Lola: Potpourri de creme

So I baked my pots de creme last night and must have spent all my mental fortitude engineering the perfect water-bath, that I forgot one of the 6 simple ingredients. Nevertheless, sans vanilla, they are super tasty, as I sampled one for breakfast this morning. One month from today, my breakfast will be a cafe creme and a gigantic pain de chocolat from a parisian boulangerie.

But in the meantime, so much seems to be happening, but not so much. Mr. Lolo has become obsessed with finding the perfect pair of walking shoes for the trip, since I informed him I would not tolerate the jeans and sneaker look through the Rodin museum and beyond. At this point, I am thinking he has spent about 10-15 billable hours shoe shopping both on the internet and in all the area shoe-shopping locales. I fear he has spent more time shoe shopping than he has even researching the city of lights. The funniest thing, though, is that I cannot even imagine spending that much time shopping-researching-deciding-on any product EVER. In. My. Whole. Life. I didn't even spend that much time on picking my china pattern.

Fortunately, I was away from the action this past weekend at one of cutest little spa resorts in Eastern North Carolina: Lakeview at Fontana. Described as "rustic chic", this place is gorgeous and perfect. For what it offers, it is extremely reasonably priced and my mom and sister and I had a ball....and I got drunkety-drunk from the complimentary wine and cheese spread the first evening, which was pretty funny for my mom and sister, to be sure. Every detail was lovely (down to the individual french-press coffee pots at breakfast each morning) and the massage therapists were some of the best I have ever had. The only regret is that we needed another day. So count that as my review for the month, for what it is worth.

I have no mother-in-law news as she does not call or email me, and I appear to be disinclined to do the same. Not certain if we are not in communication for any particular reason or whether it just feels more comfortable for all of us this way. I'm certainly not complaining. On the other hand, I do talk to hilarious Nonnie quite a bit and sent her flowers on her birthday.

Twinkle - I am sorry about your auntie! I hope you and the fam have a fun time at the Fair this evening. And selfishly speaking, I am glad all of us are still on the SAUCE! So CHEERS!