How Lady Jane Grey Saved the Day

I forget if I mentioned it here (and I'm too lazy to read through old posts) but I had been looking forward to the Royal Wedding since Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement! I haven't taken much time off in the past several months but as soon as they set the date I made sure to get that day off. It's been on the calendar for MONTHS! I had the whole day planned, up early for a breakfast of tea and gluten-free scones while I watched the wedding live. Give myself a pedicure using the "No More Waity Katie" nail polish I'd PREORDERED. Perhaps some champagne as I spent the day watching the coverage and recaps on tv and the internet.

So of course events conspired to force me to work on our very special day:( We have canceled cable many months ago so I had no DVR to record the festivities, however when my parents found out about my foiled wedding day plans they offered to record it for me. This was a small consolation, but at least I wouldn't miss everything.

What I didn't expect was to be awakened at 1:30 AM by Lady Jane Grey herself! Well, my cat Lady Jane, not the actual ghost of the brief and ill-fated monarch of England. She gently pawed and licked my face until I got up, groaning at the time. Until I realized this meant I could hook the laptop up to the TV and watch the wedding live! Huzzah!

And that's exactly what I did. I got to watch the arrivals at Westminster Abbey, all the crazy hats, see Kate's wedding dress for the first time with the rest of the world, watch the exchange of vows, and follow along with everyone else who was up at that ungodly hour (at least on the west coast) on twitter. Of course I still had to get ready and go to work for a full day, packed with meetings no less, but I've still got many hours of DVR'ed recordings to look forward to and I've promised myself to take a belated day off and have a proper celebration while I devour hours of wedding coverage!