Christmas lunch

O tannenbaum...

Turning a page

The pre holiday blues hit me again this year, with its share of
sentimental breakdown and body aches. It is annoying when the same
person I want to forget is the first person i want to talk to and seek
consolation from. Once again I am stuck in that one sided longing.

I was 2 inches from acting on my emotions and blurt out the whole spectrum of melodramatic speeches. But my fever abated and I found a courage and new hope in my work and the list of places I want to see, the list of things awaiting for me to experience.

After working hard, we play hard...

What we did on Wednesday: discover the concourse for 10min, qualifications for 10min and a 20min race where they did 36 laps...I did 29. I was not last though...someon got sick and had to stop racing.
So I finished, but with my whole body shaking and so weak.

But we all enjoyed it.

Now there is a talk to start a championship, having points etc...
Thanks to M for the pics:







And the person to beat is chief.

Shh listen to the snow

It is very difficult to work when Christmas is a week away and snow has laid its coat all over the country. The craving for hot chocolate and fondue is intense.
I can't wait for timorrow to play on my terrace covered with snow!

Snow

I landed in the evening and could not see the surrounding snowy
mountains. But driving home in the midst of fluttering snowflakes
drilled in this feeling of winter cold and fuzzy vanilla spice scents.

15 days before Christmas, or before my days off

And so it begins, the rush for shopping, making list, then shopping for more things that are not on the list. This weekend it begins with a trip away from this shopping desert: I don't want any more chocolate, and I sure don't want any watch.

More than that though, I need to reset.

It's crazy how I managed to create new habits last summer, moving out here, but old habits are very hard to get rid off. I bite my nails again and have already changed the furniture arangement in the room 3 times.

New resolutions dawn every morning and dies everyday around 6pm. I am stucck on page 8 of my music sheet, and chapter 18 of my Japanese book. The only hope I have is that I keep having resolutions... I feel comfortably stuck in my life...and seeing the amount I pay for health insurance every month, I should live more dangerously and break a leg every 3 months.

Today was children's day at work and loads of tots and dolls came to attend a puppet show. They were all individually cute and sweet, but all together gave me a major headache and anxiety. They are scary in their innocence and freedom. And even scarier because a couple of them could easily irritate me (bless my godchild, lol).

What's positive lately?


I sleep better at night despite the neighbour upstairs walking with wooden cloggs on wooden floor every night and every early morning. The plants I bought last week are still green, and this week will be sunny.

I need my holidays and for my heart to go 'kyuuuuun'....

A chocolaterie

Well even the chocolate is dressed up for Christmas

Moonrise over the snow

This morning at 7:40am, I was riding the shuttle half asleep when my frozen eyeballs registered the view over the lake. It was going to be a cloudless morning and I could see the snow over half of the mountain's height as well as the huge luminous moon reflecting the sunrise. After fumbling in my handbag searching for my camera, I couldn't stop the curses when it ran out of battery as I tried to take a picture. So I ended up with the phone camera.

I cannot complain that: this place has a way to keep me in awe at unexpected times.