My 25 Rules

1. I like to eat my low fat peanut butter with a coffee spoon…. Before continuing with the bigger tablespoon

2. I feel in love with my first ski instructor back in Austria and pretended to be really scared somewhere up in the mountain so I could continue going downhill safely between his skis. Bless him!

3. I love ice cream in the winter when it’s really cold and snowing out (I’m included in the “out”). Blame it on the Swedes.

4 I admit I was found crying at “Beauty & The Beast”… The cartoon. A cinema filled with under aged kids with their mom’s / nannies all watching quietly while in the middle somewhere, two grown ups sobbing through every scene where the beast declares his love, tea pots dance and brooms sing. The most embarrassing moment? Probably when a 7-year-old brat turned around and asked us to keep it down…

5. Yes, I sometimes still cry to the “Beauty & The Beast” song… Doesn’t everyone?

6. I’m a patient person… Really, I am!

7. I’m addicted to sms communication. Sometimes it’s quite thrilling really receiving a little line that keeps you hanging in the air for several hours.

8. Is attracted to heights… 8-10 cm heights

9. . I confess I was a huge fan of Michael Jackson back in the days. I even sent his parents a letter telling them how fabulous their son is… True story. Never got a reply back though… I keep on hoping!!

10. Sex & The City is my bible

11. I love cows. I love it when they lick their face with that big tongue swinging left to right. It’s quite endearing…

12. I once worked at a dating website and the only time I actually used the service for myself I managed to dig up a gay guy who wanted to come to my place watch TV

13. I admit this is one move line that gets my tears going no matter what, where and the situation I’m in: "I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible"

14. I’m learning to run but not sure I quite gets the “empty your mind and relax” bit quite yet. How can you empty your mind when all you think of is "20 more minutes and I’m at the bridge. 10 more minutes and I’m at the corner of save-me and not-quite-home-yet. 5 more minutes and I’m falling to the ground”. Keeps your mind working.

15. I confess I once, not that long ago, forgot I had lunch and an hour later had a hot dog in the Marais. Completely slipped my mind. But honestly, nothing beats that hot dog! Even you’d forget your breakfast, lunch and dinner for that hot dog.

16. I love staying in and going to bed at 22h… Really. I do. Only sometimes, bed doesn’t like me at 22 but rather have me past midnight. Not my fault!!

17. My first French boyfriend didn’t speak a word of English. I spoke no French whatsoever. We spent a full day walking through the streets of Paris speechless. Literally. It’s not that we had nothing to say, we just didn’t really know how to put it out there. We still made it for a whole entire week!

18. Been dreaming all my life of an older brother with very cute friends. That he would love me and adore me and take me out with him and that I’d fall madly in love with one of his friends and marry him (I was probably 7 or 8 when this first popped up in my mind. The scenario has been kept the same for copyright reasons)

19. Hate writing postcards but I love receiving them (hint hint)

20. I sometime really appreciate to just sit somewhere, drink, watch and criticize… Don’t we all? … It’s in our DNA!

21. I secretly dream of receiving a call from John Malkovitz and screening it. Let him record a message then listen to it every morning when I wake up and every night when I go to sleep. That voice....

22. I want to bump into John Malkovitz in the street again and make up for the sad and ridiculous “wooooow” I managed to come up with when I saw him once by my house. Oh, there was also a 2nd “wooooow” followed by an even worse conversation; Me: “You’re one of my top 5 actors” / John: “Thank you so much. Who are the other 4?” / Me: “Hmmm, well, you’re number 1 on the list really. The others, hmmm, well… You really. You’re 1st on my top 1 actor list”… I am covered in shame forever!

23. I love Facebook! I hate Facebook!

24. I’m having a hard time finishing up these 25 rules…

25. I wish I would have the guts to tell you what I really want to tell you but that I don’t dare telling you. I’ve been trying to write it down. But I don’t dare showing it to you. I even recorded myself saying it to you, but I think Orange may have erased it. Maybe I should try to sing it to you or next time I see you, get me really drunk and try asking for it.