I had a mini meltdown this morning – Julio was coming to do the floors and I figured I couldn’t do anything at the house so I might as well get other things accomplished. So I had a list – of course – and on my way to Pilates I realized I forgot the drycleaning and a pair of shoes for the cobbler. So I had a hissy fit – that I’m overwhelmed – that…
So I was trying to think of a crest for the LaLa. And here’s what I’m thinking: Conceived in LOVE Built under ADVERSITY Completed with LUCK Live the ADVENTURE
Driving around town all I see are bumper stickers that say in living color – I LOVE NEW ORLEANS. I am so tired of the rest of the world thinking that we are pathetic down here. Today the New York Times printed this article – another unbelievably solipsistic view of what everyone would like to believe is truly going on down here. Run for the hills – New Orleans is flushing itself down the Mississippi…
Giovanni didn’t show up this morning but he called me several times and then he showed up at the LaLa drunk as Cooter Brown – I told him to come back when he is sober. He wanted money and I said, come back sober. My contractor Steve said that these men treat me this way because I’m a woman. Rosa, one of my neighbors at the Can said she has two women friends right now…
In my last weeks of getting the LaLa ready I keep muttering under my breath – it never ends – because I have been inundated with minutiae – and I feel like I am swimming through jello – and so the other day when it was all crashing down around me and I was muttering, it never ends, I realized yes, it does. You die, it ends. There it is. So today when David was…
Ran over to Metairie to see the doctor for a post-op on my foot surgery I am having in March. On the way, I stopped at my mom’s and brought her the chocolates and flowers I had gotten for her and didn’t bring on Valentine’s Day because that day was so hijacked by other agendas. She said – I dreamed you came over and had flowers and chocolates and when you arrived just now it…
If any krewe comes close to the creativity and design of Muses – I’d like to know who. The lit up shoes, the butterflies, and then the SUPER UBER MUSES SHOE float that changes colors – good god – it was gorgeous. Went to a party on Jena and from there made our way to the parade – got there right as St. Aug was cranking and coming down the street – someone in our…
The LaLa is starting to look like the computer generated rendering Steve did in April 2005. Hard to believe.
I got to the LaLa this morning and Giovanni basically had brought Jesus in to “help” him. I said no, I am not the Bank of Rachel, much as everyone believes I am around here. He got very insulted and said that he wasn’t trying to rip me off and that Jesus was going to help him. I said no, I am not paying him. I did pay Jesus for two hours of work and…
The Cox cable man who showed up at 9:30AM left at 4:30 PM – at the end of the day I had internet, phone and television hooked up. Jesus managed to clean out the entire underneath of the house and backyard and pile it up in front. Provides work for Joe now. Giovanni managed to stay as far away from me as he could as he could sense my mood. David showed up from Pieri…