Updates!

Well I haven't written very much since before I left to Austin. I did end up going to Austin and of course Gustav came our way. Bryan helped me board up the house while I was gone. He took my important stuff and the kitties to Baton Rouge. He ended up getting called up and the cats had to stay by themselves for a couple of days. Baton Rouge got beat up pretty bad and they didn't have AC either. I think they freaked out a bit. While in Austin I got to spend time with my Crissy, Eric and Roman. It was so much fun saying good night and good morning to Roman. He is so cute and very talkative nowadays. I ended up going to a UT Hispanic Alumni event and ran into my ex-boyfriend Daniel. I met his new girlfriend who seemed nice enough. I have to say that I'm much cuter than her. Ok, that's all I will say. We ended up having lunch later on in the week and we caught up with each other's lives. He is a good guy and I wish we could stay in touch but I don't think he is comfortable with it. Oh well. Anyway I did get to go to Deep Eddy twice that week. Deep Eddy is a pool feed by spring waters in Austin. It was so cold. I tried to work on my tan but I'm not very good sitting still for extended periods of time. I did help Crissy get a little better organized. I think that if I ever decide to get another job I might want to help people get organize their closets.

Anyway, I ended up flying back to New Orleans on Thursday night and headed over to the house. I had electricity but our office didn't so I went to pick up the cats on Friday in Baton Rouge. The rest of the weekend was spent kind of getting stuff cleaned up around the house. I also went by Home Depot to see what was up with my fridge. They had picked up the bad one but I hadn't seen the new one. It worked out ok because I didn't have to clean a fridge out like a lot of other people did. I didn't end up getting my fridge til this past Thursday. Would have gotten it Wednesday but I had to go to my co-worker's mother's funeral. She died during the evacuation. They were on the road for 20 hours and she got a blood clot. Very sad sorry. Anyway nothing crazy going on here. I did pick up my rewired chandalier that I moved from my other house on Green Street to Spain Street. It looks good. I have my eye on another one for the front entrance but can't make any kind of purchases like that til I sell the house. Oh by the way I had some drama with my house on Green Street. I was letting someone shower and sleep there while their house was being worked on and they just went ahead an moved in. I had to ask them to leave but she just had a c-section so I gave them a couple of days. This is the same woman that harassed me into picking up a cat and her newborn kittens from her porch to take them to the pound. The livin boyfriend was allergic to cats. That's what happens when you're nice.

This Thursday we got hit with bands of wind from IKE. We also got some rain but mainly lots of wind all weekend. I really can't believe how big this storm was. I lost electricity several times on Thursday night and kept getting awoken by my neighbor's generator going on and off. Anyway our office didn't have electricity on Friday so I ended up quasi working from home.