My 27th Year

Welcome to Paradise

2009-03-23T10:01:00.007-05:00

Watched Donatar in Paradise Saturday night with Sharon, Aimee and Sarah.

More pics on flickr.

We had a ball, an Edward Ball

2009-03-20T14:48:00.007-05:00

Sarah and I explored the Edward Ball Nature Trail on the UWF campus today...

...where we pondered...

...may have been attacked by a monster that makes people look neckless...

...and fed turtles.

See the rest of our adventure on flickr.

FL Archaeology Month Kick-Off

2009-03-03T11:58:00.007-06:00

Saturday was the big (okay little) Florida Archaeology Month kick-off. I helped kick things off by killing a fake deer with an atlatl (an ancient hunting weapon).

And then I gazed upon this sculpture. For more archaeology month events, visit http://www.flpublicarchaeology.org/nwrc/news/.

They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot

2009-02-23T16:02:00.004-06:00

Mural: Milton Mural Society
Destruction: Humankind

I want to believe...

2009-02-20T08:31:00.002-06:00

Spotted this awesome billboard while driving down Hwy 90 in Milton. Unfamiliar with Gulf Breeze's UFO history? Click here.

Earnestly...

2009-02-13T10:07:00.006-06:00

Ernest Hemingway and I share a good laugh over the story of Hemingway’s restaurant trying to arrest me because of something their manager screwed up. That restaurant is rumored to be closing now. Ernest said “You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.” Interesting.

Happy New Year!

2009-01-16T10:35:00.006-06:00

I attended the first ever New Years Pelican Drop in Downtown Pensacola this year with a few lovely ladies. Check out the 1,000 pound, 13-feet-tall, 17-feet-wide Pelican.

Later, the lovely ladies and I ran into a couple familiar gentlemen. Left to Right: JP, Sarah, Jen, Nick, Brittney, Noel.

(Guest Photographer: JP with Brittney’s camera)

Even later, the Pelican made a shaky descent into 2009. Cue fireworks. (Guest Photographer: Brittney)

ExquisiCat

2009-01-16T10:33:00.003-06:00

My kitteh likes Douglas Adams and Vera Bradley.

Presents!

2009-01-16T10:31:00.004-06:00

I wrapped presents as animals this Christmas.

Pip approves.

Amaz-za-zing

2009-01-16T10:29:00.003-06:00

The fam and I spotted this fiery sunset on the way home from a funeral.

And I spotted these angry clouds on the way home from work.

Dance kitteh, dance

2009-01-16T10:27:00.002-06:00

Calling All Asses

2009-01-16T10:26:00.003-06:00

UWF has a new spot for you to hang with those of your kind.

Acorn-a-topia

2009-01-16T10:20:00.010-06:00

Whilst on an afternoon stroll, Sarah and I happened upon a crazy lot of acorns.

I swear I’ve never seen so many acorns in one spot before.

And this little gem was amongst them.

Nani?

2009-01-16T10:16:00.002-06:00

Check out this fun site where you can download, print, cut and play with Nani Birds: http://www.nanibird.com/. Nani is the Japanese word for “what” and the birds are from paintings by artist Josh McKible (and others who submitted designs to him).

All in the family

2008-12-01T16:16:00.006-06:00

Mmmm...weight gain.

(Guest Photographer: Louise)

We had a very merry Whitfield Thanksgiving.

(Guest Photographer: Louise)

And after lunch, I found out one of my cousins has dermatographia, just like me. Skin writing is awesomely disgusting. Hooray for us.

Dear Mr. President

2008-11-04T08:34:00.001-06:00

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the election in a blog about my 27th year. The most diverse campaign in history comes to a close today. Will it be Obama? Will it be McCain? Either way, things won’t be getting any better in my world for a while, so I must seek out the humor in all this to keep from going crazy. Found this plate in the university parking lot this morning.

NaNoWriMo

2008-11-01T22:19:00.000-05:00

Today officially marks the beginning of NaNoWriMo 2008 (National Novel Writers Month). I've taken the challenge to write a 50,000+ word novel in one month. This is my sweet author shirt. Check, check, check, check, check, check it out. By the way this is the 10th anniversary of NaNoWriMo - lets hear it for 10 years of literary abandon.

She opened the door, and BOO!

2008-10-31T11:34:00.001-05:00

It pains me to admit this – I’m a total Halloween cop out this year. I LOVE to dress up but it just didn’t come together for ’08. I’m dressed as blackmail (black shirt with a stamp on it). And my bra strap is showing in this picture, so I guess I’m skanky blackmail. But I guess blackmail in and of itself is kinda skanky, so I'll go with it. I’ve had great costumes in the past – Rainbow Brite, Wonder Woman, Dolly Parton, a Ghostbuster, various characters from Rocky Horror. This is so embarrassing.

Oh Canada

2008-10-31T11:18:00.001-05:00

While on my WA trip, I stepped foot in Canada for the first time.

Put your right foot in...Canada. Put your left foot in...the USA.

Here you have the Peace Arch on the US/Canadian Border.

Visit my Oh Canada photo set on Flickr for more photos.

Washington (State, not George, not D.C.)

2008-10-31T11:04:00.000-05:00

I visited gorgeous Blaine, WA Oct 11-14.The WA shore is quite different from our white sandy shore. Ouch.

While in WA, I stayed at the Semiahmoo Resort. The grounds were interesting to explore. And this, my friends, is Mt. Baker, as viewed from the resort. Mt. Baker stays snowy year-round.

By the way, I was in WA for an AUBER conference. Here we sit on a cruise through the San Juan Islands on the only rainy day of the entire trip! (Left to right: Andy (NC), David (FL), Me, Maile (AZ), and Mrs. Chang (AL)). (Guest photographer, Semoon Chang.)

Visit my Blaine, WA photo set on Flickr for more Washington photos.

Apologetics

2008-10-31T10:19:00.001-05:00

Why have I not updated my photo blog since Aug 13? My life hasn’t been that boring. Almost, but not quite. Please accept this bucket of Johnny Jump Ups as a token of my apology. People give apology flowers, right? I’ve only received flowers 3 times in my life – once for my 16th birthday, once from a client for a bang up job on a project, and once from a guy I was dating because I told him to take the easy out and give me flowers for Valentine’s Day instead of his usual random item that made me want to punch him. Anywho, I’ll be posting several times over this weekend on the happenings of my twenty-seventh year up to this point. Okay bye.

Beachy Keen

2008-08-13T17:36:00.001-05:00

Went snorkeling this past Saturday morning. The water at "Casino Beach" was gorgeous! I must move to the water after I make my millions so that I may snorkel every morning.

Later, I was caught with mad scientist hair (whilst enjoying a Sookie Stackhouse novel full of delicious vampires). (guest photographer: The Schwab)

And even later, the geek squad descended upon Pensacola Beach where Chocolate Dream learned to float. Note: we are simply a squad of geeks and in no way affiliated with Geek Squad Computer Services. Though we could be, hence the whole geek thing. Yeah, hence. (guest photographer: The Schwab)

Bushwacker Festival 2008 August 1-3 on Pensacola Beach. Mmmmm. Sipped a couple cold ones and listened to The Molly Ringwalds and Lit.

Food Critics Extraordinaire

2008-07-25T14:57:00.000-05:00

The powers-that-be at Carrabba's found Pensacolafoodcritic.com and fed us in exchange for a review.

And someone said this of my Siam Thai review leaving me with that warm, squishy feeling of goodness: "I tried the panang (on Jen-o-saurus' recommendation) and I must say that she has great taste!"

We're going to own the Northwest Florida food scene!

You say it's your birthday

2008-07-25T14:51:00.000-05:00

Spent my birthday at Munson Lake (guest photographer: Sarah W.)

Spent my birth-night at Bands on the Beach. (guest photographer: Brittney G.)