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Today marks 6 weeks until my second baby is due. I’m in the final stretch (ok, no more puns, I promise). I’m getting very excited to meet the new kid - a boy this time, if the doctor is correct. For the last pregnancy I was too scared [...]
The springtime plant nursery is progressing nicely so far. I have plenty of seeds spouts in need of transplanting and they are growing quickly already. Here's to a long warm growing season :-)

I finally went to check out the Labyrinth in Audubon Park. My favorite part is the plaques embedded in the concrete near the benches. They all have pretty quotes on them...
Z'otz is my favorite coffeehouse in New Orleans. If you haven't been there yet you should check it out (8210 Oak St). The beverages are exotic and delicious, and the atmosphere is just wicked cool. Ok, so it actually looks like Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb decorated it, [...] 

"I don't want to survive, I want to live." -Captain McCrea, Wall-E
So I never got around to this, but this was my x-mas present from hubby. A Nikon D90 :-)
I just heard about this during the morning. Another innocent woman’s life taken in New Orleans.
Hahah. Knew THAT would get your attention. Actually, I’m referring to circumcision...

Well, at least I have beaucoup better credit than the US Government. This is an amusing take...
Happy Twelfth Night! - Let the Carnival season begin.


Despite a drastic slowdown in the national economy, the New Orleans area is still growing, according to a report released Monday by the University of New Orleans.
While the United States lost jobs [...]
All I have to say is - "for your own safety" is the same phrase fascist government's use when they put you under house arrest.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest U.S. state and other Southern states were close rivals due [...]
One day in 2006, while working in my office, I noticed a street full of people marching past in front of my house and down Magazine St. I wondered, was this some kinda march for levee funding? A march against crime? A march for more health care in post-K [...]
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Sprint can go to hell. I have 4 months left on my contract, so I called them yesterday to see what it would cost to "buy out" of it. I want to switch carriers because their services and their phone selection suck. Anyway they tell me it will [...]
So I've searched the internet, and scoured my Cajun cookbooks, but I have been unable to find a recipe for pistolette bread. Just the bread, not the bread stuffed with goodies. Every recipe I've seen says "buy pistolettes". No, I want to MAKE my own pistolettes. I'm [...] 
"A federal appeals court has ruled that the indictment of Rep. William Jefferson was constitutional, clearing the way for the embattled Louisiana Democrat to go to trial.
Jefferson's corruption case is best known for the allegation [...]