you can click on the grid for a closer look at all of usWe spent yesterday afternoon in the lovely, international and very nearby town of Geneva. We did what we usually do in the city, shopped, strolled, grabbed coffee, took pictures and basked in the musical notes of american english being spoken all around us. Well at least I took it in, flashes of passing phrases:
..."so I was like hey dude I am not, I mean there is no way ... "hey do you have any money because..." "Oh I don't know if" ... "it's on Friday night now, not Saturday"..."RIGHT of course" ...
Sometimes the english annoys me but yesterday it made me feel good and I wanted to hear it. I suppose it's because my mom is leaving soon. Or maybe because I'm overdue for my annual visit to the States. I so need that dose every year or so. There were several reasons I couldn't go back this year and I think I'm feeling the effects of it, nostalgia for annoyingly loud Americans being one of them I suppose. Oh my.
One of our main reasons for a Genevois dash across the border was to buy a multizonal DVD player so that we can play our entire collection of DVD's on one unit instead of hassling ourself with two different DVD players, one of which often won't play anything at all. So yesterday we bought a player so cheap that if it breaks in one year we can toss it out and buy another one as casually as changing a pair of socks. I know, I know... another annoying American trait: overconsumption. I'm terribly guilty of it and not particularly proud of it but I got to watch The Chronicles of Narnia and Pretty in Pink last night in english, so I'm one satistfied woman and probably easier to live with because I'm not cursing out at a Thomson DVD player that never works.
Little S was in another terrible mood yesterday, alternating between complete animation and hysteria to lazing off in periodic slumbers in his stroller. He seemed to want everything and nothing, or he wanted to do something strange like drag our umbrellas through the street like walking canes and when you tried to take them away and get him to walk normally he'd promptly throw himself down on the grungy street and scream "nyaaa! nyaaa!" It was impossible to get any pictures of him without chasing him with the camera which explains pictures with half a toddler head or the one above in the grid where Seb is holding his face straight into the camera in an effort to get record something other than the back of his head or his elbow. Yep it's that time. It's Terrible Two Time and maybe we are lucky after all to only have one baby to deal with and not two under two like we originally planned.
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I find DVD zones unspeakably annoying. I actually taught myself to video-pirate because when we moved to France, we already had a nice collection of US DVDs, and there was no way I was going to toss them out and re-purchase them all in Zone 2 formats, as the studios would prefer. Instead, I decrypted and re-wrote them all, so now our French DVD player happily accepts them without hiccup. This sort of copying, I see nothing wrong with, since we'd already paid for the bloody things! Methinks our next purchse will be a multi-zone player, though....
I so relate to the terrible twos right now. I considered stapling Hew to the "naughty chair" this weekend. Enjoy the rest of your time with your mom and remeber that eventually the terrible twos will end (at least I hope they do!).
I love your photo grid! How do you do that?
He is quite the little rascal! Glad that you got the DVD player, woohoo!
I'm not sure if the multizone DVD players are becoming more popular or if it's just a Swiss thing. who came up with this zone thing anyway?
Bc it's a feature Picasa offers. You can download Picasa for free.
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