alacrity
\uh-LACK-ruh-tee\, noun:
A cheerful or eager readiness or willingness, often manifested by brisk, lively action or promptness in response.
Alacrity comes from Latin alacritas, from alacer, "lively."
I`m just waiting for Ben to come home from Rome.
I`ve had such a good week, going out with friends a lot, enjoying the calm. Last night I sat down with a movie and a bottle of wine, and finished them both off. I was quite proud.
This morning I woke up with suprising alacrity for Ben to come home. I cleaned up, and went shopping, bought him steaks, which he loves. What a good girlfriend......
I miss him a bit. It will be nice to have someone here again to talk to and whatnot.....
The break was good, aren`t they always?
purdah
\PUR-duh\, noun:
1 .A state of seclusion or concealment; social seclusion.
2. A curtain, screen, or veil shielding women from the sight of men or strangers in Hindu and Muslim communities.
3.A striped cotton cloth from which a curtain is made, often blue and white.
Ben is in Rome this week.This is a picture of Nimes, in the roman gardens.
I am having a great time, enjoying my temporary purdah at home.
I went shopping yesterday, and then out to dinner with a group of friends. So not really suffering yet.
In the end it was really nice to have Ben's friend here. He only stayed a few days then took off traveling by himself and now with Ben.
It was cool to show someone around. It definatly made me more excited about Europe.
Its so nice to be alone for a bit. Play my music and watch political debates on TV. Go wild in other words ;)
I did get some really nice clothes.
abscond
\ab-SKOND\, intransitive verb:
To depart secretly; to steal away and hide oneself -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid arrest or prosecution.
Abscond comes from Latin abscondere, "to conceal," from ab-, abs-, "away" + condere, "to put, to place."
Ben`s best friend is coming from canada today for up to THREE WEEKS.
Just to clarify, we have a Tiny batchelor suite and I am a girl who loves nothing more than for each thing she owns to have a home and for it to stay more or less there.
So the thought of an extra person and all the stuff that comes with it in our already overshared space makes me want badly to abscond for three weeks myself.
Maybe it will turn out to be super fun and I will make a life long friend as well....... maybe.
Or maybe I`ll end up getting a really good deal on hotel room for three weeks.
Ugg wish me luck.
In other news I retaliated on monday night and invited a friend of my own over for dinner. I cooked. Wow, I wasn`t working that day, so I just cooked and cook with a new hand mixer I bought on the weekend.
I had a mixer fest. We ate guacamole, hand mixed, then home made pumkin cream soup, which was really good. Then home made jam that I had hand crafted with my mixer earlier in the day.
It was so much fun.
I have been really into cooking lately. Just loving it. Its been good. Hopefully Ben and his friend will abscond a little themselves and I`ll have a full out dinner party while they are gone.
Thats all I have to say for now. Wish me luck.
reticent
1. Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
2. Restrained or reserved in style.
3. Reluctant; unwilling.
Reticent comes from the present participle of Latin reticere, "to keep silent," from re- + tacere, "to be silent."
Hello, and apologies for the reticient blogging behavoir.
In truth I have been stalling because I don`t have any christmas photos and I wanted to get those and blog that first, but I think I`m just going to have to let it go and update the current events going on in my life.
So here we go.
Just before christmas one of the girls at work got married. It was so fun. French weddings are really cool. We ate for so long. It wasn`t even just the quantity but the length. It was ridiculous. We had about 10 dishes. of which three desserts. The actual meal started at about 8 and honestly didn`t finish until 1 am. I left right after the coffee and final dessert was served and I didn`t get home until about 2. There was dancing in between the plates to work up and appetite. Anyway a good time was had by all
Then to the alps for christmas. Ben took this picture on boxing day. I was on the bathroom floor, literally feeling like I was about to die. I had a tremendous flu and spent a good part of my week of christmas in the alps on there. But Ben said the scenery was beautiful. Glad that he didn`t stay home with me. Scenery, not so great.
We made it to Chamonix towards the end of the week, and went to the the glacier cave, something I didn`t get a chance to do last year. It was really cool. They just drilled a huge hole in the glacier so you can go inside and look at the cheesy lighting and what not.
I was suprised as to how big and blue the glacier really was. Relieving to see such a big chunk of ice after having seen the incovienent truth.
And this is pretty much the only picture I have of some of the people I stayed with. Here is Veronique and Maud and me, with our toques!
After that me and ben took the train to Lyon, for the day before heading south. That was really really fun. We ate in one of the famous bouchon Lyonaise, and there happened to be a huge farris wheel set up in the main square while we were there which provided an awsome view of the city, for only 5 euros.
Taking pictures of ourselves on the big wheel.
Last picture. a few weeks after the vacation a student from my school, who is really nice, took us to see the pont du gard. The biggest remaining romain aquaduct. It was really cool. Definatly another item crossed off my list of things to do in life.
I felt soooo good after christmas. I felt so peaceful for a long time.
I`ve been in a bit of a funk/bad mood for a week recently, so it was nice to relook at these pictures, and put an end to all this reticence.
