Man, is it so hard to work on such a gorgeous weekend! I just saw my bikini clad neighbor slowly descend the stairs leading to the cool water of her pool. Damn. It’s a good thing we’re not close with the neighbors quite yet because I would be unable to resist an invitation to jump in their pool right now. <\/p>\n
But hey, there’s a deadline to meet in 10 days so I have to keep on writing. I did have my first swim of the season yesterday at my sister’s place so I guess I can’t complain too much. Renaud<\/a>, my nephew, just turned 9 and we did our annual outing together at the bookstore. I think I inherited my love of reading from my big brother who used to take me to a bookstore every year for my birthday. He would pick a book for me and I got to pick a book myself. I thought I would try the same tradition with my nephews, so yesterday Renaud and I did some shopping. He chose a couple of small, illustrated encyclopedias and I picked two bandes dessin\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdes (comic books) for him as well as a short novel. <\/p>\n In the evening, I spent some time with Zeke and Blork<\/a> at the Beer festival, before going out to dinner. Mmmmm, ice ciders. Light headed, I splurged and bought three different bottles (including this amazing one<\/a>), knowing that somebody’s birthday<\/a> is coming up in a week.<\/p>\n Everybody seems to be outside today so to cheer myself up a bit, I had a look at the great photos of Montreal<\/a> taken by a brand new blogger<\/a>, Jon, Cassandra’s<\/a> beau. He’s a very talented professional photographer and I was charmed to see that his writing is just as enjoyable. You should have a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Man, is it so hard to work on such a gorgeous weekend! I just saw my bikini clad neighbor slowly descend the stairs leading to the cool water of her pool. Damn. It’s a good thing we’re not close with the neighbors quite yet because I would be unable to resist an invitation to jump… Continue reading Cabin fever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}