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Happy holiday's to all! Photo, "Rue des Pénitants," taken yesterday, in Bollène.

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les bagues (bag) noun, feminine

    : braces

Example Sentence: (I'm afraid I just don't have the vocal stamina to offer a sound file, today, for the following quote...)

L'orthodontiste colle sur les dents des bagues reliées entre elles par un fil dont on ajuste l'écartement chaque mois... De plus en plus, les bagues posées sont transparentes afin d'éviter la gêne sociale provoquée par un "sourire d'acier". The orthodontist glues the braces onto the teeth (the braces are linked together by a wire, the length of which is adjusted each month)... More and more, braces are transparent in order to avoid the social stigma associated with a "steel smile". --MagazineAvantages

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A Day in a French Life...
by Kristin Espinasse

On the way home from the orthodontist's, my daughter mumbles, "J'ai leufesonsayefdanlaboosh!"

"What's that, Sweetie?"
"J'ai LEUHESONSAYEFDANLABOOSH!"

It must be me, but how is it that adolescent French is harder to decipher than advanced French— something I supposedly tackled years ago?

"I don't understand what you are saying, chou.* Can you please repeat that?"
"J'AI le "S" "N" "C" "F" dans la bouche!" says my daughter, exaspérée.

"Oh! Train tracks! I get it! You've got train tracks in your mouth! You are so funny, chou!"

After a couple of knee-smacking heehaws and guffaws, I look over to the passenger seat, and notice my daughter isn't laughing: I've giggled at my poor girl's expense--and oh, what an expense! Given the price of braces these days, and given the fact that I had the bright idea to have both our kids fitted for them, at once, I'd say this is no frugal French train...

THIS is the Orient Express!

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French Vocabulary

chou (short for choucou, chouchoute) = darling, sweetheart; j'ai le SNCF dans la bouche = I have the SNCF in my mouth!; la SNCF (f) = Société nationale des chemins de fer; exaspérée (exaspérer) = to exasperate
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Staub Oval Cocotte: The French oven is a timeless standby for stews, roasts, soups, casseroles and other one-pot classics.

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The Ultimate French Review and Practice (Book+ CD-ROM)

Bonsoir Lune / Goodnight Moon (French Edition)

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The Chorus (A family film favorite!)
When he takes a job teaching music at a school for troubled boys, Clément Mathieu is unprepared for its harsh discipline and depressing atmosphere. But with passion and unconventional teaching methods, he's able to spark his students' interest in music and bring them a newfound joy! It also puts him at odds with the school's overbearing headmaster, however, locking Mathieu in a battle between politics and the determination to change his pupils' lives!

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Out of everything we sell my favorite is the Choose Books t-shirt because it reminds me of high school and the 80s, specifically of George Michael's hair in the 80s (and I'd like to special effect the Jitterbug video so that it looks like he's wearing our T-shirt. Whatever happened to Andrew Ridgely? (Maybe I should put a question out on Unshelved Answers.)

Also love the library schooled T-shirt. The font is just small enough that folks have to take a good look to read it, and then they just look at me like, "What?" Love it.

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Cathy for Wednesday, December 09, 2009

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What processes formed the unusual surface of Saturn's moon Tethys?

I now have a day off tomorrow. GO me!

Today I was being lazy and not getting out of bed (I was awake, surfing the internet on the laptop) when I hear Kayla yelling for me. I got up and took her phone and Nikki had called telling me BossLady was sick, and asked if I could cover tonight. I said, sure, totes will do that. Went to work at five and BossLady called and told me that I don't have to go in at 8 tomorrow. SCORE.

So tomorrow I'm going to do all the things I didn't do today, which also includes calling up a place and seeing if they're taking patients. It kind of scares me to do it, not because i'm afraid of doctors, I'm just not a fan of phones. Which explains why Nikki had to call Kayla -- I left mine out in the living room again. I really should have it with me at all times but I just forget.

Also on the list of things to do is to clean my room and clean the bathroom. I gotta change the shower curtains --- I bought the replacements weeks ago and have yet to actually throw the old ones out yet. Whoops. They're slightly moldy. (GROSS, I know).

Also if any of you need a really good, really creepy, one of those books that surprise you with every page, you NEED to read Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind. It started out reminding me of Night Train to Lisbon but it took a very very twisted turn and I love it. I'm not finished with it, but I need to stress how impressed i am by this book. I got to a certain twist and that's when I got to the mall. I almost said, "Oh no" out loud! Then I had a few minutes to eat lunch before I started work and three pages later the book twisted again. But it was time for me to clock in. Damn you, book! And then on the way home it threw me another, albeit expected loop. Goddamn, I love this book so hard. BRB putting the rest of Zafon's books on my wishlist.

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Dear GOD this is delicious!

Tonight after work, with the cold and the bike-riding and my little incident earlier, I was in the mood for some comfort food.

So I made a beef Burgundy (well, more of a beef Bordeaux) from a recipe by one of those wonderful curvaceous women TV chefs--Nigella Lawson or the Barefoot Contessa or somebody, who clearly stole it from Julia Child: all cubes of beef and wine and bacon and mushrooms and carrots and onions and pepper and garlic, slow-cooked in a heavy pot in the oven. It just came out, and I am enjoying a bowlful of it now.

There's a loaf of ciabatta bread and some butter, and gosh, I wish I could share it with all of you--I've got a nice salad too, so the vegetarians could join us!

Thank you for my star cookies, sparky77, llaras, lambourngb and buffyaddict13. You've helped make the winter holiday season so bright!

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