At the doctor’s office the other day for a routine check up, I got on the scale and tipped it. Yikes! Then I was at step class and the instructor said, “Don’t lose my number because you’re going to need me after the holidays – the average weight gain is 7 pounds.” Damn.
Like many things – the more you know, the harder it is to go about with your neanderthal ways. T came home the other day and said we might think about becoming vegetarians. And we both sighed. I ate mainly vegetarian for twenty years without realizing I was doing something. Then I started eating meat again. If you really think about things like eating meat, how chickens are raised, and that a pig is no…
Apparently the government thinks it’s unhealthy that we eat raw oysters twelve months out of the year – and so they are going to do something about it. Basically, they did nothing about Katrina and Rita and the aftermath but sit around with their fingers in their butt but for some reason they got an urge to ban raw oyster eating six months out of the year because it can kill you. Seeing how we’ve…
We are headed off to another state to vest ourselves a little more into this baby prospect this weekend, while this weekend comes off of a week long conference that T hosted here, as well as houseguests in and out for a week, we’re sort of looking forward to the long drive ahead to sort of square ourselves. When I was walking Loca this morning, we took a long walk through the park and I…
We’re knee deep in hope that very soon we’ll have a little baby in this house. You know what they say – don’t buy anything for the baby till it comes. Don’t get your hopes up until you have the baby in your hands. The baby isn’t yours till it is signed over to you. Don’t Don’t Don’t. Hello! Our hopes are up. How could they not be?
I had a dream that my mother was dressed up and she came and sat on the side of my bed and scared me half to death. Today when I visited her in the hospital the nurses were all excited that they were going to get her to sit up in the wheelchair for an hour, but my stomach was in knots trying to decipher her pleas for me to look under the bed and…
We took our friends on the now worn misery tour – mostly focused this time on the 9th Ward. Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation has built so many new houses and they’re all green and unique. Fats Domino’s house and studio are mostly restored even if he lost a lifetime of music and history. The Musician’s Village is candy colored houses all in a row and looks like every one of them is occupied.…
To cut or not to cut – that is the question. I’ve been to one too many a bris to think that circumcision is a routine procedure – you hear that baby cry out in pain and see the mother buckle over in sympathy and you know something just is not right about it. But of course, culturally, I was brought up a Jew (which goes hand in hand with the circumcision theme) and socially,…
There is a bar on Orleans Avenue that is called the Be 4 Real – perhaps the best name for a bar you could imagine. Today, there was a nip in the air so I put my polartec vest on to walk Loca. We both had pep in our step owing to the crisp cool air. As we rounded the end and were making our way back along the lagoon, a woman donning a winter…
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.’ – Winnie the Pooh.