Le retour de spazzle.net

At long last, my dear, sweet blog is up and running.  I’m sorry it has been down for the past few days (for all you *cough* 3 avid readers out there who may have noticed), but there seems to be a bit of lag time between the sending and receiving of the payment…which unfortunately causes my hosting company to believe that I no longer want my website because I am no longer paying for it.  Fabulous.  REGARDLESS, they finally received the money and got me set up in no time flat.  Thus, here I am!

Unfortunately, this whole debacle has impeded my ability to blog…and I’ve fallen several days (weeks?) behind.  I fully intend to write about EVERYTHING, starting where I left off with my trip to London a few weeks back, but I probably won’t be able to do much for the next couple of days.  I have a few friends in town, Lindsey and Kelly (visiting from Morocco) and Caitlin (visiting from Bath), so I’ll be spending some quality time with them.  We have a lovely wine & cheese party planned for this evening, tomorrow evening will be spent on the step of Sacré Coeur sipping wine and watching the sun set, and Saturday morning we will be going to my favorite little dinner called Breakfast in America (which I have blogged about at least once or twice before this).  It’s shaping up to be a fabulous weekend!

Before I have to run to class, though, let it be known that life in Paris is:

• exciting.  There is ALWAYS some new park to sit in, some new building to photograph, some new bookstore to peruse.
• breathtakingly beautiful.  I will never tire of seeing the Jardin du Luxembourg in the late afternoon light, the Arc de Triomphe glowing at sunset, or the Eiffel Tower sparkling at night.
• full of delicious treats.  Of which the unfortunate side effect is the shrinking of my jeans (euphemism for the expanding of my person).  This woman explains exactly how I feel in her slideshow, Pastry Paris (seriously, check it out…yum).
• EXPENSIVE.  Of which the unfortunate side effect is…well, my broke-ass-ness.
• moving too quickly.  How is it already April 8?

JE VOUS AIME BEAUCOUP :)