here, there, and everywhere.

life has been CRAZY lately! my mum came in on thursday and i finished work on friday. work was great! my job ended on such a high note, so much better than just a couple weeks prior, and i will really miss a lot of my coworkers. mommer bomber and i have been all over this wonderful city, freezing our behinds off. paris has gotten ridiculously cold (it's warm by wisco standards, but so cold for me...i have turned into a marshmallow, as my mother likes to call me) and there is not enough vin chaud in all of paris to keep me warm. when i return to madison, i will die. you will find me, in my baller rainbow moonboots, frozen on the sidewalk, with my tongue stuck to a metal pole. i can't wait. at least ill be wearing a foxy cap.

so what have my mother and i been up to? the better question is, what haven't we been up to? (hookers and midgets would be the answer to that question.) i took her to see the glory of the tour eiffel and it's twinkling goodness on the first night she was in town. she was able to go into a very cool establishment that i had an all-access pass to before (not anymore, minou's badges have been turned in) and mingle with government folks at a christmas partay. we have hiked around by the seine, seen 'le roi lion' (yes, french lion king, very unique and great!), and checked out my favorite place (lafayette) and all of it's christmas lights. i have shown her the most beautiful red lancel bag that i am dying to have. we have eaten tartes and macaroons and breads of all sizes. i took her to my market to meet my cheese ladies, and she even has an admirer - an old arab man who gave her free raspberries. what else? oh, montmartre with my dear friend marie, as well as a trip inside sacre coeur (i hadn't even done that - it's super neato!). we went to place des vosges today and wandered about in the jewish quarter. ooooooh i had the yummiest salmon bagel and an israeli beer. (i want to learn hebrew, this is my newest desire.) we have peed in bhv. we have watched little french children go sledding down a hill at hotel de ville. we have had many-a-trips to monoprix (heaven on earth). we sauntered up the champs elysees and admired the christmas lights. we walked through the outside part of the louvre and checked out the pyramid. she has worn a beret. i have worn a beret. we eat cheese. lots and lots of cheese. cheesecake, too.

she loves paris. she will be smoking like a chimney and prattling away in french by the time next week is over.

i am pooped.

leslie comes tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CANT WAIT! merry christmas to me!