-Little S starts at a daycare center in the country tomorrow two mornings a week. I'm terrified. I have never left him with anyone except my mother in law and my own mother and even those times I can count on one hand. I know it will be fine but I think it will feel like my arm has been severed.-He has some cool new Spiderman chaussons for his first day. I let him pick them out himself.
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-We start Spanish lessons in one week.
-My nosy eighbor is trying to help us find a babysitter on the day we go to our language lesson. He's nice to want to help but he keeps suggesting his grandaughter. She's nearly 30 so I feel strange. I'm not sure how much money to offer an adult. We didn't want to spend a fortune. I also feel weird about insisting that she stay at our place and not take Little S to hers. I'd much rather find a responsable neighbor girl so I can lay out all the rules but I feel a little trapped. What do babysitters get paid anyway? How do you find one?
-My mom is coming to visit in one month. I think she'll be staying for a whole month. We'll do our usual staying up late to talk and watch movies. I'll have to sleep up in Little S's room. Grooooan.
-I had a horrible nightmare last night that my sister was murdered. You know one of those really realistic dreams. I woke up Seb and said "Oh my god I have to call Jane!" This morning my first piece of mail was from her saying "I can't get you off my mind Chris it's so strange. Are you okay?" I hadn't heard from her in four months.
-Four months is the longest I've gone not speaking with my sister. It wasn't intentional, it's just that she lives with The Bulldozer now and it's pretty clear how I feel about him.
-I think the dream has something to do with wrapping my head around leaving Little S at daycare. Still it was strange that she wrote me this morning after four months of silence.
-Seb begged me to put away all the books on my little bookshelf in the hallway. I did it to please him but now I feel naked. I kept out 22 of the books just because there's no way to put away all the books. I have nothing to read!
-I borrowed a book from a friend. It's in French and I am enjoying it immensely. It's in my sidebar if you're interested. I like reading in French as long as it's not too weighty. The first book I ever read in French was called Les Survivants (it's called Alive in English). It was about the Uruguayan soccer team who survived a plane crash in the Andes by eating their dead friends and family. Yep, Cannibalism! I've also read Kurt Cobain's biography in French which was pretty fascinating. I learned a lot of slang from that one. I'm not sure if it will ever come in handy. I've also read l'Adversaire in French, a book about a guy who killed his entire family to cover up the lie that he didn't finish medical school and wasn't a real doctor. It's a true story. The book is really well written. Those are the ones I read--page turners! I can't read real literature in French. I get too distracted. I hope that changes one day.
-I have all these gaps after the titles in my sidebar. What on earth have I done?
-The other day our contractor asked when our cat was going to have her kittens. Seb and I realized that she may need to go on a diet. It's either that or stomach stapeling.
5 comments:
Hope daycare went well. The first day I dropped my eldest at pre-school, I expected to be fine - afterall she'd done to daycare but it was with someone I know. I didn't even make it to my car before I was sobbing. Daughter was fine - mother a total wreck. I'm sure you handled it with more grace than I did!
I want read that book! I saw a report on her, on Arte I think, and when I was in the states late Oct early Nov I looked for it, but Barnes and Noble told me that it wasn't out yet in English. Where did you find it? I'd be willing to read about her in French, too.
It went well hexe, whew!
Meredith someone loaned it to me but I think I linked it to Amazon.fr. Click on my link and you can order it! I'm only on the third chapter but so far it's very good.
ah yes, a friend of mine who is a college student was told that the going rate here in Puy de Dome is 5 euros per hour for an adult, 3 for a kid. yikes. that seems low. friends in chicago are paying 10 dollars an hour for a teenager.
The first book I read in French was Bridget Jones' Diary--Hilarious!! And, a few years later, after reading the "real" version, every bit as funny.
I tried Les Miserables (all 3 volumes) but honestly--I don't think I could get through that even in English!
If you're ever looking, Francoise Sagan is a French author from the '50s (Bonjour Tristesse)--so incredibly good and trashy--I love everything she wrote.
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