees, trimming them to form a collosal wall along their parks and avenues. They are breathtaking bare — I can imagine how majestic they look in full bloom. Someday..
Alan sent this photo of the 11th century church, St. Jean’s today from his trip around Lyon, France where he spent the weekend. He moves to Paris on Tuesday.. Wish I was with him but we already know why I opted to forego this chance to visit the City of Lights again. There’s always a next time — perhaps the end of the year if I’m lucky.. during our next anniversary? =) Paris will always be there..
I had to wait until Angel was asleep before I could start work on my Paris scrapbook again. I had put them away in two bags in the coat closet over the holidays and it was the first time I had taken them out to work on the layouts again.
I have had bits and pieces to add to the scrapbook in my bag from work I had done the past couple of weeks, and in particular, I had turned the pictures I had taken of snapshots on the way to Paris from Charles de Gaule Airport into small black and white print outs like below.
For some reason, I couldn’t find my fine craft cutter and the blade of my personal trimmer was not on the trimmer. I just grabbed my craft scissors with the zigzag edge and trimmed the white sides. (I will try and take a picture of the layout in progress.) I also compressed what would’ve been 4 layouts into 3, and I’m thinking of reworking the Louvre exterior shots into a different layout altogether.
I had typed up some text to be put into a journaling box but I haven’t gotten to that part just yet. At least I’ve started to work on the scrapbook again…
From my Blogfriend, Jayred:
Your scrapbook-related entries here inspired me to organize my boxes of travel photos that date back to the late ”90s! My European trip photos are still boxed up somewhere — can you imagine that?
Hope to see some pics of your finished project someday.
Belated “Joyeux Noel,” Pinay New Yorker! And have a Blessed 2006. God bless.
Jayred, I take it from the comment above and your posts on your blogs that you are a sentimental soul like me. Sometimes I keep mementos even if I don’t have any idea what I would want to do with it, and like you, I have photos stashed away that await albuming, and now, scrapbooking.
I have managed to do only one semi-scrapbook, and that was for our trip to Cancun, Mexico which was my honeymoon as well. Alan’s actually been good putting pictures in albums, but he just puts them in there chronologically with no captions or themes, whatsoever.
Current projects include this Paris scrapbook, Angel’s first year, and my scrapbook on Angel and Lola Aida (my Mom), and definitely, a scrapbook is forthcoming on my trip home to Manila.
One thing that has inspired me is hoping to have Angel leaf through them one day, just as Alan’s been so thrilled to go through old albums they managed to save, and there’s only one of several left in our attic. Seeing pictures of his Dad traveling the world has likewise inspired in him the desire to visit those places, too, that is why we have started writing postcards to Angel wherever Alan goes.
You really should start now before you go on any other trips. Blogging and digital scrapbooking is a good way to keep track of one’s memories and immortalize them in words and pictures on the web, but if you’re as sentimental as I am, you know that it still doesn’t feel the same as actual papers and things you can hold in your hand.
For me, the only two things that I don’t mind remaining intangible are God and love. Memories are better preserved with something to actually hold in your hand to bring the feeling back again.
Unfortunately, Pauline didn’t leave a URL or an e-mail, so I’m posting her comment here:
Hey !! I”m a french girl and I live in france that’’s why my english in”t very good !!
But I think you speak about Paris in your blog and I want to speak with English teenagers by the net because English is a very fantastic languauge !!
So could you give me address of blog or MSN to me for meet English trought internet please !!
thanks, I hope you have understood my message …
XXX
Pauline, your English is actually very good compared to most who are trying to learn it as a second language. There are a lot of teeners who blog but a there are some who don’t do it in proper English. There is, what we call SLANG, which is streetspeak — much like some of the rap you hear which abbreviates or shortens words. Unfortunately, I have long left the Chat world so I have no handy chatrooms or groups to suggest.
What I can suggest, though, is that you try to go into Yahoo and search for a teen group — there might be French teens wanting to learn English, and you can check their websites. Let me know how the search goes.. and next time, leave me a URL or e-mail so we can correspond privately. Good luck with the English Lessons! Merci!
