JazzFest starts tomorrow and runs this weekend and next. It seems the whole city goes to JazzFest. Folks are taking off work left and right tomorrow and that damn blimp is back flitting around the city. Truly, they should just proclaim tomorrow a holiday here. Everyone just seems to LOVE JazzFest, everyone that is, except [...]
Three hours of Lamaze, 30 minutes on the phone with a doula, and two hours of a prenatal class since Monday evening have left my brain mush–most thoughts are baby-related. Captain Sarcastic and I are exhausted. CS complained when we got to Lamaze that he’d forgotten his water gun. He had threatened to bring it [...]
Well, CS and I completed our second 3-hour Lamaze class last night. During this past week, I have given the birthing process a lot of thought. In addition, I have started to read Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth as recommended to me by Tammie over at Soul Gardening (thanks, Tammie!). Last night’s topic was [...]
Today, CS and I swapped cars for the second day. Friday, he took my car to get an oil change and some other work done and I took his to get washed at my office. My car got the oil change and work done, but CS’s car did not get washed. It wasn’t my fault–they [...]
I am about to explode. After Saturday’s free-falling movable feast, you’d think that would have held me for a spell. With regret, I report it did not. This morning, CS and I joined Southern Mom and her family for our standing Sunday morning breakfast out. I showed a wee bit of restraint in ordering only [...]
Saturday was all about food. I’d like to blame this gluttonous day on being pregnant, but I know that had nothing to do with it. I started with lunch with two girlfriends at Bozo’s out in Metairie. This was my first time here, knowing only it was a seafood joint. I had hoped to go [...]
I went to work the other day and noticed this in front of my building. “Interesting,” I thought, “Will this be like the fishes?” A few years back, New Orleans did with fish what Chicago had previously done with bulls–had artists paint them, spread them around town for several months, then auction them for a [...]
I don’t want to seem mathematically challenged, nor do I want to rehash old material. BUT. This counting of weeks is still driving me crazy. Sun is due on July 10th. By my math, that’s 12 weeks to go. So, 40 – 12 = 28. Thus, I am in Week 28, right? I mean, that’s [...]
Pete made fun of me because it was clear to me that the flying object we saw in the sky recently was the blimp and not “unidentified.” He really wanted it to be a UFO. Men. But now I am starting to get a little paranoid, and it’s got me thinking. I see the blimp [...]
CS and I had dinner last night with a friend who confided that she is going through a difficult time. And I recognized something awful in her eyes: deep, raw pain. And it immediately took me to a place of reserved pain that I involuntarily hold within. I had intended not to blog about this [...]