I came home from Pilates and decided I needed to do extra time to get my girlish figure back, so I put my IPOD on and walked to the park and fast walked around the lagoon and then looped by the museum and back out to the bayou across Esplanade. There was fowl everywhere – swans, geese, ducks, herons, egrets. I had my IPOD on shuffle and the first song that started was Christina Aguillera’s…
I was sitting at dinner the other night with a man on my right and a man on my left. If anyone had walked in, they would have noticed the one on my right because of his classic good looks – tall, square jaw, nice smile – but the man on my left had my attention for the entire evening. How do you define beauty? The man on my left looks into my eyes and…
Last night I went to my neighbors house for a barbecue and someone was visiting from Chicago and started talking about how much she loved El Lay – and so all of us at the table chimed in – I told my “I lived in San Francisco for 16 years and found it soul-less” tale and R told his “I got off the plane in El Lay and wanted to turn around and get back…
A week went by where nothing that was supposed to be done to complete this LaLa project was started or even attempted to be completed. Now George says he will have the landscaping finished this week – uh huh. Marty’s guys are a no show thus far. Bud’s guys haven’t returned to finish the windows up front. The only person around is Terry doing the irrigation – he rang the door bell and I was…
Was listening to one of my competitors speak about research versus Wall Street intelligence and he said, “it is not hard to stay ahead of the pack in Wall Street.” That was clearly evidenced this last week by the insane money paid for companies in the internet space.
My mother has been driving me nuts lately with conversations that border on the bizarre – the most recent was her tying together of disparate events and creating drama – so she donated the Mercedes to Bridge House and they came to pick it up, meanwhile the day before she had read in the Times Picayune that there were about 40 Hondurans arrested because they were known felons, and then she ran into her downstairs…
A nice relaxing Sunday morning after spending the evening with my Turkish friends at their almost opened Del Forno – we ended up eating at The Bank on its penultimate night before Alex moves to New York forever. I wanted to read a little bit of the paper before takng Arlene out – she was sunning herself on the front porch – wanted to see who won the Preakness – and while I was in…
A woman at Pilates said she had to marry her husband because they were the only people in New Orleans neither was related to. Yesterday, right after I got out of the shower, a woman knocked at the door and turns out she’s my cousin! She said my uncle had told her what my house looks like and so she came to see if she could find it and me. How cool is that?
Craig had us all read Blink and it is a pretty interesting theory – that the first impression is the correct one. So I was speaking to a colleague recently who had read it and we were talking about this guy I recently met and I said I thought he was gay the first time I saw him and G thought he was the second time we ran into him and didn’t recognize where we…
I ran into a friend last night who is recently out of an 8-year relationship. She said she ran into her ex with her latest hot squeeze at Jazz Fest and tried to be big about the whole thing but it did unnerve her. The rub is that she was the one who wanted out of the relationship. I told her that I’ve learned that it’s almost worse when you’re the one that wanted out…