Aging: A Soliloquy by William Faulkner

when your young the triceps are used for extension during climbring trees playing basket ball or skipping rocks on a pond when your old they are used to support your weight as you shuffle around with your walker and to propel yourself in your wheel chair

Yippie!

Yay!!!! I'm all done with finals for the semester! Will be done with the red pen-Anatomy final combo this afternoon and then I will celebrate by sleeping :) Sweet dreams!

Tis the Season Indeed!

Today I was awakened very early by a VERY exciting text...it was from E and said...


"It's SNOWING" (betcha thought this was going somewhere else when you saw the Boot photo)


Ok, the caps is me, E only cap'ped the S, but still! I think it deserves all caps.


As I drove my sistah to work, I made her basically hang out the window in a quest to perfectly capture this rare occasion...snow in New Orleans.


Now, being an Ohio girl, unlike some of the population here at Tulane and in NOLA, I have seen snow, and am quite familiar with it. And seriously love it. Snow in New Orleans?


Pretty much unheard of, but the absolute perfect combo!!!!


So after dropping my sistah off at work (click here to see the most adorable picture EVER! I'm super jealous and wish I had one in the snow!) I proceeded to drive around the city taking umpteen photos (seriously, I filled two camera's memory cards and ran both batteries down!).


And tried to get E to come out and play in the snow, and (charge the camera batteries/upload photos onto his computer)...but alas, he was busy in a meeting. So I settled for this photo of the baby palm outside his office...

Stay tuned for more of my snowy masterpieces!


And in case you were wondering, it has now progressed from snow to an ice-storm of sorts, with pellets of hail and such. So wintery. So amazing!


As they say...It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!! (And in our case, much more festive and Christmas-y than ever before!!!!) I'm off to build a mini snowman...hot chocolate later anyone?

Shout out from Italia!

Yesterday I had something really exciting happen. I was shouted out on a non-relative's (I love y'alls shout outs too, but this was of another level) blog. Not only was it on the blog of one of my besties, it was all the way from Italy! A is spending the year over there being fabulous and have gelato every day, of which I am only slightly (and by slightly I mean hugely) jealous. Ah, life in Italy is truly otherworldly. I am super happy she is there exploring and living, and super-duper proud of her for learning a new language! Her blog is also freaking amazing and I think she should become a writer when she returns to this continent. Vist her page for a view of my shout out!

Something to look waaaaay forward to...

Last night I was engaging in what is affectionately known here at 7221 as a "mind-numbing activiy" to decompress from the stress/exhaustion of the past few days. I was halfheartedly reading articles on a website when a phrase caught my eye "will be begin her first tour in 5 years in March in NEW ORLEANS louisiana." Any guesses about who it is?


The one, the only, BRITNEY SPEARS!!!! I know what you are thinking, but seriously, she really seems to have it together now. And whatever you may say about her commercialization, she is an amazing performer. And her dancing. yowza.


And did you see the documentary on her on Sunday? It was a little bit heartbreaking-I definitely wouldn't want that to be my life, but she seems to be dealing with what comes a lot better now.


So back to the concert declaration. Yes, its true, Britney Spears is opening her new tour in New Orleans, on March 3rd. Tickets go onsale this Saturday, December 6th at 8am. But thanks to some sleuth computer work, guess who already has their tickets?!?!?! Oh yes, we shall be there. And if you are a Britney fiend like us, and want to know how to get the presale access code for tickets, just let me know, I'm happy to share!!!

Tuesday Tis the Season

This morning I was so cold I expected to see this:


and before you go thinking that I've gone soft being here in NOLA, I will have you know that it got down to 34 degrees here last night! While that might not be cold at home, it is darn cold here!


This being Tuesday, I went on my usual excursion to the farmer's market. Not only did Miss Taylor greet me enthusiastically and have my eggs put aside for me, she also had homegrown speckled lettuce. Yes, it is supposed to look like that (it's kind of like heirloom tomatoes, but with lettuce). And it tastes amazing! And I feel much more comfortable with speckled lettuce than I do with mustard greens, collard greens, and kale, which are her usual green offerings. All around, it was a very good trip to the market, and the start of what I am determined to make a super day.

Tis the Season