I read that however you spend New Year’s Day is an indication of how your year will go. Well, hmmm, let’s see. How about we got in bed around 3am, we got woken up by a little boy at 7:15 am, the hot water heater plug blew out, we made black eyed peas, cabbage, risotto with Istra black truffles, bread with honey and butter, and chaurice sausage and had Ruinart champagne. I hid a dime in the risotto. Our housekeeper, our dear friend and her mother visiting from Germany and me, T and T2 sat down to eat our New Year’s Day meal after we had all cleaned the house between LaLa guests, and on the first round of serving the risotto – no one got the hidden dime. So T brought the pot for me to serve a second round, I saw the dime and I hid it back in and stirred and then I thought I had it and gave it to our housekeeper who is always amenable and reliable and probably needs good luck more than the rest of us – and then I went to serve myself the last spoonful and lo and behold, I had the dime. <\/p>\n
The last few months of 2011 were a wild ride of exhilaration from ending my job that has been a bedsore, to founding my company, to becoming an innkeeper, to forging the way to work with ex beloved colleagues again, to helping our friend adopt a child – wow, is all I have to say. The first guests who stayed at the LaLa joined our Thanksgiving celebration and the second set joined us at our friend’s awesome New Year’s eve party. I feel in same way that a little at a time I’m grooming mini ambassadors to spread the word about New Orleans charm and wonder. We have so much here, it’s a shame to keep it all to ourselves. <\/p>\n
So I think it was Emerson who said that we all have everything we need right in our own backyard, no sense in going out looking for it, just look within and you will see infinity. <\/p>\n
Dime or no dime, 2012 is looking brighter than any recent years past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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