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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Back from New Orleans
I am back from New Orleans. Had a great time. The people were amazing. My feet were incredibly sore by the end of the week. My mother and I decided we had so much fun that we would do another trip next year.
First off, my mother is a machine. By the end of the first day, I was wilting like a sun deprived flower. When I started whining that my feet hurt, she was all - 'suck it up, let's shop!' I honestly can't believe the pace she kept up the whole week.
We did a number of tours all with Grey Line, we would highly recommend them if you are thinking of going.
Mom and I especially loved our driver for our plantation tour. He was kind enough, or wise enough, to recognize the heat of shopping fever in my mother's eyes and dropped us off at the French Market rather then tour HQ.
I am hoping to have my pictures up in the next few days. Above is Mom have supper at Emeril's and below trying on feather boas. They are for sale everywhere. I have also put up the video I took of the slave cabins at the Evergreen Plantation. It is quite something to see.
I am back from New Orleans. Had a great time. The people were amazing. My feet were incredibly sore by the end of the week. My mother and I decided we had so much fun that we would do another trip next year.First off, my mother is a machine. By the end of the first day, I was wilting like a sun deprived flower. When I started whining that my feet hurt, she was all - 'suck it up, let's shop!' I honestly can't believe the pace she kept up the whole week.
We did a number of tours all with Grey Line, we would highly recommend them if you are thinking of going.
Mom and I especially loved our driver for our plantation tour. He was kind enough, or wise enough, to recognize the heat of shopping fever in my mother's eyes and dropped us off at the French Market rather then tour HQ.I am hoping to have my pictures up in the next few days. Above is Mom have supper at Emeril's and below trying on feather boas. They are for sale everywhere. I have also put up the video I took of the slave cabins at the Evergreen Plantation. It is quite something to see.
Labels: cabins, evergreen, mom, new, orleans, plantation, slave, trip
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
All the News That's Fit to Print
I have never gone on a trip and been using Twitter. It is really quite cool what you can do with it. I have been updating my feed every day with about 4-5 tweats covering what we are doing here in The Big Easy. So if you want to know what sort of adventures Mom and I have been up to, check out my Twitter feed, http://twitter.com/hfournier or just look on the side bar of this blog under Twitter Prattle.
Labels: adventures, new, orleans, twitter
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Off to New Orleans
I will be gone for the next week on a Mother / Daughter trip to New Orleans, so I will not be posting at all next week. I'll be back on May 5th with info about of trip.
Labels: mom, new, orleans, trip
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Wherein I recognize I am that Geek
So a few things have happened over the last few weeks that have just proven to me, that I AM just that big of a geek. First, all I want to talk about is the new season of Battlestar Galatica. Honestly, if your not watching what is the best hour of television on, just give your head a shake. I mean frack!
Next one of my good friends got a job at the at the Trek Station in Vulcan. When we run I constantly ask her what cool gadgets they are bringing into the store. I have learned a lot about the buying and selling of Trek merchandise. Apparently, it sells like hot cakes. Here is Erin in her Trek outfit with Ed Robinson from the Barenaked Ladies. This is just before they did a presentation on CBC about how they are trying to persuade the makers of the new Trek movie to do the premier in Vulcan.
Finally, this morning I discovered I could follow both the BBC and the New York Time through Twitter. Like I wasn't addicted already.
Next one of my good friends got a job at the at the Trek Station in Vulcan. When we run I constantly ask her what cool gadgets they are bringing into the store. I have learned a lot about the buying and selling of Trek merchandise. Apparently, it sells like hot cakes. Here is Erin in her Trek outfit with Ed Robinson from the Barenaked Ladies. This is just before they did a presentation on CBC about how they are trying to persuade the makers of the new Trek movie to do the premier in Vulcan.
Finally, this morning I discovered I could follow both the BBC and the New York Time through Twitter. Like I wasn't addicted already.
Labels: geek, startrek, twitter
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Just Because I Love Muffy the Way She Is
Last week I decided to do some posts on favorite movie scenes. Somehow I missed Muffy's request for a little wet and wild Colin Firth. Forget Justin Timberlake, I think Colin brings sexy back. Dive baby, Dive!
Labels: colin, dive, firth, lake, prejudice, pride
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Got 30 Minutes?
I have been using iAmplify Fitness a great deal lately. For those who don't know what iAmplify is, it's the iTunes for workout and lifestyle training. You can download workout, meditation, cooking etc. programs to your iPod. Then you just follow the instructor directions off the mp3 you downloaded onto your iPod.
I started using iAmplify a few years ago, but fell off the wagon. That has changed in the last few weeks because I am so busy. I don't always have time to do a class. And as I am going into summer I am not on campus as much so I need workouts I can take with me. Recently, I discovered Tracey Mallett. She is just one of many trainers who have iPod workouts on iAmplify. I downloaded her Interval Elliptical workout and WOW can you say amazing! First off, I have never seen routines for the Elliptical before, a machine I generally consider very boring. But second, they are only about 30 minutes in length, nice and short. And finally, they pack a punch! This 30 minute routine burnt over 500 calories! I can't even get that type of burn running. And it was so fast and fun I had no problem doing it.
So if you are looking for something that is short, but powerful try it out. She has 3 more routines for the elliptical, I plan to download them all today.
I started using iAmplify a few years ago, but fell off the wagon. That has changed in the last few weeks because I am so busy. I don't always have time to do a class. And as I am going into summer I am not on campus as much so I need workouts I can take with me. Recently, I discovered Tracey Mallett. She is just one of many trainers who have iPod workouts on iAmplify. I downloaded her Interval Elliptical workout and WOW can you say amazing! First off, I have never seen routines for the Elliptical before, a machine I generally consider very boring. But second, they are only about 30 minutes in length, nice and short. And finally, they pack a punch! This 30 minute routine burnt over 500 calories! I can't even get that type of burn running. And it was so fast and fun I had no problem doing it.
So if you are looking for something that is short, but powerful try it out. She has 3 more routines for the elliptical, I plan to download them all today.
Labels: ellipitcal, iamplify, mallett, tracey, workout
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Intelligent Design
A friend and I were talking about her struggle to get pregnant the other day and we started talking about Intelligent Design. Or, really, the fact that Intelligent Design is a misnomer.
Because the truth is, if we were intelligently designed, and not creatures whose biology developed over millions of years, our bodies would be much smarter. Let's look at society. Right now we live in the information age, mostly you sit around, your ass gets bigger, you play too many video games, and then you buy a DVR. Compare this to the middle ages. At 36 I would be a crone, and most likely dead already from any number of things. No fat ass, no video games, very little sitting around. At that time, because your life span was so short, and your life often harsh, you procreated as soon, and as often as possible; thus insuring the continuation of the species.
Jump forward 700 years. No one needs to get pregnant at 15 anymore. Now you need to get pregnant at 34. Only our bodies are all like, 'you had your window between 16-28, should have gotten busy.' If we were truly intelligently designed wouldn't you be able to download a patch for your uterus to bring it up to date? Of course, by that analogy you could say that a man's ability to father children is like a Mac, able to work for a long period of time with little or no upgrades. Where as a women's ability to bare children is sort of like Windows, it gets outdated with time and harder and slower to work with. So much for intelligent design.
Because the truth is, if we were intelligently designed, and not creatures whose biology developed over millions of years, our bodies would be much smarter. Let's look at society. Right now we live in the information age, mostly you sit around, your ass gets bigger, you play too many video games, and then you buy a DVR. Compare this to the middle ages. At 36 I would be a crone, and most likely dead already from any number of things. No fat ass, no video games, very little sitting around. At that time, because your life span was so short, and your life often harsh, you procreated as soon, and as often as possible; thus insuring the continuation of the species.
Jump forward 700 years. No one needs to get pregnant at 15 anymore. Now you need to get pregnant at 34. Only our bodies are all like, 'you had your window between 16-28, should have gotten busy.' If we were truly intelligently designed wouldn't you be able to download a patch for your uterus to bring it up to date? Of course, by that analogy you could say that a man's ability to father children is like a Mac, able to work for a long period of time with little or no upgrades. Where as a women's ability to bare children is sort of like Windows, it gets outdated with time and harder and slower to work with. So much for intelligent design.
Labels: design, intelligent
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Sullivan's Travels
Monday's post inspired me, and I have decided to spend the week sharing some of my favorite movie scenes. Today we are going to discuss Sullivan's Travels. This is probably my #1 favorite movie of all time. One day I dream of being a guest programmer on TCM, and this would be my first choice. If you don't have TCM all I have to say is, stock of yourself.
Sullivan's Travels is so tongue in cheek! In a nut shell, Sullivan, a big shot movie director in the 30's wants to make a gritty message movie. Sadly, Sullivan was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and his studio tries desperately to pursued him to continue to make the light comedies he has had so much success with. To prove he can make a serious movie he has decides to strike out as hobo to 'experience' true poverty. In this scene his butler is helping him do this.
You have got to the love the tour bus trailing behind him! Talk about getting an authentic experience!
Sullivan's Travels is so tongue in cheek! In a nut shell, Sullivan, a big shot movie director in the 30's wants to make a gritty message movie. Sadly, Sullivan was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and his studio tries desperately to pursued him to continue to make the light comedies he has had so much success with. To prove he can make a serious movie he has decides to strike out as hobo to 'experience' true poverty. In this scene his butler is helping him do this.
You have got to the love the tour bus trailing behind him! Talk about getting an authentic experience!
Labels: movies, scene, sullivans, travels
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