Quick update! RE: Hurricanes Marco and Laura

Hey everyone, just a quick update. For those of you who don’t know, I live in New Orleans, LA. Last week we had two hurricanes come at Louisiana. First up was Marco, LB’s daycare closed last Monday in preparation of it coming and possibly causing damage to our area. Turned out to be nothing and LB and I just spent the day together.

Then Thursday her daycare closed for Laura. Laura was a Cat 4 hurricane when it made landfall. The East sides of hurricanes tends to be where all the storms that come off the main cyclone are, and New Orleans was East of the storm. However, we got lucky and didn’t really have any seriously bad weather here.

So, I kind of lost my blogging time last week and I’m still playing a bit of catch-up with my work and all my doctor appointments (which had to get rescheduled from last week to this week also).

Please forgive the lack of posts last week and probably this week, aside from this one, and I hope to be back on schedule by next Tuesday if not sooner. Thanks!

Trying to find my way back: Life updates and a new schedule

Oh hey, it’s only been over a year since I’ve updated anything on this site. I’m not even going to touch that 35 before 35 because it basically didn’t happen.

Anyway, first up, here’s what’s been going on in the Lazy Lady world:

• Global pandemic: which has, in-turn, meant that I’m working from home almost exclusively now; Mr. LL lost his job but thankfully only for three months before he found a new one; and Lazy Baby had to stop going to daycare for a couple of months but is back now (it’s a small church daycare that is very vigilant on its health/cleaning policies, so I feel comfortable with this for now)

• I turned 35, Mr. LL turned 30, and LB turned 3

• We still haven’t done any home renovations yet

• Oh and I’m pregnant

That about sums up life in a nutshell right now. With that said, I figure I’ll try to start blogging again. My goal is to post at least twice a week, probably on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’m narrowing down my topics to:

• General posts like this one

• Lazy Mix tapes

• Culture Creatures

• Revisiting the Lazy Baby Challenge

I’d also like to get back to doing Top Ten Tuesdays as well as share some things going on with Books, Booze and Bajingos. But baby steps. With that said there are other topics and interests that I’d love to share with you all but I will do so in the more general posts. If you have any interest in those topics be sure to let me know in the comments on those posts and maybe I can expand upon them.

Now I need to do some behind the scenes maintenance to this site, so excuse my progress!

Coming up for air

Remember last year when I said my life was getting hectic, well, it stayed hectic for a while.

The view from my new job (this was around christmas time).

First, I quit my job of almost 11 years to take a new position. I was the Assistant Creative Director at a weekly alternative newspaper, and I loved the work. I got to design different styles every week and knew the ins-and-outs the paper and its deadlines. Then, the paper was sold to a bigger corporation and things just didn’t feel right anymore. The benefits weren’t great, the dynamics were shifting and I took this time to face the reality that I was as far up the ladder as I could go (the Creative Director was not going to be leaving anytime soon). Not to mention that working for a newspaper, I was woefully underpaid. So, I started to look for new opportunities. I had a couple of interviews at some tech firms in the city, but I suspect I was overqualified and under qualified at the same time. Then I interviewed at an architecture firm and got the job. This is a different world, filled with new terminology and responsibilities, but I am starting to get the hang of it. I think. If nothing else, they seem to like me.

That was last August. While all of this was going on, Mr. LL and I were house hunting. We finally had the money for a decent down payment on a house, and Lazy Baby desperately needed her own room. At the end of January we closed on a house in the suburbs near a park that we frequent most often. It needs some remodeling, but everything is functional and it has plenty of space for our family. There was some minor plumbing issues, but we agreed to move on with the transaction-just putting some of the money in escrow for the repairs.

Ha ha. Don’t ever do that. Those minor issues turned into bigger issues and two months after moving in they were finally done, but not really. I am not going to go into detail because I was losing my mind over it and I am not ready to relive that trauma. Too soon.

But we are finally settling into the place. We have art on the walls, and Lazy Baby is enjoying her own space. We have an honest to goodness dining room table. I told Mr. LL that I needed the rest of 2019 to settle. Settle into my job and into this house. We’re working to rebuild our savings and plan for our first remodel project which will be the guest bathroom. We also want to redo the master suite bathroom (y’all I am loving having two bathrooms), open the living space and remodel the kitchen. I think, down the line, we’d like to create a studio space in the back yard (think tiny house). However, right now I am just focusing on getting used to the new job and meeting the expectations they have of me; and when I am home, I want to soak up every second of Lazy Baby, who is growing up so fast, and spend quality time with Mr. LL. Home is my happy place and I want it to be theirs too.

So, that’s what’s been going on in the Lazy household. I am working on coming back to the blog, but slowly. I will have another post this week, a product review, and then I will probably just post once a week for a while. I hope you, dear reader, haven’t given up on me yet!