Just Giblets

The American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans is over and now I have entered a state of total relaxation by the pool at the Lion’s Inn in the Faubourg Marigny. Yesterday I couldn’t even rouse myself for lunch between sunning and floating in the pool. We’ll see if I repeat the pattern today. Fortunately Scot arrives tomorrow and we’ll probably be a little bit more active (although he will certainly need his poolside time as well. I’ll try to post some pictures that include us later in the week, and possibly even muster the energy to post a little about post-Katrina New Orleans. In the meantime until Scot arrives, all that’s missing is a poolboy serving me hurricanes as I lounge.

As Scottie mentioned below, we closed on a new condo today. Yippee! That was pretty durn exciting! Check out the new digs on the left. We’re on the top floor, which is to my liking. There’s a porch on the front and the back, and we’ve already brought some stuff over there. It’s kind of surreal. I’ve obviously moved before, but moving into the first place we’ve owned is pretty wild.

As was the whole closing process. I have to say we were quite fortunate, compared to some of the difficulties friends and family have had, the whole process went quite smoothly. I was fascinated to see my signature degenerate as the seemingly endless signing went on. We were halfway through when I realized that I hadn’t been consistent, and several of my signatures were made without the middle initial. I was actually told to go back and insert the middle initial to those I did not use it.

Our next milestone will be next Monday when we movie. Titan Movers and their Secret Weapon… here we come!

That’s it. This site proves, once and for all, that Hello Kitty truly has no mouth. (More on that particular topic at this classic site.)

And I have butterflies in my stomach. I haven’t been this excited since our wedding day.