December and 66*...we'll pay for this in August

[marathoner452]

I feel the need to share more positive New Orleans moments, like the neighborhood kids running the first couple blocks with me yesterday and celebrating the end of hurricane season with a cafe au lait praline from the farmer's market and a hot cafe au lait at Sound Cafe.  I missed the food co-op meeting 'cause I was thrift store shopping for professional work clothes.  I start Monday if the principal mailed the paperwork to RSD.

There are Christmas lights on the shotgun houses and the palm trees.  Farms in North Carolina ship us our Christmas trees.  Being from the chilly not-so-far-North, it's strange to be getting ready for Christmas when it feels like spring.  Most of my Christmas shopping is done, small local gifts since it all has to fit in my luggage on the 23rd, nothing from the mall.

Right now I'm wearing shorts and looking forward to tomorrow afternoon's Saints game.  I even have a Saints santa hat.

Comments

[black-op.livejournal.com]

I think thats a wonderful story. But its missing something, a pic of you in the Saints Santa hat.

[marathoner452.livejournal.com]

I'll have my roommate take one tomorrow during the game.

[roadwarrior220.livejournal.com]

I'm with black_op--I want a picture of you in the hat.

I'll miss the snow during the Christmas season too, but there's something to be said for Christmas in the south. And if I don't talk to you before Monday, have a great first day. I wanna hear all about it. I was a little out of it earlier because of the revelation I had at the mall, as well as the cold weather getting to me.

[mixmastermeg.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the weather WONDERFUL today!?!?! My boyfriend and I went to the Quarter for beignets this morning and it was just amazing!
I love the hot weather and the Christmas lights.
Good luck on Monday!

[marathoner452.livejournal.com]

We should enjoy it while we've got it-after tomorrow it's supposed to get cold again, that meaning highs in the 60s and lows around 50.

In Maryland right now it is 38* and tomorrow my family will be enjoying a nice rain/ice mix. I will be calling home tomorrow to remind them of this, and they can return the favor next summer. :-)