I was on my way out to Pilates today when things started popping around the LaLa and I was trapped here all day up until locking myself out and having to wait for my new dog sitter to come back over with the keys. It’s now 9:39 – I didn’t get anything hardly done that was supposed to get done today but other stuff got done. Now utterly exhausted, I cried uncle when I was…
My smoking hot electrician sent his son to work on my house today and I just shook my head. I said you look just like your daddy. Turns out he lives down the street – so now I’m really listening to him – he’s as hot as his father without having the older air about him. He said he saw me at La Vita the other night. He had met me when I first bought…
A friend – who normally calls a lot – had been incognito and now I know it’s because she spent five days with a 25-year-old. It was kind of like some tour package vacation thingy – where she met him, disappeared into a haze of days and nights of – well must I spell out of what? – but she says she feels like a brand new woman – hmmm.
I went and picked up my mother to come back to the LaLa and watch the Academy Awards. G came over and L did too as she is in town from NY. I was so weary it was hard to focus on pulchritude, but it was good having mom over. It was the first time she had seen the house in about two months. Finally, I took mom home and L left and then while…
I can’t tell you how many times people have made reference to the LaLa as a money pit – well after 22 months I came back to the house to find a beautiful tree sitting on top of my dining room table. It was a big mystery. I thought Graham brought it. But she said no then when she came over she searched it entirely for a note. Late that night, when I was walking…
Yesterday was a blur of activity trying to get the house in some sort of presentable shape to host its first party this morning. The Mardi Gras Marathon’s 10 mile mark is right in front and friends were coming by to have mimosas and breakfast. About 7:30PM Robinson, who was over to put in speakers, said there was no way I could get the house ready in the shape it was in – boxes everywhere,…
I’m surrounded by boxes but I couldn’t look inside another one or sweep up another dirt pile. Instead after taking a shower outside and washing my hair – I put on some comfortable clothes and opened a bottle of champagne. G came over and we ordered salads from Italian Pie and toasted to the move in. We sat on the porch so she could smoke and marveled at the fact that I am in the…
Yesterday morning I was going to meet someone who works for my contractor to help me move – I went to Budget on Canal Street to get the truck and it wasn’t open and the place was locked up and all the trucks were next door in the vacant lot. I kept getting my call sent through to the national number and finally the guy said he didn’t know what was going on. So I…
Moving, moving, moving. Here’s the deal – every day something is going to go wrong – lots of things are going to go wrong – and lots of things are going to go right. I’m in! I took a shower in my outdoor shower and looked up at the sky that everyone wanted to put a roof on and instead I was looking at the moon. Hallelujah!
So yesterday was fun, but today it was back to work in earnest along with the myriad to do list that has to do with the LaLa. Nobody showed up for work today – go figure. Well Louie finally did but he didn’t finish – go figure. I bought a new king size bed and it is showing up tomorrow – woo hoo. I borrowed sheets from my mom until I can get the bed…