I just had the most remarkable conversation with my accountant – a man name Bill Shine – this man is incredible. Really he is. When Steve and I were breaking up, I called him to go over how we should split our assets and he said, first thing, just remember to remain friends because you never know what will happen between you over time. Anyway, he was calling me today because last week when I…
This has been a day of shifting plans – an organic creation – LaLa all day, cleaning windows, sweeping floors, chucking trash – sorting paint. A quick reshuffle to pick up my niece from Memphis – adorable – just into college and already changing – drop her by my other niece and see my great niece (beautiful) – go by my mother’s – her birthday, sick with the flu, weak and out of breath –…
Everytime I think the stress of my job is too much to take and I would rather use braun than brains – I have to think of this day that I got up at the crack of dawn and went to the LaLa to begin cleaning every square inch of it – I didn’t get a lot of square inches but I worked till 3PM and I feel like I was hit by a MACK…
For the last six years I have worked with a woman of incomparable beauty and brains and now, sadly, she is leaving me and my company for new horizons. So sad for me/us. I can’t even write about it without welping up. So I wrote a haiku about her: What is it with her? She is trying to tell me Wait, she now talks Smurf!
Found a new place for after dinner cocktails – Evangeline on Toulouse and N. Murat – it’s in my hood and it wasn’t Pal’s (with it’s smoky weird crowd) and it wasn’t Ralph’s (with it’s smoky Yat crowd). I can’t remember the owner’s name but G and I had run into him at Ralph’s a while back and he told us about his new place. I spoke to a guy there who has spent every…
Walking around the bayou yesterday morning I noticed how stark it looks – the trees have dropped their foilage, the grass has turned that brownish color, even the water in the bayou seems grayer. Winter is finally here in New Orleans, even though I still can barely wear Polartec.
I was watching the mallard swim around with the dowdy hen behind him and thinking of why it is that in nature the male is so gorgeous while the female needs makeup. Meanwhile, flash to New Orleans where there is a definite trend here of gorgeous babes with trolls. What goes on?
My Uncle John writes a correction to the LaLa backstory: BTW, after reading your entry about your rellies coming by to see your house…. you still missed it, that Hugh was a sailboat captain on Lake Pontchartrain, going back and forth from N.O. to Mandeville, back in those long-ago days….. but his ‘ghost’ is possibly still there on the bayou… Okay, now here is the timeline for the LaLa: The house was built in 1923,…
Went to see Dreamgirls and I’m shocked I’ve not heard of Jennifer Hudson – she was on American Idol? Okay, how can that be? I’ve heard of Kelly Clarkson, I’ve heard more than I care to hear of Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton – but this woman – give me a break – she is raw unbelievable talent – I have never heard a song sung like “And I am telling you, I am not…
Showed up at Bridge House with the entire rest of the United States to hand out food to the homeless. Tripping over each other, I think we were one for one, one volunteer for every homeless person. Interestingly enough, most of the volunteers were women and most of the homeless were men – something to ponder, but I don’t know if there is any correlation.