oui, merci

thank you to the recent commenters--i feel loved again.

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what the heck, i'm a yellow?

i retook the color code personality test earlier this week, and despite having been a red my whole life (and having countless people tell me i am 'sooo red'), imagine my shock and delight at finding i have jumped the red bandwagon for a happier, less dominating overbearing color!

Congratulations. You are YELLOW.

YELLOWS are motivated by FUN. They are inviting and embrace life as a party that they're hosting. They love playful interaction and can be extremely sociable. They are highly persuasive and seek instant gratification. YELLOWS need to be adored and praised. While YELLOWS are carefree, they are sensitive and highly alert to others' agendas to control them. YELLOWS typically carry within themselves the gift of a good heart.

YELLOWS need to look good socially, and friendships command a high priority in their lives. YELLOWS are happy, articulate, engaging of others and crave adventure. Easily distracted, they can never sit still for long. They embrace each day in the "present tense" and choose people who, like themselves, enjoy a curious nature. YELLOWS are charismatic, spontaneous, and positive; but can also be irresponsible, obnoxious, and forgetful. When others interact with you, as a YELLOW you respond to them best if they take a positive, upbeat approach and promote light-hearted, creative, and fun interactions with you.

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tomorrow at roughly this time, i will be arriving at the airport to board my flight for amsterdam. thanks to the time difference, deb and i arrive in amsterdam on saturday morning, at which point we will brave the 'windy, 90% chance of rain' conditions to spend some time biking along the tulip fields just outside the city. yeah. we'll see how that goes.

sunday, we will hop on a train to paris, where we will spend the following week in our apartment in st. germain.

the apartment is adorable, and theoretically in a great location, which should mean that we will be able to access a lot of the points of interest by foot.

trusty weather.com tells me that it will be overcast and raining for much of our time there, so hopes of retaking pictures in sunshiney flower blooming paris may be for naught. it comes as a slight disappointment since all of our previous paris pictures include cold, wet, and bedraggled us. in fact, i never remember being so cold as i was during our one day in paris. redemption is nigh, though perhaps not in such grand means as i had hoped.

nonetheless, the most important facets of the trip, namely croques, crepes, and onion soup (not 'french onion soup' because that is just silly), are sure to be in abundance.

i've exhausted my french vocabulary in the subject line of this post, which should make things interesting. oh! i forgot, i also know 'bonne annee', but i don't think 'happy new year' will come in very handy this time around.

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holy craap. is anyone watching 'lost'? i was disappointed with the first half of the season, and more disappointed at the extended hiatus, but they have more than made up for it in the post-break episodes. holy craap.