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 ...