Laissez les bons temps rouler

Laissez les bons temps rouler

Break? What break?

I really must be getting old. Either that or I need a calendar because it was just brought to my attention tonight that I have all of next week off for Mardi Gras break. Don't ask me how an entire week of not having be up before the chickens so that I can beat school traffic managed to slip by me, but it did.

Ugh! I'm not sure whether to be frustrated about letting this slip by, or ecstatic because I don't have to go to work next week.

Knowing me, though, somehow, someway I'll be getting up even earlier every day. Yeah, I'm weird like that.

Oh, and for those of you wondering how it is I get a week off for Mardi Gras, well, it one of the perks to teaching in Louisiana, south Louisiana, on top of that!

Thanks for reading!!!

Laissez les bons temps rouler

Let the Good Times Roll

Hope everyone has a safe one!

Laissez Bon Temp Roulez

For those of you that can't translate French, the title means "Let the Good Times Roll". With Mardi Gras coming up next week, and a slew of parades in the next few days, not to mention a nice 3 day vacation that I more than need.

I've heard talk over the past few years about making Mardi Gras a national holiday. Now, as happy as I would be to have another national holiday, as Sara over at News from Nola brought up in a post last week or so, Mardi Gras is one of the few things that we down here in Louisiana can call our own (even if it was originally a French celebration...not going to go into the whole history, though).

In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy my days off from work, and then figure out what I'm going to give up for Lent. Don't really have a clue this year. I'm sure I'll figure out something. Any suggestions?

For those of you not in La (I think there are only like 2 or 3 of you that are down here), have fun being jealous...lol (he says as if he's going to be partying it up in New Orleans)