Category: joanna irl
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Photos uploaded for March
This is mostly a placeholder to let you know I uploaded photos to the photo blog from the past couple of weeks. I’ll write about this weekend later today when I have time, but for now you can see the pictures (with captions)!
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Priorities are everything
Priorities are everything… and it seems that (according to my bedside table, at least) I have very specific ones. This morning when I woke up (slept from 5 to 8), I found the following: 1 glass of water 1 bag of crackers 1 container of TUMs 1 Surefire flashlight (thanks, J!) 1 emergency lamp 3…
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In case of emergency, my house smells like pumpkin
I’m sitting here, exhausted, staring at the computer screen and waiting for water to filter. We’re about 2 and a half hours from a tsunami coming, but I live above the inundation zone (i.e. more than 100 feet above sea level) and so do not have to evacuate. Our biggest issue is that we might…
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Marching on
It feels as if this year is going by so quickly. Already we’re a week into March and I’m making summer plans and doing my spring cleaning. Last week J and I bought a new camera, a nice shiny Nikon, and I’ve been practicing with it ever since. What this means is that I now…
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A pirate’s life for me..?
Let’s play a game… Sing along if you know it! “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong!” See it? There you go. The Black Pearl. More photos are found in my photo blog, once they’re uploaded. [update: You can find them starting here, but there aren’t…
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Me After Dentist
Today was my semi-annual sojourn to the dentists’ office, which is actually across the street and takes me about three minutes to reach. My predictions this morning? I will be told I need to floss more. The amount of finger shaking and encouraging me to floss more will not change from my last visit, even…
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Twelve Trivial Traits
I have been challenged to come up with a list of a dozen things that you may not know about me and post them here. This is difficult for me as half of my readers are probably related to me… but I’m going to try. So here you have twelve mostly useless things to know.…
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A Weekend to Remember
Do you ever have one of those randomly wonderful weekends that you want to remember as long as possible? Yeah, that was my weekend. It started on Friday with the surprise filming thing (see the previous entry), and things just stayed great the rest of the time. Friday night we went to dinner at one…
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Accidental Debut
A funny thing happened to me the other morning. On Thursday evening a new-to-the-ship friend emailed me to ask if I wanted to join her for “something fun” on Friday morning. As she’s a professional photographer, I thought it must be something along those lines; maybe she needed me to help her carry equipment or…
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And Then There Was Cold
The annoying thing about our house is that it is two stories but only has one thermostat and only one air conditioning pump. This matters when you live in a place like Hawaii and your housing office wants you to keep the air running (they have, until recently, paid for it) to prevent mold in…
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