An hour to watch Abby #1 so that L could get a run in and shower while M took J-man to work, then go later to the hospital to see Abby #2 and mom. I told you it was going to start raining babies and I wasn’t kidding. And the truth be known – every child needs an Aunt Rachel or in the case of Abby #2 that would be a GREAT Aunt Rachel.
Or kind of – L, man of mystery, and I were going to have dinner when I got a call from my sister in law that L was in the hospital about to have that baby (2 weeks early I might say). We decided to try to get through dinner because the baby wasn’t here yet – and smack in the middle of appetizers and mojitos, mom called and said it’s a girl! So I…
Yesterday late afternoon, after a solid day with the phone in my ear, I walked the Bean to DM’s house to put a note about helping me – I need a trim carpenter and someone to do the siding on the addition. D lives on Ursulline, he was a contractor who went to Russia years ago to work, then came back to NO and went into real estate, but post-Katrina he has hired on crews…
I drove by the LaLa and noticed that K’s truck wasn’t there so I went by and talked to Vic – he said they will be finished today – YIPPEE! – and will come back Friday and do the torch down on the terrace – YIPPEE!. Christian had the glass tile up on the front of the tub – it is tiny – it was supposed to be 1×1 like the rest but it turns…
I woke early, left in the dark, was rounding the bayou by the LaLa and there was K’s truck! Ack. Nowhere to hide. Last night coming home from Lola’s, I was going to stop and get mail but K was at the house with the emergency lights all strung up. Then there he was this morning. Yuck. I saw N and Renny across the bayou and we met on the Dumaine Bridge and we just…
I told E last night that I have been thinking I need to forgive N and move on from anger. She said, no, you don’t. Kind of took me aback. She said you don’t need to forgive N to move on and you don’t have to forgive him at all. I thought that sounded like a better strategy – let’s remember I wasn’t raised in the turn your cheek religion, mine was Solomon’s court –…
G had the airplane crash dream the other night and I am familiar with that dream – used to have the same one – where you see a plane high in the sky but as some sort of harbinger of bad news, flying too near the moon, and you know it is going to crash and then big explosion – it’s called raw anxiety. She said she has another one which is the one where…
Tonight was art rock and art labels at Sip and Spin. G and I were headed to the Royal Orleans to hear Freddy Omar but it was looking bad rain wise and so we stayed close to home and went to Sip. E doesn’t want me to graduate yet – but she gave me some good advice – apparently I’m being too guarded because of what I went through and not relaxing and just being…
The founder of my company writes that he read in the NYT a week ago about “the guy who was on night court and his wife Elizabeth McGovern leaving NO…she was depressed and they are moving to Ashville, NC.” My massage therapist is in Ashville too – having left to find a fully functioning universe somewhere else. I think about this and think, there it is, living here is not for the faint of heart…
1. G was going to stand up last night and say “I see five people here I know to have substance abuse problems, so how can we shut out those actually trying to not be addicted?” 2. Smuck boo’d me when I said that allowing these people who are trying to get their lives back in order to live in a beautiful environment would help in their recovery – KS, “Oh brother.” 3. These arrested…