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Everyone kept asking me for the plan, or wanted to make a plan, for my birthday, but I wanted to keep it loose. I plan enough of my life and birthdays should involve some spontaneity. So when a friend said she was going to UAL, I said, count me in, that’s where I’d like to start my day. So three of us caught the streetcar and headed to the Quarter.

We met another friend who works nearby and everyone tried on over a million different pieces of clothing and some of us bought some. Not me, it was one of those UAL days where I couldn’t find what I was looking for and that was just fine. So the girls bought me something – a pack of chewing gum:

And then one friend went back to work and the rest of us headed for a late lunch to Peche in the Warehouse District. At first I felt giddy to be having lunch in a new spot, but after a bit of this and that, I was less than impressed. I’m not a big fan of upscale doing downscale, like those places that are haut cuisine doing a hamburger (leave that to the dives) and so the poboy (a mix of shrimp, oysters) just didn’t resonate with me the way a nice catfish poboy at Parkway would have. Live and learn.

Then we all headed to Canal Place for some more shopping and to avoid the miserable rain that kept coming down in torrents. And we ended up all buying the same dress. Now this is a practice I started with Flower years ago where we’d travel together and dress alike because we are high class dorks. But now there were three of us being dorks and this photo just makes me smile:

I then went over and spent the rest of the afternoon into the evening with Tin. Tatjana had gotten me a pineapple upside down cake from Cake Bakery that I must admit was so moist and delicious – it might have been the best thing I had all day. And Tin was entertaining as always.

Then I walked home, tired and exhausted yet when a friend beckoned me out again, I wound up going to meet friends in the Warehouse District and heading over to see the Honeypots at Cafe Istanbul – only we were very late, and so we just wound up hanging around the bar with Lynn Drury, Margie Perez and Monica McIntyre – hell if you can’t see them play, you can at least play with them.

I hauled in $27 in birthday booty – our custom in New Orleans of pinning a dollar to your shirt on your birthday and everyone wishes you a happy day by adding to the stash. And so at the end of the no plan day, my plan to be happy and free came together in bountiful way.

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