April 27, 2010...

J'ai été taggé il y a beaucoup trop longtemps par Swan_pr, mais je tiens mes promesses ! Voici donc mon bureau à la maison. On peut admirer le bordel qui y règne. Cette photo a été pris un peu après notre emménagement, donc maintenant il y a des photos sur le mur derrière l'écran. Il y a aussi une mapemonde et une bilbiothèque, mais ça, on le voit pas sur la photo !

Yesterday afternoon. I'm sitting at the picnic table outside of my appartment building, reading Tunisia-related stuff in a very calm fashion as I wait for my parents to arrive.

I hear a car getting closer so I lift my head. There is a hedge that blocks the view so I can't see the street, but I can take a look at a window and see a reflection.

I see a red car, and my first thought is, this is my father's red Cabrio.
Second thought, as I see the car pull into my driveway, is this car is way bigger than a Cabrio.

It was the red convertible Mustang, which I've been anxiously waiting for my father to finish fixing up for months now so I can keep it for a week and pretend I'm cool.

It's not quite ready just yet; my Dad just figured it would be a good thing to use it for a long ride in order to identify any problems that might still require fixing.

I did drive it a little, and yes, it was quite satisfying, thank you. Unlike the above-mentioned Cabrio which I, um, basically, disliked.

Je dois confesser que j'ai laissé échapper un "wôôôô" accompagné d'un sourire épais quand j'ai parti l'auto et que j'ai entendu le bruit du moteur. J'ai l'intention d'aller m'acheter de l'oestrogène en pilules à la pharmacie tout à l'heure !

I got pictures in order to prove that I haven't been making up that I'll-have-a-Mustang-to-use story. And also to start pretending I'm cool right away...

Because I'm looking for excuses to get myself out of cleaning up my appartment today, because it just occured to me I haven't posted any NYC pic and because I absolutely need to update you guys on my life plan of traveling the world searching for as many Egyptian temples as possible to strike my My Strongest Suit pose in - first picture is the Dendur Temple found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As for the second picture, it was taken on the Brooklyn Bridge - which obviously isn't an Egyptian Temple, but Tweety said it was close enough and I don't argue with Tweety because she's so much taller than me. (Do notice the Black dude in the background who's totally cracking up.)

Here is my beautiful Sambuca.

You probably remember having seen a similar picture a few weeks back but I had to post it again because Peanut significantly improved his drawing. So I figured that if I was to post it again, I might as well post the whole story again, except in English this time.

So one night, a few years ago, Peanut came home, having bought a ridiculous Collector's Transformer that had cost him 100$. Which I thought was the equivalent of taking out that bill and setting it on fire. And I told him that it wouldn't be so bad if, at least, the damn Transformer doll could transform into something significantly more useful than a huge truck - something like, say, a toaster.

At the time, Peanut had drafted that new and improved Transformer, but never got around to actually finishing it up - but he started working on it again a few weeks ago.

So this is the Final Version of Peanut's Supra Toaster (okay, the name's French, so sue me), the killer Transformer that throws 4 toasts at a time at his ennemies and also whips those who attack him from behind with his wire and that, once the battle is over, transforms into a cute little red toaster in perfect working order.

Un jour, Peanut est revenu à l'appart' avec un Transformer. Mais pas n'importe quel - un vrai, un Transformer de collection, un foutu Transformer qui lui avait coûté 100$.

Moi, je suis anti-trucs-pas-utiles, donc un Transformer, surtout à 100$, c'était à mes yeux le summum de la dépense stupide. (À ce moment-là, du moins : Peanut s'emploi activement à repousser les limites du ridicule et de la bassesse.)

Peanut étant un professionnel du dessin par ordinateur, je l'avais mis au défi, à l'époque, de me dessiner un Transformer utile, soit un Transformer qui se transformerait en quelque chose d'autrement plus utilisable qu'un 18-roues miniatures, genre un toaster.

Ça fait au moins 2 ans de ça, mais dans les dernières semaines, Peanut s'est attelé à la tâche en question.

Je vous présente donc aujourd'hui, en primeur, Supra-toaster, le transformer qui pitche des toasts et fouette ses ennemis avec sa fiche électrique et qui, au besoin, se transforme en joli toaster 4-toasts rouge parfaitement fonctionnel.

Because I keep my promises - this is my graduation picture. This is certainly not my best smile, but I was trying to hide the fact that I felt thoroughly weird about the photographer congratulating me. So there you have it.

This is my second first Christmas tree. :)

Here are two pictures of Quartz in Madrid.
On the left, I am standing on our balcony, at the hotel.
On the right, I am at the Templo de Debod, which is an egyptian temple. I know it sounds weird - Egypt gave this temple to Spain when Spain helped them save some temples from a flood or something of the like. It was a very interesting place to visit and I insisted my mother took this picture of me in order to celebrate my participation in Aida, which takes place in Egypt. For the My Strongest Suit number, six of us stood inside those big columns-on-wheels and we stroke a pose for a little while at the beginning of the song. This was my pose.

This is my very first Christmas tree! Ain't it the most beautiful?

Il y a eu comme un vent d'esprit des fêtes dans l'immeuble cette année. L'an dernier, personne n'avait décoré l'extérieur de son appartement; il n'y avait que moi et ma voisine qui avions accroché un truc à la porte de notre appartement. Je m'attendais donc à être seule de mon espèce cette année, mais non : sur les 6 appartements, 4 arborent un truc des fêtes accroché à la porte, Grébiche a mis des lumières sur sa gallerie, le concierge a mis une grosse étoile qui s'illumine et mon ancienne voisine du dessous a même remplit sa gallerie avec deux gros bonhommes de neige gonflables. Je suis renversée. Vraiment.

I meant to introduce you to Mia for a long time, but I kept forgetting ! She is my mother's cat, she's two months old and she's even cuter than I am, that oughta say everything, right?

Possibly the funniest tweaked pic ever as I've managed to stich two Peanut's in there. Hehe.
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Peanut & Quartz in Québec City. This was actually taken from Cousin's roof. Ever had your breakfast on a roof ? Niiiiiice.
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Musically me

Thing is, I don't really mind posting that pic because I don't recognize myself, and neither does my mother. Plus it's black and white.

Let's now all pray that it works !