Ma vie en Suisse

The overalls are his first *REAL* clothes. Compliments of his Auntie Natoline.

I haven’t talked to my friend for awhile. I guess I have been too busy feeding the baby and sleeping. Today, we had a brief conversation in which I asked her what her plans were for today. “I have to eradicate a squirrel,” she announced rather matter-of-factly. Apparently, there is a squirrel living under her …

I have decided to work out Mondays and Thursdays in the Parc de Milan in Lausanne. I have been there for the last two weeks and am pleased that I am managing to make it a regular activity. In fact, I am just pleased to create a routine. Today, I did a light lower body …

I’m sitting in Starbucks chatting with a girlfriend. The first social visit I’ve had since the J-man was born. He is next to me in his buggy. A baby starts crying. I look around expectantly to see if the mother (or father at this point) is going to do something about the crying baby. “Oh!,” …

I sleep. I eat. I poop. I breastfeed. Therefore I am.

I sleep. I eat. I poop. Therefore I am.

Dave Rogers over at Urban Yukon wants to know: How has Urban Yukon affected your blogging? He is writing a story for What’s Up Yukon. I can’t remember how I found the Urban Yukon blog ring, but it was just when I started blogging—I just checked, apparently since 22 May 2007 (I thought it was …

The other day we came home from New Year’s Eve in Valais. We were supposed to go to a New Year’s Day spaghetti dinner and annual poker game but I was too tired (we did stay up until 2:00 am) and — surprisingly enough, my clothes didn’t fit. My maternity jeans–that I had no problem …

Around August, I had my first dream about Baby. I dreamed I left him in a changing room for the local swimming pool down by Lac Lémon. I had to remember that I was missing something, then, I had to remember where I left him. I woke up in a cold sweat–and verbally promised Ludo …

My sister wrote and asked me if I had any ideas for the end of the script she is working on. Unfortunately, I don’t. I wrote her back and said: “I’m just waiting for baby to arrive…visions of babies…dancing in my head.” Then I remembered this video of the dancing baby!!! It was the first …

I talk to my parents in the Skype the other day. “What were you up to today?”, Mum asks. “Oh. We just lazed about because we have only a few more weeks of THAT luxury. We went for a walk, then we treated ourselves to a lobster dinner.” Mum says: “Yum. How was that?” They …

My Dad’s comment on the Lady Tree. He call its: Viagra Falls.

In Salzburg, we walked around and visited places. We went to Mozart’s house and did an audio tour then walked around a bit. We ended up in a garden. There were labyrinths and statues from the 15th century. I thought the most interesting picture was this tree. I call this THE LADY TREE!!! <snicker!>

Hi Yukoners (those who live there, and those who don’t), My parents are looking for a picture book of the Yukon IN FRENCH! They visited me in Switzerland in September and wanted to offer a thank you gift to my beau parents. We are looking for a calendar, a picture book, something commemorating the Yukon …

In April, we went to visit one of  Ludo’s friends in Salzburg. We call him Dr. Wiki. Dr.—because he spent some time at a design firm in Italy and everyone who has a degree is called a Dr. We call him Wiki because he knows the most minute details about most things—mainly subjects he is …

I found it in bulk! At that Aligro store we bought your knife sharpener at. BULK! I guess I’m set for a year or so. I once asked somebody who commutes from London to bring some to Switzerland. He pooh-poohed my request: “HP sauce! HP sauce! That’s what peasants put on their chips!” I don’t …

My friend Karen mentioned one day that she wouldn’t mind some French music-but she didn’t know where to start. She said she’d heard that you can learn a lot about the language by learning the lyrics of songs. I said she could start with MTV France and the very popular Taratata.  Regardless, here are a …

I don’t know who this quote is attributed to, but I firmly believe it. Last night, my sister Skyped me. “Can you help me set up my email on my computer? I want my knightimeproductions.ca email in my Microsoft mail program.” We futzed and farted around for a bit. We read the help files. We …

I’ve been looking for a solution to add some soft lights to the balcony without getting too expensive nor going extreme with strings of electric everywhere. It’s quite a nice balcony, we haven’t used it much because I don’t think summer has arrived quite yet.  But I’m sure we will. Regardless, when we do sit …

Hi Rain, (because you are part of the exclusive group: “I’m not in Facebook yet, nor will I ever be”), My friend Fawnahareo posted this link in my Facebook. I thought you might like to know…a doily table runner. XOXO J