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I don’t want to grow up

I had an annual check up with the doctor this morning and she had a young woman fresh from med school accompanying her. I was talking about how bad my hot flashes have been lately in my hormones’ last gasp on the dance floor. Then the heat got so bad I pulled my $2 fan from Chinatown out and fanned myself furiously. One of the nurses called to me, “can I have that fan?” –…

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Chopped salad

In my stay-in mode Tuesday night, G decided to make us both chopped salads and bring them over to the LaLa to sit and eat on the bayou. BUT the porch had just been painted so it was more like sit in the screen porch in back with the hurricane lamps and eat and then walk out to the bayou and sit in the chairs that my neighbor has out there with our glasses of…

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Sleep cures what ails you

At this point in life all women want is a good night’s sleep but it seems like insomnia plagues us all due to the hormonal shifts that are displacing our inner thermometers and the general feeling of achiness that drags on our joints. But last night due to a long hot soak in the tub and some inner peace I happened upon, I got seven hours of uninterrupted sleep – bless the small miracles in…

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Fowl Play

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…

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Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

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…

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Like it or not, I’m staying

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…

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I never promised you a rose garden

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…

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Mama Drama

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…

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