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NOLAnotes

@nolanotes.bsky.social
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Mom to @rougarou and wife of @surlybuddhist, poor souls. Practicing law in Louisiana, where we pride ourselves on our superior Civil Law system over the rest of the country’s “common” law. Screaming into the void. #nolasky

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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Mood
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
When you spend the day being traumatized by your family and your evening healing from earlier family trauma… you appreciate the joyous bits as they come.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
When you aggressively clean your bread box (not a euphemism), you may be stressed the eff out. Exhibit A:
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In over 2 decades of practicing law and getting daily tax law updates, never have I seen anything like this. Watching SCOTUS closely on the USAIDS case to see if they apply brakes to this runaway train of an administration.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Old Jefferson.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
When mahjongg and Carnival merge, it’s a winning combination! I’ll be MIA for a while….
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
At thr JCC’s mah jongg tournament holding my own….
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Speaking of my epic knitting, I finished my first *color block project* today. Sometimes I impress myself!
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
How it’s going in NOLA… I feel like a frog in a pot of water slowly coming to a boil…
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is more my style. Statues of cats. I get it. Cats are godlike and should be idolized. 😀
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The step ladder isn’t shown but it was there too. I swear they were prepping to paint this wall.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Slurp
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
At first glance, I thought that was a crawfish. You can take me out of Louisiana but….
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I think I discovered the periodic element for the Po Boy…
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I finished my Fall Leaves Garland. I am not hating it. Need to zhuzh up the rest of the mantle with thanksgiving decor…
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
A friend turned me onto the Merlin bird app and by golly do I enjoy it! With all this rain, all the birds have something to tweet.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
An Easter trifle is nothing to, eh, trifle with… I want to face-plant into it.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
When your Asian market soup comes with its own snap-into-place fork!
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Mahjong #nola style.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
Two sets were purchased. Two flowers, we made. Making more today. *Almost* there. #nola #carnival
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Haydel’s 2024 ceramic king cake dolls: Arthur Hardy (so cute!) and a MG stand (that does not stand on its own 😕).
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Sun is having her wisdom teeth removed and I have an hour or so to fret… so as best I can to not fret, I knit. At a minimum it helps drown out the crappy music playing as I say to myself “knit knit knit yarn over knit knit knit…”
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
My grandfather had this in a kitchen drawer. When he died, I was the only one who’d ever found it and asked him what it was: a vintage cut crystal vase that was in old (1930s) cars. It was the original air freshener! Had to buy a vintage bracket and voila! Makes for a fine tableau.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Greetings from Jacob’s Andouille in LaPlace. Tasty smoked meats? Yes please!
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Young Belizaire still holds a grudge. And he likes the taste of falcon—says it tastes like chicken 🍗
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Sun as the Little Prince!
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
A sazerac at the Sazerac Bar isn’t as large as it once was. Alas.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Delphine owning her spookiness.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Thoroughly disappointing selections on this ballot. Hard days are ahead of Louisiana.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Got the normal-sized one this time and it’s still big!
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
How today’s going. I brought out the skull shot glass in hopes it’d feel like Halloween and perhaps a bit cooler. That’s not working either.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
A decided unhappy, drug-addled Belizaire.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Oldie but goodie. Too soon to talk Super Bowl? #whodatcat #saints
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
Fixed it! 😂
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
New rule: Before ordering the large sangria margarita, I will ask if it is customarily served with one straw or two. I’m a one-straw girl. This thing is huge!
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Second focaccia! I think I got this sourdough starter thing down!!
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
Before heading out to listen to live music like I’m not actually a dinosaur, I spent my evening refurbishing my first set of mahjong tiles. And that, people, is the definition of OLD. Happy, but old.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
Sun begins work on her Halloween costume. Updates to follow…
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
Over 25 years ago, I bought my first mahjong set at an antique shop on Magazine St. A shelf was wonky & a brass handle was missing. My grandfather replaced the shelf with a perfect match. And this week I FINALLY found a replacement handle. And this set will be a most cherished item til my dying day.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Sun’s class color this year is red so she picked Sue Sylvester as her costume, and, well, you tell me—did she nail it or not?
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Approved! Yay!
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
It’s so damn hot in NOLA, I had to bring my cactus inside to bloom. Left outside, it dehydrates so fast the flowers just wilt and die before blooming.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
Graduated to focaccia and you should smell my kitchen! It tastes as good as it smells which is as good as it looks.
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NOLAnotes @nolanotes.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
Thus begins my journey with sourdough. Some stumbles and still not perfect but getting there and now my mistakes are edible!
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