A coworker and friend IM’d me today saying: coworker (9:38:26 AM): funny (or not i guess) – last night built gingerbread houses w/ the kids….daughter had too much frosting on one of the roof tops and it eventually slid off when we were almost done. she said it was fine, hers was just a house hit by a hurricane but it was still beautiful. coworker (9:38:42 AM): i said you bet…let’s leave as is rachel…
Okay, it’s really like a dream because I don’t live by an ocean, I live by a bayou, but it seemed like an ocean last night with the windows open and the dense moist breeze flapping the venetian blinds. It was all quite comforting until the breeze picked up around 3AM and the blinds were violently slapped against the window sill and then it was all quite alarming and I had to get up and…
Hanukkah starts this Friday night and ends next Friday. I can’t have my usual Hanukkah party so I am taking all my menorahs to Swirl and lighting them there – but that means no latkes and applesauce and beef tenderloin which have become my traditional fare. You serve latkes or fried food because it represents the oil that miraculously burned for 8 days when it was only enough for one day. One year, I decided…
K has finally figured out how to do the pantry doors. And he was able to cut back the cabinet over the fridge that was too tall. As well he cut back the cabinet for the sink that was too wide. All the bathroom cabinets are set. We are now waiting on Pieri to show up and measure for the Carrara slabs for these cabinets. Before he leaves, I asked K to make sure he…
My coworker Laura fled the scene last year to go work at an orphanage in South Africa – wow! She has kept us current with the goings on there, where she oversees many children who are HIV positive. We had spoken earlier about setting up some fund to get enough diapers to these kids – because of a lack of funds, they were forced to wear the diapers longer than was comfortable. But the year…
I had this client, Nick, who I grew very fond of over the years. We had a great meeting of the mind. One day, three years ago, I received a call that Nick had taken his life. It hit me like a dull ache in my soul. Later, I received notice a memoriam had been set up in his name with St Ignatius Loyola Academy in Baltimore, which is where Nick’s brother worked for at…
I am planning on doing all my counter tops – bathrooms and kitchen with Carrara and there is an awful lot of noise out there that would dissuade the use of this stone. Too pourous, not stain resistant. But I love the look and feel and it fits the period of the LaLa house more than any other material except cypress. Then I came across this when I was looking for tips on how to…
We like it hot down here. People say they couldn’t take the heat we have, but I’ll take it any day over the cold. It’s so beautiful outside today that it makes it all worthwhile. And to think I am taking off for Chicago tomorrow – oh well, I’ll have to eat a big steak while there to keep me warm.
Last week I told K that if he couldn’t figure out how to hang the doors in the pantry then we needed to find someone who could. This was after being frustrated that C wasn’t calling him or I back to tell us what was intended and there is no drawing conceptual or otherwise. So K didn’t show up all weekend, and I knew and even said it at Pilates this morning, I was going…
Could you imagine if after everything New Orleans went through because of Katrina that there right now remains the possibility that the Saints could be in the Superbowl – kind of gives you chills.