A la claire fontaine
M’en allant promener;
J’ai trouvé l’eau si belle
Que je m’y suis baigné.
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
Sous les feuilles d’un chêne (alternate: sur la mousse d’un chêne)
Je me suis fait sécher;
Sur la plus haute branche
Le rossignol chantait.
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
Chante, rossignol, chante,
Toi qui as le coeur gai;
Tu as la coeur à rire,
Moi je l’ai à pleurer.
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
J’ai perdu ma maîtresse (alternate: J’ai perdu mon amie)
Sans l’avoir mérité,
Pour un bouquet de roses
Que je lui refusai.
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
Je voudrais que la rose
Fût encore au rosier,
Et moi et ma maîtresse (alternate: et que ma douce amie)
Dans le mêm’s amitiés. (alternate: fut encore à m’aimer)
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
At the clear fountain,
while going for a walk
I found the water so beautiful
that I bathed in it.
I’ve been loving you for a long time, I’ll never forget you
I lay down to dry
under the leaves of an oak.
On the topmost branch
a nightingale was singing.
Sing, o nightingale, sing,
your heart is merry,
your heart wants to laugh,
mine wants to cry.
I lost my lover
without deserving it
for a posy of roses
I wouldn’t give her
I wish the roses
were still on their bush
and that my beloved
still loved me.
Every now and then, I go through a phase where I become obsessed with Edward Norton. I want to see his movies, watch scenes from my favorites on youtube, and think of ways to possibly run into him and tell him how great I think he is.
The man is brilliant. His acting is beyond powerful. He doesn’t read a script. He is the script. When you watch this man on screen, you forget everything for awhile, and only know the character he is playing. He makes the characters he plays come alive. It doesn’t feel as if you’re watching a made up story. It feels as if you are watching something that is real, something that is true.
I hate scary movies. I really do get scared, its pathetic, but what I do to loosen my fear is something I would never be able to do with any film Ed Norton has starred in. When I watch scary movies, I start to act like a 5 year old and repeatedly tell myself that it’s only a movie and all of a sudden I begin to imagine all the cameramen, all the assistants, I imagine everyone behind the scenes, and start to see it for what it really is. Something fake, unreal and you know, just a movie.
I can never bring myself to imagine the behind the scene people when I’m watching Norton. He is what I call one of the greatest actors of all time. He is so underrated, it’s ridiculous. You have to be so “Hollywood” nowadays to get any sort of recognition and respect. It’s absolutely disgusting.
The man is brilliant. . Seems to not be in every other movie that comes out, because he waits on a script as brilliant as he is and he seems to love his job for what it is- Acting, and acting well and creating characters people will never forget and movies they will watch over and over again.
I love this man. I do. I don’t usually get caught up in actors or actresses. I’m not some fucking fan club freak obsessing, but I do obsess with Norton. He’s just a great man. He’s all about the environment, making great films, taking people out of poverty and being real in an industry that is often far from it.
I mean, this is the man that brought the Oscar Goody Bags down!!!! Hello, I love you, Ed Norton. I mean do you understand, that he cared. HE didn’t just take the ridiculous $100,000 worth bags and move on his way. He made an effort to stop something that wasn’t right.
God, I can remember watching award shows before the IRS cracked down, before Ed Norton brought the attention to it, and I thought to myself, look at these rich bastards!!! Look at all that free shit they’re getting. They’re fucking loaded. I can’t even afford my cable bill. I shouldn’t even be watching TV, haha. But, yet these rich bastards are getting gifts worth thousands and thousands of dollars as a goody bag.
The only good bags I’ve ever seen in my life were filled with tootsie rolls and lolipops.
Ed Norton on the gifts-
“The gift baskets, worth amounts of money that a low-income family could live on for a year, [are given to] people who have so much already. It gets depressing. You sit there, going, ‘This is an embarrassment’.”Ed Norton, the Oscarnominated actor and director, has described them as “sick and disgusting”, claiming that they made Hollywood “look ridiculous and out of touch”.Well, Hollywood always looks ridiculous and out of touch, but that’s another story. Anyway the whole idea of bringing that up was to show that Edward Norton is a real man. Someone who sees what is right wrong. He is someone real in an industry and world that isn’t. It’s great to see that. An actor who is down to Earth, who cares about our Earth, can act like he was born doing it, make films that will touch your heart, act so brilliantly- you question how he is so amazing, and can make someone like me- a stay at home mom with enough worries and stress let it all go and actually become obsessed with an actor.
Thank you, Edward Norton.
Oh and Hubby already knows, Edward Norton takes up all 5 spots on my “list”.
This is probably my favorite scene from American History X which is basically my favorite movie. Watch it. Andddddddddddd, I just realized it’s not in English! Ahhaha. I’ll fix that when I get a chance.
enjoying time with the fam. The hub is on vacation and we’ve just been doing things everyday. . Not much time to post. Hope to get back on track by the end of this week.
As for my weight. Bwahahaa, it doesn’t seem to be budging.
Yankee Game:: Ahhh, what about the Yankees. What do you think the problem is? I mean all the money they put into those guys and they can’t even move eachother from base to base.
A day @ the beach with my BOYS! Getting 2 kids ready and going for the beach isn’t as easy as it is with just 1, and 2 hours is definitely more than enough time to be there!
We took the kids to Sesame Place on thursday.. That was fun! stressful. No it really wasn’t that bad. As long as R enjoyed himself, then that’s all that matters. Even though he drives me nuts, it’s ok, because it’s alllll about him. [mm hmm]
Check out the last picture.. now, how great is that?! It totally defined how it feels to be in Sesame Place in that last half hour that you’re there. You feel soo done.
So yea, 4th of July was great yesterday. More about that later. Got lots to do today.
and I would love to sleep right through it! I think I did way too much this whole past week and now I’m paying for it because I’m extremely tired. Being withOUT a car means lots of walking and traveling isn’t as easy, so that’s one. Two, I still don’t think I’m used to juggling two kids. I guess I was so used to having one that sometimes I still think it’s still like that. For example, I hosted a party and thought it would be completely easy to set everything up, get things started, have everything be presentable, bla bla bla.. I was WRONG! Like, did I forget I have a 7 month old? Babies have some sort of radar. If they sense any type of nervousness or stress of having to get something done off their mothers, oh ya, that’s their time to BUG OUT. A was soo cranky and it just made everything so much more harder. Well, lesson learned. . Either don’t throw parties or have someone watch him. Which by the way, someone did watch him after all ! My little sister came to my rescue . . Thank God!
Okay, so yea, the weekend is here! Wooo.
Not doing much today. .probably going to do some cleaning and then R has a birthday party later this afternoon, which means I will be there as well. Don’t you love this age?! You get to attend preschool parties, how fun. It’s going to make them getting older and just being able to drop them off, all the MORE worth it!
Sunday, I’m planning on going to the beach. We’ll see!
R can’t wait. So hopefully, we actually stick to it. My hub is working all weekend. Overtime is great, but eh, we miss him. Waa. Anyway, enjoy your weekend! Hopefully I’ll enjoy mine.
I am so bad at making time for buying thank you cards, writing out thank you cards, and of course mailing them out so they actually get to the person I’m thanking. Something about thank you cards annoys me.
You gave me a gift. I thanked you at the party. I probably thanked you again when I spoke to you days after the party. Now, I have to make time to write you a thank you card, just to thank you one more time. Then there’s this time frame on thank you cards. Like, you must write them as soon as the party is over and make sure they are delivered within a week of whatever it is that occurred that you’re thanking someone for.
No. You’ll get a thank you card in the mail whenever I have time to to finish them and mail them out. I’m not on some deadline because people are obsessed with being thanked even though they’ve already been thanked. It’s so ridiculous to me.
I no longer do thank you cards for my sons small birthday parties, because it is just a waste of paper, a waste of stamps, and a waste of my precious time. There’s always present time at a toddler or preschoolers birthday. So everyone sees the gift, you get thanked on the spot. . So please explain why a thank you card would be necessary in a situation like that? I am thanking you for the gigantic dinosaur you gave my son, even though I thanked you for it at the party. Yes, I understand you must see it in writing. Did you not believe it when it was coming out of my mouth?
For other occasions where envelopes filled with cash are handed to you, of course thank you cards should probably be written . . whatever, can’t I just email a thank you card? Didn’t I thank you enough?
Apparently, not.
And then you get the people who ask if you wrote out thank you cards. MY MIL is infamous for that. Oh, yea sure you’re so proper because you get thank you cards out earlier than I do. Haaaa, I won’t go there.
People are obsessed with being thanked multiple times so I will have to take the time out to finally feed their obsession by finally writing out thank you cards for the guests that attended my son’s christening which was… errr… 19 days ago.
Ugh, damn doing the right thing!
Haven’t been posting much.
Busy with the kids.. Trying to get things under control with school, and I’ve been having horrible headaches. Anyway, just in case you didn’t already know. REGISTER FOR CLASSES EARLY! Everything is full, how depressing. I have to make an appointment at my college for an advising workshop. Do they ever squeeze you in if you need a class thats full? Ha, doubt it. I’ll give it a try.
My head is pounding.
I managed to lose 3 pounds in one week. YAY. I am proud of myself. The past week went something like this: I ate in moderation, exercised, walked A LOT, drank lots of water and really was working hard towards my goal. I can’t say the same about the weekend. Overate like a pig!! I’ve been overeating since Saturday. It’s like once you start, you can’t stop. I’m really suprised I lost 3 pounds. I’m hoping to get back on track tomorrow.
I love my boys. They are the greatest human beings I have ever been in contact with. LOL. They’re funny, and adorable, energetic and have such great personalities at such young ages. I wouldn’t trade my boys for anything and when people ask, if I had wanted a girl the second time around, I get pissed. Like, hello! He’s here! He’s a boy. I’m over it and why would I say I wanted a girl. Of course I wanted a girl, but does it matter now. He’s not a girl, he’s a boy and I love him. He’s A and he’s great.
No matter how much I love them and how happy I am to have two sons. . Two sons that will be brothers to eachother and share a bond like no other, I still wonder if I’ll ever have my girl. Of course, it crosses my mind. The feeling is weird. I don’t want to have anymore kids. Why? They’re expensive, it’s a lot of work, I have to finish school, and most of all, I am so happy with JUST THEM. I do feel complete, but then at other times, I’m like WOW. I’m not going to have a girl!?! I am not going to have a girl!?!
Lets be honest, once boys get older, go off to college, get married, things aren’t the same. With girls, it’s different. Mother- Daughter relationships are like no other. I talk to my mom on the phone more times than I can count. I see her all the time and most girls I know, have the same relationship with their moms.
It’s a little overwhelming sometimes to think, who will I go shopping with? get my nails done with? who will I talk to on the phone everyday of my life?
I have to have a daughter.
But is it fair to want a person just to fill a part in your life? Like what am I, a casting director. If it happens, it happens. If not, then not. But, it’s hard to think about sometimes. I want to dress a girl up and buy barbie dolls, go to recitals and have a mom- daughter relationship. I think about trying for that girl, but feel my chances of ending up with 3 boys would be greater and it’s not a chance I want to take. Do I seriously want to sacrifice my body once again to have 3 boys?!
Three boys pissing all over the place in the bathroom, God no.
or if it’s been used before.
