I just turned 28 on Sunday (I get to share a birthday with Our Lady!), and I thought it would be fun to share a few fun random facts about me that I don’t think I’ve shared before. Because blogs exist so you can blather on about yourself, right? Ahem.
1. Earl Grey is my favorite tea. It reminds me of early mornings researching Old French hagiography for my senior thesis, which I found…inexplicably fun. It also reminds me of Caption Picard because I admit to a deep and enduring love for Star Trek TNG. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
2. When I’m sick, I want to watch Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Brigadoon. They are such campy and great musicals. But Daniel didn’t watch them when he was little and he finds Seven Brides absolutely horrifying. I guess it kind of is. Abduct women and get them to fall in love with you? Yeah. Super creepy…..but makes you want to burst into song!
3. I hate watermelon. I know. It’s the best. I’m missing out. I can’t help it.
4. When I was little my life’s ambition was to be Eponine in Les Miserables on Broadway.
5. I have a hard time understanding poetry and Russian authors. Doesn’t mean I don’t like them, they’re just hard for me.
6. I’ve always wanted a bunch of kids. I think this desire started when I read Little Men and Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott and imagined tucking little ones in bed who would promptly fall asleep. Then I would check on them and lamplight would fall on their angelic sleeping faces. It’s not exactly how bedtime works around here, in case you were wondering.
7. Felicity is my favorite American Girl, but let’s be real. The Molly books are best.
8. Brideshead Revisited is my favorite novel. Hands down.
9. My freshman year in college my friends and I went to about 234309 bajillion concerts in Austin (and if you’re my parents reading this, just ignore this. I was studying ALL. THE. TIME. Never left my dorm.) One time we got to hang out with Badly Drawn Boy and I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Now I only like shows that are over by 8pm and I get to sit down the whole time. Oh well. At least I haven’t succumbed to listening to the terrifying genre of KIDZ MUSIC. It’s sacred music, indie rock, classical, or bluegrass for you, Stewart younglings!
10. I’ve never had cable in my life ever. And I don’t think I’ve missed anything.
11. Much Ado About Nothing is my favorite Shakespeare play.
12. In my former life, I was a ballerina. I was Clara in the Nutcracker one year so…yeah…be super impressed. My feet are still deformed from pointe shoes.
13. I once presented a paper and participated in a panel discussion on Jane Austen at a conference at Notre Dame and Alasdair MacIntyre was there. It’s ok if you don’t know who he is. But I was freaking out because he is an incredible philosopher and writes about Jane Austen and virtue theory in his famous book After Virtue. He asked a few questions, one of the other girls on the panel almost fainted, and then the jokes about smelling salts commenced. It was pretty epic.
14. I’ve always wanted a spinning wheel. I know. Weird. Can’t explain it.
15. If you don’t want to see me cry a lot, don’t watch Little Women with me. Just thinking about the music and the opening credits makes me tear up. My only beef with it is why, oh why, does grown up Amy look so old and NOTHING like young Amy (Kirsten Dunst)?
16. My favorite cocktail is a gin and tonic with extra lime, please.
1. Happy Birthday! I hope you had a marvelous day.
2. Earl Grey is my favorite tea!
3. I love Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! My sister & I grew up watching it. So good.
13. So awesome. I love Jane Austen. I wish I could have seen the panel!
God bless you!
I hate watermelon too! It tastes like NOTHING! So glad there are others out there that agree.
Russians make me sad and poetry takes me a couple times. I feel much better knowing I’m not the only one. 🙂
I’m trying to read one Russian novel a year until I can get over this! I think it’s just culturally difficult for me to understand? Not sure. And yes, poetry. I think I have a hard time slowing down enough. Daniel, on the other hand, is a poetry whiz ; )
Oh my goodness…let’s be friends! I love Molly books, Much Ado About Nothing, Earl Grey, and Seven Brides! And I had a supplemental major in philosophy which meant I got to take a class with Macintyre and that accent made me walk out of class feeling so much smarter than I was! Love that man and spent the semester in awe of him…
I’m sooooo jealous of your MacIntyre class. That conference was the only time I’ve been to Notre Dame and I so wished I could go to school there!
Happy birthday! Many happy returns!
When I’m sick I always watch Pride and Prejudice (the one with Colin Firth). Nothing like some Austen to make you forget you’re sick! My husband was never into P&P before but after a few joint sick days he got into it. He thinks he and Mr. Bennett would be bffs in real life. When our daughter was a newborn I overheard him telling her, “You may be a Lizzie or a Jane. We’ll even take a Mary. But you may not be a Lydia or that other one.”
Eva, that is the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard!
Ahhhh! Dying of preciousness! Daniel is a good sport about watching my miniseries with me, but wasn’t ever super interested in seeing P&P. Then we started watching it and he loved it. It was so fun to share together.
fun list! I am surprised I relate with a lot of these (just because they are sort of random!) from earl grey to eponine (ok, middle school, and there were a whole bunch of us who would sing on my own and a little fall of rain while waiting for the activity bus) to crying at little women. Fun!
Ps, the macintyre story is very cool!
On My Own ALL THE TIME. 🙂
Ok, you were a *real* ballerina for sure, but otherwise, check check and check. 😉 Austen-Alcott-Waugh-Earl Grey (did you know there’s a ‘Lady Gray’ tea? yum)…I was never cool enough to go to a million concerts though. Thanks for the share 🙂
WordPress thinks I’ve already made this comment. hmm. it wouldn’t post it. so I’m rambling to make it different than the imaginary one I supposedly already posted…:P
What a fun post. (Would make a great link-up? You seem so academic and smart with your background – no wonder you are such a good writer.
My favorite drink is a gin and tonic with extra lime, too! The best! (I especially like it when my husband makes mine 😉
Again, happy birthday! May God grant you many, happy years.
A link-up! That would be a fun idea. What would we call it?
And agreed. Husband-made G&Ts are the best 🙂
Number 4 – me too!!! It sort of still is…
And lol to number 6. No kidding.
I love posts like this 🙂
I took a class with MacIntyre my senior year at ND and it was definitely one of the best I took during my entire college career–I’m super jealous you got to be on a panel on JANE with him! How cool!
I also love Brideshead, Much Ado is my favorite Shakespeare comedy, love me a good G&T, and had to force my way through The Brothers Karamozov, at which point I decided I would never force my way through another Russian novel again. Yay for kindred spirits!
And happy birthday! 28 is a great year!
Oh I’m so jealous you got to take his class. To clarify, he came to hear our panel, he wasn’t on the panel or else I would have lost my mind, haha.
Kindred spirits, indeed!
1. Happy birthday! We’re the same age! Earl Grey is my favorite, too!
3. I have to admit, I don’t know what the big deal is about watermelon.
4. My favorite character from that musical!
5. I love poetry, and I haven’t yet delved into the Russian authors (a book club for around 2014 is pending). Do you subscribe to Dappled Things?
7. Mine, too! I regretted for many years going with Kirsten (I was in a blond-hair, blue-eyes phase when I was seven)–later I became fascinated with colonial times and transitioned into redhead love. Plus she has the little curls–so adorable! But Kirsten must have been the beginning of my inexplicable love for all things Scandinavian, so I regret no more. I have her entire collection, asked for nothing else for birthdays and Christmases for years. The Molly books are wonderful, but I think they’re tied with Addy’s.
8. No contest!
9. Elizabeth Mitchell has a lovely children’s music CD that is more folk than anything–lovely! And why is bluegrass so much better than country? It just is!
11. Really? Better than Hamlet?!
14. ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love Dappled Things! I’m one issue behind in my reading, though. I saw on your blog that you have a poem in the new issue?!
Yes, it’s under L.C. Ricardo (my official, “publishing name”)!
Seriously exciting!
1. Oh my gosh! I grew up on Star Trek TNG as well–my older brother is still a very geeky Trekkie. We had the action figures and the uniforms and “played” Star Trek in the backyard…I was always Dr. Crusher, per my very early interest in medicine 🙂 I do wish they’d had a prominent nurse on the show though…Oh, and my dad will still stand in front of the microwave before pushing start to make his Earl Grey and recite the whole Picard bit in a mocking way.
3. Agreed. But I love watermelon-flavored candy. And I have now decided that I can eat pieces of it in fruit salad or something because there isn’t enough flavor and I’m picky about fruit anyway.
6. Me too, but I have no explanation for where that came from. As a kid I never spent my allowance and told my parents I planned to buy Biltmore when I was grown and live in it with my 26 children or something. No idea where I got that but it has persisted.
7. I had Kirsten (I read an article once about what your AG says about you and apparently Kirstens love old-fashioned things and pioneering and whatnot so I guess that’s right). I won Felicity at an AG fashion show (what what!) and she’s probably my 2nd fave. Agreed on the Molly books though. I still read them. Nerd.
Well, Dr. Crusher is really the ONLY good choice. Counselor Troy (Troi?) is laaaaaaame. Or at least I always thought so.
And my mom still has all the American Girl books at her house. I’ve been thinking about asking for them so I can read them again. But I might wait until Lucy is 3 or 4 and she and Benjamin can both listen to them as read alouds.
#4? YES. I knew I liked you. 🙂
Also #3 (though I hate cantaloupe more) and #8 (but I don’t know about “hands down”). But I’ve never seen Brigadoon or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Yet. 🙂
Cantaloupe is the worst! I’m glad we can agree on this important point. And I’m bolstered by all the watermelon haters that are coming forward. I’ve tried to like it. I really have 🙂
A few notes on Brigadoon: It’s wonderful because it has Gene Kelly and Gene Kelly is simply THE BEST. The music is great and Cyd Cherise is just the most beautiful dancer/human ever. BUT she has the universe’s worst Scottish accent. It’s just. so. bad. I can’t even….just watch it. You’ll see what I mean. It hurts me inside.
I’m now trying to think of this Jane Austen panel at Notre Dame. A student group I was in did a Jane Austen film festival one year (I was at SMC, but the group was at ND) but I know that wasn’t it. When was the conference? I wonder if we’ve ever crossed paths! My husband took a class with MacIntyre as well and the stories from it were always so entertaining. I personally would have panicked most of the time. (I took a class *on* MacIntyre but got all nervous when I was introduced to him one day…)
Happy belated birthday and I simply loved this!
Oh and one last thing… I love Brideshead. Love it. However, I haven’t finished it yet. I’m somewhere in the second half where they are on the cruise I think? I just lost interest. Tell me it is worth pushing through?? I know it is but man, I’m struggling. I started reading it over a year ago…
It was the Ethics and Culture conference in…2007? I think? I think the theme that year was “dialogue of cultures.” Not quite sure how we finagled Miss Austen into there, but hey! She’s always relevant, right? 🙂
We heard the night before we presented that MacIntyre was going to come to our panel. We were just undergrads and I was terrified. I think I went back to the room and rewrote my whole paper. But he was super nice to us. And the Q & A afterward was so fun because people love Austen and everybody has an opinion on Austen and virtue (I presented on piety, another gal presented on proper pride, and I can’t remember the last topic.) Afterward, we heard the director of the Center for Ethics and Culture lean over to MacIntyre and say, “That was probably the most fun thing at the conference.” And MacIntyre replied in his amazing accent, “Oh, undoubtedly.” Would it be overstating it to say it was the best moment of my life? Well, it was pretty cool.
As for Brideshead, it all comes together in the last 40 pages. Sail on! It’s soooo good and so worth it to push through. And then, reward yourself by watching the perfectly faithful and wonderful miniseries starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews and be sure to always shun the feature length Andrew Davies adaption starring Emma Thompson because it’s the worst thing. THE WORST. I can’t even….I’ll stop.
Oh my! I almost missed such a wonderful reply! Well, yes, we definitely crossed paths as I was at that conference. 😉 I went every year I was in school and that was my senior year! I don’t remember going to a Jane Austen panel (what was I thinking…) but still sort of fun! I’ve been back a few times since then too, though I usually sit in the lobby and catch up with friends the whole time. Not going to lie, I make it to one or two panels.
My husband and I use to joke about the the CEC conference is always a mashup of random (but good!) things so it does not shock in me the slightest that Austen showed up at the dialogue of cultures! 🙂
I will push on with Brideshead! Thank you!
How cool! Wish we had bumped into each other 🙂
Do you just want a spinning wheel, or do you want to learn to spin? I can help! 🙂
Both! I know I should probably start with a drop spindle, right? I also feel like I should learn to knit something other than scarves……Thoughts?
Knitting and spinning are only related in a rather oblique way – plenty of spinners do it for the process and never actually knit their own yarn at all. Many people do find it’s easier to start on a spindle, because you can learn the hand motions without worrying about your feet. I have, however, heard of one person who was completely unable to grasp drop-spindling, and then picked up spinning on the wheel with no problem. When I first started drop-spindling I loved Connie Delaney’s book; it’s very thourough. It’s out of print, but you can probably find a copy on Amazon. I believe Pricilla Gibson-Roberts’ book (High Whorling?) is also very good. I haven’t read that one myself. Spindles are super-easy to make, and you can find directions all over the internet. If you like a more traditional look, you can use all wooden pieces from the home improvement store. If you’d like something a little flashier google “cd drop spindle”. Those are supposed to work quite well. If you want my favorite sources for roving, let me know! One more thing: I personally prefer a high-whorl spindle, because I find it’s easier to spin it by rolling it down my leg, rather than having to carefully reach past the thread to grab the shaft with my fingers. This debate is sort of akin to the “straights or circulars” one in knitting circles, but that’s my two cents for what it is worth.
Whenever I read your posts, I always think to myself that I would love to sit down and have coffee (or maybe a cup of Earl Grey) with you sometime because I relate to so much of what you write. Happy belated birthday to you! I hope it was a good one.
1. Earl Grey is my favorite tea, too. (My English grandmother always tells me she doesn’t know how I can drink it.) Captain Picard’s love of Earl Grey is just one of many reasons why I will defend him to the death as the best Star Trek captain ever. (Sorry, Kirk.)
3. I agree with you on the watermelon. Most overrated fruit ever.
10. When I was in college, I lived in an apartment where cable was included in the rent. I still almost never watched it. I didn’t have cable again after that until I got married.
Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon! How I wish we could have one big Carrots meet up and all get to hang out 🙂
I second Christie’s elizabeth Mitchell recommendstion!
Happy birthday!! Earl grey is totally the best! I used to drink it and eat dark chocolate while watching classic Doctor Who. 🙂
Also, #11 Much Ado is my favorite too (closely tied with the Tempest though), and #15 Um, YES. Grown-up Amy has always bothered me SO MUCH. Looked different, acted different, sounded different … the two were nothing alike.
Thank you! I’m glad someone was as bothered by grown-up Amy as I was. But I still watch it every Christmas. Partly because that’s how it begins and partly because my mom took me to see it on Christmas Day when it opened in theatres. I was maybe 7 or 8? Sweet memory.
You should see the stage musical for Seven Brides. It was adapted from the movie (I think in the 1980’s), but the adapting was done by writers of the original movie’s generation, so all the changes fit the original ethos. The story is actually a bit better and more complex. The conflict between Adam and Millie is clearly one of different values (yet Adam is a sympathetic character) and Millie’s devotion to her marriage is inspiring.
It’s a good show. Silly, yes, but happy and sweet.
I’ve seen it once! But it was a long time ago. A local high school performed it and actually did a really great job with the material.
I have wonderful kids/family music for you that you will LOVE… The Okee Dokee Brothers, their disc Can You Canoe? won the Grammy this year for Childrens/Familiy. Check it out, you will love it, its bluegrass and its SO good and my husband and I love it just as much as our kids do.
Also try Paul Spring, Home of Song. That disc is almost as good as the Okees. Enjoy!
I LOVE THAT SONG! I also like “I Like Yaks” by Roger Day… not bluegrass, but stinking hilarious. “They’re the major players throughout the Himalayas/ All the hip Nepalese drink their milk and eat their cheese…” Can you get any more wonderful?
I will be sure to check out your suggestions! I occasionally cave in to VeggieTales, but I’m not sure my kids know other children’s music exists because most of it makes me want to die.
Well, we did know we’d make great in-real-life friends. =)
1. Oh yes. My mama started a tradition when I was in 4th or 5th grade where she’d pause our homeschooling day to enjoy a pot of tea as a family almost daily. Often it was Earl Grey. It’s one of those lovely warm teas that makes one want to hunker down with a great book.
2. Haven’t seen Brigadoon, but LOVE 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. It’s kind of a family (extended that is) fave.
Eva – we also were huge P + P watchers whenever an illness arose.
3. + 5. I can’t agree. Though I think it’s funny that you being from Florida don’t love watermelon, and I, from NY, enjoy it.
4. Yes. Or Fantine. I was mostly for the dramatic, dying characters when young.
7. I owned Molly because she looked the most like me, but I always wanted Felicity, too. I did have all her books.
10. Me neither.
12. I did dance, but then I stopped. Does it count that I’m related to a gaggle of dancers and one is on his way to being a professional?
15. So sad. I concur. I think that was the first sad-enough-to-make-me-cry movie I ever watched. Speaking of which, I haven’t seen it in FOREVER. Time for a rewatch!
Sometimes we have an afternoon tea party and the kids love it! Well, Benjamin loves it and Lucy loves it until I make her stop licking the sugar bowl and she dumps her tea on the floor in protest.
And yes to making great real life friends. 🙂
Oh! And the Jane Austen panel is how I met your cousins! They were so very wonderful and I remember confessing to them that I wanted to convert.
I LOVE Seven Brides for Seven Brothers too! But I’m going to have to disagree on the American Girl front; Kirsten all the way. 😉
I do love the Christmas book about Kirsten and I started dressing up as Saint Lucia every December 13th and making cinnamon rolls from one of those Pillsbury cans to serve. And I made my own little crown out of evergreens. No wonder I named my daughter Lucy 🙂
Haley. I too freakin love Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. I know all the words. Watermelon is so overrated its ridiculous. And that MacIntyre story is awesome. And why do they do that in Little Women?!? They don’t get an old, completely different looking Christian Bale?!?
Christy, I think we agree on all the most important things in life. Honestly, it brings joy to my life just knowing you exist 🙂
Happy birthday! I love those same campy musicals. Try not to think of the abduction of ladies part. But now I will have “Go Home with Bonny Jean” stuck in my head alllllll day.
I was Bonny Jean in a high school production of it! It was like a childhood dream come true! I really want to buy both of them now to share with the kids. If I introduce it to them while they’re young, maybe they won’t be so horrified, haha.
Oh and I am totally going to get Brideshead Revisited now.
YES!
Ditto on the G&T. Delish.
I wish we could have a Carrots readers meet up that lasted all day long. Coffee in the morning, Earl Grey in the afternoon, and G&Ts in the evening. Chatting all day with children crawling everywhere 🙂
YES on so many items. My birthday was Sept 3, and turned 29. Happy birthday to you! Twenty-eight was hit or miss for me, I hope it treats you better!
I have a spinning wheel, but alas I live in south Texas where just about the last thing I need is more woolen items. If you really want to learn how to spin, you can easily make a drop spindle from a wooden dowel rod, a cup hook and a craft store wooden wheel. That’s what I did before I got a spinning wheel, and I really did enjoy spinning that way. The whole thing is so portable that you end up getting more spinning done than you do with a spinning wheel….though not sure how that works with babies in tow as I did my spinning pre-Lillian Clare. You can dye wool in a crock pot with Kool Aid, so that’s an added bonus!
That’s a great idea, Rachel! Maybe I’ll ask for one for Christmas 🙂
And yes…in Florida….I don’t exactly need woolen items ever….make stuff for my Canadian blogging friends?
Where in Texas? We lived in Central Texas (Waco) for a few years.
I live in Devine now, which is near to San Antonio. I never did live in Waco, but I did live in Austin when I went to UT. When I lived in Austin I didn’t go to ANY shows, but I probably would’ve liked to if I’d had spending money 😉
(Happy Birthday!) Oh, man, Haley, you had me dancing in my chair! Seven Brides was my *favorite* movie when I was a little girl, and I always demanded to watch it when I was sick. I’ve been working on getting my niece and nephew to love it (though I agree, it is a little horrifying)..
Much Ado About Nothing is my favorite Shakespeare play! If I find out someone I’m close to claims to dislike Shakespeare, I start reading from that and exclaiming over the absolute adorableness of Benedick and Beatrice. (Have you seen the Kenneth Branagh version? I swoon!)
And Rachel S is totally right about a portable spindle. That’s how I learned to spin (can’t afford a wheel), and it’s so gratifying to knit with homespun. It’s definitely worth looking into. With a pot of Earl Gray on the side. Mmmmm…
I love that version of MAAN! I always adore how cute Benedick and Beatrice are and think “Aww, they’re married in real life!” and then I remember that they’re not anymore because Kenneth Branaugh ran off with Bellatrix Lestrange and then I get sad for sweet Emma Thompson…then I remember that she got to marry Willoughby, and then I can’t decide how to feel about any of it, haha.
Loved and was obsessed with Eponine. Was just telling my husband I hate watermelon. Love Brideshead. Love your list! Earl Grey forever! 🙂
FYI, one of the very few shops in the entire US to sell spinning wheels and all the accoutrements (including alpaca and angora wool) is in….Downtown Tville! What?! I know. You should go. On Jackson St. I took Wim while we were reading “The Princess and the Goblin” so she’d know what “spinning” was. They people there are amazingly sweet and even let Wim spin some wool into thread on a giant wheel! Bonus…really sweet cat that adores kids and a tiny used bookstore in the same location. New Voyager Trading Co.
Also, I abhor Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. (From a terrible middle school production…)
That is so cool! I think I’ve passed that store driving into T’Ville and wondered what it is! I just love The Princess and the Goblin.
It’s such a weird musical and I can’t imagine how weird as a middle school production, haha.
AND…I was totally there to witness Clara, and you were awesome ; )
You’re a sweetie pie. We had fun, didn’t we?
BLESS HER BEAUTIFUL HIDE, WHEREVER SHE MAY BE! oh my gosh…love that movie. especially the dance at the barn raising. 🙂 Also, love Brigadoon. Oh the music. Such great movies, sure to cheer a sick person up!
One summer when we were kids, my sister, two cousins and I watched Seven Brides every day. As an adult, it is a bit weird, but I still love it. 🙂 I haven’t read Brideshead yet, but you may convince me to if you keep talking it up. Little Women always makes me cry, too. Why did Beth have to die??
Molly was good- but I liked Kirsten best. The pioneer-ness, you know. I never actually had an American Girl doll… (because then each of my three sisters would have to have one, and those things are pricey!) but we read all the books. Literally. All.
Much Ado About Nothing was hands-down the most-watched movie of my high school years (yes, I’ve read the play too) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was one of the most-watched movies of my college years. I want to break out in “Bless her beautiful hide!” every time the latter is mentioned. I love, love, love them both.
Both are so good! I think Daniel is also horrified by 7 Brides because they cut off all their great beards…haha
yes!! pretty sure i’ve claimed numbesr 3, 6 and 15 my entire life. although i have to claim samantha as my favorite. you know, same name and all.
I just recently found your blog and after reading this list, I KNOW we would be friends, even though I’m old enough to be your mom. (Age is only a number and my kids think I’m a little weird because I’m a total geek, and I honestly can’t believe this is how old I am!) Anyway, thanks for this fun list. It’s so great to meet you.
2. Love “Seven Brides.” Yes, it was once a sensitive topic. But in my mind, a few thousand years is safely out of the “too soon” timeframe. Because who doesn’t want to see guys dance ballet while twirling axes?!
13. Pretty sweet. I mean, I’ve heard A. M. speak, but he’s never heard me speak. I’d be pumped (or just embarrassed?) if he had!
If you still live in the Austin area I know a place where you can get a spinning wheel or two.
Dixie’s Antique Shop on Hwy 71 between Bastrop and Smithville.
We actually moved back home to Florida about three years ago. I miss the restaurants! 🙂
I just want to say a few things: 1. Why am I just now “meeting” your blog? 2. All these random facts about you make me really want to meet you. 3. Happy birthday. 4. I’m now following you because I couldn’t not follow you after reading all these. Make sense? Didn’t think so.
Glad I found my way here.
PS Don’t you kind of love the name Gideon after Seven Brides for Seven Brothers?
Haha! Yes! Love the name Gideon now!
So glad you’re here, Martha 🙂
So, just started reading your blog…why didn’t I start sooner, dangit?! I totally share your love for watching LW and SB for SB (I always hope someday to act in the stage version…sooo campy but delightful!), and Brideshead is amazing…I think it’s time to reread. Also, my hubby loo oves MacIntyre and would be jealous of your story. 🙂
Hi Nicole! I just hopped over to your blog and I’m so jealous about your trip to Rome. And you have a Lucy, too! Lucys are the best 🙂