Wednesday, January 28, 2009

X'mas wishes for 2009 - No1

I think it's to do with the difference in sense of humour - but I have to say that France is rather boring in terms of making CALENDARS compared to England. (and Greeting Cards too)
In our house, we had 2 calendars from England (SpongyBob and the one with veggie jokes) which we bought a year before.
We got 2 Asian calendars from asian supermarket - which are OK(aah, not really) but we would want something that could write things on.

So we went to FNAC to buy some for this year but they didn't sell calendars apart from THIS very naughty French Rugby team ones called Dieux du Stade.
(Apparently they do this every year)

I had to make that one pass, as 1) it would ruin the interier of our place (of course) and 2) my husband would get jealous (really) - though tempted indeed. I then volunteered to go around the town and look for something more reasonable but funny.

Went to another local book store, but they were very expensive (around 8 - 15 euro) for the ones with pictures of cats, dogs, temples, gardens etc. (yawn!)
And also they didn't apply for the winter sale - wished they'd take out 1/12 from the price for the loss of January(Should calendars be perishable?).
But nothing like the ones with silly jokes you'd see in England.
So big compromise, I bought two sensible ones. The big ones for the office, as my husband uses only to see the dates, the other one will be for kitchen as we write lots of plans on it.

I was quite happy with my choices despite the limited selection until I came home - my husband's comment hurt me alot.
'Oh bebe, wished you had told me if you were buying that type - as I could have got one for FREE from bank but OK, but it's such a waste of money - oh, it's 2.50 euro, well, never mind'
Boo....then why didn't you get one???
I said I'd take it back to the shop but he didn't listen and put it on the wall in his office and left for the Japanese class.
Boo...that's not very nice.
Nearly took it out from the wall and hid it while he's out- but I thought best not to as it would get things worse before he leaves for business trip the next day.
When he came back from the class, he said 'Sorry' in Japanese - so we made up.

Anyways, all in all, it'd be great if we can buy a decent calendar in this country - if I can't find one, should I make one then???

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