Today is Mardi Gras. The end of carnival season. Tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, starts Lent. The seasons here in New Orleans go quickly from one to the next. I confess that I love carnival but tend to be underwhelmed with Mardi Gras day. The mega parades are over the weekend. And the Zulu and Rex parades [...]
Sun is napping. CS and Pete are at lunch with Katie and Daisy. The TV is off; the dishwasher just shut down. Hear that? Nothing sounds sooo good. So why am I enjoying the quiet? Allow me to recap. Thursday night: Krewe of Babylon and Knights of Chaos. Left before Muses. Loved Babylon and Chaos. [...]
In Florida, I lived near a hospital. I heard sirens all the time. Friends would call and worry about the crime until I explained they were mostly ambulances. In Baton Rouge, I lived in a rough area. I’d been broken into and regularly heard gun fire. Sirens were not good omens. But the sound of [...]
First off, a PSA. Zatarain’s (whose NOLA seasonings are totally awesome) is sponsoring a petition to declare Mardi Gras a national holiday. I know, right–how is this not yet a national holiday? Zatarain’s knows that no one knows Mardi Gras quite like New Orleans! That’s why they want to help shine the spotlight on the [...]
Still sick am I. Slowly getting cleared up. And that’s good because this weekend is CS’s birthday and next weekend is all-on parades! I am filled with such anticipation about Le Krewe d’Etat. What will the men dance as this year? In recent years, it was Vince Marinello (still my fave to date) and Michael [...]
I am a whiny sick person. I have a low tolerance for pain and, with a young child, a high propensity for getting sick these days. This time I have a cold. No fever, no chills. And I still missed a day of work because there was so much congestion sitting in my sinuses I [...]