Are You Sure It's Not Christmas Eve?

This weather is really throwing my brain for a loop. It was sleeting today! Sleeting in April in New Orleans! What's going on? It wasn't this cold for Christmas. I'm loving it though. I love cold weather. I'd take it any day over the heat.

Tomorrow should be a nice, quiet Easter. I don't plan on doing much. My plans are to sleep late, get some good reading in, have a couple of cups of coffee, and then cross the street and visit with Grandma and the family. I'm looking forward to it. Holiday's are always so hectic, and tomorrow will be a very welcomed change.

As for tonight, I plan on curling up with Brave New World and wrapping up that one with a nice cup of tea. The tea for the night will be Bigelow's Constant Comment. It's my favorite. It's a very nice mixture of orange rind, cloves, cinnamon, and all kinds of other warm spices. You can find it at almost any supermarket. I love Bigelow's teas. Lemon Lift is another one of my favorites of theirs.

And now that Quixotical has shown me what exactly a tea biscuit is (no they're not big and flaky), I'll have to find some of those soon. I'm guessing World Market will be a good place to look. We need a tea shop in New Orleans. I was never all that big on tea until I met Megan and she got me into it. Very relaxing drink. Nothing calms one down like a cup-o-tea.

Hope everyone else out there in blogland has a wonderful Easter and as much candy as their hearts desire.

(Good) Friday Favorites...New Orleans Style!

New Orleans is known as one of the biggest Catholic towns in the country. We're also known to use any excuse to party. Combine these two and you get a Good Friday tradition....a crawfish boil! Chris and Angela had their annual crawfish boil this afternoon and it was perfect. The weather has been absolutely beautiful here today. They boiled about 120 pounds of crawfish of which I probably ate about 10. Add to that 4 beers (a must have with crawfish) and it was quite an enjoyable afternoon. Sunny skies, a cool breeze, lots of friends and family (that I didn't know) and tons of good food. Quite a nice afternoon.

Managed to have my migraine carry on into another day. Work was excruciating today as there was lots of patients yelling. I think patients tend to get more upset around holidays which makes sense. Unfortunately, many of them will spend their Easter in the hospital, away from their families. So I guess I can understand the yelling and screaming and kicking. But understanding only does so much. It doesn't help my migraine. But I found something that does! After discovering so many others out there with migraines through my blog I hope to have a helpful tip for everyone....Head On Migraine! I'm sure we've all heard of Head On (apply directly to the forehead). Well this is one specifically for migraines and it worked for me today when my prescription stuff didn't. It looks like a giant tube of chapstick. You literally apply it directly to your forehead. Now I don't know if there's medication in it, but it works. It sort of gives you this cold, tingly feeling like you have ice on your forehead. That feeling distracts your brain from the pain. But even after the tingly feeling wore off, my headache was gone! And the best thing is, you can't overdose on it...you can apply it as much as is needed. So migraine sufferers, try this out! It's one of the best 8 dollars you'll spend.

Hope everyone else has had a nice Good Friday and that you continue to have an enjoyable Easter weekend!