Too cold for the bayou ya'll!

Ummmm . . . what do I say?  It is absolutely freezing down here and I literally mean freezing.  It is 37 degrees, windy and rainy and other places around here have freezing rain: yes, in Louisiana!  Yeah, I know, I sound like a big wuss now.  But I guess I kind of am, but when a person moves down to the south, the last thing they should expect is freezing rain and the possibility of snow!  It's kind of funny lol.  I remember thinking not too long ago that I miss the snow and the winters up north, but now that I've tasted it again, I'm not so sure lol  Granted you could argue that it is a totally different type of winter because of the humidity but thats a whole 'nother bag of worms.
John and I were trying to grill chicken outside in the rain tonight too and having to stand outside, as close as we could get under the "shelter" of the overhang on the house with the roof dripping on us, was not very pleasant.  But despite all that, dinner still turned out amazing and we're back inside all warm and dry again.


Speaking of John, he came home this morning from Pittsburgh.  He's been spending time up there for work building a lock system of some sort on the river with the Army Corp of Engineers.  Quite proud of him I have to say.  He's very brave and I tell you what, there aren't a lot of people who could do what he does.  It definitely takes a special man.  He originally went to school to be a commercial diver with an emphasis in medicine, and to be able to be flexible the way he is in this industry that is extremely demanding and grueling, I think there are a lot of people in the world that can take a lesson from him!  Even myself!  John has the drive, the ambition and the wisdom of an experienced middle aged man it seems like, and seriously, I'm older than he is by a couple years and I can probably provide a list of the things I have learned from him!  Why can't there be more great young men out there like him especially to replace some of those "f*#kups" in our society?  The best part of it is is that John is only in his early 20's!  I can't imagine what he'll be accomplishing when he DOES become a middle aged man!
I can't wait to start working because then I'll have the opportunity to climb the ropes again like he's doing and then give John a little bit of what we like to say is a "breather" cuz he works so damn much!  Literally though, I think there was a week when he recorded 84 hours or something.  Can't even imagine!  I thought Menards was bad lol!  I want to be able to help him financially because right now, John will get a paycheck in the mail and it is literally already spent before I even make the deposit.  It's ridiculous.  But my mom did tell me recently that that is not all that uncommon. Really?!!  Can hardly believe it!
I'm kind of shaking my head as I write this cuz my instincts are fighting with my emotions if whether or not I should be exposing this publicly, but ya know, I could also sit here and make everything sound all peachy and covered in sugar, but that is NOT life.  I said in my first post that I'm gonna try to keep it real, so there ya go.  There's something about being real that I really gravitate to and maybe it's extremely naive and foolish, but I like to believe that there are enough fake people in the world and why not be human for once.  We all KNOW that looks are deceiving and that includes the window into other peoples lives.


Well, to wrap up or in French they say "pour conclure" (literal translation means "to conclude"), I will say bonne nuit http://translate.google.com and hope ya'll enjoyed post #2 from the bayou (where it is very cold-brrrr.  I really shouldn't be complaining lol.  37 is a whole hell-of-a lot better than 0 or below).

Au revoir for now!