Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!

Tomorrow is the “Tuesday” in Fat Tuesday. King cakes are being baked, boxes of beads are being sold, bras are being left at home.

As people get ready for the parades and wild abandon of Mardi Gras, they’re taking to Twitter to announce their intentions and scope out the action.

We’ll start you off with this one from the inimitable Dr. Ruth…

Mardi Gras is next week. How are all of you going to earn your beads?

— Dr. Ruth Westheimer (@AskDrRuth) February 17, 2012

I wanna move back to New Orleans! They’re out of school this week for Mardi Gras.

— Imperfect Angel (@ArielJamiyla) February 20, 2012

My teacher is throwing out Mardi gras beads to everyone in the class … Lol is this real life?

— Victoria (@voctorious) February 20, 2012

Sick the day before Mardi Gras 🙁 Great!

— M. (@Jesynthia_) February 20, 2012

When you randomly start singing loudly w/ a stranger in a bar, you know it’s Mardi Gras in NewOrleans.

— Nalon(@nalonrae) February 20, 2012

Not sure why I woke up with Mardi Gras beads.#sluttygirlproblems

— Slutty Girl Problems (@sluttygrlprobs) February 17, 2012

The rain is gone and that means the Mardi Gras celebration should be going on tonight. Yes I will be looking for ladies trying to earn beads

— Lunchbox(@RadioLunchbox) February 19, 2012

I cant find a baby for my king cake…what else works?

— Erin Rovin (@happyhoneymoonr) February 20, 2012

My cousin danced with Will Farrell last night in New Orleans for mardi gras #BeyondJealous twitpic.com/8mfn8t

— Morgan Carite (@morgan_carite) February 20, 2012

it’s BS that class isn’t cancelled for Mardi Gras.