What a beautiful beast the Mississippi River can be...

Here are some pictures of the Old River Water Control Structure north of Pointe Coupee. It is where the Mississippi, Atchafalaya and the Red River meet. This structure keeps the Mississippi from changing its course and running through the Atchafalaya. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to ride around the parish taking pictures of the high water for a cover story I'm working on. I will post some more pics later but I thought this was amazing.

Rock On!!!

Who says you can't have a rock'n good time in Alexandria? Leave it to the member services people and we can make any place fun!

What I've been up to lately...

Check out my other blog at http://youthtourla.blogspot.com/.

This is what has occupied my time for the last couple weeks.

Dirty in the Ditch is back...

The annual Dirty in the Ditch party had taken a brief hiatus for a couple years due to conflicting dates with LSU football games. Immaculate Conception Church has changed their fair dates from the fall to the spring. So I am happy to announce that Dirty in the Ditch 5 will take place on Saturday, April 19! I was concerned that since my new home does not have a ditch in the front that we might have to changed the name of the event, but thankfully our safety coordinator at work came to my rescue. He gave me the theme for this year's Dirty in the Ditch..."It's time to get Crocked on the Culvert." It's going to be a great night. The Foret Tradition band will be play at the fair.

No I haven't fallen off the planet...

although a nice vacation while careening through space would not be all that bad at this point! Things have been slightly crazy at work lately. Plus I'm still waiting for my laptop to come in...long story not going there right now. New projects are popping up here at work like tulips. That is why you haven't heard from me in a while. I get to work in the mornings and when I look up it is time to go home. CRAZY!

I'm Sick :-(

I have always battled with the occasional sinus infection and allergies, but this is the first time I have every had broncitous. The hardest part for me is having to stay home. I've never missed this much work at once for being sick. Now I know the place is not going anywhere and my work will wait for me, but I hate sitting around my house and doing absolutely nothing. The only reason I have not gone back yet is because every time I move around for more than 10 mintutes I feel like I will pass out. I will admit I'm not a good patient...and if you are around me for more than 2 seconds you will probably get your ass chewed. Sorry...I'm just not feeling well.

Content to leave my childhood behind...

After my incident at the baseball park on Saturday, I have realized that I am an adult and while having fun and always being playful will be a part of my personality forever. I am also very content with the fact that I have left my childhood behind a long time ago.

I have never sugar coated my high school years. I have always been very honest that they were not the best years of my life. I was always the butt of the joke, the easy target and I always felt like I never fit in with the other students. Now with that being said if I could go back and change my childhood or school I attended I would never do it. Those experiences have made me who I am today. My self confidence comes from within and I do not put a lot of stock into others opinions of me.

I guess with all that being said that is why I look at this weekends incident as juvenile. My godchild had decided to play school baseball. However after the first practice he decided that he did not like being yelled at by the coach. Yes I was disappointed that I would not be able to watch him play every week, but no one deserves being yelled at. My aunt had called the coaches to inform them of his decision. Plus she had informed another mom about what had happened.

On Saturday, I was at the park watching Clayton play when this mom that my aunt had spoke to approached me and wanted to know if I was mad at Devin for not playing. To which I replied, no he doesn't deserve to be treated like that and I support his choice to quit the team. She played stupid with me and asked what had happened to make him quit and I told her he didn't like the coach yelling at him. She then snapped back at me that Devin was going around telling everyone he had quit because the team sucked.

OK so are we in Junior High again with the stupid well he said this and she said that crap?
#1. Why does an adult have to make an issue out of what a 13 year old said?
#2. Devin has never played sports for the win or lose aspect of the game. It is just an activity for him.
#3. Since when do Moms and Dads get in the middle of playground figths. I went through crap when I was in Jr. High as I said before. My parents never came to school, called a parent, or a child about what went on during recess.
#4. I'm not the parent if you have an issue with the child call his parents. Don't confront the godmother.
#5. Do parents really need to strap a book sack to their back (or in my case sling a book sack onto one shoulder...because back in my day only nerds wore their book sacks on both shoulders)and head to school to relive their childhood with their children.

Today's parents are raising children incapable of their own thoughts, reliant on others to make decisions for them, and unable to cope with negativity, failure and conflict.

and the parent of the year award goes to......