The first thing I read at ‘Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans’ was ‘Heritage: 99% Cajun and 1% Attakapa (a cannibalistic indian tribe from Southeast Texas/Southwest Louisiana – draw your own conclusions). Political persuasion: agnostic. Favorite saying: My karma ran over my dogma’ so I knew this was going to be fun. And it was.
The author, let’s call her Esmeralda (her real name is Laurie, you’ll see why I’m being cruel later) has a wonderful good natured spirit. If more people were like her I’m sure the world would be a much better place to live in. She seems to have fun where ever she goes. Her stories are very funny, you’ll have to read a few, it should make you smile bigly. In one entry she refers to her friends as ’Brunehilda (not her real name) and I could not get a straight answer out of Shagundala (also not her real name)’. Ouch. And they still went out with you? –grin- She is always making up names to protect identities, she usually picks uniquely odd names. In another entry she is remarking how busy she is on Fridays at work, ‘What I don’t understand is, WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE WORKING ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON? Shouldn’t they be playing golf or drinking margaritas or cheating on their spouses? Where is their non-work ethic?. Heh. Non-work ethic! In spite of her blog only being around a short time she has a surprisingly vast amount of content. She really seems to enjoy blogging. Some of her other entries I enjoyed were ‘Carlsbad Caverns’, ‘Diamond’ (my personal fav) and ‘Necessity, the Mother of Invention’. She shares some really great stories, personal reflections and her take on life in her blog. She seems to blog every day so this would be a good daily read addition to your blogroll.
The design is pretty simple. She is using the Blogger template called Scribe. It has nice shades of brown and is very easy to read. A few of the graphics were missing giving me the ‘red X of death’, hopefully she can fix those. She includes a fair number of personal photos within her entries. You end up getting a good sense of who the author is and what she is like.
Overall a spicy Cajun good time. Certainly a worthy read, I’ll be back when I need a laugh or two.
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans