Category: joanna irl
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Driving to Arizona: No map? No problem! Unless you get detoured onto a historic highway…
In the age of the GPS, I haven’t bothered in quite a while to buy a roadmap. I haven’t needed one in a long time, and even when I’ve lost GPS signal I have been either close enough to home not to need it, or in a relatively small place where it is difficult to…
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Arizona Renaissance Festival Weekend, aka roadtrip through desert
Two weekends ago, J and I took a roadtrip to Arizona to go to the renaissance festival that’s just outside of Phoenix. This one is the sister festival to the Carolina one (owned by the same company) and since J hasn’t been in town for one in a while, we decided to do the six…
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Snowy Day and Hot Apple Pies in Julian, CA
A couple of days after J got back from deployment (read: after the jetlag was basically over), we decided to start exploring beyond our neighborhood. For our first foray, we chose the quaint town of Julian. Julian is up in the mountains, and was originally a gold mining town (as so many places were), but…
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Catching up on February, plus WHALE BABY.
I’m currently uploading a ton of photos, first to an album of random things from February that I never got around to uploading. The last month has been hectic, between finishing the unpacking process, J coming home from deployment, and then heading out to explore southern California (and Arizona!) together. J’s mom visited in mid-February…
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Marching on
Well, it’s been over a month and I’ve managed to THINK of a bunch of really good blog posts and then NOT WRITE THEM. It’s a good thing blogging isn’t my job. Anyway, this is to let you know I’m going to be catching up on things, and I’ve made a LIST of things I…
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Pop Quiz at the DMV
Today I went to get new license plates for my car. The old plates expired while the car was in storage, so when I got it back two weeks ago, I started the process of getting them. First I had to get it repaired; it needed a new belt and a new sensor, and that…
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Fat Cat, Skinny Cat: How I got my overweight cat to lose weight
For years now, I’ve had a problem: one of my cats was too big. Caspian’s always been a big guy, and has really large paws (mitts, really) and is tall and long… but he’s also bad about clearing his food dish AND the other cat’s if she doesn’t eat quickly enough and I’ve never been…
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A couple of random photos from my new camera
I got a new point and shoot camera for Christmas (sometimes it’s nice to just have one with you, so you don’t have to lug around a full size camera bag; this one fits nicely in my purse!), and pulled a few photos off of it. First, seeing The Hobbit in 3D with my sister: We were…
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Joshua Tree National Park in January
Last week, my sister came to California with me to help me settle back into the new place and to help me out with the errandy type things that always accompany a move, and which are much more easily accomplished with two people. Of course we also did some fun sight seeing (which is also…
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Fog at Cape Hatteras: a weekend at the North Carolina Outer Banks
I moved to North Carolina when I was fourteen. I have spent countless weekends in the North Carolina mountains (and up into Virginia and over into Tennessee), be it for day trips or camping weekends or summer vacations, but until I was in my twenties, I had never been to the Outer Banks. In fact,…
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