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I always have a secret blog posting goal of 10 posts a month, and I didn’t realize this month I wasn’t even close to that amount. I think my mind was really somewhere else when I was preparing for my trip after working in Paris.
To be honest, I’m relieved and very happy with how the trip went. I almost quit because I didn’t want to fly, and the weeks, days, and hours leading up to my flight were filled with tremendous anxiety despite my best efforts to control it. It seemed like I hadn’t eaten properly for a week before the trip, and I had lost some weight. My stomach hurt 24/7. She was monitoring her heart rate with her Apple Watch, and her heart rate rose to 100 beats per minute when she was “thinking” about the plane or the trip itself.
Then the plane was delayed by an hour and in my mind I thought, “This is going to take almost 11 hours…” but my therapist told me to use logic when I start going into that darkness. So I had to tell myself that I could just sleep, and that I had to go to Paris anyway. When we finally landed and were almost two hours late leaving the security checkpoint, we decided to leave with my girlfriend’s husband, who was staying at a friend’s apartment, because it would probably take another three hours for our room to be ready at the hotel. I met my MIL and it ended up happening there. I slept a full 45 minutes on a 9 hour flight, so I took a 1.5 hour nap. You can’t sleep on a plane, but you have to train yourself to do so. That would have made life more bearable!
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There was a Chaumet welcome cocktail party that night, so I wanted to get some sleep before getting ready, but I think I slept for another hour or so and looked happy. Once everyone started chatting, the event became a lot of fun. I instinctively don’t want to go out and do anything social, but I often tell myself that once I do, I’ll feel better. And since I had already survived the plane and was only in Paris for 4 days, I needed to make them count in every possible way. Whether this trip was good or bad was completely up to me and I basically just turned it on every day and told myself it was going to be good. In fact, it was great and all of the upper management were really happy with how I represented myself and the company. It was so incredibly justified after a very difficult year regarding my worth at work.
I feel like I’ve hit some big personal milestones this month alone, and I’d like to keep the momentum going, so I’ll talk more about Paris in another post. I can go back to my Instagram stories, but Chaumet also taught me a lot about Paris even though she was working, so I thought it would be a great memory to document the trip on my blog. . I would love to visit this city again! We really didn’t have enough time to eat or see anything!
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What about this polish? I don’t usually wear metallic colors like this, but it’s actually a great neutral color and didn’t peel off at all after over a week. I wanted to wear this to Paris, but I switched to another nude color instead. This is two coats for Gemini and me and they are really nice!
Have a nice weekend!
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