Random NOLA Rants

Finally moved into our NOLA house and spent our first night in it as well. We found out we are missing many things that are just random not to have, like a tool kit, or area rugs, or lamps. So now we must start our quest to find these many various items at Wal-Mart. It is very strange not having all ten of us together, it hit me especially when we were all (all the NOLA people) at dinner at Deacon Elaine's and we were all sitting around the table. I realized as I looked at everyone, "we are missing people" then I thought, oh yeah, the Baton Rouge girls aren't here. I think it will be an interesting adventure figuring out how we will all see each other time and again.

It is labor day in New Orleans, which apparently like any other town/city in America doesn't really mean much more than a day off and time with family. So that is why every one in the house is taking it slow to getting up, and we are off to find supplies for our house.

New Orleans/Louisiana is very strange, and as I live here I have found many things that I have to just get used to happening; such as I found with the light switches last night. Basically because NOLA is such an old city (like 250 years old) things in houses are just kind of put the best way they can fit. So our light switches in our downstairs bathroom for example are half on their sides. Another great example of this making it work ideology would be the fact that there really is not a single traditional apartment in the city, they all have half the unit downstairs and the other half upstairs. It really is quite amazing how NOLA has made it work over the past 250 years.

I have to say I love finding out the weird quarks of a city, especially the ones that have been around for so long as NOLA. Louisiana itself has the strange quarks that you just don't see anywhere else in the country. I had it explained to me like this; think of New Orleans as an American Caribbean city, and Louisiana as a different kind of deep south, a lot of how the people act and the way the state works will start to make sense. Also don't spend a lot of time trying to make New Orleans happen, just let it come to you.

Well I apologize for the random thoughts of this post, it is early and these were just some things I thought of last night while moving myself in.

Peace.