The Chanel Ratonas Off-topic Thread

[cutemiauw]

Anneri, happy to hear that you found a nice apartment! I heard so many times it's definitely hard to find one in Munich with a reasonable price. Oh dear.... sorry to hear about the temporary place though. At least you still have your own bathroom! A shared bathroom with shady people would've been a real nightmare

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I've been missing for a week because we got our electricity cut off. The landlord was supposed to pay for it (it's included in our contract) but he somehow forgot and left the bill to 2000 EUR. It happened Thursday last week. I happen to be at home that day when the technician came, and he was not up for any negotiation... I was shaking afterwards.
The landlord paid up immediately that day, but the company took very long to process it somehow (bastards!) and we're left without electricity until last Tuesday... five days without power and hot water.

. It might be fun for a while with candles, but after the charger on the phone is out.... I started panicking. It's a little tragic how I became so attached with electricity.

Well, obviously we survived it... although now I'm busy catching up on work and internet life... *sigh*.

But hey, it's weekend now

. Hope you all have a great one!

 

[Miss QQ]

^^ Good luck on renting out your current apartment. Stay safe for the next two weeks. You are strong, I must learn to be as adaptable and brave. So, I spent the afternoon thinking about the OPI Miss Universe np and on my way home, I picked up Crown Me Already! and It's My Year, the two colours that called my name. Havent bought any opi for a long time so ithey are a treat. Last week I went to a few Dior counters and they were all out of Aloha np so I was disappointed. I didn't run out and buy Princess perfume though as I'm quite picky with my fragrances and thought I better try it on a few more times first. Have a good weekend, ladies! Anyone watching Harry potter?

 

[Bonitinha]

Anneri -- glad you found a new apartment, but bummer that you have to wait to move in. Sounds like you will have many adventures living in your temporary apartment (laughed at your comment about pepper spray -- good idea!!)

Astrid -- yikes, no electricity for 5 days?? I would have been tempted to ask the property manager to pay for a hotel to stay in!! But sounds like you were tough and survived. Whew.

MissQQ -- enjoy your polishes! That is one thing I haven't picked up this summer -- I've been too busy accumulating other stuff
I have some family that went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter. It isn't something I've gotten into, but people sure get into it (dressing up as characters to go to the movie). Maybe I am missing out lol!

 

[cutemiauw]

MissQQ -- I watched Harry Potter! I went to the midnight screening on the 12th. It was great fun! I didn't dress up for it though... would've been fun, now that I thought of it . I'm a fan but not the kind that would dress up for it

Michelle -- we had that thought as well... But last weekend there were open air concert that lasted until midnight and we kind of go out all day. That's why we didn't think it's worth it to stay in a hotel.

 

[Miss QQ]

Astrid, welcome back! I had a blackout a few months ago and I was jumping. It was at night and very warm and worse, I bought pints of ice cream and I feared they would all melt. Luckily it was anl electrical trip so the fridge's socket wasn't damaged and got it to work within half an hour. Michelle - thanks, I came home and painted Crown Me Already! over Chanel khaki vert np (with I did last night). :eyelove:. Nail polishes are comparatively easier to purchase because there are no sizes so it's good that you are busy with buying other things that are harder to find, like shoes! I never dress up for HP movies too but just read the books and watch the films. I think it's very fun to dress up. I don't know who I will dress up as, maybe the owl lol.

 

[Almus]

Oh Anneri, that's great! Well, not the temporary apartment, but the other! Be strong and don't be tempted to count the days down, or it will make it worse =P

Cute, it's terrible about the electricity issue. What I don't understand is if that your landlord paid the bill right away, why did it take so much time for the electricity company to restore the service? Well, everything is fixed now, but uh, I can't imagine living w/o electricity nowadays (internet cuts are bothersome and it is just internet!).

Here it is very hot and wet! I am counting down the days for August to come, since I won't have to go to the University for working, although I'll be doing some work stuff at home. I just want to go to the beach and sleep my siesta these days! =D

 

[shadowaddict]

ShadowAddict -- I am the same -- always in heels. Even if I am running errands -- I am usually wearing tall wedge heels. If I get dressed up, I have some sky high heels. Makes me feel girly
Glad I wasn't the only one who sent out for milkshakes last night. We had a buy one, get one coupon and I made my hubs use it on a Heath Bar Blizzard. I should be working out right now . . .

When I'm wearing jeans or pants I'm in tall wedges. I can't tell you how many different ones I own, I love them. For going out a bit dressy definitely tall heels and yeh makes ya feel all girly.

Buy one get one free sounds good and so does the Heath Bar Blizzard. I just bought some Heath Bar Breyers Ice Cream last week, yum. Ice cream does not last long in this house.

 

[Bonitinha]

Shadowaddict -- Wearing tall heels is the only way I can wear pants (without them dragging on the ground)!
Yum to the Heath bar ice cream. I made brownies with my girls yesterday, but I put them in the freezer so I wouldn't eat them all. I have been horrible this week with my sweets!


MissQQ -- true about not having to worry about sizes with polishes LOL I can't tell you how many times I have had to send stuff back this summer. I am driving my hubby a little nutso!
My sister had a great time at the midnight premier of HP -- she said there were a lot of people dressed up in costumes (and even got her pic with some of them). She did say it was a great movie. Can you believe I haven't read any of the books or seen any of the movies??

 

[Shypo]

Hi girls!!

I have a lot to catch up on!!

ShadowAddict, I am so sorry to hear of your loss - your dog was beautiful! I know he gave you many happy years! I miss my Hercules every day - especially this time this year as we had just found out he was sick, so did a lot of things with him to make his last weeks special. I hope you are doing ok......big hugs to you!

Anneri, what you are feeling is normal, but you will find your way - you have a great future to look forward to, so work through the process as best you can - it is just part of the 'journey'. One day you will look back on this experience and smile - and you will be so much stronger for it. The pepper spray comment made me laugh too!!! The wedding sounds like a great time!!

Astrid, what an ordeal! I couldn't imagine 5 days without electricity - as you say, not being able to charge the phone is awful! You feel very vulnerable (and completely inconvenienced!). I'm glad everything is back to 'normal' now......

Miss QQ - how exciting about your shoes!!! What a wonderful, luxury purchase! Good for you - I hope you love your BBW stuff too - it's too bad that your friend couldn't get your LM lipcolor or the YSL balm.......is it something I could do a CP for you? I'm not sure how that works, and the exchange rate probably stinks right now. But let me know.

Elena, it's so good to see you posting here again - your shopping trip sounds fabulous! And I know you will hear good things soon about your thesis - you worked very hard, through some very tough circumstances, and you came out the other side! I'm very proud of you!

Chocolate....hmmm....I'm not a chocolate girl (don't throw darts) but I really like See's, and Lindt. When I was in Belgium a lot of years ago I bought some to bring home, and those were spectacular.

Michelle, your Heath Bar Blizzard is one of my favorites - I also love the Reese's one.....we now have a Sonic (YAY!!!) so I end up getting a cream slush about every other week - very tasty and refreshing! The lines are nuts though - my brother, who lives down south, laughs because they've had Sonic for years. I don't know why it takes the northern states so long to get stuff that the south has had forever - we only got WalMart back in the mid 90s, and Target a few years ago. It's getting better, but progress sometimes seems slow.

I got more of Semi Precious than I originally thought I would - a couple of lippies, blushes, and the MSFs (including Pearl and the Crystal Pink one - I just couldn't resist!!)....and a few shadows. I also indulged in a couple of new Clarins items, the new mineral eye shadow palette (which HG has mentioned on here before) in Rosewood and one of the new Rouge Prodige Color Definition lip colors in Miami Pink.

I'm going back to read the other posts now - I have about 2 pages to catch up on -

 

[Eleentje]

Quote: Originally Posted by Almus
Here it is very hot and wet! I am counting down the days for August to come, since I won't have to go to the University for working, although I'll be doing some work stuff at home. I just want to go to the beach and sleep my siesta these days! =D



Here it is cold in wet this whole weekend Brrr! Since I have no holidays left for this year, I won't be able to escape the weather either. Hopefully it'll go back to warm and dry weather soon, as that's what summers are for!

Astrid, 5 days without electricity and hot water sound like a complete nightmare! It is awful that your landlord "forgot" to pay the bills, and you had to suffer for it.

Michelle, I haven't read any of the HP books either, and have only incidentally seen 2 movies. I somehow didn't quite get into that hype. I found the movies interesting, but not the "OMG, I need to see all the other movies and read the books" kind of way.

Enjoy your new goodies, Miss QQ and Cheryl! I've decided to skip Semi-Precious, as I hardly use my mineralized Mac products, besides MSF and mineralized blushes. This may change, however, when i get myself some of that pixie epoxy stuff or Fix +.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

 

[Miss QQ]

^^ You have a good weekend too, or a good new week ahead. It's Monday here already. I agree with you about the HP movies, no "wow" factor. I did enjoy the first few books more.

Hi Cheryl! I tried the BBW Country Chic shower gel in a bath and the scent is strong but nice. It smells like a more lemony version of Chance eau Tender. Thanks for your offer, I think I can live without them at the moment and I should save some money for fall. I don't know how a CP works too lol. Enjoy the Semi Previous goodies. Pearl msf was sold out within 2 hrs at my counter, but I don't think they had many to begin with. Interesting Clarin items, I'm going to check them out when they hit my counter. Are they fall items?

Michelle - Your sister must had a great time. I like the first few books of the series a lot, but when I watched the first movie, I was quite disappointed as it didn't live up to my imagination when I read it. But I continued reading the books and watching the movies. They are good entertainment but I'm not crazy over it. Can I have some of your brownies please.

Here is the pic of my shoes. I'm not very good at taking the pic, the pic at the website is much better lol. Can't see the heels here but they are only 5cm tall. But you get the idea of the colour, grey with brown undertones.

 

[Bonitinha]

MissQQ -- those shoes are stunning

Love them -- very feminine and classy looking. Nothing like a new pair of shoes to make your day!! And yes, come over for some brownies!

Elena -- sorry you are having cold and wet weather! Wish I could pass along some of our sunshine here to you! It has been gorgeous here lately. Trying to enjoy it while it lasts . . .

Cheryl -- Yes, the Reeses blizzard is divine also. And we love Sonic, too! I love the "happy hour" between 2-4 for half price slushies. I will have to try the cream slush

 

[Shypo]

Miss QQ, those shoes are gorgeous - I love them! Michelle hit the nail on the head - classy and feminine. And I love the color for fall!

Yes, the Clarins items are new for fall, but I do not think they are LE. And if you change your mind about the LM and YSL lippies, let me know and I sure we could figure it out. Nordstrom still has all of the LM colors.

Elena, I too hope that you get some nice weather soon - cold and wet is for fall and spring, not summer! Sending some pretty weather your way!

I played 9 holes of golf with my family today - it's just a little par 3 near where we live, and we had the whole course to ourselves, so we got a bit silly on some of the holes. No one kept score, and we had a really great time. It's hard to find things the whole family likes to do now that my boys are grown - so this was very special. We then went to the clubhouse, which is really a restaurant, and had really good pizza. I'm looking forward to doing it again in the near future!

Sunday is winding down, and I'm getting ready to go get hamburgers and hot dogs ready for the grill - my older son is bringing along some of his 'mates', as usual, so it should be fun. And then I hit the hay!!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend (weather notwithstanding) - back to the 'grind' tomorrow!

 

[Miss QQ]

Michelle - Thanks I will treasure my first ferragamo. We don't have Reese or Sonic, only Dairy Queen. I prefer starbucks frappucino with whipped cream.

Thanks, Cheryl. Looks like most makeup is perm this fall, and that is great news so I don't have to rush out and buy them all. The golf and pizza sounds wonderful! Hope you get to do it again soon, it's always happy to spend time with the family and everyone is having a good time too. The grill sounds great too. Pleased to know you are having fun this weekend. It just flew by for me, and I didn't do anything fun, and it's Monday now!

 

[Anneri]

Indeed, the weekend just flew by! I had (and have) loads to organise for the move - I'm afraid you'll hear nothing else from me during the next two weeks! Luckily the people who came over on friday want my apartment, so that's settled too. I'm reliefed! And now I've to start packing things, and that's more difficult than usual - one tiny part of my things will accompany me to Munich, and that wil be hand-picked. It's really strange - the last time I did that I was leaving for university, and that feels so long ago! Well, then another part goes to my bf's apartment (the things I value most and stuff like my clothes), and then the last part (my furniture etc.) goes into storage. Phew! My parents already came with their car and took my plants and the things from my balcony. So sad, not so long ago I shared a pic of it with you...

I'm really looking forward to watching Harry Potter this week!

MissQQ - your new shoes are beautiful. So classy! Thanks for your kind words as well - I don't feel very brave at all but am just stumbling through it all and hoping for the best...

Astrid - without electricity! OMG! That's horrible. Hopefully you'll have to pay less rent for this month for all of your bother!

Bonitinha - wow, you weren't sucked into the HP hype then! Do you like fantasy tales like HP and, for example, Lord of the Rings at all?

Almus - sending some cool weather your way! It's been quite rainy these last days, but I like it - I get things done when it's cool!

Shypo - your weekend sounds great. So nice to have some quality time with the family!

All this talk about chocolate, icecream and other things! Yum! I'm halfway in the Stephanie Plum novels, and as the heroine always eats fast food and doghnuts, it has me craving that! Very bad, but I had some pizza and doughnuts today... Doughnuts are actually quite hard to find over here and when you get them, they're plain, not in the wide variety you have them in the US.

Hope everybody has a good week - I'll go back to my boxes! *cracks knuckles* - btw, the pepper spray remark was dead serious! I'll get some later this week. I'll feel safer then.

 

[Bonitinha]

Anneri -- good luck with all of your packing and moving! I'm sure this is all a whirlwind for you right now!!
You know, I have only see the first Lord of the Rings movie -- but my husband loves them. Maybe we'll have to watch the series when the kids are in bed. We have watched all of the Narnia movies and have liked those. I am more of a historical fiction girl myself, but I really should branch out more.

Have a great Monday ladies!

 

[LMD84]

Indeed, the weekend just flew by! I had (and have) loads to organise for the move - I'm afraid you'll hear nothing else from me during the next two weeks! Luckily the people who came over on friday want my apartment, so that's settled too. I'm reliefed! And now I've to start packing things, and that's more difficult than usual - one tiny part of my things will accompany me to Munich, and that wil be hand-picked. It's really strange - the last time I did that I was leaving for university, and that feels so long ago! Well, then another part goes to my bf's apartment (the things I value most and stuff like my clothes), and then the last part (my furniture etc.) goes into storage. Phew! My parents already came with their car and took my plants and the things from my balcony. So sad, not so long ago I shared a pic of it with you...

I'm really looking forward to watching Harry Potter this week!

MissQQ - your new shoes are beautiful. So classy! Thanks for your kind words as well - I don't feel very brave at all but am just stumbling through it all and hoping for the best...

Astrid - without electricity! OMG! That's horrible. Hopefully you'll have to pay less rent for this month for all of your bother!

Bonitinha - wow, you weren't sucked into the HP hype then! Do you like fantasy tales like HP and, for example, Lord of the Rings at all?

Almus - sending some cool weather your way! It's been quite rainy these last days, but I like it - I get things done when it's cool!

Shypo - your weekend sounds great. So nice to have some quality time with the family!

All this talk about chocolate, icecream and other things! Yum! I'm halfway in the Stephanie Plum novels, and as the heroine always eats fast food and doghnuts, it has me craving that! Very bad, but I had some pizza and doughnuts today... Doughnuts are actually quite hard to find over here and when you get them, they're plain, not in the wide variety you have them in the US.

Hope everybody has a good week - I'll go back to my boxes! *cracks knuckles* - btw, the pepper spray remark was dead serious! I'll get some later this week. I'll feel safer then.

good luck with the move sweetie!! I hope everything goes smoothly for you and i can't wait to hear about your adventures!

 

[Anneri]

Anneri -- good luck with all of your packing and moving! I'm sure this is all a whirlwind for you right now!!
You know, I have only see the first Lord of the Rings movie -- but my husband loves them. Maybe we'll have to watch the series when the kids are in bed. We have watched all of the Narnia movies and have liked those. I am more of a historical fiction girl myself, but I really should branch out more.

Have a great Monday ladies!

If you like historical fiction and would like to branch out, do try Guy Gavriel Key! He's one of my favourite writers and writes something he calls historical fantasy. He takes a genuine historical moment and slightly, very slightly changes it. His writing is very poignant and he creates wonderful characters. 'The Lions of Al-Rassan' is about 12th century Spain when in a short moment christians, jews and muslims coexisted peacefully, 'Tigana' about Renaissance Italy, 'A song for Arbonne' is about the France of the mediaval troubadours and the 'Byzantine Mosaic' is maybe my favourite story ever. It's about Constantinople in the 6th century, about the building of the Hagia Sophia. There's also one about China in ancient times and about England in the 6th century.
He has also written a trilogy that has 'Lord of the Rings' written all over it (he worked with Tolkien's son Christopher on JRR Tolkien's last writings) and a YA novel called 'Ysabel' which I love (no surprise there). His writing is so vivid that I still want to visit the places he writes about - Istanbul and the Hagia Sophia, the Alhambra in Spain, Aix en Provence.

The Lord of the Rings was and is, btw, a passion of mine - and a Tolkien forum was my first forum and LOTR my first fandom! I'm really excited for the Hobbit - much more excited than I could ever be for Harry Potter! (Which I read for the first time when I went to school in Canterbury, before the hype. I loved it immediately because it matched my experience somehow - the feeling of being in a strange environment and the very Britishness of it I encountered freshly every day...)

Sorry about the ramble! Besides Make up, I love books with a passion!

 

[Eleentje]

Anneri, thanks for your book recommendations, actually!
I will definitely look into Guy Gavriel Key's books in future, cos I'm picking up my old passion for reading, now that I have more free time, and you made it sound so interesting.
I enjoyed LOTR movies, when they came out, but I like fantasy stuff in general, just as much as I like (good) sci-fi.
I've read all the Narnia books, when I was about 7-8, and I really loved them. Another book I really loved as a child was "The Talking Parcel" by Gerald Durrell. It would be really cool if there would be a film based on it.

Good luck with the move, and we are looking forward to hearing how it all went in a few weeks. Hopefully you won't need to use the pepper spray, though! *shudders*

 

[Bonitinha]

I love books -- so thanks, ladies, for your recs!! We're going on a trip to the lake this week, so I need to pick up some good reading material . . .