The New Orleans Posse
From left to right:
Mark, Rebecca, Theo, Me, Shawn, Virginia and Danae
Mark, Rebecca, Theo, Me, Shawn, Virginia and Danae
Fish Sticks and Green Jello
Friday, November 21, 2003
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Back from the Big Easy
Well I should have posted my N'awlins report sooner but I've been lazy and burnt out from my trip. I left last Wednesday and got back Saturday night. I had a blast though!
Some highlights:
Overall I'd LOVE to go back. I was so glad to go with the group that I did. It was a great trip. I feel like I'm forgetting some more high/low points but I'll add them if I think of them. Here are a few photos from the trip. I had to include the photo of my friend Theo and I looking cool, windswept and evil on a balcony overlooking Bourbon Street. And no, I did not show my boobs for beads. I just made Theo go get them for me. :)
The other two photos are in front of the voodoo shop on Bourbon Street and in the Garden District in front of the largest mansion in the neighborhood. Seven of us went so we're only missing two folks from that bottom pic. We got a great pic of all of us at the steamboat that I'll post later.
Some highlights:
- Cheap hotel in a historic old house right on the edge of the french quarter with a pool and a hot tub
- Taking an evening ghost/vampire tour of the French Quarter with a funny/quirky british tour guide named "Wheezy"
- Taking a daytime cemetary/voodoo tour with the same funny/quirky tour guide (I HIGHLY recommend taking both of these tours, in particular you should ask for Wheezy aka Louise Johnson if you want to have a truly excellent experience)
- Royal Street.... so cute, lovely antique and art stores, wonderful architecture
- Eating tons of raw Oysters which cost hardly anything there
- Eating spicy crawfish
- Eating Alligator and Rabbit at Coops, which both, of course... tasted like chicken
- Cafe au Lait and Beignets at Cafe du Monde
- 80's night at the 735 club on Bourbon Street
- Watching my straight friend Theo participate in a drag queen run beefcake contest at a gay club called Oz on Bourbon street
- Hanging out with a fun group of 6 other people, most of whom I hadn't met but once before this trip
- Taking a Steamboat ride on the Mississippi
- Being super drunk and winding up two nights in a row at Lafitte's sitting at the piano bar and singing along to classic tunes
- Touring the beautiful houses in the Garden District
- Playing blackjack at Harrah's and winning money!
- Eating home made Red Beans and Rice at Sheila's house
- The smell, peeyew! The streets smelled bad there. Especially the closer to Bourbon street you got. Yuck! Fermented beer, garbage, you name it.... gross
- Packing for warm tropical weather and having two decently warm days with two freezing cold days and no jacket
- Total lack of sleep
- Horrible hangover
- Bourbon Street is primarily UGLY, neon lights, strip clubs, people trying to entice you in for 3 for 1 drink nights, yucky smell... not unlike sodom and gomorrah
- Okay shoot me but a Mufaletta did NOT look appetizing to me whatsover even with the ambiance of a cute deli like Luigi's
- Too many bead, mask, t-shirt, plastic alligator shops all over the quarter
Overall I'd LOVE to go back. I was so glad to go with the group that I did. It was a great trip. I feel like I'm forgetting some more high/low points but I'll add them if I think of them. Here are a few photos from the trip. I had to include the photo of my friend Theo and I looking cool, windswept and evil on a balcony overlooking Bourbon Street. And no, I did not show my boobs for beads. I just made Theo go get them for me. :)
The other two photos are in front of the voodoo shop on Bourbon Street and in the Garden District in front of the largest mansion in the neighborhood. Seven of us went so we're only missing two folks from that bottom pic. We got a great pic of all of us at the steamboat that I'll post later.
Monday, November 17, 2003
Lustful?? Hrm.
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Low |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very High |
| Level 7 (Violent) | High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Moderate |
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
Monday, November 10, 2003
Early Resolutions
Things I want to do over the next year:
- Eat smaller meals
- Exercise more (take walks, use my eliptical, try going to the gym, whatever!)
- Take Yoga again like I keep saying I will. Go two times a week
- Continue taking French and spend more time studying it
- Take Toby to Intermediate Dog Training class and spend more time working with him on commands
- Lose ten lbs of fat fat fat without having to completely cut all carbs out of my diet (I did the suzanne somers diet for 4 months it was hard! I can't eat like that for the rest of my life!)
- Walk Toby for more than ten minutes a day
- Get expensive scans so I can to try and get to the bottom of Olivia's sensitive stomach issue
- Go back to Paris
- Buy a new used car
- Stop owing the IRS
Sunday, November 02, 2003
Halloweenie
| Here's some photos from Halloween for your amusement. On the left you have a pic of Toby taken by a co-worker. He's being held by my co-worker's wife. This is after I let him out of the very hot sheep costume he was in. On the right you have a photo of me as Little Bo Peep and there's Toby the sheep! Doesn't he look utterly humiliated? He was a real hit at work though! The high waistline on that dress made me look particularly fat I think. Next year I'm going as something more evil. This year was a little too cutsey for me. Oh that's right, next year I'm going as Princess Leia on Endor with her ewok. Toby will make the PERFECT ewok, considering he looks exactly like one. | |
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