Sunday, January 02, 2005

happy and crappy VII

a christmas vacation happy and crappy? bound to be more happys than crappys...

this week's happy...yay for:
  • alias, season three marathons
  • working and making some moolah
  • christmas (well, season) in PARIS
  • getting first class there and back
  • having an ipod to keep yourslef entertained while travelling
  • being able to find our way to the hotel on the metro sans les parents
  • the view of a city from hundreds of feet above
  • not needing to light candles in cathedrals for God to hear my prayers
  • finally seeing the eiffel tower with my own eyes
  • gorgeous churches with stain glass windows and incredible mosaics
  • nice parisians
  • british people who think the eiffel tower was built for the french revolution (fyi, built for the 1900 world's fair)
  • chocolat crêpes
  • utiliser mon français un peu, mais les parisiens ne veulent pas me parler avec leur lange
  • walking down the champs elysees and singing the song...
  • seeing the eiffel tower go off every hour with those sparkling lights
  • people who get proposed to on top of the eiffel tower...really just more of the "proposed to part"
  • the random sights you wander into
  • barely catching the flight home in time
  • new year's in chattanooga
  • seeing ruf buddies again
  • really nice families
  • the mountains
  • 2004, and looking forward to 2005

this week's crappy...nay for:

  • being really really cold
  • rude french restraurant owners
  • french waiters that reek of b.o. (no, for real)
  • standing in lines
  • being tired when trying to see the city of paris in two days
  • being wet and cold
  • getting on the wrong train and not being able to do a thing about it because its on a one way loop
  • the confusing paris airport where all the employees are pointing you the wrong way
  • missing the flight to chattanooga by 2 minutes
  • having to sit in the airport for four more as a result
  • not being able to play ultimate with the ruf crowd

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