“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
Feeling somewhat a little better today, although still hurting in most places. Weird, huh?
I’ve posted the start of the OnLine Yard Sale and will continue adding things throughout the day. EVERYthing listed has to go within the next two weeks, so I may do some further bundling and reducing of prices, but I hope I [...]
I don’t know if it is residual pains from my fall the other day, or what, but EVERYthing hurts tonight — shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers … the backs of my hands … knees, ankles … and even that damned squishy twingy thing in my back that comes and goes for the last couple years, plus [...]
Experts excoriate recovery leaders
Nagin said Wednesday that he will announce next week the appointment of someone to handle all aspects of recovery, along with two new hires for his administration.
This is totally unacceptable. Eleven months after the storm that changed New Orleans forever, FINALLY the mayor is getting around to appointing someone to handle [...]
Okay, for starters, a bit of good news.
After spending much of Wednesday fretting about getting my funding and all the hassles entailed therein, yesterday afternoon I got a call from the person at LSU (who is really not responsible for any of this, but participated fully and quite helpfully) who told me she was able [...]
or, more accurately, “Here is Fall.”
As you know I’ve been busy packing, sorting, and blah-blah-blah. Which means I’m surrounded by boxes, piles, baskets, and assorted sundry stuff that would normally be put away. I come in the backdoor with a basket of clean laundry, step around the bed to dump it out and fold [...]
Today I went back up the street to Ignatius, a new little hole-in-the-wall restaurant, featuring traditional New Orleans cookery.
It used to be a Latino deli of some sort, and before that it was a funky little corner grocery or something. But now, with eating places in short supply in New Orleans, I figured I’d give [...]
Wellllll
(cover your ears)
SHIT!
On June 8, I submitted a request to have my MetLIFE 403(b) account closed. Long story short… MetLIFE can’t release my money until the LSU plan administrator updates their MetLIFE electronic system to show that I no longer work there. OH!!! but guess what? That person hasn’t worked at LSU for over two [...]
wow… just woke up a few mins ago. Actually I was waking through the night with some regularity, not sure why, but I insisted (to myself) that I had to sleep until at least 6:00. Finally around 3:30 or so I felt myself become very comfortable and drifting back into a sleepful [...]
New Orleans’ city-run cemeteries lacking grave diggers
WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News
The city of New Orleans’ cemetery division is down to a post-Katrina skeleton crew — and that means there are not city workers available to bury the dead.
“We do not dig graves or put caskets into graves any longer,” said [...]
Okay, so here’s the start of the project:
I had to move them from the bookshelf in the office … and from the living room …. and another stack from the bedroom! By the way, that table is six feet long, which might give you a better idea of just how many knitting books I have!
Some [...]
Okay, today is July 21 — 3 months since my last official “working day” at work. Wow.
On the good side that makes me fairly close to actually getting my funding for leaving, hopefully within the next couple weeks.
I am still very glad I was able to get rid of so much stuff at the yard [...]
Sorry, it’s been really wack-o hectic around here. Ardi reminded me I forgot to follow up re: the moving sale.
Yes, I got rid of LOTS of stuff, but surprised at what DIDN’T go. Very odd. But clearing out the bulk of it means I now have more room to spread out other stuff and [...]
I have work to be doing and these thunderstorms are making it difficult to keep the computer on doing what I need to be doing.
Suffice it to say I’ve been busy doing what I can, while turning off the computer whenever the storms come through. :-) Typical summer weather, of course, not anything I [...]
wow! What a week it has been!
By Wednesday, I found myself becoming very frustrated, trying to shift everything around and prepare for the yard sale. Not only was there a lot of mental energy involved, there was a bunch of physical energy as well. Most frustrating (as I’ve mentioned to several folks) was that because [...]
Okay, so I’m rummaging through my house, finding stuff to go for the yard sale.
And I look at some of this stuff, and I think…. “Damn! I just spent almost $24.00 to advertise a yard sale that won’t bring back even half that much! What’s up with that?”
I had to pull back and re-think [...]
Last night I had the pleasure of going out to a farewell supper gathering for some friends.
Except for one person (a long-time LSU co-worker), these were all people I have met by hanging around on the online forums since Katrina — an amazing resource for networking, since most of us first found the local online [...]
Gary asked to see the antique fixed-arm swift I’ve been using for re-winding the yarns:
The little blue thing up near the 2 O’clock positioned arm is actually just the rubber band off a bundle of broccoli — those big thick solid rubber bands — which I slipped onto the arm so I could tuck a [...]
Okay, so I’m on schedule for the yarn de-stashing — specific charity yarns set aside for one person, and other specific remnants set aside for another person. I’ve been pawing through EVERY basket, cubbyhole, bin, drawer, bag, shelf, and container, undo-ing a few projects, throwing away some, and bagging up others for give-away/sale/whatever. Amazingly, I [...]
Woo-hooo… Last night I watched Gone with the Wind on the Turner Classic Movie channel. And tonight there will be The Wizard of Oz (the 1939 version with Judy Garland), and then The Wiz (with Diana Ross, from the 70’s), and then at 11:30 will be the 1925 silent movie version. Wow! I don’t care [...]
Hey guess what! It’s SUNday … except that it has been cloudy and rainy all day. Ahh well… no matter.
Last night I got a call from a friend of a friend (we fiber-folk have such close-knit circles, you know!) who is a professional marketer (marketing genius, I’d say). Our mutual friend had directed her to [...]
