Day 28 – My Break

Ok, not only from blogging but from life itself.

I had to take a break you guys. Sorry, Misschris for not being able to stick to the 30 days at a regular 1post&pic p/day rhythm. After spending 10 hours in front of a computer at work, lately I’d been coming home with the feeling that if I turned on my computer one more time my eyeballs were going to explode.

So as I said, I had to take a break.

First off… a break from Paris.

Hubby and I decided to go on a spur of the moment getaway trip to Strasbourg last weekend. I’d never been to that particular region of France, the Alsace, and was really looking forward to it. And I’m glad we did too. Strasbourg is such a cute quaint little city I loved it. Of course, we didn’t get to see all of it being as we were there only a couple of days but it just seemed like a really neat place. In the picture above you can see the typical style of houses of the Alsace region (not a single haussmanian building in sight, just what the doctor ordered) This particular architecture is called “Colombages” (half-timbered houses ->thanks Hélène!) and most of the houses in the city center are built this way. We took a boat ride on the Ill river (on one of those huge touristy boats, sadly not in one of those cute little canoos like the one you see in the picture above) and got to see the European Parliament and Council. We walked through the “vielle ville” (old city) and took the train to nearby Colmar town. But best of all, we ate tons of delicious Alsace dishes like choucroute and flammekueche… and POUNDS of munster cheese!!! We tasted some spicy/dry wine from Alsace and ate some of their famous cakes and pastries. You could say it was more of a gastronomical trip than a cultural one actually.

Then came a break from Work.

That’s the thing of vacations. Usually, when you take vacations to travel somewhere you come back feeling more tired and beat up than when you left (at least if you take the kind of vacations we take where we spend the entire time just walking and visiting new places). So I decided I would take a week off from work… to do nothing and just…. hang. Hang at the apartment. Hang at the gym. Hang out in Paris. Just hang out and chillax (thanks Cancun Canuck for that one!). So that’s what I’m doing right now. Not bad, huh? Hey don’t hate me. The weather in this city is so crappy that I’ve barely set foot outside so far.

And then there was the break from Blogging.

First off let me say that I love blogging and I love reading other people’s blogs and reading people commenting on my blog and answering comments left by people on my blog and commenting on comments left by other people on other blogs… you get it. I love it. But, lately my brain had begun to feel like mush. I try to keep up with all that’s going on in everyone else’s lives and read all these funny entry posts and comments and try to come up with my own share of funny comments and posts and replies and at the same time think of what I want to say on my own blog and how to make it interesting and worth reading …. for a moment it became a little… ming boogling (or bloggling?) And so I pulled an ostrich and sank my head in the sand. Or actually in Enemy’s territory: Facebook. That’s right. I decided to give it a try. I opened an account, searched out friends and family, accepted invitations from friends and family, uploaded a few quirky applications to my page (“Countries I’ve traveled to” or a “quiz of what is the city I should live in”, which incidentally turned out to be…. tah, dah: Paris *duh!* )… Anyway… I’m not 100% convinced I’m going to keep it up (I much rather blog) but it was nice to “get away from it all” a bit.

You guys understand right? No hard feelings?

Fned.