day off

I am in the process of writing my resume and a cover letter in French. My fingers are stained purple from picking and pitting the cherries from the cerisier in the back yard. I am waiting for my amandines aux cerieses to be done so that I can impatiently wait for them to cool enough for me to eat. Then I will watch le match de foot and I will yell Allez USA! I will clean my room and make my bed so that when I get into it tonight it will feel brand-new again. Then I will sit outside on the terrace in the sun and kiko will come up to me and lay below me and we will chat and maybe Ill be wearing my new swimsuit and I will get a little pink. After that I will come up with something to eat tonight that will go with the little mini artichokes that have been sitting in the fridge for weeks. I will top my night off with a film at my favorite theatre.

Then tomorrow I will be back at 'work' again. Hanging out with a 12 year old that must think that Im a total loser because 1. I always lose when we play games. Like cards, or clue, or i-spy. 2. I asked her if she was going to see Toy Story 3 and she looked at me like I was an idiot and she responded 'why would I see that?' and then i told her that I was going to see it. We won't watch Gilmore Girls because we've made it to the end of it. She will probably make me do exercises from her mom's Elle magazine. I think tomorrow will be abs and butt. My arms still hurt from the push-ups we did in her apartment hallway yesterday. I can do about 3.5 normal pushups. But it was after 15 knee push-ups. Maybe I will be able to convince her to go outside, go to the Jardin des Plantes to see the animals, or go play tennis with me. Or maybe we will stay inside again and eat oreos and play the game of life and she wills scoff at my choice of name for my imaginary child. Then we will play 'imagine.' like imagine that i am a store owner and you are my customer and i sell (fill in the blank of anything you can think of. really. anything) and you come in to buy something and you are a difficult customer. I mean really difficult. and you are rude. except that i apparently dont know how to be a difficult customer. but that is something that this girl has got down pat. really.

but then the weekend will be here and i will go for a run. hopefully more than once. and find something yummy to make. for example this mille feuille d'aubergines, tomates et mozarella that i made a few weekends ago. or maybe i will stay in bed and add another book to my 'read' list. or watch a chuck. and in the afternoon kiko will come up and take a nap with me.

also. i recently had an accident at the hair-dressers. I went and explained in a very detailed way that I wanted my bangs cut in this sort of way and that i have a cow-lick and all those sorts of things. and then she cut them too short to do the sort of thing that I wanted them to do. So when I got home i did a little bit of clean-up and this is what happened. oops!

hello bangs!