J came with me to run an errand today and he said, “Ocho, thanks for coming to pick me up from school today.” What a sweetie pie! Of course, he didn’t want to get a snowball with me later, he wanted to get the snowball with his father who had promised him the snowball. But still a sweetie. Then he fell asleep and took an hour and a half nap while I drove around New…
This is when I love my job – when all of the newspapers, trade journals and email alerts are sending X information and I speak to my sources and find out things are Y. That is when the plan comes together because why does the press look to sensationalize everything instead of seeing the nuances and then reporting on them? Anyway, it was a good day today – a day of reporting the nuances and…
Driving behind a car today with a bumper sticker that read “I eat tofu, and I vote.” Is there some kind of anti-tofu candidate that I am unaware of?
Mom called tonight to tell me she no longer is working at the nursing home – said it was too much for her – ya think? – so that was about the only thing that made sense today.
I got home to an email from my attorney saying that my neighbors wanted damages for the heavy equipment that was driven over their driveway. I have no clue what they are talking about and told my attorney that. Then I opened my mail – a bill for my landscaping that was for three times the amount I had contracted for. I just shook my head in disbelief. Then I called the landscaper – he…
So I was telling my friend that I’ve had an overabundance of married men coming onto me recently and it was really starting to make me sick. Of course, my friend didn’t take the news too well either since she’s married. I thought I had some sort of scarlet A emblazoned over my left chest that was providing some sort of cue for these men, but a friend who says she suffers from the same…
Yesterday between my neighbor R and I, we prepared way too much food for a small gathering to christen the new grill. So we both picked up the phone and within an hour we had seven people joining us for grilled green onion sausage, brown shrimp, maux choux, gazpacho made from Creole tomatoes, not to mention a watermelon basket filled with fruit and blueberries with zablagione. It was like family supper on Sunday only no…
I rode again this morning with Beth – who pretty much kicked my ass. She does a 1.5 revolution to my 1 and basically leaves me panting. And she wants me to be captain of the MS team she is assembling for an October ride. Why me? Because I love a challenge. And this is the first year in a bunch of years where I haven’t set a physical goal – I was supposed to…
Sallie Ann Glassman was on the Magnolia Bridge yesterday with her entourage of white linen clad devotees chanting and dancing to a voodoo beat to ward off the hurricane gris gris. We sat on the bayou down this a ways and I told my friends I won’t evacuate and again was admonished about needing to be prepared to defend myself against chaos.
My brother was visiting from Atlanta – he came in with his friend to look at investing in renovating houses. There were some areas that he said were hard to visualize because there were blocks and blocks of nothing. And in the areas that weren’t as bad as that, the prices were too high to make it worth their while. Meanwhile, he loved my house. He said from top to bottom this house is you…