Monday, December 21, 2009

Herpes Medication Makes It Worse

The last full week. Last full weekend. Montreal

Le lundi soir post-montréalais se fait récupérateur pour entamer une semaine délicieuse, aussi délicieuse que la dernière drop of beer, as delicious as the last cupcake.

Tuesday afternoon, the whole staff is gathered for breakfast Atoutfrancien at Benoit, a French restaurant in midtown chicchic. The champagne flows and treats will follow the French, duck, foie gras, logs and meringues ... And then it's time for the opening of the Secret Santa gift, a moment that ends almost two months of cachoteries. The principle is simple: each name is drawn at random from a colleague and must be her Secret Santa. Rather spoiled, I get a pretty scarf and mittens to face the few winter days in New York I have left.

Tuesday evening, Sarah and I are moving to our headquarters preferred. We have one last appointment at the Apple Store Soho to meet Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant in promo for their latest film Did you hear about The Morgan (which looks like a stew hardly describable ). So superficial. Uninteresting and not funny. Well, at least they will have seen in real life. Hophop, it is assumed to be consoled Century 21 our latest gifts and looking ...


Wednesday evening, Liliane took me dinner in a small Venezuelan restaurant that just opened a block from home. We share the tapas and arepas reviewing these last six months lived next to one another. It was a success and I'm already thinking about that again in six months?

Thursday afternoon, how does Jean-Philippe Perol we rang in the office of the press? Aaaah, a little farewell party with cupcakes buttercup bakery and the prosecco, so adorable ...


Thursday evening, Sarah has unearthed a cocktail party organized for the inauguration of the Empire State Ballroom at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, newly renovated to the tune of $ 12 million. We have small badges with our names and wide-eyed in front buffets. THEY are not kidding us. Seriously. Sushi, grilled prawns, small salads, classic toast with salmon, pumpkin ravioli, you name it ... We grabbed our cosmo and go see the room in question at the center of which we are still waiting for dessert. Phew. Some business cards collected and a cosmo too later, we head on the Upper East Side, to say goodbye ... Melissa Bye, bye Eduardo.


Friday night I decided to join my friends in New York for a small going-away party. It is nice to see everyone again. And Sarah makes me turn the greatest gift, a small book filled with memories of girls, in words and pictures.


Saturday, the belated awakening coincides with the beginning of a whole day dressed flakes. The brunch begins an afternoon loquesque very significant. We watch the snow fall in two. In the evening, Liliane took me to a major event organized by our colleagues in Martinique, Sung Christmas! the French alliance. So cold outside and so hot at home, everybody sings songs in Creole and waddling juggling his booklet of lyrics and a glass of tiponch. Jessica and Cristel and celebs are leading the troupe of singers apprentices intoxicated by the good mood.



End Sunday brunch last Sunday with the staff intern France Trump, Sarah, Al, Seb and Eugene, we had not seen for almost chandeliers. See you all at the Cafe Orlin on St. Marks place, jumping over puddles of melting snow under a bright winter sun. Sarah and I are going to buy a crate mandarin Wholefoods in Union Square to make the Christmas party for Greg. We join Rob, Ashley and Shannon in the Lower East Side to get into a big car that takes us to Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood. As a small family on vacation, we watch the sunset over the beautiful green from Williamsburg Bridge. Greg is waiting for us in his great brooklynien loft hot with delicious food and an atmosphere of year-end all sweet. Sarah confirms his theory that all Americans know as shuffling cards in casinos, and organize a workshop candles mandarins during a quarter of an hour, reversing the balance of history and for once, what impresses me is the Americans.

-The picture is of Ashley-
Yes I'm French. I'm leaving in Three Days. Goal I'll be back.

Truffle And Pregnancy

white, put your gloves!

Skype-Friday 11:15 am-

Sarah Clemence, I my afternoon!

and off we went, we breaking by following a difficult week at the office. We agree with Nicolas in the basement of Port Authority austere, ready to go, happy to go. Greyhound has no secrets for me, I initiate Sarah and Nicolas. Bye bye Manhattan skyline from New Jersey, we go on family vacations.

Along the road, the snow is more dense and the cold more biting, but we do not yet tasted by the fog that covers the windows of the bus virtually empty and overheated. Ten hours later, another starry skyline and covered with white all familiar and welcoming.

Minous kitties minouuuuuus


We fuse layer without heating and without Remi party to a concert, all eager for the next day. Remi received us like kings with fresh bagels and brownies lots of good calories for cold weather. The output is shy and slippery stairs, we go to the center, just to see if there is no life there.




Glagla already, and we go after Thai noodles invigorating the beautiful Mount Royal, under a sky sterile.


Mount Royal is a small forest. We regret not having a sled, but Sarah is comforted with the branches and small squirrels.


We stop a few minutes in the shelter of the ice at Beaver Lake to warm your feet on small heaters designed for this purpose. And we descend to the house under the red sun and fresh.


What we need? Milk, cookies and Nesquik. Championship 6nimmt chocolate and socks in polar hmmm is the holidays. And then it's time for Putin.


Just lying, barely sleeping, hardly raised, hophop, brunch and reunion with Jack Gallo, who was dressed all its little cocks with a small Santa hat for Christmas .


Continuing our momentum high heat cooking, we lockstep pace Rémi Jean Talon Market to buy maple butter dripping. And all we have retained is that Montrealers, they déconnent not with Christmas.


The snow begins to fall in Québecquoises but we're still going to Parc Jean Drapeau, desert, playing like kids do crouich crouich and to throw balls snow.


Chocolate chaud/6nimmt, Episode II and it's already time to leave. Strongly breakfast.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Free Clips Milena Velba

It's official, it's freezing!

A chill wind blowing today in Manhattan, making the turn and grind the offices of Maison de la France, waltz plastic bags of trash escaped shivering and passersby. Temperature -6, if not worse. Wind chill -13. Worse. So I decided to go to Montreal, just to warm my heart.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Which Freeze First Pvc Copper

The most beautiful course in the world I was here

Monday, Maison de la France and Air France have organized a great big cocktail party at the New Museum (just next door to me) to introduce new modern innovations latest in our beloved partner, much to the fore A380 . I spent the afternoon in the company of Belinda-special events manager at France-Trump, Anna-my lovely colleague / boss of Press-and Audrey, my eternal desk-buddy-to unpack boxes and assemble of gift bags, before the guests arrive. Last stroke of brush and lipstick and go for two hours of smiles, welcome, enjoy, The restrooms are downstairs, please check your coat first, You Can Have a cocktail Over There.
Air France has installed for the occasion of its four new seats comfortable in the huge elevator that takes guests to the seventh floor, where speeches were held, where the view of the financial district and the Brooklyn Bridge casts, where is the buffet.
What's good about the events of France in America is that the buffet is not foutage of mouth you'll pardon the expression. Ptits furnaces of Alain Ducasse and ESPECIALLY all 20 kinds of cheese to fall down. "Tell me, all the leftovers, then you will not throw them away anyway?". And that's how I left my home in 21h with Fourme d'Ambert, the Morbier and goat, a real treasure when you know the price of cheese here. And a baguette. Nicolas, freshly arrived the day before, was delighted!

Tuesday, our colleagues in the office of the Martinique Promotion needed us for their Flash-mob , organized at the mall Time Warner's Columbus Circle. Operation promotional 5-minute frenzied dance and costume in front of curious passersby.


short, he who returns the price of keyword most fun so far (I'm still far from those of Rem ) had it right: "style with super star".
I also like "house of France France; press; Clemence Bouderlique" with semicolons please.

Difference Open Or Closed Pattela



J-15 before this is a goodbye, but still, I have a small lump in the belly grows, grows.
Yet I'm still nestled in the hollow of the New York daily whose gentle routine seems endless, rocked by small celebrations that make all those happy days.
The last major date, a trace left in the fresh concrete of a sidewalk of Avenue A, alongside all the others.
New York to New Yorkers and Clem Is A part of it.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Bluetooth Gaming Adapter

Chic Chic Chicago

There have been two months since Sarah and I decided to spend Thanksgiving, and then a weekend of four days, extended a fifth because of cheaper airline tickets to Chicago. Midwest, here we come!

Invited to 5am for a meal with friends of King's mother-Aurélie l'amie-of-Sarah-who-we-hosts, we must try to take an earlier flight than the one for which we have tickets, because it arrives at 16.20 (you follow?). Lifted at dawn, we agree to Harlem to catch the M60 on 125th and proceed to La Guardia Airport. It is 9am, the aircraft is at 10.55. Looooongue expectations of the poor who refuse to take a taxi. A bus finally arrives at 9:30. Shielded, impossible to climb. 9:45, we climb into a providential M60 and down the Delta Terminal at 10:10.
How does the wrong terminal? Ah yes, because to go to Chicago you must go to the Delta Shuttle terminal, or at the other end of the airport, which is not so great, but still. Back to the bus arrived in a state of tension / arousal / perspiration impossible Delta Shuttle terminal at 10:25. Passage safety in 1'30, and we Ruona on the gate. That $ 50 ladies. AhAhAh a pink Hello Kitty credit card, Seriously? Yeah right, go hop, you get the last row of the plane as bad students, but it is gone!

Landing in the Windy City, which is rather 13h Desert City on Thanksgiving Day. Just 2 or 3 weirdos on the streets to ask the sub, that's all. Aurélie we found the metro to take us in his apartment in Lincoln Park, 23rd Floor. A short nap later, we went to 5 chicks - the mother of Aurelia, Aurelie, Vanessa-the-d'Aurelle sister, Sarah and me - to the suburbs to the big houses and big turkey. One enters the wrong house under the stunned gaze of its people who eventually make us understand that our guests are certainly not them and tell us the right house. A LARGE house. I have already said. With 3 garages.
And there, the family of Carlos and Natalia, cousins, friends, everyone welcomed us warmly. We assoit to the children's table converted into a table of girls and scrolls before us a ribanbelle traditional foods: turkey of 24 pounds, of course, Macheda potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, the gravy-sauce yummy-top, green beans with onion rings, corn, the cramberries Cramberry and jelly, not to mention the stuffing-and-stuffing vegetarian stuffing. Oh my. It's all a question of stamina and time management and appetite. Then came the desserts: apple pie, pumpkin pie, caramel cream, chocolate layer cake, cheesecake, a killing. Someone came over to say that Americans do not know to eat, eh!
Sleepy. Zzzzz.

Tomorrow is Black Friday, the day of hearing post-Thanksgiving sales, where people get up at 3am to go stand in line at Wal-Mart and try to dig up a plasma cheaper ... In good girls, let's take a look at Macy's and company. But the sun was quick to remind us outside. We go down Michigan Avenue from the crowd and Bolts around the Bean Millennium Park, walk along the lake, breathe the wind in the Midwest looking up at the tips of own buildings for all different paces.


We also spent some time playing with the big bean of Millennium Park.

The disadvantage of this city all facing east, she's very fast in the shade when the sun goes down. Inevitable Starbucks coffee tasted at Navy Pier in the sky orange for warmth, a delight.


On request / board Remi, we'll take a ride in a T-shirt store originals found only in Chicago. Here too, inevitably, Y'avait balances. A bargain!


Saturday morning, Sarah and I go for a walk along the lake, looking towards the buildings of downtown surrounding the "Loop". Sunshine and it is not even cold, the wind is just sweet and smiling there.

Then I let Sarah the German market, a real Christmas market in Europe, with mulled wine and the whole shebang-and part only, the guide in hand, see where the prince lived, when he was studying at Chicago: Wicker Park. I'm glad to get out of buildings to explore where people actually live. A very nice neighborhood, even at night, where we cross cows passionate stars.


night, Saturday night fever, the French VIP Clubbe mode through the good plans Aurelie wouhouu!

rainy Sunday we led at the Art Institute, a museum that offers solid an impressive collection of Impressionist-La Grande Jatte, is there! -. And I meet naked Balzac by Rodin.
Unable to escape a tasting deep dish pizza, a Chicago specialty, for dinner: something delicious, thick, full of cheese and crispy. Full.

already And here come the last of our fine days in the North. We enjoy the sun shy to take a look at the beautiful Lincoln Park Zoo and gagatons before all these little beasts.


Small delicious holiday rich in calories and laughter of girls, thank you =)