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…
I’ve been on the hunt for a gas grill for the last two months but everything I read and have seen is so goddamn big and shiny and ridiculous. I like the convenience of a propane grill, the taste of a charcoal, and the size of a Coleman stove. But I looked high and low and couldn’t find anything like what I had in mind. Finally I drove out to Kenner yesterday late afternoon to…
Last night I stayed in – I had a lot of work to do and was trying to get caught up since I had to leave my desk early Friday afternoon for a hair appointment. So I’ve felt the weight of work hovering and also just needed down time in general. But that’s almost impossible around here. G called, T called, B called, J and B and K were barbecuing on the bayou, and everyone…
I saw a neighbor doing the walk of shame across the bayou this morning – flanked on one side by a new beau, and the other side by an old beau, and knowing last night was yet a different beau.
In a matter of hours, the smallness of New Orleans was tranparently efficient – the subject: a man. Here’s a guy I’ve seen around town for two years but never met. Turns out a friend knows him – well his first name. Turns out another friend knows him better – knows name and number and has a scheme to fix me up. Turns out this is all getting set up when I happen to Google…