Bullets again

There's always a lot going on here and so I thought I'd write a bullet post. These might have been entire blog posts last week if it wasn't for the pesky elections. Only the first few things are actually bulleted because Blogger is p*ssing me off with their bullet on-off feature. Just pretend it's all bulleted because I am going nuts trying to figure it out in html mode.

• My friend Sara who I knew from Mexico lives in Paris now. Our boys went to the same school and our husbands work for the same company. She visited for lunch on Tuesday with her boys. It was really weird to see someone I met in Mexico living here. It's really nice that we can stay in touch now. She keeps pushing me to drive over and visit her but I can't get past my Paris driving fear.

• My bread baking is really haywire as I've had several dismal flops in the past few tries. The worst was the poofy pillow bread I made for Sara without salt (forgot salt btw). It looked so pretty on the outside! I would have preferred that I'd not have to serve that one to a French person thank you very much. It was horrible! I'm on my eighth try or so but have gone back to traditional kneading and have sort of nixed the no knead version. That may change. The goal is a crusty exterior, lots of air in the middle and a yummy yeasty/salty taste.
  
  The in-laws haven't called and I don't think they will.
  
  In a weird sort of adopted homeland syndrome I have Mexico on my mind nearly every day and I really miss our life there. My friend Sara who was eager to leave Mexico told me she has dreams about Mexico all the time and I do too. I think it's a special place that really gets under your skin. I can't bring myself to cook Mexican food here yet and I get really nostalgic when I start going through all of my pictures. Life there is so different from anywhere else. It sounds silly to say that but it's true. It's nearly impossible to recapture Mexico when you leave it. The only cure is to go back.
  
  Charlotte is pulling herself up to a standing position now. This is really exciting for us to see her determination. I love this stage! I have to get out to the big city and get her some shoes. She really wants to walk.
  
  The window estimates are making our hair curl. We do have pretty fancy windows but this is incredible. Seb has done some calculations and he claims the recuperation of heat over a few years will make the windows a good investment. I hope he's right. My window pictures are in my Flickr photos if you want to see them.
  
  I've put my Twitter stream on my sidebar. I'm not sure if I ever thought I'd like Twitter but it's kind of fun. I always enjoy glancing over at people's Twitters (err tweets) when I'm on their blog. It's a fun way to update in snippets of one line without writing a whole post. Maybe a little too much information for some though (in a pathetic she-really-has-no-life-does-she kind of way).