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…
She sent me a book that I can’t put down and so now I am not sleeping – it’s called Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants by Jill Soloway and it is hysterical – first of all the card she sent was great – it said “When our story is told, and it will be told in song and fable and interpretive dance and puppet show, people will weep with joy, and through sobs, say, “Today…
Today at high noon after getting back from Home Depot with C and a lot of mortar, K asked me what my sign is – I said what? – your sign, I bet you are a Leo. No, I said increduously (not at his lack of zodiac radar but at the question itself), I’m not a Leo. “A Scorpio,” he said. “No, not a Leo or Scorpio, not even close,” and I’m thinking I can’t…
Seems like Honore’s message to us is just what you would expect from this great man: New Orleans is going to be a better city when the massive rebuildling effort is completed, he is quoted in the Times Picayune as saying – but it’s going to take years of hard work. What the storm undid in 24 hours took 200-and-some-odd years to develop – We need to remember: If we want it bad, we’ll get…