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The terrace off of my office is a big mind fuck – it needs to be waterproofed and Bud said that his stuff was waterproof, but the manufacturer doesn’t guarantee it as waterproof so now K says he could put a rubber mat and/or Twickler can put a torch down (kind of like a roof) and then the deck on top – but the deck will free float and so there is the idea of…
This morning Gomez and I were walking around the bayou when D, who just moved to the neighborhood was walking Frankie (a good looking Katrina rescue dog) and she told us that there was a Katrina dog in the cemetery – a chihuahua – I looked at Gomez and said, uh uh, no way, I’m not rescuing a chihuahua. So D said in parting – you have to really love dogs to rescue a chihuahua…sigh….…
Jill Soloway’s book “Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants” is hysterical – she talks about her affinity for what she refers to as “Toolbelts” and “that pillow-show shit is one of the my Top Ten Most Hated Things in the World.” That is when people decorate their beds with five deep rows of assorted pillows. Really I am not getting any sleep wtih this book around. There are, like my friend SuSu suggested, many commonalities with…
My first date with Steve 16 years ago in San Francisco – we went to Olive Oil’s on the water – I remember we both ordered and never touched a bite – we were part of a threesome – Steve, Doug and I worked and lunched (read: margaritas) together often. Doug couldn’t go to lunch that day. (He ended up being my best man.) Steve and I were at the bar waiting for our table…
The latest census reports that men still outearn women in every state and every region. In my industry, women make 55% of what men earn. There has been talk of our company being a boy’s network before – I brought this to the attention of J a couple of years ago when Nick Z was hired and was unfairly paid more than us gals who had been working there for a while. I brought the…
Walked around the bayou and picked up my tiki torches – a woman on the porch called to me as I carried the three to the LaLa – “are those your beacons of light?” – yes I said, do you live there? – no I’m babysitting, my daughter lives here – I said I’m working on the house right around the bend, the interminable house – she said “this is an interminable house too –…
The 18 x 18 Carrara tiles are down in the master bathroom – gorgeous – C said I could come in there in my socks and have a slippery slidey party. L said he has never seen anyone lay tile so meticulously as C. I said that is why he gets the big bucks – he’s one of three people in Louisiana who know how to set glass tile.
L called me to come look at where I wanted the faucet on my tub, when I got there W was deep into the guest shower putting the PVC drain pad down. He said he is envious of my tub. I told him he could use it when it’s all done. He then offered to come live with me and be my house husband, he said he’d get my cocktails for me as I sat…
The temp has dropped a few degrees here and oh what a difference it makes! I’ve been having my half bagel with cream cheese, capers and smoked salmon again – what a delicious way to start the day – anyway Charlie Trotter now sells a wild salmon smoked with tea and ginger – can you say YUM! – I get it at Whole Food.
The LaLa is humming with activity – Louie and Walter are putting in the shower pans, Christian and Sean are laying the 18 x 18 Carrara marble tile floors and then starting on the glass tiles. Richard is getting me a quote to install the glass that I am getting for $1800 instead of the $8500 he quoted. I also ordered an Azure colored glass for my clerestory from the living room to the master…