Tit & Tat

Weekend was lovely , got to spend it all with DF for once. He cooked I baked we went out for a date-dinner night and on Saturday to friend's party , it was idillyc (have no idea if the spelling is right on that one) well except for the bit of cabin fever I had yesterday night.

No matter I have to apologize for not blogging , was a bit preoccupied with some personal stuff last week not to mention working long hours and our internet connection acting up. Which all prevented me from writing my blog consistently.

Wedding stuff Update: My veil is sent from the States (just hope it arrives) and I'll have to speak to our caterer this week (need menu / price /etc). There are quite a few things on my to-do-list that I keep postponing. I should go to the German Embassy see how to get the papers for the mairie wedding , call restaurant /florist and dressmaker to see how they are open around Christmas as I need to book tickets soon. Not to mention figure out whether work would let me go for a week. Then set up the giftlist and see if that catholic church preparation is even happening this autumn.

We are invited to another wedding at the end of October , will need to find a gift for that too. Honestly I still hope they'll put up a list . I kinda think anyone who doesn't have a giftlit should be punished with ugly fleamarket vases as gift. Like the one I gave my friend at the Croatia wedding. (I didn't plan for it to be ugly it was just that the fleamarket gods and my friends bad judgment didnt make for a good outcome).

Gotta go to work but psyched as one of my best friends from the Philippines coming to Paris today!

Oooops...

Really really shouldnt do any online shopping ... especially if I have no idea how much there is on our joint account , but hey found some fun lingerie on venteprivee.com and its so much easier than acvtually going to a department store and finding a saleslady who will fnd my size and all that. Just hope DF likes it:-)

Starting to reconcile with the idea of my job, its still tedious but as my coworker pointed out , i ight as well do it until something comes along not to mention that after each sale that goes through us on the online boutique we get points,that we can buy things for.There is the gold oui ring i love and a pretty tan leather bag , so i guess one should simply concentrate on the positives.

As for things wedding related, I ordered my (birdcage) veil! Am very excited about it, for two reasons. One; I got a minor panic attack when i tried on a 'real' veil , it just didn't feel like me. Who am I kidding ; I mean we have been living together for a year and I have certainly not lead a virginal life before that. I just felt like wearing a real veil the whole Virgin Mary reference wold have been too strong.

Its weird I never feel like that seeing other brides, on others i think its cute .. on me almost blasphemy , funny. Same thing goes for tiaras on others pretty , on me i feel like I'm doing dress up.

Oh and for the 2nd reason.Before DF ever propsed I imagined my wedding in the church on the cliff above Etretat with about 10 people max and me in a short 50s style dress and little birdcage veil.

In the end circumstances and DF's taste (NO knee-lenght wedding dress for that guy!)changed all my orginal ideas,except for the cage veil! That stays. Now I just hope it will get here safe from the US.

picture of birdcage veil from google images/flickr.com

Disillusionment...

Am a bit disappointed on the whole in everything I hate it if through people around me or even myself I get my hopes stuck on something and then they are disappointed . This goes for everything jobs, photographers, honeymoon...

My collegues are nice its just that in the interviews they positively tried to sell it to me and make out to be sooo great. Then I have lunch with a girl whose been working there for a while and she sounds quite a bit disillusioned. So that.

Its not helping that DF is a bit disillusioned by his new work too. So we ain't happy campers.

And I heard through DF that our possible honeymoon to Cali fell through. It was always going to be a huge favour to us , so I knew that there was a chance for it not working out and we will find something else that will be great . But yeah I am a bit sad. Having never been to the States it would have been cool and special. Anyway we'll go one day together. Well and instead we'll have great long trip to the Philippines next Christmas. I still se ourselves cruising down the Cali coast in a blue convertible , stopping by at Doris Day's inn.. oh well.

The only good news I can come up with today is the fact that DF has some inside scoop from costumers that LV will bring out the neverfull bag in damier this November. This might not cheer up some of you but it sure made me happier when I heard it . I hate the logoed LV bags (against anything logoed sauf CHANEL) but love the neverfull and wanted to get me one , but so far they only exist in logoed LV. So for Christmas the damier version is on top of my wish list.

Here goes ... Dior

I enjoy working,

I enjoy working,

I enjoy working... was the mantra I kept telling myself today. I am starting my new job tomorrow and trying to wire myself to be enthusiastic and eager.Has almost worked too. Seriously though I am quite excited and curios . Excited about returning to work in a fashion environment and curious about the people I will be working with.I am praying for them to be nice. Really, really hope they will be.

Oh and lest anyone be mislead, NO i won't directly work for Dior. I work for a society that does all their client services . So the society I work for is in partnership with Dior and they will train me in Dior product (as if I needed that ;-)but Dior is not my direct employer. AND NO I won't get married in DIOR ! I wish !

My wedding planner seriously asked me that. Sweet of her to think,unfortunately I dont have a few 100.000 EUR on the side for a Couture wedding dress. Though I still going to be happy with my dress, made in Budapest , just as long as it looks the way I imagine it ...

 

Here it is the inspiration board for our wedding.At least the first version of it , am going to play around a little with it but all in all I hope it has at least a little coherence. I love the new verion of Picasa, so many great features!

Random Photo Day...

What this blog needs is more photos so here goes :

Sundays

What constitutes a perfect Sunday for me? Laying in bed until noon sleeping and reading then DF making his great hotel-style eggs with bacon, spending the afternoon cuddling watching new gossip girl episode, napping and having a walk in the park.Baking a plum yogurt cake and having one of my best friends from Budapest over for dinner . Again perfectly cooked beuf bourgignon with gratin courtesy of DF, drinking lots of champagne or in my case claret and eating cake. Thus went my Sunday this week , quaint maybe but very relaxing and delightful.

Looking forward to tomorrow, they are showing Funny Face in the jeu de paume amongst the Avedon exhibit , which sounds great even if I have the movie on dvd seeing it on a big screen amongst Avedons 50s fashion photos should be fun. Oh yeah and one of my friends will come for a few days , the one DF finds 'hard work' so it should be interesting though the poor girl is between apartments so i'm afraid DF will have to just deal with having her in our apartment for a few days.

As for wedding related stuff I found the perfect cage veil, and earrings online so now i only have to find a way to ship it back here. Am really releived about the earrings. Had the plan to have them made here (pale yellow teardrop shaped citrine surrounded by tiny diamond hangers) but the jeweller couldn't find the right stones and now found the perfect earrings online and even for a better price.

I'm so releived that its my last week at this job , just wish I had a bit more time between the two to clear my mind a bit ...

Randomness...

random pic for random post twin b/w houses in Budapest.

Not as melancholy as last time I was posting but alltogether more sleepy.Had all intentions of going out and socializing if it wasn't for my gfiend who stood me up.She is the friend DF calls 'hard work' and my she is! But also a sweet person so all is forgiven. So I'm sitting here with sleepy friday nite panda eyes ( that bobby brown eyeliner is SO not long lasting) and random thoughts cross my mind.

Nr.1 I've noticed that I have this weird habit of falling into a fruit rut,so I buy a fruit and then for weeks have it every day . At the moment its pomelos , but in the past there has been an avocado , cherry and pomegrante time. Especially pomegranates are very soothing. Used to get them when I was a brokers assistant. By the time I managed to get all the seeds out, give my kitchen a red Edward Hopper style haul over and actually devour it , I forgot all about my shitty day. So I guess fruit rut is the perfect de-stresser.

Another thought; where on earth has Indian Summer gone . Its been grey and rainy all week in Paris. Oh no I remember Indian Summer is in Budapest where its 10C hotter and beautiful. Yeah i miss it.

As far as weddings go I think my moms panic attack subsided and she had a looong meeting with our planner who hopefully is going to sort out our issues with the venue. I mean seriously who waffls on about only taking exclusive events for the palais and then books a choir festival for the same day as us. So the choirs have to go.But I guess I'll let that be fought out between the planner and the venue coordinator. Two Hungarian woman fighting it out , wish I could see it.

But I got more good news. At this moment nothing is sure yet, and I don't want to jinx it by airing it just yet.all i can sy its wedding related.

Nothing else to report still hooked on nie nie blog , going through the archives wishing i was a stay-at-home mom with four kids and then waking up to my life which is pretty damn great as is. oh and hooked on the american elections .Always hve been , its soap opera but with real stakes and highly entertaining.

Ok thats it for today no more noteworthy random thoughts , except im looking forward to tomorrow nite when one of my best friends SZ. is coming for a visit. She is in town to model for the lingerie /bathing fashion fair . Yup the girl is a knockout , my bridesmaid and we going to have lotsa fun tomorrow !

Things are complicated , the budget is running away with us , the venue has booked a choir festival for the same day, my stepdad says we shoud buy an apartment rather than have our wedding and my mom is becoming panicky . So we just about considering eloping. Have the perfect place too little church on the cliffs of Etretat.Either way all this drama is bit overwhelming at the moment.

On another thought - was wondering this morning where all the creativity has gone.I used to sketch and paint and write poems, collages it all somehow stopped a bit with finishing school.

So here my new resolution focus less on obsessing about wedding/work/money / blogs / news - instead go back to creating.

Hmm goin back to miles davis n looking at the city from our balkony . Some kind of blue perfectly compliments the city by nite, especially if viewed from above. A bit melancholy though ...

Big News !

Just a few lines as DF is taking me out to dinner in a bit . Got big news that ring in fall with a bang. Both me and Df are starting a new job soon we both got offers that while not super super amazing are a good step in the right direction and exciting . He will start at a super cute restaurant in the 9th as 2nd in charge to the owner and I got an offer as Client relations associate for Dior Couture / Approche Sur Mesure.

Have to negotiate with my current company at the moment tso they let me kno before my contract is up but hopefully that will be solved nd I can begin work at the new place in 2 weeks . Exciting and a bit scary, just hope the people aren't bad , thats the only thing (ok apart from the money) that really matters.

We shall see also newly discovered a super cute blog called nieniedialogues (link on my blog) its really touching and so tragic as the girl writing it and her husband were just in a horrible accident. So sad .

We on the other hand are doing very well and hada sweet weekend , this time without any guests . DF was really sweet taking me to Laduree neven watching Love Sory wth me . OK so he was sounding off all the time how shitty the script was but hey I watshed Showgirls after it with hm , which made for a funny Sun. nite mix.Showgirls is just silly trash but I guess there are certain movies we won't ever agree on . He hates Time of Innocence which I adore but hey I can live with that he's still pretty damn greatin so many other ways .

(Hehe what a cheezy end. )