Oh what a cute old lady!

This morning on the metro, there was a really cute old lady.  She was quite sprightly in her whitehairedness, and she and I smiled at each other a few times.  I would like to be like her, when I'm older, taking the metro and smiling at and inspiring younger people.

On Thursday night, I went out and ran into a bunch of my students.  After they got over the shock of seeing one of their teachers ("Mais, Madame Cornelle!), it was fun to talk to them outside of class.  They were BTS students, so the ones who are somewhere around my age, if mostly a little bit younger.  I had a really good night talking to them about France and America and TV shows and studying language and things.

This weekend, I did laundry!  I hate that it is such an accomplishment to do my laundry that I post about it just about every time I do it, but... I love when my clothes smell nice, and I love hanging clothes up on a drying rack.  There's something so lovely about seeing all those colors spread out on a wire stand.  Simple pleasures, right Mom?

Donnie gets here on Friday.  Actually, Donnie, can you hang on and come a little later because I have SO much to do before you get here!  I'm just kidding.  Please come ASAP.  But still, I have to buy him a phone and clean the apartment and get used to using my own pillow again and fill out my CAF forms and this thing and this other thing and bah!  But, truly, I am so excited to have him here, to share my life in Rouen with someone I love so much.  So even if things don't get quite done, I think it will be okay.

I'm off to the grocery store now.  I need to get Donnie's phone and some pasta and a vegetable or two and I'm going to see if I can find frozen pumpkin at the Picard like I've heard I might.  Cross your fingers!

 

I tried on fake glasses at Claires in France.  Yes, apparently I am 13 again.  Regardless, I wish this style wasn't so popular or I would totally get some like this.  Except in red maybe, or purple.  Basically, Donnie is lucky because he got glasses like these before they were cool (or did he make them cool?).  Everyone else is just way too trend-following for my tastes -- but oh, if I didn't care about avoiding being just like everyone else, these would so be mine!

UPDATE: Back from the grocery store, two bags of groceries later.  How do I do this?  Cell phone purchased, didn't have enough space in my bags to contemplate a visit to Picard, but that will be an adventure to come!