Mon anniversaire

Another year older,

a little bit stronger,

a litle bit wiser,

than a year ago today.

- Delta Goodrem

I've spent today opening presents, answering phone calls and tidying the house for a certain someone who is expected to arrive sometime this afternoon, whilst listening to Acid House Kings. They make me feel very (merry) happy.

Favourite gift?

Got to be my Marc Jacobs goodies.

Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs.

I've decided to make Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain the first thing that I write about. I love everything about the film. I love how it doesn't have an obvious story line, and that watching this can give you a different outlook on life. It carefully captures small beauties of the world and focuses on simple pleasures. The film is based on Amélie's moral, "It's better to help people than to be like a gnome in the garden." Upon discovering a young boy's treasure in her small flat in Montmarte, she also discovers her purpose in life. She makes it her goal to help other people. There are so many quotes that are so simple yet so wonderful. The failed writer Hipolito who we see so little of in the film provides the majority. My favourite is;

"Sans toi, les émotions d'aujourd'hui ne seraient que la peau morte des émotions d'autrefois."- without you, todays emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.

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Chantee did it, so here I am. My own blog.

Coffee, anyone?