Disney Night

Brie, AV, Nick and I were going to go out to the theater, but due to varying tastes we chose to stay in instead. They had all seen The Princess and the Frog before but were totally on board to watch it again! It is based on New Orleans so it seemed relevant and I thought it was a very cute movie with a good message about knowing the difference between what you want and what you need. What a nice little Disney/roommate night :)

King Cakes

Have you ever blown your nose into a tissue and the outcome is a blob of glitter? I have. That must mean it is King Cake season! Sucre started cranking out their version of the King Cake a little over a week ago and therefore I have been knee deep in cinnamon-sugar cakes with icing covered in edible glitter.

They have actually hired a gentleman who comes in around 4:00 each evening to make a batch of 160 cakes. He works later hours so that he can have uninterrupted access to the ovens. I am not 100% clear on the process, but I believe he has to make the dough, let it sit for a day, shape the cakes into their traditional braided circular shape, let that sit for a day, bake the cakes, let them cool, cover them in icing, let that sit for the rest of the night, then one of the ladies sprays and glitters them during the day. The cakes then have to dry from their recent coloring and THEN they are finally ready for the shipping department to add a plastic baby, wrap them in plastic wrap, and place them in a box!

Moving the cakes from the cookie sheet to the cardboard disc stirs up the loose glitter and therefore at the end of the day everything is covered in a fine coating; including my lungs.

Cute Oil Change Guy

I was able to leave work a little earlier than usual today and therefore chose to be a responsible adult and go get my oil changed. This lovely chore has been hovering on my "to do" list for quite some time now. I stopped by a SpeeDee that is on the way home and lucky for me there was a super cute guy working that helped me out. Thinking he was cute only re-affirmed what I already knew about myself and that is that I am definitely attracted to manly men. Construction workers, mechanics, a man in a uniform, really any hard working men. Not to a say a guy in a business suit is not a hardworking person, but he is much less likely to turn my head than one of the aforementioned dudes. I prefer Carhart and boots to Polo and loafers any day!

Freeze Warning!

Brrrr! The landlords have sent out an email; leave those pipes a dripping cause its gonna freeze!! I don't think any snow is in the forecast though.

What To Do? What To Do?

For weeks now I have known what my Sunday plan was going to be: wake up, function, watch football, go about my business. It has been an enjoyable routine that is occasionally thrown due to a Monday game or a Bye Week, but none-the-less, it has stayed fairly consistent. Well, it is Sunday and the Saints played their last game of the season yesterday. (They lost to the Seahawks 41-36...the worse team ever to make it to the playoffs...don't get me started!) Sure there are other games on and I may flip to them throughout the day, but the Saints won't be back until the fall. It is kind of a sad day, and the rain doesn't help.

Comfy Heaven

Some days there is just absolutely nothing better than crawling into my big, super-soft bed and balling up in my comforter. *sigh* That is all :)

Softy

Sure the commercials for the orphans in Africa bother me, and it upsets me to see or hear about folks being abused. But nothing pulls on my heart strings more than the sad Sarah McClaughlin and Willie Nelson commercials about neglected animals. I can't watch them, or even hear their songs--I change the channel or mute the TV. Just a softy for animals I suppose.