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In honor of the Saints’ return to New Orleans, I made a dirty martini for Amy with some “Cajun infused olives”<\/a> that we picked up this weekend (Amy accented it with a little Tony Chachere’s<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If I didn’t have this crazy work schedule this week — big issue, our conference, then another conference — we’d have gone down to NO,LA for a long weekend, capped off with scalped tickets for tonight’s game against the Falcons. I know it’s only one night, but it’s nice to see people flocking into the city again.<\/p>\n

Amy’s in heaven, since the Saints are winning and<\/em> her dream-guy Ed Hochuli<\/a> is the referee for the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of the Saints’ return to New Orleans, I made a dirty martini for Amy with some “Cajun infused olives” that we picked up this weekend (Amy accented it with a little Tony Chachere’s). If I didn’t have this crazy work schedule this week — big issue, our conference, then another conference — we’d … <\/p>\n

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