So one week into my new city, new time zone, new life….forgot how hard it is to learn a new city.
Things I learned this week.
1. Magazine Street becomes Decatur in the French Quarter
2. While you can walk around with booze everywhere you can NOT bring the booze onto a trolley
3. The new show Treme on HBO is about an area of town here and is pronounced “trem-ay”
4. In every grocery store there are HUGE head on shrimp station that you scoop and portion yourself like its dried fruit!
-side note, I still have to close my eyes when I rip the heads off and I feel this makes me a wimpy Cajun, must get better at beheading.
5. By South Florida standards I never thought I dressed particularly racy or slutty, however I think New Orleans operates on a different standard regarding appropriate amounts of daily cleavage and I fear the city thinks I’m a slut.
6. I have located and can successfully travel to my grocery store, home depot, bank, Walgreens, and dry cleaner WITHOUT looking at a map.
7. Operation Wedding Sexy is in full force, I’m hitting the gym like it can’t hit back and have lost 2 pounds! 12 more to go!
All in all I feel the week has been very successful. Curt and I grilled out in our new home, I’m mastering the art of homemade sangria, and have realized that being a “housewife” is damn hard work!!! Having dinner ready, looking pretty, taking care of all things ‘home’ is exhausting! While Curt is appreciative, I know my dinners could be yummier…the house cleaner…the cat better behaved. Moving so quickly from such an over-committed time in my life to this new point where I can again nurture and love myself is exciting albeit lonely at times.
Looking forward to week number 2!
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