Birthday Beignets, After All

Happy Monday, world.  Yes, I realize it is Monday and this is not, technically, a Monday Menu entry.  However, this entry is, indeed, connected to Menus as a continuation of last week. Cost Plus, I think, leapt forward as my new best friend this year, as I celebrated my 2012 birthday a couple of weeks…

Menu Mondays: Cafe du Monde

I have found myself, of late, pondering birthdays.  This is undoubtedly because my own is fast approaching, and will arrive in a whopping 10 days.  My emotions are mixed about this one, several-fold.  I will be turning 36.  This does not bother me on a daily basis, but occasionally I find that it completely squicks…

French Quarter Fridays: Backstage

So, I just spent the better part of my spare and stolen moments, for the last several days, glued to news, watching Hurricane Isaac steal upon the Gulf Coast and do his stormy thang.  Nothing drives me battier than watching storms like that roll up on my favored part of the United terrain, when I’m…

French Quarter Friday: It’s In the Details

One should never rush and hurry and zoom through the French Quarter.  (Unless, of course, one is running exceedingly late for work or somesuch.)  There is just too much to see, and that does not include just the Big Stuff like the St. Louis Cathedral or Jackson Square or the view of the river from…

Gasp! Date Night!

Holy wow, retail schedules have me a’runnin’!  It is an interesting experience, after having a constant schedule for over a decade, to have my routine change week by week.  I am not complaining, though.  It wipes me out, but at least I never fall into a rut, to say the least.  I get one day…

Rivah Watah

Man o’ man, the last couple of weeks have been a ride!  I am working two jobs now, you see.  I took two part-timers in order to make a whole, as it were.  However, one part-time gave me nearly full-time hours last week, so I was somewhat working a full job and a half.  Often,…

Menu Mondays: Nosh

Good morning world, and happy Monday!  So, my lucky Friday the 13th vibe continued quite nicely, although not quite on the 13th itself.  I’m still giving the 13th credit, though, simply because I want to.  At any rate, J did not receive any positive work-related calls, but he did have another interview scheduled, so that…

French Quarter Friday: Wandering Royal St.

Well, happy Friday the 13th, world!  I’ve always had good days, on Friday the 13thses, and today has begun no differently.  Since I managed to not get loose from work until nearly 10:00 p.m. last night, I slept in a little.  Once awake, I received the very grand and glorious news that my dad’s PT…