Starbucks, My New Friend

We have an apartment, but no internet. Currently I'm spending most of my day in Starbucks. Honestly it's kind of fun because it's quite a bit more social than just sitting alone in an apartment by myself. Even if I'm sitting around when people are having conversations next to me it's just as interesting as being in the conversation. Today, I'm particularly enjoying it due to the fact that there's a very lovely lady and two young adults crocheting take-home outfits for babies to take to the hospital. Their stories are great and as much as I'd like to join in I feel like it would be rude. I've been thinking maybe before she or I leave I say something so maybe I can join in next time they have their little crochet meeting. It really makes me miss my friend and I going to her aunts house to crochet and watch episodes of "Once Upon a Time".

Being in a new place kind of sucks when you don't have friends and happen to be the kind of person who has a very hard time talking to people, even if they seem awesome and would like similar things. I'd love to have friends to enjoy things with so that maybe these days while Archimedes is at work for twelve hours at a time. Without internet it's frustrating, but I think even with internet it'd still be quite boring to have no one to spend time with. 

Guy with the rainbow beanie and Pusheen t-shirt with the awesome Aunt (I think) and the lovely redhead that wants to be a Vet sitting in the Starbucks today crocheting take-home outfits to donate to the hospital and speaking of Jolly Rancher cotton candy and horses.... please find me... You people are massively enjoyable to listen to. I just wish I had the courage to talk to you and come crochet with you. 

Gah.. 

~À Bientôt


*Update: I talked to them. They are quite awesome. They are making baby outfits for the ones that don't make it and donating them to the hospital. How amazing of them to find something awesome to do with their talents. All of them are quite nice and intrigued into my life. Yey.. getting to talk to people. :) Really, I missed it. 

NEW HOME

SO... exciting news guys... Archimedes and I moved in together. He finally got back from his year long overseas deployment when I was in France and about a month later we moved in together at his new base. We found a nice little apartment near to the base in a nice little down right down the highway from a bigger city area. It took us 9 days to sign a lease and get an apartment all to ourselves.

The first night in the new apartment we had to sleep on the floor, but due to our 9 days of house hunting and furniture shopping, we have finally found an apartment and the next day a bed showed up on our doorstep ready to be installed. It's really helped since we have no other furniture in the whole place (unless you count the packing box we are using as a dinner table and the floor as chairs).

I'm growing quite fond of this little town and since I don't have a job now that we moved, I think that I'll blog more often... I hope. I think I'll devote myself more to crafts, nail art, and creativity in general.

Archimedes and I have a big surprise for you soon so stay tuned, I definitely won't forget to post about it.

~À Bientôt

France- A Place of Delicious Bread, To-Die-For Ice Cream, and My Favorite Sparkling Drink: Limonade

I haven't posted in almost a year, so time to fill you guys in. I WENT TO FRANCE. Now, this is something I've wanted to do for most of my young adult life and I was finally able to go to France for 5 weeks. An entire month left me with a wonderful feeling of closeness to a place many visitors only have a short time in. I went with school and for the first 4 weeks, we were in "classes" (I use the word "classes" loosely due to the fact that they were more like planned adventures through the cities.) We stepped foot in a classroom once, for our orientation on the second day of the trip. It was really an amazing experience and I just can't wait to go back again one day.

Now, five WEEKS of pictures is... a lot. I wish I could show you all, but its truly a ridiculous number of pictures so here are some of my favorites.

The Eiffel Tour from the Montparnasse Building

St. Chapelle 

Mont Saint Michel

Normandy Cemetery

Macarons from D'Alloyeau

Oh, did I mention my mom and I went to England for the weekend?

We went to Cardiff, Wales to see the Dr. Who Experience.

The last few days we were there was for France's independence day.

Our hotel was pretty close.

The fireworks were absolutely unbelievable from our balcony.

In all, it was probably one of the most amazing things I have ever done. I'm so happy I mustered up the courage and money to go to this wonderful country.

Instagram-arama-shlamma-bamma-Yo'Mamma

I'm usually not into instagram at all, but I realized I take tons of pictures of my nail art that I do. It always just kind of sits on my phone and seems pointless so I've just started to upload all the ones on to an instagram I made ages ago. The pictures will come soon when I have a moment to put them on here. UNTIL THEN: my instagram name is psychopomp :)

Those of you directed here from my instagram, WELCOME. Please be patient with me uploading things as I do have a kob, 6 classes at University, and a lovely boyfriend stationed overseas that all take up quite a bit of my time. :)

Laundromat Experimenting

So today mom and I were experimenting with different home whitening methods and took tens of white shirts to the laundromat after a morning of scrubbing in salt, lemon juice, or baking soda (among many more). It was obvious the "usuals" were making fun of us for putting such small loads into so many washers with little note cards on top.

The end result... none of them worked. Nothing really lessened the stains or made them any whiter. What a bummer. Anywho fun day anyways.

Home

There's something I realized laying here in bed, Archimedes oversees and away at a training while laying here in bed not falling asleep with him on Skype for the first time in a few weeks. I discovered something that filled me with joy.

Home is where we are together. 

I mean this in the sense that, even in different countries, thousands of miles apart, there's such a comfort I find in him. Whether its a skype call or a phone call, talking to him, being with him feels like home. His sarcastic words, silliness, absolute loving and caring for me are the four walls that make me feel so safe. Being physically with him was even more comfortable, but even apart he's my home. 

That's my happy revelation for the night.

Á Bientôt!

Vegas Fun

So for the weekend my family went to Las Vegas for my Nana's 75th birthday. Being only 20, it was a bit of an inconvenience hanging out with people all over 21. Luckly there were a few things I could enjoy, such as the Titanic exhibition in the Luxor and the wonderful Thunder Down Under show we saw for my Nana's surprise present.

The whole weekend was a surprise for her, she knew she was going with my auny and uncle, but had no idea the rest of us would be there. It was wonderful surprising her at dinner the night we arrived and she realized we were all there. She thought it was absolutely wonderful. She then got surprised with the present of one VIP ticket to Thunder Down Under the next night.

The next day, my mom, sister, sister's boyfriend and I went to see the Titanic exhibit in the Luxor. It was absolutely fantastic. It houses "The Big Piece", the largest piece of the Titanic brought to the surface. At the begining of the tour, you're given a passenger card and at the end you learn if they survived. It was cold and beautiful, replica rooms helped you feel what it was truely like upon the grand ship. At the end, we learned that my sister and her boyfriend's passengers didn't survive, but mine and my mother's lived. Mine was the mother of the oldest living Titanic survivor, she was only 9 weeks old at the time. Although saddening, it was a wonderful experience.

After the exibit, we went shopping since I couldn't gamble. I ended up buying a really lovely dress from the Bettie Page store (pictures soon to come) and a cute skirt from H&M that has kitties on it.

The Thunder Down Under story will be in my next post, for now I must continue home. 

Á Bientôt!