{"id":3014,"date":"2011-03-05T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:41:05","slug":"goin-to-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/goin-to-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Goin&#039; to New Orleans: sinking in to a city we love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3015\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3015\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2011\/03\/05\/goin-to-new-orleans\/cocktails-in-caras-kitchen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3015   \" title=\"cocktails in Cara's kitchen\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cocktails-in-caras-kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cocktails-in-caras-kitchen.jpg 1944w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cocktails-in-caras-kitchen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cocktails-in-caras-kitchen-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cocktails-in-caras-kitchen-370x493.jpg 370w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cocktails-in-caras-kitchen-770x1027.jpg 770w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cocktails-in-caras-kitchen-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me and our super-fabulous hostess, the bride who&#039;s helping make the plan come together. Here we&#039;re toasting in her kitchen -- and we will most certainly toast her numerous times in the weeks to come. Thank you, Cara!<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIt all started with the idea that we might have to skip Jazz Fest this year.<br \/>\nWhile <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2011\/02\/26\/moving-into-semi-entrepreneurship-following-my-life-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I&#8217;m getting my business off the ground<\/a>, our cash flow is reduced, so we&#8217;re looking at all the expenses we can possibly trim to live within our means. We love <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2009\/04\/24\/new-orleans-jazz-fest-starts-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">going to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival every spring<\/a>, but it&#8217;s optional. We consoled ourselves with the knowledge we&#8217;d at least be in NOLA in March for our friends&#8217; wedding.<br \/>\nBut then I started putting the pieces together for an exciting little scheme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My new part-time role allows me to work from home, so I can do that work from anywhere there&#8217;s Internet and cell service<\/li>\n<li>Likewise, the work I&#8217;m doing for my business can be done anywhere<\/li>\n<li>John&#8217;s self employed so he can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/jctebeau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paint and do graphic design<\/a> anywhere<\/li>\n<li>The bride at the wedding we&#8217;re going to in March is moving in with her groom after the wedding, leaving her cute house in the Garden District, where we&#8217;ve often stayed during Jazz Fest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We began to investigate the pieces so we could stay in New Orleans from the wedding through Jazz Fest in early May, and every sign pointed to it being a good idea:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bride agreed to sublet her NOLA house to us at a rate that&#8217;s less than our NYC rent, so assuming we&#8217;re able to sublet our place, we come out ahead in living expenses<\/li>\n<li>Changing our flights home from late March to early May would have cost more than $500 &#8212; but one-way tickets from New Orleans to New York in May were cheap.<\/li>\n<li>John has picked up several new design gigs in the last few weeks, which will help keep his cash flow up while we&#8217;re away<\/li>\n<li>I was worried I&#8217;d have to put piano lessons on hold &#8212; but my teacher here is on Skype and I lined up a place to practice in New Orleans. Maybe you&#8217;ve heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2009\/10\/02\/preservation-hall-ben-jaffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Preservation Hall<\/a>? I&#8217;m helping them with some marketing work around their 50th anniversary, and their marketing director said I can practice there during the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3018\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2010\/12\/21\/setting-my-goals-for-2011-as-a-comprehensive-view-of-my-life\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3018\" title=\"Colleen's wish painting 2010\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colleens-wish-painting-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colleens-wish-painting-2010.jpg 463w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colleens-wish-painting-2010-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colleens-wish-painting-2010-370x460.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John made a painting that&#039;s a vision of my life -- see the music and the Mardi Gras beads? This plan is getting more of both into our lives.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBefore you post a comment that says &#8220;I&#8217;m so jealous, I wish I could do that,&#8221; let me share with you an excellent blog post from Peter Shankman, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpareporter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Help a Reporter Out<\/a>. It&#8217;s headlined <a title=\"How to Jailbreak Your Life So You Can Live the Way You WANT\" href=\"http:\/\/shankman.com\/how-to-jailbreak-your-life-so-you-can-live-the-way-you-want\/\">How to Jailbreak Your Life So You Can Live the Way You WANT<\/a> and it arrived in my email this week, just as we committed to New Orleans.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a long post but well worth reading if you wish you could do what we&#8217;re doing. Here are a couple of highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is your job to be somewhere in a physical place, five out of seven days a  week? If you love your job, I mean truly love your job, love the people  with whom you work, love your office, love your commute, then hey, you  know what? RESPECT. You\u2019ve got it. Enjoy it, baby. You\u2019re done with this  blog post, and I give you mad, mad props. For real.<\/li>\n<li>We all need to work. We all need to make money. With the exception of  trust fund babies, we all gotta find a way to make some cash and live  our lives. Some people just choose to do it a different way than others.  Some of us choose to work for a living, and some people choose to  incorporate work into living. For the past 16 years, I\u2019ve worked harder  than almost every person I know, yet I\u2019ve never felt like I\u2019ve worked a  day in my life.<\/li>\n<li>I will never, ever begrudge someone their fear. If what you\u2019re doing  works for you, that\u2019s fine, but if you\u2019re jealous, then you got a  problem. See, being happy and being jealous don\u2019t mesh. So it usually  comes down to you being angry about your fear. But here\u2019s the thing:  Fear keeps us healthy. Fear keeps us alive. It\u2019s what got us through the  age of mountain lions and other big-ass animals that could have us for  tea. But here\u2019s the thing \u2013 Fear is built-in because we used to have no  other options. Wanted to eat? You had to face your fear and kill  something. Back in the age of the stone, Dean and Deluca didn\u2019t exist.  Fear now exists primarily to hold us back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you motivated? Are you thinking of how you could ask your boss if you could work from home three weeks out of four so you could go live in your dream locale? Or contemplating how you might live someplace with a low cost of living so you can launch that business you&#8217;ve been fantasizing about?<br \/>\nIf you aren&#8217;t now, maybe you will be in a few weeks when we start filing dispatches from New Orleans.<br \/>\nWhen I first started blogging, back in late 2005, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/bigapplebound.blogspot.com\/2005_12_01_archive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to chronicle a one-month stint in NYC<\/a>. John and I sublet an apartment on the upper east side to test drive living in New York, and I wanted to share the experience with friends back home. So consider this round two of sharing a cool life experience with you.<br \/>\n<strong>Laissez les bons temps rouler!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DHu8Ludm4HM]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with the idea that we might have to skip Jazz Fest this year. 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