Deadly storm hits the …
The storm has hit the Southeast or at least that is what it feels like. How about it’s Mardi Gras and nothing stops Mardi Gras in this city and then I’m moving and that is like a freight train that can’t be stopped either and all I have to say is that last night I dreamed that I was lying in bed watching a movie on television – ha, as if that has ever happened! – and outside I knew that there were people in place to protect me because the killers were coming. Very detached, wouldn’t you say?
So here I am the queen pin, rolling up her sleeves and getting down and dirty. I mean I have packed and I have moved and I have thrown out and I keep saying over and over – I never thought I’d move again and here I am – well you wouldn’t believe what you accumulate in eight years in a house that has nooks and crannies to hold stuff. Lord Today! to think that I purged a year and a half ago – you’d never know.
So I have been at it since I woke this morning – up and down and all around. But I did manage to take Tin to Muses – one of my favorite parades and who was the Queen this year – Ruby Bridges – the first African American girl to enter an all white school – god bless her! And bless Muses for being right on.
Before the parade, I had picked up Tin’s friend and him from school and took them for a streetcar ride and waffles and chocolate shakes at Camelia Grill – yum.
The today, in the midst of boxes and bubble wrap, we snuck away for a little parade fun at Endymion and that about wore me out but we passed a good time. I saw a guy with a milk crate strapped to his bike riding down Orleans with five bags of ice in it, I had four text today, two to ask me to move my bike, and two to ask me to borrow my bike. You have to learn to get around when the parade is happening in your own backyard. And what a parade – Endymion is a super parade with a nine car float that tops the Bacchasarus in size. What a parade! Tin got up on his first ladder and a good time was had by all. God bless New Orleans and the parades – they keep you from getting the blues.
Meanwhile, I wanted to stop packing and schlepping but I knew I couldn’t – look what my horoscope said:
February 09, 2013
Taurus (4/20-5/20)
Do not be afraid to get dirty today — the hard workload ahead of you requires some sweat, and you have all the energy you need to jump in and get some stuff done! It’s important to get as active as you can as quickly as you can — if you act too conservatively or take too long to get going, you will only waste time and waste a good opportunity. This is a day that is chock full of potential, so if you want to achieve some major goals, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get going!