I am now a bonafide Louisianan…

Chat GPT tells me that one of the most asked questions a person from or who lives in Louisiana is most often asked is ‘do you eat crawfish all the time?’

Yes, I asked ChatGPT just to be sure because as someone who lives in Louisiana, I’ve been asked this question so many times, I cannot count. 

Well, guess what? In over 4 years of being here, my answer has always been a big pretty ‘nope’ and I always get this look as if they were to ask ‘you ok, girl?’ in the best Southern accent they can muster. 

The day came that I finally thought, you know what? I think it is time to accept and put on the badge of being a Louisianan if not for anything to be able to say ‘oh, yes, I eat or have eaten crawfish (depending on if I like it or not).

Well, well, my sisters Jennifer, Molly and Katie came through by inviting me to my first ever ‘all you can eat crawfish boil’ and I went prepared! 

 

Though prepared, I knew it was going to go one of two ways; either I liked it or not. But let me tell you something. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dudes and dudettes, I loved those little mud bugs to  high heavens! I kept wondering why it took me so long to try them out. 

I tell you what, I loved it so much that 2 days later, I was a the Crawfish Hole, a popular crawfish restaurant to buy 10 pounds of crawfish! Wait, you didn’t just think I’d eat 10 pounds all by myself right? So why that much you ask? Because my girls seemed to love the mud bugs even more than I do. Yup, we caught the bug and decided to be Louisianans through and through! 

I’ve eaten and talked about loving crawfish so much that my friends threw me a surprise early birthday party and guess what?!!!! Yup, it was a crawfish party y’all!  

                                                                                          

Yay to having friends who know you and bring you what you love! 💃

Hey Tiffany, you are an MVP for this! You put in work, girl!!! Thank you. 

Trisha, you pulled it off nicely and yes, I was genuinely surprised and happy as it was my first surprise party ever! 

We ate the delicious boiled crawfish, had so much fun and wished the day wouldn’t end y’all. 

‘Talking’ about this makes me smile and tell myself indeed, God’s got you, girl. Four years ago when I left home to come down here at almost 40, I didn’t think I would make any friends, I told myself I was going to be a loner and do me cz who starts making friends at 40? Some days I’d tell myself I did not need new friends anyways… but look at me now, having friends and actually loving them! 😁

To everyone who celebrated and wished me a happy birthday, I say thank you. Let’s do it again next year! 

Yours truly,

A true Louisianan. 

PS: Melissa, we need to go for that drink we’ve been talking about!