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The Western Gite accommodates a max of 4+1 infant and has been recently completely renovated to include a fantastic walk in shower and open plan kitchen. The Eastern Gite accommodates 4-6 and has a jacuzzi bath and open plan kitchen. Both have electric central heating and cozy log fires for winter rental. The Porcherie compliments the smaller houses with its far greater capacity for extended families or groups and is centrally heated and now includes air conditioning for instant heat/cooling on two floors. The view of the Chateau from the master bedrooms is magnificent. Outside, all the houses have private barbeques with tables and chairs, for al fresco dining in the evening sun. Children are very welcome and there is a dedicated play area for them with trampoline, slide, swings and even a mini castle for them to play in. With 28 acres of private park your children are totally secure and can let off steam on their own while you relax and for those of you who want peace and quiet, its easy to get away from, as the park is big enough to accommodate all. There are also a number of good golf courses locally. 'Chateau de Serrigny' Petit Chablis is also now available onsite with tasting of this and many others, only a short walk away from your door.
We booked this house for a last minute holiday. There were 4 adults , 6 children and a 3 month old baby.
When we arrived, the log fires were going and the house was warm and extremely cosy.
Lesley had made us an evening snack and stocked the fridge with milk for the children and wine for the adults !
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We spent a day in Auxerre, where the children enjoyed the mini golf and ice skating.
We also visited Tonnerre, vezelay and Troyes ( for the outlet shopping )
We went to the lovely market on Sunday morning in Chablis village.
Overall we would definitely recommend this house to all our friends and will definitely be back after the baby is born.
Thank you for looking after us all so well.
The Chateau is just a stones throw from the famous village of Chablis where there is a lively market every Sunday morning. Locally,we can organise free wine tasting for you and obviously give you the best tips on where to buy Chablis. Here you can taste for free and take guided tours of all the vineyards. 'On site' tasting is also possible in our dedicated cellar saving the need to drive or find babysitters. East takes you to Aube region where the Champagne grapes are grown before transportation north and finally with great Burgundy reds to the south you are perfectly placed. Burgundy also boasts some of the best cheese in France and there is nothing more enjoyable than sitting on the side of the Burgundy canal (4km away) with some fresh bread, cheese and a bottle of local wine. Restaurants offer a wide variety to suit all, but will of course serve up all the local specialities.
Other activities include fishing, rock climbing, canoeing, horse riding and bowling and loads of space for the children to run around in....
Auxerre is 20mins drive with its fantastic renaissance architecture and great shops and restaurants.
For further info and pictures www.chateau-de-serrigny.co.uk
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warning: language...or something?
notes: never in all my days did i think myself crazy enough to want to write a glee fic, but crack ships have a way of clawing me into the fandom against my will. also, have you guys read 'return to sender, damaged in transit' fic written by smileysimmo? it is pure gold, not only as a crack ship fic, but as a glee fic in itself. the likes of this fic and flirt and flounce's wonderful 'the beauty queen' gave me the mojo to write what i could for this pair. they're absolutely brilliant, go check them out like naow bro.
even moar notes: this was meant to be a one-shot but it became too big and bogged down so i just halved/quartered it, it's not so much a multichapter fic as a three-part. i'm also supposed to be studying for some srs bizness midterm exams at uni, but we all know that education is overrated. duh. it is freaking difficult to write jesse, and even more difficult to write 'not angry' quinn now that she's grown out of her rage. anyway, fingers crossed that this doesn't suck too much.
Jesse is like a breath of hollywood, all cutting wit and jazzy smiles. Something that's slid fresh off the dancefloor or a broadway stage, with his perfect hair and his brilliant blue eyes and you want to know - you want to know what the infuriating thing is? The really infuriating thing is that he knows it.
Quinn hates that, because even though she kind of admires his unfailing ability to have complete confidence in himself no matter how much suck the world may give him, she hates that she doesn't have anything remotely close to that anymore. She's fallen off that pedestal, failed the perfect expectations she'd marked out for herself, got knocked up , couldn't keep her baby and had the honor of still being referred to as Quinn 'spread-em' Fabray. The sheer amount of suck the world has given Quinn is ridiculously on a level that she knows no one deserves.
And really, Quinn figures, with his pretty boy looks and gene-kelly face the world probably doesn't give Jesse enough suck to really count either way. See, she knows, Quinn used to think she was infallible too, once.
She doesn't know how the hell he does it, though. Waltzing back into McKinley with his 'look-at-me-I-won-four-consecutive-national-titles' cockyness, knowing they all practically hate his guts, waltzing into their music room like he isn't a college drop out who couldn't cope. Like he isn't a goddam idiot for falling for a drag queen like Rachel.
Forget that. Rachel and Jesse are perfect for eachother, actualy. They're both obnoxious divas, sing with over dramatic flourish and whilst Rachel has to shut her eyes tight to squeeze her tears through for that little extra emotion for the judges and has insecurities common place with the mentaly freakin' insane - Jesse, well, Jesse is all glamour and charm and he doesn't look like he gives two shits about what anyone thinks about him. He doesn't need to be told he's great, oh no; Jesse St. James knows he's hot shit already.
You've got to envy that kind of courage, no matter how bizzarely stupid it is.
Rachel needs support, her fan base, to wring Finn's hand in hers and for him to look up at her with his chimp like adoration. Whilst Jesse just deals with the break up with a kind of dignity that Quinn hates him for, coming forward all battered like Marlon Brandon from 'On the Waterfront' like the tough guy, the good guy when it's all his fault, Quinn fumes, it's all Jesse St. fucking James fault for coming back that Finn finaly realises he's still in love with fucking Berry. If Jesse had just not come back to Lima, then maybe Quinn could have actually held on to her boyfriend for once, then Quinn wouldn't have to loose to Rachel -of all people - again, then maybe - just freakin' maybe Quinn would have accomplished something, like being Prom Queen. Because if she couldn't accomplish that in measly Nowhere-Lima, then how could she accomplish anything, ever?
He sits next to her on the bleachers, arms propped over his knees, jacket awry.
Quinn is so angry, all that pent-up-bitch in her is just so goddam tired of this bullshit. How do these people do it? How do these people just coil themselves around every facet of her life and turn it all to shit?
"Still here?" He says, she can hear the smirk in his voice. She would have punched him in the face if he'd been sitting closer. He's uncannily bitter when she turns her glare sharply on him, his mouth twisted up in one of those sardonic smiles.
Quin clenches her fists on her knees, the train of her dress gathered in folds over her lap like so much tafetta. She's kicked her heels off, they're somewhere in an angry pile on the ground. "Still in Lima, yeah."
"Huh. It is a little crap town isn't it?"
Then why the hell did you come back to it? She would have snapped, but she won't take the bait, she won't loose it in front of theatre-pig . The night air nips at her bare arms, and her hair's a mess. It takes all of her not to bite back in all her brittle rage, she's cool as ice Quinn Fabray, she can keep the face on and cut with words. "It was perfect until you showed up and ruined everything, again."
Jesse laughs, he has this older boy charm about him. Like he's so much smarter than her and it makes Quinn seethe.
"Right. Because Hudson is such a prized commodity."
She returns with an acid smile on her lips "Rachel sure as hell chose him over you, didn't she?"
And there. His jaw tightens, and his eyes are focused ahead of him. She's right. Quinn can give just as good as she damn well gets, two can play at this game. Quinn has been a bitch for far longer than he can hope to dream, she can fuck him over with her remarks almost as bad as he and Rachel have singlehandedly screwed her over. But never enough, nothing in words will ever make up for this. It was supposed to be her and Finn, this was supposed to be her year, after the baby. This was supposed to work out for Quinn.
"You're a bitter little thing aren't you?" His smiles never seem...rude, and she can't always say that they reach his eyes, but they're always so belittling. "I can't imagine why you'd be hung up on that enormous buffoon."
"Yeah, I forgot that you're so commendable in choosing obnoxious Berry to fall hard for, right?" Quinn wants to nothing more than to go home and cry into her pillow, to scream there into her bedspread. She can be weak there. Here she's Quinn Fabray, uptight and impenetrable, but her feet hurt, and her throat feels like she's got a golf ball stuck there and prom has been a disaster. "I can see the appeal, you're both so alike."
"You mean talented," Jesse says airily, "Well, yes, in that aspect we do so match don't we? But you, Quinn? And mediocre Hudson? I thought you'd value yourself a little more."
"You of all people do not get to talk to me about self-worth."
"Just saying," he shrugs, indifferent to all her venom. "You won't be able to hold onto dignity if you keep hanging onto the neandrathal."
"Take your own advice." Quinn replies as cattily as she can. She has a feeling Santana would smile. "Rachel will always put herself above you, above everyone. And yet, I bet you anything you'll still come crawling back to her with the same male bravado wanting her back. You're the same as any other boy."
"Oh," Jesse exhales and it sounds like laughter, soft like that. "I'm nothing like your Lima boys, Quinn. Certainly not the ones you've been dating, I don't crawl back, ever."
Give me a goddamn break.
"I'm tired of this," Quinn mutters. Jesse shrugs, locks of brown hair falling perfectly about his stupid perfect face that she would give anything to just fucking punch. "I'm so tired of this whole fucking deal."
"You're feeling sorry for yourself, Grace."
She laughs in his face, and he smiles back in that indulgent reminder that he's mocking her. Quinn is exasperated beyond belief, she wants to laugh till she cries, her chest hurts and what the hell. All this always happens to her. Even if he's right, she deserves to feel sorry for herself for once, for everything she's lost and everything she's sure she most certainly will never have now. She rubs at her eyes and slumps over, face in her hands, her mascara is probably smudged as hell but she doesn't care anymore. Caring tired her out these days, it just took too much. She can still hear the music from prom outside, she hates it. She hates how she slapped Rachel and been the one to burst out crying, with Rachel again looking like the victim, even though it was all her fucking fault. She hates how everyone always sees her at her worst.
Jesse doesn't say anything as she takes her shuddering breaths, feeling like Lucy Caboose all over again, trying to hold those tears back. They always said she was even uglier when she cried and Quinn Fabray does not cry, Quinn Fabray is not a weak fat shit that cries infront of people who'd kill for a chance to tear her down like Jesse St. James.
Something about having someone there calms her though, even if it is Jesse. Even if he is a prick, he doesn't say anything, and he's not malicious either. He just replies to her bitchiness with snideness, unbothered by her mostly as if she were a child experiencing a tantrum rather than a crisis. He doesn't twist in his seat and smother her like Finn would with worry, or cringe in awkwardness like Puck would, or with tenative requests for knowing her well-being like sweet stupid Sam would. Sam who had been good for her, Puck who hadn't been, and Finn who was not smart enough for her to have trouble controlling.
It scares her, not having control. So she struggles, and when she takes one last deep breath and straightens out, spine elongating as her posture corrects itself Quinn can keep the tears at bay for long enough to reach home she's sure.
"You don't seem to upset." She accuses softly.
"I'm not." He lies with that foolhardy confidence again, leaning back as if the world's at his feet and as if she hadn't just almost had a breakdown in front of him. "Don't get me wrong, it's pretty dissapointing that this has been overlooked for some Lima bean boy like Finn. Hey, Rachels' got talent, and if she's gonna go places, she doesn't need someone like Finn holding her down to this crap town." He looks at her again, smile wry and sincere. "You're a smart girl, Quinn. You know what you want and how you're going to get it, Finn's not going to take you out of Lima. Finn is Lima. No one's going to slow you down, you never let them. Hey, you're a bit of a bitch, but you're smart and just how hard you're taking not winning Prom Queen tells me how you don't take anyone getting in your way with ease. Someone's knocked the stars out of your eyes and you can see that, Rachel just doesn't know it."
She's taken aback. She's not sure to be flattered that he knows what she's capable of, or insulted that he's comparing her to Berry of all people. She doesn't want to acknowledge either, it's too wierd and embarrassing, and Quinn doesn't do awkward heart-to-hearts and she's pretty sure Jesses doesn't either.
"I need to get out of here." Quinn mutters. She stands, scooping up her shoes, hair tickling her cheeks as it makes itself unmanageable in the rustling breeze that's been lurking around the area.
Jesse stands, it's absurd. It's like he's being a gentleman or something, it's so old-fashioned, so far from the insolent boys she knows. "You have a ride?"
"Yes." Quinn lies, straight faced, brow raised haughtily.
He looks doubtful, temple furrowed before he winces and realises it hurts to move his face. "Finn's already left."
She swallows, she'd predicted as much. "And?"
He smiles a little slyly. "Well, didn't you come in with him?" When his eyes land on the corsage still knotted around her wrist, the red in her face is angry despite the cold. "I doubt your cheerio skirts are sober enough to take you back home."
"Spare me the patronising gentlemanly act, ." Quinn hisses. She leaves as coldly as she can, shoes in one hand, train in the other as she goes down the bleachers and onto the field. Her bare feet press against the ground, and the grass tickles her heels damply. Despite the booze and humidity of the school gym where the prom had been the music and the stupidity of highschool, the cold ground is a comfort almost. It's breathable.
Quinn doesn't need anyone's help. She doesn't look back, and he doesn't follow her.
Santana isn't too drunk, and even if the turns they make make Quinn think she's about to die in a fiery car crash she still tugs her fingers around her seatbelt and grits her teeth and bears it. Just like she bears everything that's ever happened to her anyway. Santana's crazy driving over sharing a car with obnoxious Jesse St. James and feeling like she freaking owes him or something? It's worth the risk.
Quinn falls in with the wrong kind of people, and no one expects that. She gets a piercing, takes to pink highlights and combat boots and looks like an extra out of a bad highschool movie, which is perfectly fine by her. The people who are with her aren't afraid of what she's done, and they're crass and crazy and more than certainly delusional - Quinn remembers what she used to think about such people, and what she most probably still does, they're the outcasts who have an attitude problem who can't cope - But Quinn copes, these people get her. She's bad now, just as bad as everyone didn't expect her to be. No more chastity club, no more cheerios, no more caring about anything.
She used to think smoking disgusting, but now she does it under the bleachers everyday.
People don't dare slushy her anymore, her crew protects her, they're an aggressive buffer and when people see her walking she could smack the permanent gawking they do off their faces before they get the hell out of her way.
She should have known it couldn't last. See, Rachel Berry is a stupid girl and if anyone is bound to throw themselves in your way, it's her. The sheer inevitability of this is retarded.
Quinn does not apreciate being pulled out of her niche, doesn't apreciate this 'good will' gesture from good fucking will Berry and her diva complex.
But she does it, in the end. For Beth.
"Sometimes you have to crash and burn before you make something of yourself," Sam says next to her, scooping yams onto extended plastic plates. He smiles and Quinn doesn't feel like scowling, she smiles back. The whole year has been a crazy journey, and she...well, she's young and there's so much more out there than being Prom Queen. For once in her life Quinn just wants to be a teenager, she just wants the fun of being young. "And you're good at that, Q."
She laughs, "The crashing and burning?"
"Well, that's not what I meant." And there's that smile Sam does with all his teeth that Quinn really misses and Santana says makes him look even more like a trouty mouthed albino even if he is white such lips can only be found on a brother, he's a good friend. "You're good at the after too, the picking yourself up part. This part right now. I'm glad you're doing well. I'm glad you're here."
And somehow the New Directions sweep in with turkey, and they sing and they eat homeless people food and somehow everything is alright.
Everything is perfect, a page taken out of a stylish spring magasine, the perfect wedding. The world is laced in white, and the Berry's knew no limits with the budget for the affair - when she passes into the church, confetti falls like snow, peppered in Quinn's hair like snowflakes and frost even though it's a spring wedding.
Finn looks almost dashing in his suit, and Rachel has lillies in her hair. Quinn hadn't aproved of the match, and Kurt had aggreed with her, going so far as to ask the former cheerleader whether she would boycott the event. Quinn had sighed and shaken her head, she didn't aprove, and she probably never would - she, of all people, knew they were too young to take on the grown up responsibilites that where supposed to be life long - but it was too tiring to be the naysayer, the antagonist of the story. She showed up and took a seat within the stalls but had drawn the line at being a bridesmaid. That was a step she wasn't willing to take, Kurt however had caved in at the sight of lace ruffles and blue sashes and became the position along Mercedes, Brittany and Tina.
"God, don't look now but they're going to start sucking face." Santana drawled and Quinn elbowed her lightly. That did nothing to admonish the bitch. "The only reason I refused the tafetta posturing upfront with Asianfoo, Whitney and Britt was because I didn't want a closer look at that, I'll take second row over being within touching distance of that tongue action."
"So you're okay with this?"
"It's her life, whatever." Santana rolls her eyes. "Even though it won't be doing anything for the gene pool, I'm looking forward to neandrathal jews with buckteeth beaver faces and delusions of Barbera Streisand grandeur. They know what they're getting into, it's none of my business. What, you still green Q?"
Quinn smiled tightly as the couple said their vows, she saw Rachel's beautific smile and Finn's awkward grin and even though they looked like idiots, and Finn was her ex and Rachel her sort of friend who'd been the bane of Quinn's existence in a way that was just not cool...she kind of thought they deserved eachother, they went good together. That didn't make the pill any harder to swallow, but she was sure she wasn't bitter about it for selfish reasons, this situation is too adult, too old for them - why get married now? What if it doesn't work out? She doesn't want anyone to make the huge mistake she did, Beth is Quinn's mistake, even though she loves the baby with all her heart and soul, recognising that Beth wasn't hers hurt even worse, and it's still something Quinn has to get over, it will take time. She's just not sure if Finn and Rachel can handle the kind of regrets that come with taking such a big step, the kind of potholes they'll run into, it's not all just white confetti and fairy dust. Hell, look at how her mom and dad's marriage turned out.
Quinn twists the circlet of flowers around her wrist, a bundle of blue roses and navy ribbon to match the sundress she's got on. "No, I just...it's a huge deal, Santana."
"If they love each other, it should be fine."
"Sometimes love isn't enough." Quinn realises, and it sledgehammers through her like a bright brand new ideal that she's just suddenly found she's been carrying with her for months, a speckle of pure undulated truth that isn't all that cruel. It can be emancipating. That's what she'd been all about these days, that didn't necessarily make her a skeptic of love or a killer of romanticism, it was just that...love can't always hold everything together, sometimes you've got to get what you want as a person and realise yourself as an individual. What's so important about staying bonded to someone forever if you can't love yourself enough to let go of what you were and become something better? "Sometimes you've got to tough yourself out, you know? I know it sounds crazy and I hope it works out, but I just wish...they'd thought about it first."
"Q ctrl v-ing yourself and your regrets over all this doesn't make the worst true, okay? Hate to be the chipper bitch here, it doesn't do anything for me, but it's not all going to go to shit. Things don't work by freaking formula, Q, they don't always end the same damn way." Santana says as harshly nonchalant as ever "Jeez, all this monloguing deep shit?what's got you being all Hamlet today, where is all this self-reflection coming from? You're supposed to cry at weddings, right?"
But the sting the words are meant to slice out is soothed under the fact that Santana reaches out, and curls her fingers strongly around Quinn's. Her face doesn't change, it still looks boredly straight ahead, and Quinn stifles a watery smile. It'd been forever since they'd behaved like friends, and even though they'd once been besties, they'd still been bitchy and Santana had always 'borrowed' Quinn's shit and never returned them, occcasionaly this shit would also be boyfriends but Santana was always honest, an honest bitch and Quinn had missed it.
The violins come down, swooping and lifting and it's sickening how good it all fits, almost. Quinn bears it.
She doesn't like him. Jess St. James with his 'look-at-me-I'm-charming' smiles, his little conversations, the way his eyes glint intelligently in a way that tells her he isn't like any boy Quinn knows. He isn't a boy she can control or overwhelm with a cool glance. He's too smart. Too smooth. He's not going to rot away in Lima, he's not made for Ohio. Something about him screams 'New York! New York!' in a way she normally finds nauseating on Rachel, but on Jesse it glows and overpowers like it's written in his very bones. He doesn't have the sickening hopeful light of broadway stupidity in his eyes, only a smooth surity, a certainty and a self confidence that Quinn kind of admires and hates and is so unmatched by it's ridiculous.
She misses being like that, being so freaking invincible.
But then, she won't ever drop out of UCLA and she's never going to end up on the curb looking for a hero again. Finn had filled that job description for a while, but it wasn't enough, it will never be enough.
So yeah, maybe she's not the hot shit she once was. But that doesn't mean she'll be ready to take life lying down, she knows what she wants and she's going to grab onto it and hold onto it which is more than she can say for St. James.
She's there, and she will be there long after the reception is over he wagers, dwelling in the white wondrousness of it all, the flowers made out of blown sugar and how she hadn't wanted it to happen in the first place. Finding her twining the stem of a lilly between her fingers, the run-away princess standing among the ruins that could have been her fairytale, but she's not one for that, with her silver tongue and cold glances he knows that Quinn isn't anybody's princess. Not in this story.
As cheesy as it sounds, she intrigues him. God, just the sound of that word in his head already makes him feel like a creeper a la Edward Cullen, which is silly because just because she hasn't seen him doesn't mean he's creeping, per se. Yet...there's Quinn with her firm frown fixated on those stupid lilies, an ice queen with flowers in her hair.
They hadn't left off on the best of terms, the last time he'd seen her he'd had the shiner from hell and she was all potent prom queen rage and scorn striding away on the grass from the bleachers with her heels in her hands and hair falling across her back.
Nonetheless, your ex's wedding isn't exactly the most ideal locale to be making amends – and that's not something Jesse wants to do, he regrets nothing, ever – but she's there and he's there and he's guessing he's not the only one in need of a distraction because he'd been bored out of his mind attending this farce of a wedding and watching Rachel and Lima bean Hudson suck face.
"I'd have preferred dandelions," He mentions, and she turns suddenly, dress flirting in a twirl about her legs.
Quinn let's go of the flowers as if they'd shot her with electricity. His words sounds too loud in the now empty church and he sees various shifts fall over her face; startlement, confusion, too fast for him to catch.
"They'd be have been more fitting given that they scatter in the wind so easily, which would be a poignantly made point of how shortlived this whole arrangement is going to be."
Her face settles into icy indifference and at his sentiments she barely stops herself from rolling her eyes, but she does fold her arms, she's trussed up in a sundress blue and shifting around her legs – there's something...different about her. Something that he can't quite put his finger on. "St. James," she says in a cool huff. "you don't sound bitter at all."
He breaks out one of his big white grins, glowing confident and slick as hell. "I'm surprised you're here."
"I could say the same to you."
"Still carrying a torch for Finn?" Seriously, he will never understand what that guy has going for him other than that dopey dumb smile of his that made women's maternal instincts kick in to the point where it was nauseating. Finn was a phase, Jesse had thought, that Kentucky Clark Kent farm-boy phase that girls go through before they realize they're sick and tired of the mundane and want something different, glittering and perfect and brand new like a slice of Jesse St. James.
Her lashes shiver and her eyes they flash and glitter like cuts of diamond, she laughs shortly, like a wisened experienced thing that mocks young wide-eyed children, almost fond but no less condescending. "Oh, no, but I have to say I'm surprised yours for Rachel still burns so bright, it's kind of pathetic," she sighs nonchalantly, and Jesse doesn't like her tone, at all. Or how she says his name, what the hell happened to referring to him as 'asshole' or 'theatre pig' or the formal 'St. James' because he'll take formal cold Quinn in his confrontations over pitying wise Quinn and her Harvard degree any day. "What stopped you from objecting? I thought you lived for such petty theatrics."
He smiles tightly, putting the dimmer switch on his smile. "If I wanted Rachel, I'd have her."
He means it.
"Really?" She asks and takes steps forwards, slow and delicately, like a woman's prowl around a man she has so adequately unmanned. It's not malicious, but it isn't exactly friendly either. "Look, as much as I don't approve of this wedding, I'm not gonna let a snarky bitch ruin it."
"Oh, don't let me hold you back from yourself, Q."
Alright, that was childish. Jesse isn't used to not having the upperhand, and he gives just as good as he gets and if little miss cheerio with her puritan summer dress look and pretty mermaid hair trussed in elegant curls like she's some sort of good Christian girl who didn't get knocked up, posturing gracefully at him like a really really mean Betty Crocker wants to banter until the cows come home then Jesse is going to do so until those cows freaking come home.
She doesn't get to twine him around her perfectly manicured fingers, doesn't get to outsmart and belittle him like she can with her dumb boyfriends, Jesse is not a dumb boyfriend. Jesse is a single good looking pile of hot shit that's going to make it big. And Quinn isn't the perfect salvation Christian cheerio made flesh in the sun dress that shows off creamy legs either because - screw it, that is definitely not Christian, okay? Even if he can only see the curve of her calves and the dress is very well below knee, the curve of that ankle is most decidedly un-Christian and she doesn't get to call him out on pretending to be something he's not. He's not going to be doing her any favours either, because he knows the kind of girl Quinn is, she dazzles and possesses and uses her power over men and bleeds them dry like some weird suffrogate succubus and when she can't...when she freaking can't she decides she doesn't need them any more and goes on a Vajayjay powered superiority trip as part of some twisted feminist ploy to rule the world.
She isn't better than him. She doesn't get to be better than him. Her eyes are very warm for an ice cold bitch, the colour of honey and if he starest to deeply in them he's afraid he'll do something embarrassing like remind her of what colour they are.
She stares back at him at length, analysing, sizing him up and then Quinn states, coldly. "Only my friends call me that."
"What," Jesse smirks. "a snarky bitch?"
She rolls her eyes, exasperated and not willing to fall into another spat. He's disappointed in that, he likes seeing her claws, she was interesting, he wanted to see that wildly bitter girl that night at prom, with her white gold hair awry and her eyes wet and angry and striding barefooted across the grass. He liked that Quinn, that unrestrained blizzard breathing hurricane who wanted to cut him to pieces.
And then he realises something;
"You cut your hair," he breathes, suddenly aware of what he hadn't been able to pinpoint before. Her fingers spring up to tug at the strands as if she'd forgotten, for a moment he might imagine she looks self conscious. He tries not to look too wide eyed, but something about it makes it seem like the world's just sucker punched him and he's not sure what to make of it.
"What?" She prompts angrily, challenging him.
He smiles, the tension eases out of his body and man, he's a lover not a fighter really (actually, he hates that stupid phrase, to be a lover you have to fight for love, right? So you can't be a lover without being a fighter, otherwise all those West Side stories wouldn't really be as epic, would they now?) but whatever. It's a Saturday, he's wearing his favourite dress shoes and rocking a tux better than any Armani ass douche bag model could and do they really have to do this now? Fight? They're not in highschool anymore, and that'd been a lot for Jesse to take in before (hence the being-kicked-out-of UCLA issue) and he may be down on his game now but it's not gonna be for forever. Life's just starting, even for little miss Muffet over here with her Yale/Harvard/whatever future. He's getting back on his feet, so's she and can he really begrudge her for that? Don't get him wrong, he wants that hurricane in her eyes back full force and he can still see it there in her eyes, something banked and calm but still alive - and maybe he's starting to be a little vulnerable in his lack of white cells to combat Quinn's prom queen defence mechanistic bitch animosity, she still most probably holds a grudge so the fights not completely gone out of her, he's sure.
Rachel never fought him ever, she was always too eager to please, and too starry eyed. Quinn doesn't give a damn about what Jesse thinks, he's not her tutor/lover in the ways of theatre and he's pretty sure he has nothing that she needs. It's almost kind of...nice.
"It suits you, " he confesses, and even in honesty manages to look like the smuggest asshole that ever smirked. "It's refreshing actually."
Rachel would have blushed, Quinn returns his smile sharp and full force and he might be mistaken, but even though her eyes are cold they're almost kind of...coy? a little bit sly maybe? But he isn't fool enough to mistake anything like an invitation in any of it. "You keep spouting compliments at me every time we see eachother, blathering that beauty-with-smarts cliché at me on the bleachers, the the ghost of grace kelly and all that bs, really Jesse? Next you'll be making me mix tapes," she says sarcastically, but not completely displeased if the restrained mirth of her smile tells him anything. "you can cut it out, you know."
He laughs, there's an odd lightness in his chest, he hasn't felt this good in a while and it's weird that it's with her, this girl he'd always thought of superficial and small town before she went on and became bigger than he could have ever imagined. She's the perfect rendition of a cliché, yet the ultimate destroyer of one, if that even makes sense.
"I'll settle for getting out of here actually, I'm kind of a peckish sucker for the chocolate fountain I hear they have after the reception."
He would have offered his arm, and she wouldn't have taken it. She stares back at him levelly, her eyes dancing lights when they leave as one, not touching, like two soldiers within the tenuous boundaries of a truce. He wagers she doesn't hate it as much as she should.
end notes: smooth jesse, mention chocolate fountains, real freaking smooth. the pathetic grammar, and run-on pacing is intentional, it's kind of my patented way of writing, or something. dialogue... too much damn dialogue, what is wrong with me? i am such a nerd for hyphens and splurging on italics, it's sickening. disgraceful and unbeta-d which is how you like me, i'm sure, bow chica wow wow. on another note i'd like to call out to everyone who's ever reviewed my crap, i appreciate it, you've all been such darlings! feedback is awesome, it's like air for me. i'll come back with the next update within the week, i've written like, 80% of it. i hope i did this pairing some justice. god, what is with the glee show and its lack of serious angst these days? i want angst, give it to me naow.


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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Lifestyle Photography … newborn photos at the beach.
With a new year comes new ideas, inspirations, and goals. Over time I have been affirmed that when it comes to how I photograph … simplicity is best. I say this because there is a never ending pressure to compare work. Comparing is a slippery slope. For me, comparing brings on the pressure to change (not always in the best ways), and fix things that are not always broken. Looking back on my photography from several years back I see things that are so raw, true, and simplistic. I cherish my early work because it was so … simple. What is simple in regards to photography you might ask? Photos that are candid, journalistic, and thoughtful. I appreciate the importance of a good pose but what it comes down to is my ability to capture a tangible moment. Thus, lifestyle photography is what I am PRO at (ha ...I can toot my own horn every now and then right?!). Now that it is 2015 I have gone though the majority of my portfolio and realized that the shoots and photos that really resonate with people are the shoots that are considered lifestyle photography. Don't get me wrong, I think there are definitely newborn photos that should embrace the power of a good basket and blanket (you know the photos where you wonder how did that photographer get that newborn to do that?). However, every time I see photos like that I wonder in 5, 10, 15 years, will those photos be remembered? I want the people I photograph to remember an outing, a day, a moment.
So, it was my pleasure that I recently photographed a newborn session for a family that means the world to me. They wanted no fuss, simple photos, documenting their first outing together as a family of four.
I spent the morning with them chatting about their sweet little guys arrival, how their soon to be 3 year old was transitioning to big brother, and how it felt to be a family of four.
Honestly, being able to photograph moments like these are exactly why I love what I do.
Even wearing a beanie couldn't keep this guy away from the waves. I love seeing the endless energy kids have to play and play.
Life can be so fleeting, wonderfully sweet, and perfectly imperfect … moments like these can't be posed. But with photography they can be cherished … always.
Currently booking lifestyle family sessions … so drop me an email even if it is simply to say hello.
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Monday, September 29, 2014
Happy National Coffee Day ...
Happy National Coffee Day!
Naturally, I will be celebrating with a capp in hand and to celebrate I will be kicking off a new series
Coeur de La Coffee Chronicles.
For those of you that have read my blog from the beginning know I would consistently write about restaurants, places, bakeries, or food establishments that I loved. Well, this is my way of getting back to that. Not only do I love coffee, drink coffee, make coffee (yes, I am an occasional barista) but I also know a decent amount about coffee. So my friends, these chronicles have been a long time coming ... a long time of research (ha my way of rationalizing my frequent sips). The conversations that I have had with other baristas and coffee lovers encouraged and inspired me to write more and so ... here we go.
First up ... Andytown Coffee Roasters in San Francisco
I found this little slice of heaven two days before we were leaving for Ireland. It was serendipitous in that Andytown (where the shop gets its name) is in fact a suburb in Northern Ireland. And, thus far, Andytown's scones are the only scones I will waste my daily calories on ... they are worth it. I love the shop because it is quaint, approachable, and really just different.
Sometimes with coffee and good coffee you get a type of snobbery but Andytown is the furthest thing from that. The owners are willing to chat, care about their espresso, and created an environment conducive for enjoying coffee. The shop is small and simple ... and I love that. Let me also not forget to state that they are pros at steaming almond milk ... I mean look at the below photo.
So from my cup to yours ... Happy Coffee sipping.
Andytown Coffee Roasters
Location: San Francisco in the Sunset
Decor: simple and sweet
Espresso: sweet and perfection
Baristas: friendly, helpful, and authentic
Pastries: the best, homemade, and are all tastes of Ireland
Ceramics: a friend of the owners makes their cups ... and they are aesthetically pleasing and cute.
Tip: don't bring a computer to sit and do work instead bring a friend and have a good ole conversation
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Family Photos with Coeur de La Photography
It's that time of year when I get emails requesting FAMILY photos. The holidays are right around the corner and family photos are always a fun way to round out the year. I love family photos when they are candid, fun, and comfortable. These photos are some of my all time favorites from a family shoot in Maui.
I do not have a set of poses or props that I use for every family I photograph. When I photograph families I approach each family differently and uniquely. Why you might ask? Your FAMILY is not like everyone else. Your family is exactly that .. your family. Your photos need to represent that ... plain an simple.
So, when it comes to your family photos this year go out on a limb and let your kids be kids. I love when children laugh and play in photos. When I get emails from previous families saying ... Caroline and Marc, your photos make us feel, laugh, and smile.
When families let me capture them for who they are and not how they think they should look like in photos ... it makes me jump for joy.
If you are a family looking for a photographer that can bring out your inner goof, you like adventure, and want your family to have fun while being photographed ... then email me. Ok ... ready set go! :)
I do not have a set of poses or props that I use for every family I photograph. When I photograph families I approach each family differently and uniquely. Why you might ask? Your FAMILY is not like everyone else. Your family is exactly that .. your family. Your photos need to represent that ... plain an simple.
So, when it comes to your family photos this year go out on a limb and let your kids be kids. I love when children laugh and play in photos. When I get emails from previous families saying ... Caroline and Marc, your photos make us feel, laugh, and smile.
When families let me capture them for who they are and not how they think they should look like in photos ... it makes me jump for joy.
If you are a family looking for a photographer that can bring out your inner goof, you like adventure, and want your family to have fun while being photographed ... then email me. Ok ... ready set go! :)
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014
A Stow Lake Engagement Session
This weekend I will be celebrating my cousin's wedding and I just so happen to be a bridesmaid. It was such an honor when she asked me to photograph her engagement photos and I immediately knew where I wanted to photograph them. We spent the morning at Stow Lake in San Francisco and every bit of the morning was romantic.
It was quite the experience for Coeur de La Photography to photograph from a row boat ... a definite first and hopefully not the last. The photos are some of my favorites.
Photographing family for me is my favorite way of showing my love. Congratulations Ashley and Chris and remember: couples who play together ... stay together. Don't forget to laugh and enjoy the little things!!
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Labels: Engagement Photos, Love, SF, Stow Lake
Monday, July 7, 2014
Ireland Part 2 in Photos
Sometimes life feels like a dream ... a complete and utterly good dream.
We left Ireland feeling full, thankful, and happy.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
A Travel Post: Ireland
I've been mesmerized and intrigued with visiting Ireland for years ... from the rolling green hills, the sleepy coastal villages, Irish Trad with its moving and compelling tunes, and all things that involve Irish folklore. Not to mention I am obsessed with Irish Breakfasts, and lucky for me Irish Breakfasts were everything I dreamt they would be ... out of this world.
We arranged stays in Ireland solely based on their breakfasts and the first place we stayed in Dublin ... Cliff Townhouse ... had an incredible breakfast. I ordered a traditional Irish breakfast, tea, and Marc of course had coffee. If you are staying in Dublin I highly suggest staying at Cliff Townhouse from their breakfasts, decor, and location (a stone's throw away from Saint Stephen's Green) it was perfect.
Our first night in Dublin started off by indulging in oysters and washing them down with the obligatory pint of Guinness. Afterwards, we treated ourselves to dinner at Forest Avenue.
We had a four course meal, sat next to a Dublin woman who was also a well known food writer, and the chef drank wine with us. He was thrilled that we came all the way from San Francisco and we were thrilled to be there. Forest Avenue was so good that we reserved a table for lunch on our very last day in Ireland.
We sipped port and fever tonic, enjoyed great wine, savored each course, and ended our meal with dessert that pretty much had us wanting to move to Ireland. Our stay in Dublin was perfection and everyone at Forest Avenue made us feel ... special. I was completely inspired by the chef and his wife ... a husband and wife duo who are following their passion.
And in true Coeur de La fashion our final stop was for coffee at 3FE . The espresso was delicious making it difficult for us to leave Dublin (yes spoken like a true coffee addict). After eating our way through Dublin (don't worry we got in some training runs too) we packed up our car, put on our game faces to drive on the other side of the road (thankfully Marc is a a pro) and ventured out on our Irish adventure. I am looking forward to sharing more with you ... next up ... Cork, The Ring of Kerry, Adare Manor, and my favorite town ... Dingle.
Two Days in Dublin ... what to do
Stay: Cliff Townhouse
Do: walk around the city and stop at Saint Stephen's Green
Eat: Forest Avenue
Pack: a raincoat and walking shoes
Relax: with Tea and a Book: The Winding Stair
Grab: a Guinness of course
Coffee: 3FE
Don't: Count your calories while on vacation ... ever!
Food: Irish food is incredible ... do your research
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Luffas have had bitter taste more and more???
The first one or two luffas tasted normal. Then, each one after that slightly got bitter and bitter. The most recent ones I ate tasted very bitter. It was not like this two years ago when I had luffas. I skipped last year, but planted bitter melons last year. This year, I planted both. Have the luffa plants I have this year picked up the bitter flavor from the bitter melons?
I planted watermelons this year too, yet my watermelons tasted like watermelons without any bitterness...
What has been going on possibly?
Never considered loofahs edible anyway with the possible exception of very young, small ones. Mature, older gourds will always be bitter and the older and larger they are, the more bitter. But it is due to the age/size and growing condition changes (temps, nutrients, water, etc.) and not from any crossing. Just as with cukes and other similar plants, increased bitterness is most often tied to insufficient or inconsistent water supplies.
Cross pollination doesn't affect the fruit itself in this season, only the seeds are affected and any CP will show up NEXT year if those seeds are planted. That is regardless of the plant in question.
You can learn more about this over on the Squash and Gourds forum here.
Concur: Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) is an entirely different plant from Luffas ( Luffa cylindrica or Luffa acutangula. They do not cross. Like most species some varieties are better for eating than others. You may want to consider a different variety. Many varieties are grown only for making bath sponges.


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When former Baltimore Orioles catcher Johnny Oates took his family to visit the Hall of Fame, his son, Andy, a young boy at the time, was stunned when they stopped at the exhibit for Hank Aaron.
There was the lineup card from the game of Aaron's 715th home run, the one that broke Babe Ruth's career record. Oates was a backup catcher on the Atlanta Braves, and his name was on the historic lineup card.
Oates said he was proud when his son beamed and said, "Look, Dad, you're in the Hall of Fame."
I wonder whether San Francisco Giants second baseman Ray Durham might look at one of his children someday and be just as proud to see his name on the lineup card from last night, when his teammate Barry Bonds broke Aaron's career home run mark of 755 against the Washington Nationals at AT&T Park.
Then again, I wonder whether the lineup card will make it to Cooperstown. At least Bonds, who said earlier this year he wasn't about to give the Hall of Fame much in the way of memorabilia related to his infamous accomplishment, doesn't control the lineup cards.
But what will be more valuable and important? The lineup card from Bonds' record-breaking game or the jury list for his anticipated trial on perjury and income tax evasion after an indictment that is expected before the end of the year?
The moment of 756 came shortly before midnight Eastern time, when Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik, who already had allowed a double and a single to Bonds earlier in the game, appeared to be in control. With a 3-2 count in the fifth inning and the score tied at 4-4, Bonds drove a pitch deep into the San Francisco night, and the ballpark erupted. Bacsik's shoulders dropped as soon as the ball left the bat, and so did a country — in relief, indifference and sadness.
The Barry Bonds party will close up shop now. The national media horde that has followed him won't get out of San Francisco fast enough, though it will reconvene again for the second part of this celebration, which will take place in a San Francisco courthouse.
I wonder whether commissioner Bud Selig will be there for that event, standing on the courthouse steps, hands in his pocket like he was Saturday night when Bonds tied Aaron with No. 755. The only thing better would have been had Cadillac Bud — who can hide his hands but can't hide the stain of the steroid era on them — turned his back as Bonds rounded the bases.
Will he give Bonds the same hearty endorsement he did in the days leading up to the record-breaker: "All citizens in this country are innocent until proven guilty."
Inspiring. A "Field of Dreams" moment, a line right out of "The Natural."
Aaron finally made his presence felt, though not in person. On a video tribute played when the game was stopped for the brief celebration, he said, "I would like to offer my congratulations to Barry Bonds. It is a great accomplishment. I move over now and offer my best wishes to Barry and his family on this historical achievement."
Aaron said a lot more to Bonds during last year's World Series, though he never mentioned his name. Aaron was talking to the recipients of the Hank Aaron Award on the dais — Ryan Howard and Derek Jeter — but he was clearly talking about Bonds.
"I think most of us have to realize that we owe much more than just hitting home runs on the field," Aaron said. "We owe a lot to our kids. We owe a lot to our fellow man, and you do have a tremendous duty to continue your job as far as baseball on and off the field."
Aaron went on to say to both men that "I think this award means much more than just presenting an award to two great players. I think that you, more than anybody, have realized that what you do on the field means little or nothing to what you do off the field."
Despite last night's celebration, the Giants' organization is focused on another day: Sept. 30, the last day of the season, the day the Giants will get their franchise back.
It likely will be the last day — despite the insistence he wants to play next year — Barry Bonds will wear a major league baseball uniform.
On that day, I think Cadillac Bud will take his hands out of his pockets and applaud. He won't be alone.


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NFL Preview - Seattle (3-5) at Arizona (5-3)
By Scott Garbarini, Associate NFL Editor
(Sports Network) - The Arizona Cardinals have put on a mighty impressive show whenever they've taken their act to another city this season. The team's local fans probably don't feel as if they've gotten their money's worth, however.
The ever-puzzling Cardinals hope to put an end to their recent home-field disadvantage when the defending Super Bowl participants entertain the Seattle Seahawks this Sunday in a key NFC West clash from University of Phoenix Stadium.
Arizona had been quite formidable as a home team during the first two years of head coach Ken Whisenhunt's tenure, having compiled a 12-4 regular-season record along with a pair of playoff victories over that span. The Cardinals have veered off course in that department thus far in 2009, however, with only a miraculous late goal-line stand in a Week 5 win over Houston preventing Whisenhunt's charges from carrying a startling 0-4 mark at University of Phoenix Stadium into Sunday's showdown.
In contrast, the Cardinals have performed like world-beaters on the road through the first half of the 2009 campaign, a stark reversal of fortune from previous years. Last weekend's 41-21 trouncing of the Chicago Bears at Solider Field improved Arizona to 4-0 in enemy venues this season, with three of those triumphs coming by double-digit margins.
The Seahawks can personally attest to Arizona's sudden prowess as the visitor. When these two divisional foes squared off in Seattle on October 18, the Cardinals cruised to a 27-3 victory behind a dominating defensive effort and a sharp showing from veteran quarterback Kurt Warner.
Arizona rendered an impotent Seattle offense to a mere 128 total yards in that game, including a franchise-worst 14 on the ground. On the other side of the ball, Warner and his stellar corps of receivers were able to successfully navigate a Seahawks secondary, with the two-time league MVP throwing for 276 yards and two scores while completing 32-of-41 attempts, 13 of which landed in the sure hands of All-Pro wideout Larry Fitzgerald.
The Warner-Fitzgerald combo was even more deadly in this past Sunday's rout of the Bears, as the seasoned signal-caller matched a career high with five touchdown strikes and the dynamic receiver toasted Chicago for 123 yards and two scores on nine catches.
Warner bounced back strongly from a wretched day in the Cardinals' 34-21 home loss to Carolina the week prior, in which the 38-year-old was picked off five times and lost a fumble. Like his team, Warner usually hasn't played up to par at University of Phoenix Stadium, where he's tossed nine interceptions in Arizona's four outings this year.
Seattle comes in two games behind the first-place Cardinals in the NFC West standings and is looking to build off the momentum generated from last week's come-from-behind win over visiting Detroit. After a series of early mistakes spotted the Lions a 17-0 first-quarter lead, the Seahawks erupted for 25 consecutive points to avert a potentially devastating defeat.
An opportunistic Seahawk defense intercepted Lions rookie Matt Stafford five times to help back a season-best 329 passing yards from quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who finished the afternoon having completed a club-record 39 passes.
Seattle will now attempt to bring that high level of play to the road, where the team has been outscored by a 95-44 margin in losing all three of its games during the first half. Dating back to last season, the Seahawks have dropped six of their last seven tilts as the guest.
The Cardinals lead the series with the Seahawks, 12-9, and have won three straight over their division rival including the aforementioned 27-3 road rout of Seattle in Week 6. Arizona swept last year's home-and-home, coming up a 26-20 winner at Qwest Field in Week 11, and completing the sweep with a 34-21 win at home in Week 17. Seattle last defeated the Cardinals at home in 2007, a 42-21 triumph. The Hawks are 0-3 in Arizona since last winning there in 2005.
Whisenhunt is 4-1 against the Seahawks since taking over in Arizona. Seattle's Jim Mora was 2-0 against Arizona during his tenure with the Falcons (2004-06), and will be facing Whisenhunt for the first time head-to-head.
Faced with a big early deficit and a running game that was non-existent, the Seahawks put their faith in Hasselbeck (1307 passing yards, 10 TD, 4 INT) last week and were rewarded for that trust. The three-time Pro Bowl honoree fought through an aching shoulder to connect on 39-of-51 throws, none bigger than a two-yard touchdown toss to wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh (41 receptions, 3 TD) in the third quarter that put Seattle ahead to stay. Hasselbeck also made good use of his checkdown options, as running backs Julius Jones (382 rushing yards, 20 receptions, 4 total TD) and Justin Forsett (123 rushing yards, 16 receptions) and fullback Justin Griffith (9 receptions, 1 TD) each had at least five catches against the Lions and combined for over 150 yards receiving. Wide receiver Nate Burleson (45 receptions, 562 yards, 3 TD) has been Hasselbeck's primary target this season, but was held to just two receptions by the Cardinals in last month's loss. Hasselbeck had a miserable game as well, completing a subpar 10-of-29 passes for 112 yards while being sacked five times, while Jones mustered a paltry five yards on five carries against a swarming Arizona front. Seattle was without two valued starters up front for that matchup in left tackle Sean Locklear and left guard Rob Sims, both of whom are now healthy and ready to play.
Jones isn't the only back who's found the yards hard to come by against the Arizona defense this year. The Cardinals have yielded just 93.1 rushing yards per game (3rd overall) so far in 2009, although the team was gashed for 270 yards on the ground in a loss to Carolina two weeks back. Expect the Seahawks to attack a unit that's given up the fourth-most passing yards in the league (247.3 ypg) and allowed 347 net yards through the air to a Chicago offense playing mostly in comeback mode a week ago. Arizona did sack the Bears' Jay Cutler four times and intercepted him once, though, and has gotten to opposing quarterbacks a respectable 21 times over the course of the season's first half. Towering end Calais Campbell (28 tackles, 3.5 sacks) had 1 1/2 sacks of Hasselbeck in the Week 6 win and is tied with veteran outside linebacker and ex-Seahawk Chike Okeafor (25 tackles, 3.5 sacks) for the team lead in that category. Inside linebacker Karlos Dansby (57 tackles, 0.5 sacks) tops the Cards in tackles and is one of a host of difference-makers on defense, along with two-time Pro Bowl strong safety Adrian Wilson (36 tackles, 1 INT, 0.5 sacks) and disruptive lineman Darnell Dockett (26 tackles, 2 sacks). Arizona did play last week's contest without starting linebacker Gerald Hayes (40 tackles) due to back spasms, and it's unclear as to whether he'll be able to come back for Sunday's game.
As the most pass-oriented team in the NFL this season, Arizona's success has essentially been determined by how Warner (2175 passing yards, 16 TD, 11 INT) performs under center, and the aging triggerman's up-and-down play has been reflected in his club's week-to-week inconsistency. Help could be on the way, however, as the offense has lately been showing signs of reviving a ground attack that's been dormant for most of the year. The Cardinals put up 182 rushing yards on the Bears last week, far and away their best output of the season, and rookie running back Chris Wells (310 rushing yards, 1 TD, 4 receptions) appears to be developing into an impact player after a slow beginning to his career. The first-round draft choice had a career-best 72 yards on 13 carries against Chicago and has averaged 5.3 yards per attempt over the past three weeks while splitting duties with starter Tim Hightower (283 rushing yards, 5 TD, 40 receptions). An effective running game would make Fitzgerald (56 receptions, 632 yards, 7 TD) and fellow wideouts Anquan Boldin (35 receptions, 1 TD) and Steve Breaston (35 receptions, 2 TD) an even greater chore to contain. Boldin, one of the game's toughest and most physical receivers, is ready to return from a nagging ankle sprain that caused the Cardinals to deactivate him for last week's win.
A Seattle defense that had come up with only three interceptions over the first seven games nearly doubled that number in last Sunday's victory over Detroit, with cornerback Josh Wilson (22 tackles, 1 INT, 8 PD) taking the last of the team's five picks 61 yards for a game-sealing touchdown in the final minute. The Seahawks will be aiming to force a few mistakes out of Warner on Sunday by unleashing proven pass rusher Patrick Kerney (16 tackles, 4 sacks), who sacked the Arizona quarterback twice in last month's meeting, and emerging sophomore Lawrence Jackson (17 tackles, 4 sacks) off the edges, a task that would be made easier if they're able to stuff the run. Seattle limited Hightower and Wells to a combined 65 yards on 25 rushes in the Week 6 clash, although that still didn't prevent Warner and Fitzgerald from having big games. The Seahawks were without their top cover corner, Marcus Trufant (7 tackles, 1 INT), for that contest, however, and weakside linebacker Leroy Hill (14 tackles) also didn't play because of a groin injury. Both players have since returned and have provided a boost to a defense that's also received excellent play out of new middle linebacker David Hawthorne (45 tackles, 3 sacks, 3 INT), who's replaced the injured Lofa Tatupu at the all-important position. The undrafted free agent came up with nine tackles and two interceptions of Stafford in last weekend's win.
Both teams figure to air it out early and often come Sunday, making both Warner and Hasselbeck attractive plays at the quarterback spot and upping the value of some of the receivers who usually aren't sure-fire fantasy starters, players such as Burleson, Houshmandzadeh and Breaston. Barring injury, there's never any question as to whether or not Fitzgerald should be in weekly lineups, but Boldin owners may want to investigate other options with the possibility that he's still not 100 percent. Take a chance on Seahawks tight end John Carlson (33 receptions, 2 TD), however, as he'll be going up against a Cardinals defense that allowed three touchdowns to Chicago's Greg Olsen last week. Although Wells has been coming on strong as of late, Hightower is still the Arizona back to own right now due to his receiving skills and being the favorite for goal-line work. Don't count on a wealth of rushing yards out of Seattle's Jones, but he should get enough touches to warrant consideration at the flex position.
Are the Cardinals due for yet another letdown on the heels of a big win? It's not outside of the realm of possibility, provided the Seahawks' defense can force mistakes like it did last week and the front line can give Hasselbeck ample time to dissect a secondary that's shown vulnerability at times. Warner's not some fresh-faced rookie, however, and Arizona's easy victory in Seattle just a few weeks back says a lot about the talent differential between these two teams. The Seahawks are healthier than that earlier meeting and will be more competitive this time around, but the Cardinals usually show up for games that mean something and have a little extra motivation after a series of duds in their own building.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Cardinals 24, Seahawks 17
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