Bonne Année!!

Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone had a good New Years, how ever you spent it. I also hope that 2010 brings many good tings to everyone. Mathilde finally left on New Years Eve and I couldn't have been happier. She was really getting on my nerves. I went to the store and bought a New Years feast. I invited Amber over to spend New Years with me because she had no plans but she didn't end up coming so I ended up eating this huge dinner and drinking by myself. Kind of depressing but whatevs. For dinner I made a salad, chicken, smoked salmon with a little crackers, bread, and cheese. It was really, really good. I thought about going to the Eiffel Tower to watch the fireworks at midnight but I get really uncomfortable in huge crowds like that and I just didn't want to stand there in the cold for hours. At midnight I popped open my bottle of champagne I bought and tried to watch the fireworks from my bedroom window but it was really foggy so I really couldn't see much. I didn't end up going to bed really late.



New Years day really sucked. I got an email from this woman I've been talking to at Microsoft and she basically told me that there was nothing more she could do for me and told me to call the suppor line and see what they could do. I couldn't call on my phone because even though it was a toll free number AT&T was still going to charge me .99 cents a minute. I could have called the Microsoft people in France but that would require me to speak French and I don't think I could explain what was going on with my computer in French. It would have made things worse. So I ended up calling on Skype from my phone which meant I couldn't leave the living room or else I would have lost my connection. After talking on the phone with various people for over 4 hours the guy I was talking to told me that I had no other choice then to re-install Windows and start all over again. So I did that. I lost all of my programs but luckily I had my music, pics and documents saved on my external hard drive. It was still a pain losing everything. My computer has nothing on it now. I got Word back and all that stuff because I had the disk but I miss the way my computer looked before. It took forever to get my music back on iTunes and re-download all my stuff.



On Saturday there was a Friends marathon on so I watched that while I worked more on my computer. I texted Allison, who I had yet to see. We planned on meeting at the Louvre. It was Saturday and when I got there they weren't there yet so I ended up waiting for a little while. Everyone and their mom was at the Louvre....no lie. Seriously, Saturday is the worst day to go. It's packed. I didn't need a ticket because I have my year pass from when I did Nocturnes de Louvre. However, everyone else needed a ticket. Chuck, Allison and their friends Peter, Patrick and Candace were all there. Peter, who I've met before, and Patrick and Candace were all really nice. We stood in line for like an hour and then finally started walking around. They had never been there before so I took them to the old part of the Louvre where you can see the original walls of the chateau and to the Egyptian part because it's cool. Then I think I nearly killed them when I made them go up to the 2nd floor (which is like 6 flights of stairs) to the French wing to show them my painting that I presented. I think Allison really liked it because it's her brothel....hahha!!! jk. I took them to see the Mono Lisa and there were a million people there. We stayed in the room for like 2 minutes and then left to find Venus de Malo. We finally found it and then left......I was tired of all the people who were at the Louvre.



There was so many people on the Metro it was insane. I felt like a sardine. I went to the apartment the Allison, Patrick, Peter and Candace rented for the week. It is in such an awesome location. It's right off of the metro St. Michel, which is right off of Bld. Saint Michel. It's right across the street from Notre Dame. The apartment was like right around the corner from Shakespeare and Company which is AWESOME!!!!!! The apartment smelled like a mixture of pickles and cinnimon which was a little weird but it was still pretty sweet. Plus, the view was amazing. It was 4 stories up and the stairs were kinda shady because they were super old but I survived. We hung out, Chuck played his music like he always does. They were trying to figure out where to eat and I didn't have enough money to go, I only had 5 euro so I left them and went back to the apartment to eat.



Renee told me she would be home that day and I thought she would be back by the time I returned. I was really hoping she was going to make me dinner but when I got back she wasn't there. I made mac n cheese with velveta and put the rest of my music on my computer. I'm glad I'm done doing that. I watched the rest of season 5 of the Office and tired calling it an early night but I didn't end up finishing it until 12:30ish. Renee came back a little after 1 and was kinda loud. It sounded like there were 2 other people here but I really didn't feel like getting out of bed to investigate. When I woke up this morning no one was here. Norton wasn't here either....I don't know where he is. I finally did my cinema extra credit...it's only due tomorrow...and it took me forever. But at least I finished it. I'm really tired so I'll probably make some dinner, hang out until Renee gets back from work, talk to her for a bit, watch a movie or something and go to bed.



School tomorrow.....barf.



A bientot

I tried adding a few pics from New Years and from Allison's apartment but it won't let me for some reason so I'll try to do it tomorrow. It also wouldn't spell check so if I spelled something wrong oh well...I'm a bad speller. Deal with it.