Category: joanna irl
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April Fools?
Did you see this post yesterday? No? How did you MISS it?? . . …. Yeah, this is a “cheater” post because I had too much going on yesterday to blog. Also I forgot it was April for most of the day. Sorry about that. BEDA commencing soon. Ish.
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Saint Pat’s Day rewind
So, four years ago J and I were in Ireland for Saint Patrick’s Day. It is a religious holiday. And then at noon, they party. It reminds me somewhat of Mardi Gras, in that all the little towns and villages and things have their own parades the weekend before the day itself, with all of…
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Floods and Fasts: Week 10 of 2012 in photos
This last week was a little strange for me. We’ve had a really high volume of rain in the last couple of weeks, especially this past week, and everything is saturated to the point of constant sogginess. Some parts of this island (not where I live, thankfully) and Kauai are under almost perpetual flash flood…
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Alrighty Then: pop culture references that… don’t.
Recently I’ve started paying attention to various ways our everyday language is strange (being in a place where people commonly don’t quite understand one another even though we can all speak “English” does that to you). Our use of expressions and idioms, for instance, must confuse some people not from the US to no end.…
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The Story About the Beetles
Well, my Christmas tree is finally in its box, in the garage where it belongs. It went there on Saturday. Yes, I know it’s March. Yes, I know Christmas was 2 1/2 months ago. And I tried, I really and truly tried to put it away. December 30th I actually started pulling down all of…
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Takin’ care of business: Week 9 of 2012 in photos
This week has been one in which I accomplished a lot and worked very hard on several projects. My photos are mostly of things related to them, with a handful of other randomness. Monday I cleaned the bedroom and started getting things together to make a deployment shadowbox and scrapbook for J. He collected some…
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Easing back into things: Week 8 of 2012 in photos
Last week was transitional, really, and I didn’t have the energy to post these photos last night, but here is last week’s set of photos. Monday morning we got up at 3am and had a 5am flight to Maui. Redeyes are usually cheapest (which is our motivation, though I’m not sure for how much longer–…
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Here, there, and everywhere: Week 7 of 2012 in pictures
This week’s photos will be without much more explanation than what they themselves contain. Please bear with me. Monday, 2/13, we got to welcome home a certain ship. ^_^
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My Little Helper
Cats all have funny little habits. As someone who spends a lot of (let’s call it) quality time with her cats, I especially notice their odd habits. While I’m convinced that Caspian (a.k.a. The Gray Wonder) has OCD (which is a whole other blog entry in and of itself, probably), Leena (a.k.a. Calico Princess) does…
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