Monday, May 20, 2013

Mud Bugs Yall!

Joseph Street FINALLY hosted a crawfish boil! We usually get on this earlier in the year, but the timing never seemed to work out. Regardless, on Sunday we did our thing and ate about 80 lbs. of mud bugs! They were delicious, the weather was great, and the company lovely :)
 
The only pictures I snapped were when AV decided to get in a drain beside the house. He's so silly!
 
 
 

Thursday, May 16, 2013

This Is Water

I saw this the other day and have since found myself thinking about it a lot. It is almost 10 minutes long, but well worth it to watch...

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Magazine Street Champagne Stroll

Saturday evening Brie and I met up with a few of her other friends to partake in the Magazine Street Champagne Stroll. Basically a bunch of boutiques, galleries, and restaurants up and down Magazine Street were having sales, viewings, entertainment, and of course champagne for folks to enjoy. The rain that we have been getting the past few days let up enough and the evening was actually very pleasant to be out walking around. I like events such as this because I would not normally wander into these types of places, but this gives me an opportunity to see things (i.e. artwork) I wouldn't usually see and that is always nice :)

Monday, May 13, 2013

Instagram

My latest Instagram Pics...
 
Read it & live it. Thank you stop-sign-graffiti-person. Little Kitty looking very skeptical...
Bathroom light fixture + reflection. Lexington grass...the best kind.
Cigarette machines still surprise me! It's a bird, it's a plane, no...it's a minion blimp!
So many pink office supplies. Paint can lids from the Abita Mystery Museum.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Jazz Fest 2013

Another Jazz Fest has come and gone in NOLA. Keeping with my usual tradition, I only went on the last Sunday; unlike tradition, the weather was AWESOME! It wasn't a sweat fest this year and most people were actually wearing jackets. The previous day's rain made for a muddy mess, but I will take mud and upper 60's weather to no-mud and upper 80's weather any day!!
 
I went for the Pine Leaf Boys and the Black Keys. Other than those two groups I saw Trombone Shorty but that was all.
 
Enjoy a little snippet from the Black Keys: 
 
 
Another tradition that I didn't really realize I had until the other day when I was looking back through older photos on my phone: Every year I take a picture of my feet at Jazz Fest! They are always so dirty and I end up sitting down and snapping a shot...so here is the latest gross foot pic!Haha--enjoy!
2011 & 2012

Monday, April 29, 2013

Life Lately

Spring is quickly slipping into summer here in the Big Easy. With the nice weather comes nice evenings spent outdoors. I grabbed a bite to eat and a few drinks with some co-workers last week at the Rum House and while socializing at the picnic tables outside, Drew Brees (Saints Quarterback) strolled by! Sure I have seen him in the Dome, but to see him walking down the sidewalk like a normal civilian was too cool!! Apparently he had just dined at the newly opened Magazine Street Dat Dog.

Along with the nice weather comes the thunderstorms too, though I am not complaining. One day last week at work it rained hard enough to have a repeat of Lake Euphrosine appear! Yesterday was a wet one too. I dodged the rain at the theater, going to see Matthew McConaughey's newest flick, Mud. I enjoyed it. I can boil it down to the story of a young man realizing that love is not as simple as he once thought. While Michael Shannon's role is not a big one, I always like seeing him on screen.

 
To follow up seeing a good movie, Brie, Witt, and I wanted to have a horror movie night. I was pre-warned that Witt gets scared fairly easily, so we made sure he was okay with the selection before deciding to watch Mask Maker which turned out to be a baaaad "scary" movie. Sooo cliche, sooo predictable, such a looow budget. Oh well, you live and learn right? He assured us he will have no nightmares after watching that atrocity. We will watch Cabin in the Woods next time we want to watch a clever horror movie!

So besides seeing famous football players off the field, avoiding flood waters, and going to the movies, I've spent my time recently catching up on laundry (I swear someone was using the washer every time I wanted to for nearly a week straight!), doing a little shopping, and chatting with AV who has returned to NOLA yet again.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Blast From the Past

After eating lunch at my Maw-maw's the other day I was putting the clean dishes away when I spotted these blasts from the past in the cabinet! I remember my Paw-Paw sending in UPC codes from his oatmeal for these fun bowls that change color when they get heated up. 
 

If my memory serves me correctly, there was another version from Quaker that was purple when cool and would turn pink when hot. I believe I ate the colorful popcorn that was popular in the 90's out of these bowls while watching Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman at sleep overs at my grandparents house. Oh the memories :)