Mommy Dearest

I’m sitting in my room getting ready to leave on vacation, but I felt like getting a quick word in. Last weekend my mom came to town for a 3 day visit which was very relaxed and fun. My mother's a wonderful, self-less and caring woman and I am lucky to have been raised by such a fantastic human being. During her visit, we walked around town and I showed her the sights, she went to the musée des beaux arts with my roommates when I had to go to work, I ate an entire bag of homemade chocolate chip cookies she brought, watched Avatar in 3D (and just for the record, I thought I was going to hate it, but it turned out that what it lacked in subtlety and depth made up in sheer entertainment), watched episodes of The Office and ate, ate, ATE. Our stomach linings were about to burst we ate so much. Oh and I finally got my favorite hoodie back after leaving it in a bar in Madison last August. (Thank you Jeff and Daron!)

However, the funniest part of the trip was us going to the supermarket and buying so much food, we couldn’t carry all of the bags with us by hand, so my Mom just up and said, “Come on, we’re pushing the shopping cart home.” We pushed the cart down the street like a couple of hobos, brought it up the elevator and into my apartment to unload. We were laughing so hard, as perhaps you can see in this photo:



All in all, we had a wonderful time and I can’t wait to see her again in April.

Anyway, I need to head out to the airport now. I am finally getting out of the Lyon for the first time since October and I’m headed to Corsica which is a wee bit warmer than Lyon - however I just found out that it’s snowing there as we speak. Blah.

PS: Wow...minutes after posting this blog I almost had a heart attack when I found out that the deadline to renew my contract was during vacation and I needed a woman's signature before sending it in...who is leaving in a half hour on vacation. I managed to print out the paper, sign it and scan it and email it to her in time. Phew. All good.