It's Me, Sara Louise

{Mrs.London’s, Napoleon, in Fifty’s superhero hand-me-downs}

Yesterday morning that is.

It started at 5:30. I was awake and felt refreshed so I thought, OK, I guess I just go ahead and get up.

As walked into the kitchen I spotted an empty juice carton on the counter. Unhappy thoughts started racing through my mind. Unhappy thoughts like… oh no, Gregory finished the juice and I bet he didn’t put another one in the fridge, because he never does.

FYI: In France a lot of the juice is sold non-refrigerated, it doesn’t go into the fridge until you get home. I’m telling you this because I feel like this piece of information is vital for the story. 

But then I opened the fridge and there it was, a brand new carton of juice. The Husband had actually put a carton of juice in there! I can’t explain to you what a big deal this is, it’s a small victory. I, Sara Louise, have managed to teach an old dog a new trick. Score one for me. Next up, teaching the old dog to put the empty carton in the recycling bin instead of leaving it on the counter. Baby steps people, baby steps.

So after my chilled glass of juice, I sat down to check my Facebook, and I saw that little red ‘1’ hovering above the Friend Request button… well who can that be? It was Aidan’s Aunt who leaves me sweet comments from time to time. I smiled and melted a bit. Call me a sap, but it made me feel good and squishy, so confirmed I did. I’m a firm believer that one can never have too many Aunties… even adopted ones.

While I was seeing what my scattered to the four corners friends have been up to, I noticed a link to an article and it was entitled, Before Midnight. “No, no it cannot be. It simply cannot be”, I thought. But it was. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy have just finished filming Before Midnight, the final chapter in the Before Sunrise trilogy (The 1995 in me was so happy, I almost started to Tootsee Roll). DO YOU REALIZE WHAT A BIG DEAL THIS IS PEOPLE?! (I’m using caps because I’m shouting). Seventeen years after the first film, it is finally coming to a close and oh my heavens I’m old.

From there, my elated self moved on to Twitter where there was tweet for me from Marissa at The Boot that simply said “you’re the woman” (I had helped her with a Downton Abbey emergency. Downton emergencies can be serious stuff you know). Let me tell you something, being called ‘the woman’ at an unholy hour on a Friday morning makes that unholy hour feel a whole lot better.

Next I popped on to this here space (that’s my morning pattern… FB, Twitter, blog) and there was a comment from Nantucket Daffodil letting me know that I had won $100 to spend on a ShopBop purchase. Lordy Lordy that’s a fantastic surprise! $100 to shop for pretty things from the comfort of my couch… why yes please and thank you for making my day.

Immediately I logged into my gmail to send Ms.Daffodil an email and there was a message from Liene at Femme au Foyer. Well Liene has just read a book called Adventure Divas and she said that I should read it too, but more importantly, I should write my own book about my own adventures, and I thought, “well isn’t that a lovely thing for somebody to say”. So maybe I will, maybe I will.

And that was my morning. All of these wonderful little somethings happened before 6am.
It truly was a fuzzy wuzzy fantastic way to kick off the day.

bisou