We were walking through Faubourg Marigny last night having been to friends’ house. The house is an old Creole cottage with exposed brick, a patio, and towering banana trees that yield big plump delicious fruit. The temperature had climbed up into the 70s and there was a damp gulf breeze blowing that was just perfect. Actually the day had been ideal, so ideal, that when I thought I would pull my hair right out of…
I was talking to this guy last night who is able to do anything with his hands from sewing to building anything. He will always find work because of his skills – he can do anything, he can building anything, he can make anything work. One of the things that has been the most frustrating over the last week has been in this situation with my computer where I can’t fix anything, I can’t even…
I woke from a dream where I was eight months pregnant and my first thought in my dream, was how will we arrange Tin’s room with a sibling and then in the dream I realized I was carrying Tin, in my belly. We had just come from a doctor’s appointment in my dream and the doc said the fetus had lost three pounds. It couldn’t have been the caesar salad I ate at dinner. Perhaps…
So T sent some photos of Tin in Croatia and one was of him in the Square in the center of Zagreb. I remembered being there myself a couple of years ago, but now looking at this photo that came to my email, I felt disconcerted to see my son standing in a country where my partner wears a disguise. Later, I looked down on my desk to the Croatian language tapes and thought to…
There have been two burglaries this week on the 1000 block of Moss Street – they kicked in the backdoor of my neighbor’s house and stole all her jewelry. It’s times like this where Heidi – the German Shedder – is worth her weight in fur.
I’ve been on the phone with Apple Support for three full days and frankly I’m sick of it. From trying to get the Tiger OS X operating system loaded back into my old PowerBook, to trying to recover my songs off the iPod through third party software Senuti (which an Apple rep referred to disdainfully as “lo-tech” – to which I said then why don’t you provide something “hi-tech” and he mumbled “copyright issues”) to…
I was flipping through an INSTYLE magazine and reading about how a stylist gave an actress her beach hair look by blowdrying over a loofah and then how high-waisted blue jeans are making a come back (about damn time is all this short-waisted woman has to say, I will sing at the funeral of peanut jeans or at least that is what we called them when I was a tween, jeans that barely cover the…
It makes such a difference having clean smelling dogs – ours had gotten a little on the smelly side and since Loca, who has never smelled before, sleeps right by my bedside, I was getting a little tired of waking up to dog smell greeting my mornings. So now they are clean and it is actually a pleasure to pet them and have them near by. Except on Monday, when they were off being bathed…
So I thought I did all my spinning yesterday, but actually today was another day of things just spinning out of control and I finally had to say, enough. I had signed up for two tickets to a Champagne Tasting at Swirl and my friend cancelled on me because she had a cold – I almost cancelled on me because I felt like the things to do were racking up. So I did what a…
Today after being on the phone since I stepped out of bed, I have not taken a breath. Now wait a minute, wasn’t I supposed to be taking a breath somewhere in here. But no, a long time ago when I set up my PowerBook I kept all my ITunes songs on my external hard drive and the other day when trying to fix the operating system on my old computer I accidentally dumped the…