January 25, 2012
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I have been SUCH a xanga slacker. That said, I just opened up a diet snapple and Real Fact #835 is: "You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television". I find this odd and unexpected.. I thought about putting it up on facebook, but then was like NO! Xanga! Xanga people are smart. They'll ponder this for me and explain it!
In other news I went to New Orlenas and LOVED IT!
Seriously. It was a great trip. It was so fun to be somewhere new. We ate the best food (no joke, everything was delicious--crawfish, po' boys, shrimp, gumbo, jambolaya, grits, hurricanes, monsoons, bloody mary's with spicy green beans in them, Abita Amber.. mmm), we walked around bunches and man, it is so cute in the French Quarter and Garden District, we drank our fair share, watched street performers, looked at things, and we slept.. and then we woke up and did it all over again. For 5 days! It was just oodles of fun. For those of you who are friends with me on FB--there are loads of pics there. For those of you who aren't.. here is a taste:
On the first full day there we walked around the Garden District, Magazine Street etc. Had the first (and actually the best po' boy of the trip.. fried oyster with some chipotle sauce and cole slaw of some sort. Thinking about it is making me drool).
The g string orchestra. No joke. They were good.
kicking a pedal into the suitcase, sitting on that animal, and rining a dinner bell.. it sounded great!
true story
Shrimp 'n grits from the Red Fish Grill. It was SO good!
Me and my partners in crime
.. during the Saints game
Bourbon Street me thinks..
The beads grow on trees!
Our 2nd hotel.. fancy!
We went on a swamp tour one day.. got an inadvertant Katrina tour in the process. The driver drove us through New Orleans East.. some of the images were pretty shocking.
More swamp..
Be kind to your web footed friends..
For a duck may be somebody's mother
Be kind to your friends in the swamp.. where the weather is very very domp. Now you may think that this is the end, and it is.Being back has been less than ideal. I feel like i've been on the verge of getting sick for a week now. I've also sort of been feeling like i'm over my job. I know I don't get that luxury, to be over working.. but this job specifically? I dunno. This week i've felt a bit over it. We'll see. I've been complaining for at least a year now. On the bright (?) side, the Giants are going to the Superbowl (i've never enjoyed Football before but we watched the 49ers (sadly) beat the Saints in N'awlins and it was so fun! So I had people over for the game on Sunday.. good times!) I received my Global Access card so now I don't have to wait in custom lines anymore at airports, and my former roommate will be here tonight (while the reason why he is visiting is sad since it is for a funeral) it'll be really nice to have him at 'our' place again
On that note, work is still work and so I better go do some.. that AND now that I just realized that HBO GO works on the iPad at the office I better pick out something to sneakily watch too. Yay for bosslike people traveling.
Comments (9)
oh, i was waiting for this post!! i love that picture of you with your two friends. you look so good!
everyone i know (including myself) has gotten this yucky cold. i seem to be over it but still sniffle constantly.
SOME DAY i'll go to n'awlins. and new yawk. SOME DAY. :)
as for the sleeping thing, i dunno. i guess watching TV you're more fixed, whereas when you're sleeping you might toss and turn more? maybe they conducted research with people who have lots of vivid sex dreams, LOL.
@RizzlGrizzl - Aww.. thanks
You saw the pics on FB, right? There are more there with better stories and more in order. You know this already, but I love the NYC idea!
My favorite radio dj here used to work in New Orleans and this morning he was talking about his bit part in Runaway Jury (filmed in New Orleans). I've been wanting to watch that again. I'm so glad you had a good time in Nola. It's such a magical place right? Did you see any of the brass bands? and how about a praw-leen? I love those!
Shit street. LOL.
Glad to hear from you!
We've all been sick down here and there are some nasty germs floating around! It's not pleasant but I think I might finally be over my cold soon!!
Thanks for posting the photos. It's awful nice to see the place. Got to get down there again myself!
here's my thought (ok, actually someone else's thought because i looked this up) on what burns more calories between sleep and watching tv. it depends on what you're doing while watching tv. if you're eating, you'd burn more calories from sleeping because you don't eat while you're sleeping....unless you're one of those people who sleep eats. if you're doing some sort of exercise (sitting/bouncing on a stability ball, using the treadmill/elliptical machine, etc) while watching tv, naturally you'll burn more calories. if you're a sleep walker, you'd burn more calories sleeping than sitting in front of the tv.
Love the photos.
you are gorgeous. I lmao at your song, now it is going through my head. I would rather have sex than sleep, and rather sleep than watch tv.