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KK is doing better, gets stitches out tomorrow, yay. I have eaten many buttermilk drops and denied myself daiquiris because meds, gah. I have made casseroles and salads and yum. And in a few days I will be home again in old Wyoming where my kitty and my mom miss me and I am missing them. And my mom and my aunt got together and fixed up my bed ( Read more... )

I am not here for my usual daiquiri infused tourist trap trotting, no, it's takin' care o' business time. My beloved sister-from-another-mother has had another incident of cancer and so I am here to sit on her and make sure she eats and takes her meds and heals from surgery and to change the DVD in the player and otherwise ride herd on her. I am ( Read more... )

Assorted sights in teh Quarter:

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I made another voice post on Friday from the Quarter, but it has never shown up, and that makes me sad.

I finally made it to the Green Goddess after nine or ten hours of wandering around the Quarter with a suitcase of loot in tow and I was tired and hot and sticky and so very happy to finally be there that I could have wept. I didn’t realize how much I missed not going last Spring. And the wonderful thing about eating alone is that the Goddess ( Read more... )

(Icon is from a picture I took on Magazine Street on my first trip to NOLA back in... whatever year that was ( Read more... )

Before y'all flip out, no I did NOT bring the Tornado to Louisiana. Wasn't me, didn't do it. We are fine, it was nowhere near us. I woke up when the thunderstorm hit and thought to myself, 'huh, gullywasher', rolled over and went back to sleep. Woke up again to flooded streets and horribleness. But all is well in our house.

Why do adults act like such idiots about these things? After the third time that jackass-of-the-day TOOK THE BEADS OUT OF MY HAND I moved the fuck away from his immediate area (smack in front of the crowd) and went back to the sidewalk where I actually caught beads AND some random stranger started catching beads and handing them to me. Cool! ( Read more... )