Thanks so much, Big Mike and Rhapsody, for the lovely comments you left in response to my last blog. Sorry everyone that's interested; I haven't been updating lately because I have been so BUSY. It's summertime, you know! I still have to upload pictures of the truck, the graduation pictures, and some photos I took of me wearing my hair in various Bantu knot styles. LOL We are also getting ready to host my mother and sister-in-law; they will be here visiting with us for the 4th.

I am planning to go to New Orleans soon. Every time I tried to go sooner, something always came up. But I am determined to go this time. I really want to see how much progress has been made in the nearly four years since Katrina, if any, visit my brother and his family, and enjoy some of that good old New Orleans food (I am DYING for some beignets and cafe au lait! LOL). I have been keeping up with events there through the internet news sites for that area, but I'd like to see what's really going on with my own eyes. I also want to pass through Thibodeaux, La., to visit one of my uncles. He has suffered a bad fall, and had to have a shunt placed in his head to drain fluid from his brain, and had a pacemaker put in to help his heart out. He has been like a father to me, and he and my aunt are one of the only examples I had growing up of a happy, stable marriage. I owe him much.

Well, I am going to eat some of my dinner: baked tilapia, rice and seasoned broccoli. Then I'm going to take that ride down south to visit my mom. Will probably write another post tonight or tomorrow, my list of the Ten Things Married Women Wished Their Husbands Knew. It's hilarious, I promise! Enjoy the rest of your evening, everyone!