TURKEY!!! no turkey.....OLAF!!! yes grief!!

I woke up at 2:33am with the a sudden, unbearable surge of warmth and excitement.
Warmth because the heater was on at about 2.82 instead of about 2.76 where I normally estimate it to be.
and excitement because I suddenly had the great idea to go to Turkey next week for my All Saints vacation!

I don't know which of the 2 actually woke me up, but going to Turkey definitely kept me up until about 7:21am! I went on every budget travel website you could think of, and 27 more that I didn't know of, plus every link, to find the cheapest flights to Istanbul. but the earliest flight under 900 euros would be leaving next Friday, and coming back whenever.

For some reason, maybe it was the reminant heat making me delirius (the excitement couldn't possibly have been the culprit!), I thought that would be ok to leave on Friday and come back Tuesday--since Ariane has 2 weeks off and is at her grandma's in Switzerland until Wednesday!

I was living in a perfect bubble! I immediately announced my departure on Bhuz.com (bellydance forum), and had a whole bunch of people email me about getting them Sim and Bella costumes. and I was going to get myself a doumbek and some cheapo costumes to sell on ebay to offset the 240-euro plane tickets.

When I woke up for the second time this morning, at 10:28am, I remembered that I'm responsible for 2 kids! not just Ariane! and at the age of ~120 days, Juliette doesn't go to school and I still have to be home once Sabine's week-long vacation is over! so that leaves me a day and a half in Istabul--leaving friday and returning sunday...which I might as well do any weekend BUT the next one! which means I'm never going to Turkey because I would never want to be there for JUST 1 weekend anyway!

I was totally bummed--but when you're a shopaholic, there's always Retail Therapy to the rescue!
I dragged Ryan and his friend Charlotte to Centre Pompidou with me to buy the Erwin Olaf limited edition book, Grief, which I'd been lusting after since I got here.
I prayed to every book goddess that I knew by name to let there be a copy left. and held my breath for an entire 17 minutes while I took the one remaining store demo to the counter to have them search for it and held my breath some more when they searched through a cabinet in the back and couldn't find it and then held it even longer when they went to another cabinet...and FOUND THE LAST COPY!! whew... I just almost fainted again (my 1st fainting experience blogged in september).

I have Erwin Olaf...the Turkey can wait.