12 March 2007

You can call me "Monica."

I thought I would schlep up some type of post between putting Olyvia down for a nap and going down for one myself... : ) Also—just to give you fair warning—this is going to be a bit of a self-indulgent entry. Although, when you think about it, the entire concept of blogging is pretty self-indulgent. That being said, you and I are both here so....

Tim and Jamie LOVE the TV show “Friends.” Especially Jamie; she’s a fount of “Friends” trivia knowledge, I swear. Well, apparently they were watching it one evening and Lyvi was in the room for some reason. (We try to avoid watching any TV when she’s around. Tim and Jamie are really good parents.) I wasn’t home at the time; I was probably at work. The story goes that every time Courtney Cox came on-screen, Olyvia thought it was me! She doesn’t quite say my name yet (although she CAN; Jamie and I have heard it before), but she does this thing where her voice gets higher and she says a succession of “Beh” sounds. It goes something like, “behBEHbehbuh!” ANYWAY, whenever Monica/Courtney was in a scene, Lyvi would point and “say” my name—as if it was me on the television! Supposedly she did it the whole show, every single time...

3 March 2007

Bonjour!

No, my picture has not been superimposed on this photo of the Eiffel Tower…

I ACTUALLY WENT TO PARIS!

Ok, let me start from the beginning.
The main reason you haven't heard from me in so long is that I have been working insane amounts of hours at the restaurant for the past two months-- on top of the roughly 36 hours a week I watch Lyvi-- so needless to say I've been pretty run down.

However,

I made up for all of it by taking myself on a city break to Paris! My friend Tara and I were in serious need of some leisure time, and we found a RIDICULOUS deal on the internet for an overnight Paris holiday. I had just worked a weekend of doubles and was able to pay for the flight and hotel with tip money I had been saving up. I was looking forward to my first Wednesday off in a while, and I wasn’t going to be watching Olyvia on Thursday (half term) so...why not spend my two days off in France?

On Tuesday we decided to go, on Wednesday we went, and on Thursday we came home!

Such is the life of a painfully fabulous jetsetter… ; )

For a whole album of pictures from the trip, click here!