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12:36 very interesting post sales t New look. Not too good for my wallet ;) #

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I have a new phone! It's very nice! It's a smartphone!

At first, I went to buy a basic Alcatel pne but I always had my eyes on another one but it was 100 € more expensive than the other one. But I have a great mom that saw that I liked the other one so she said she'd pay 79 € which is the price of the alcatel and I'd only have to pay 100 €.
How cool is she?

So, I'm now the proud owner of a Nokia E63. It looks like a blackberry with an azerty keyboard. But the best thing is that it has 3G technology. I can surf on the net with it (I pay a little more each month for this) but what's really coll is that it can connect with WiFi so I don't have to pay to do it!

Also, it has a very nice calendar/diary on which I can note all my appointments ans storytimes and so on. Since most of the time I forget about them! AND I can see the ones for the current day on the "homepage" of the phone. Nice!!!

15:56 i'm back with a brand new cell! Expect more tweets from now on -^k #

20:17 chilling with my mom amd my nieces.Nice! #

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I'm at work and we have a group of four 12 year old coming in to watch Coppelia (the ballet) and do some research on the subject.

Now, this is where it's starting to get funny : we had to use my computer to play the DVD and I didn't think to change my wallpaper. So there's Jensen Ackles, on the big screen, in front of one of my bosses (who's gay. You'll understand very soon why I'm telling you this).
He looks at the screen and goes " Mmm...." and I tell him that this is my Jensen that keeps me going on the difficult days. And that one of my colleagues thinks he's not beautiful or pretty at all! And my boss says "I don't really understand her tastes!"
A few minutes later he goes and says something to the effect of "He's dreamy...".  I had to keep myself from laughing outloud!

And this is the picture I use as a wallpaper so you'll understand :

Since It's the beginning of a new year, here's a nonexhaustive list of movies I can't wait to see this year.

( Under the cut because it's trailer heavy! )

I told you I got a hairdryer for Christmas. Well, it's time I told you about this miracle object!

It's called Remington Spin Curl. It's a basic hairdryer but with a special attachment that spins and curls your hair. At first, I was a little dubious, thinking it was too good to be true but it really works!



Now, my hair is a little on the short side for it but it still gives great results. That lasts all day long! And even the next day!If  I don't put any product in, the waves don't last too long but it still leaves some volume which is a great result for me!



this is the result right after using it, you can see that it twists the hair. You just let it rest like that for a few minutes and then just pass your fongers through it and voila! Instant wave in my hair (mine's too short for real curls)



Now, I used it for my hair on Christmas eve and here, I used a special mousse and it lasted much longer.



And the next day :



And the best part is that it doesn't really take that much longer to dry your hair with this than with a regular hairdryer!

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE my remington!!!

So I had my tests donefor my heart this week. Nothing wrong with the ultrasound.

Then they fixed me with a 24h holter. It's a very impressive contraption that record your heartbeat for a day. They put 5 adhesive electrodes : two on the chest, one under each breast and one in between. They're linked to a recorder that you have to carry everywhere with a little pouch.

 

As soon as she put them on, the two on my chest started itching very bad? I just thought it was in my mind, thet it was just weird having all this on me. Also, not the ideal thing to have a restful sleep!

The next day, they took it off and that's when we realised I had an allergic reaction to the adhesive and that it burned me. It's now 4 days later and it's still very visible and itches like crazy! I hope it won't stay because I like wearing cleavage revealing outfits!



The picture is not very well done but you get an idea!

then, I had a bicycle test. They hook you up to another contraption (this time, it's like succion thingies (2 on the chest, 2 under, 2 on the shoulders and 2 on the back) Now I have marks because I bruise very easily (or get hickeys vey easily so you can imagine what these things did!). Now, all this, braless and let me tell you, I don NOT have the boobs to go on a bike braless!!!!! You have to pedal and they steadily increase the resistance of the bike. At the end, I couldn't breathe and I was sweating like crazy!
Luckily, he didn't see anything wrong during this test either.

I'll just have to wait for the 20th to see the results of the holter!

Remember a few months ago, I talked about Jimmy Choo for H&M? Well, I didn't buy them at the time because I didn't have the money.
 
Last week, I was checking some things on ebay and decided to make a search on Jimmy Choo, just for the fun of it. Well, I found a pair of real Jimmy Choo for just 70 €! They're secondhand but still in good condition. After boring my colleagues for half an hour with "I'm buying them" "No I'm not" "Yes I am", I called mom, asking her to convince me NOT to buy them! And this is where she really really knows me : she's all yes buy them, you'll regret it if you don't. And my colleague is screaming at me from the other side of the library to get them already!!!

So I did, and when I got back from mom for Christmas, they were on my door step! YAY!!! That's a great Christmas present!

Anyway, here's a few pictures of the shoes (they're a little used but hey, they only cost me 70 € instead of a probable 400 ^_^)

 

 

First of all, even if it's late, Merry Christmas everyone!

I had a good Christmas this year. We went to my uncle's and had a great time. The other guests were really nice and great to talk to. Mom got me a GREAT hairdryer (Remington Spin curl) that curls your hair very very easily! (I'll make a post about it later).  Also I had bought a dress at New Look and I think I look great in it, which is a rare feast, let me tell you.



The next day, my grandma, my brother and his family came and we exchanged more gifts. I got a Disney edition of Trivial Pursuit. for my nieces Man, I thought it would be easier but it's HARD!!!!


Nown in THIS picture, I don't look good but I was cold! Also, notice how my hair is still wavy? I LOVE my remington ;)

I saw Avatar this week. We went to a 3D theater because we thought it had to be seen that way. And it is!

The cinematography was really beautiful. The transition between the "real worl" and the Na'vi world is very seemless. More surprising is the fact that you really find an actor's characteristics on his avatar! You could really differentiate Sigourney Weaver from other females from exemple!
The whole world Cameron created for the planet is breathtaking and very beautiful.
That was for the positive.

Now on to the negative : it was BORING!!! I almost fell asleep a few times! If I had been alone, there's a good chance I would have left at intermission! There was absolutly nothing original in this script. It's the basic story of a peaceful people, threatened by the army who wants their land for money. Oh, nad throw in a love story and you've got all the clichés you can find! Also, you really really don't need 2h420. One hour less and it might not have been as bad!

What is really sad is that the scenario was so poor that I left the theater feeling very disappointed. In the detriment of the great innovations on the technical plan. I forget how wonderful it is because the feeling I have when thinking of Avatar is bored.

Anyway, I took some pictures with the 3D glasses, just for the fun of it.

21:07 Got back from watching Avatar. Great cinematography. Very boring story #

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12:34 Some people should really learn to shut up when they don't have a clue about something #

15:59 Kids will do the stupidest things! One just threw his gloves in abalcony that's inaccessible! Too bad... #

16:18 freezing temp outside + no heater in the library = icicle Cynthia! #

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15:32 I jyst received a handmade Christmas card from one of my story time classes. Aww #

17:17 almost the end of work and i'm skipping aquagym tonight, don't feel like it! #

18:58 I got my Christmas bonus and most of it is already gone paying bills :( #

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14:13 I feel accomplished! I spent the last 4 h cleaning the house, doing the dishes and the laundry... #

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Remembre back in March when I had a few problems ith my heart? Well, it hasn't improved? In fact, about 3 weeks ago, I had to stop taking my medicine for a week ( I unfortunatly paid my rent twice and my landlord never gave me my money back so I had no money to get to the doctor to get my prescription renewed. Luckily, I have great friends and Nath gave me some money.)
Well, that was a bad bad idea! I got very tired and taking the steps at work was killing me so when I finally got to the doctor I asked to send me to a cardiologist. He agreed even though ot was just anxiety for him.

So I go to the specialist last week, quite confident, thinking he'll tell me there's nothing wrong with my ECG. Imagine my shock when he tells me there's something weird with my heart rythm. I don't remember the name he used but I'll try to explain : right before the heartbeatn there's an impulsion that shows by an upward stroke on the ECG. With me it goes downward! But when the doc listened to my heart, he couldn't hear anything so I have to get more tests done.

Now, on the 29 and 30 of december (nice way to finish the year right?) I have to go get an ultrasound of my heart then get a 24h Holter (a machine that records the heart activity for 24h) and the next day give it back and do a test where you have to get on a bike for a while to test the heart's reaction to effort.

Then I'll see a rythm specialist and hopefully he'll have some answers but if not, I'll have to do a more invasive test.

And the fact that I have polykistic ovaries and that my grandpa died at 54 from a major heart failure doesn't help my case either!

I have to say I'm pretty scared because I'm just 30 and you don't expect to have heart problems at my age.

I freaked out at work the next day and cried for a while but I have great coworkers who support me and some of them don't even want me to go get books from the upstairs reserve!

Anyway, I try to stay calm until my tests are done but it's still hard ^_^

Since I didn't get anything for Saint Nicolas (besides a bag of candy from François. Merci d'ailleurs, ils étaient super bons ^_^), I decided to treat myself.

So, I bought a Hello Kitty watch, it's too cute!



And then, of course, I had to go to New Look! I found my Christmas outfit : a little black dress. And I decided to go crazy and I'll wear it with a pair of pink shoes ('cause you know me by now : no shopping is complete without at least a pair of shoes ;)



The great thing is that they just reduced some prices which means that I got the shoes for only 12 € (they were at 30 before!). I also bought a sweater (at more than half pice at 15 instead of 34 €) and another pair of "shoes"



I really should stop going to that store!

• 11:46 I'm trying to decide on a new cell phone. I'd like an iphone but it's expensive so I'm leaning towards a blackberry #
• 23:08 After talking to the guy at the store, my mind is set on a blackberry. Just have to wait for my Christmas bonus now #

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• 19:56 just got back from a seminar on romance fiction. Very interesting #
• 20:02 oh and the guy likes Jude Deveraux which made me automatically like him #

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• 14:44 I finally decide to get a Twitter! Yay me ^_^ #
• 15:26 is shocked at the price of public transports in Belgium!!! 30 € just to go Liège, 100km from Brussels. #
• 16:24 a student just asked me for a book on the shoah and specified it's a jewish holiday! #
• 19:33 @Valerie1979 Merci ^_^ #
• 21:30 Playing internet bingo is strangely addictive. i've been at it for the last 2 hours ;) #

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