Did I mention I’ve joined a Krewe? That’s right, an honest-to-goddess Mardi Gras Krewe! Unfortunately, I don’t have enough money to ride on the floats, so I’m a “non-riding” member, but that means I get to go to all the parties, buy the chatchkas and generally hang out w/other cool women. Oh yeah, it’s an all-female krewe, one of two in Nola. It has lots of performance artists and other goofy marching groups that are associated w/it (like the krewe of rolling elvi). It’s a great parade to go to during Mardi Gras – the throws are fun & plentiful and the entertainment is great, not just marching bands.
Oh dear, I’m hearing a story on NPR on squeezing out more savings. How much more serious than the M’s. However, I’m also hoping to network for my job thru the M’s – and if I can, maybe revive the jelliebellies and march/dance in the parade, which would certainly get me many contacts – which is how this city works, it’s all in who you know!
And I just wanted you to know, true believers and faithful readers – I have a tendency to only write when there’s something huge or something negative going on. When I’m happy and everything’s on an even keel, I’m too busy living to remember to update everyone. So please keep that in mind – job is going well, L is improving all over, we’re settling into our new sked, S almost has the cottage complete for a new tenant which will take some of the strain off our finances, and we’ll be getting a new used car soon. I’m also hearing better and better things about L’s new school, once S gets back in touch w/them. L & I are going to a kiddie concert tonight, and then we’ll think of something fun for the weekend. L & S are doing music 2gether classes on mondays. ALL GOOD!
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July 27, 2007 at 3:14 pm
KB
Hi! Krewe sounds like fun; life going smoothly sounds like good news; one reason I’ll never start a blog — appealing as it sometimes seems to me — is that in all my years every time I start a diary (and I’ve started many) I’ve found that after a brief spurt of enthusiasm I start tapering off to only writing when I’m depressed or angry about something. And occasionally if something momentously wonderful happens. But then, going back and reading it, it all seems to be only such a bad glimpse of my life that I throw it away and give up on the whole project again. So I get ya on the blog thing.
July 27, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Nif
Yeah, I hear you – SARK did a lot to help my journaling grow into something more (thanks to S for turning me onto her), tho it’s been weird this past year keeping a journal AND blogging (tho I try to keep the inner angst and stuff to the journal). And I find it does help to reread the old journal stuff and see what issues keep resurfacing. Also, big thing was forgiving myself for not keeping up daily – like I need any more self-imposed guilt in my life, sheesh!
I dunno if life is going smoothly per se, but I’d say that there’s some more fun stuff happening and we’re definitely making some progress on some of the most discouraging/roughest stuff. I’m also just more optimistic when I don’t feel trapped with no options – even if we decide to stay, it won’t be because all our other choices are bad, it’ll be because this is the best choice for now… and that makes a big difference.
Now if I can just get thru the next 4 days of rain/thunderstorms