TheBoy and I visited the jeweler yesterday in order to approve the wax and pick a stone for the center of my ring setting. We decided on a .56 carat Ceylonese sapphire of medium darkness [especially knowing that it will appear darker once set into the setting.] And of course, we took photos. please ignore read more

I keep meaning to upload this, taken the evening after we got engaged, from our balcony overlooking the ocean in Lincoln City.

I am unused to being home. I like being home, but I have less interest in updating this here blog than I did before I left. Nothing much has been happening, except that TheBoy and I met with the jeweler and should see a mock-up, or at least be selecting a sapphire for my engagement read more

Made it home fine from Anchorage. Feels weird to not be working anymore, although I start back at my normal job again on Monday. Definitely a great internship experience and an organization I’d love to work for again. Only one of my suitcases made it in with me on my connecting flight from Seattle, but read more

So, Bruce Campbell was here in Anchorage yesterday signing books and screening sci-fi channel original movie “The Man with the Screaming Brain”. I showed up 2.5 hours before the book signing began and was 4th in line to get my stuff signed. This makes TheBoy the proud owner of an autographed copy of “Make Love* read more

After months of fading out weird hair color from the mess I made of it with the process of making it purple, I went today and got it fixed up. Its darker than my normal color but I think its fantastic on me. I got hit on by a homeless man holding what appeared to read more

This is the second in my series of posts I have wanted to write but haven’t had the time or the patience. I know I am behind in my emails and I do apologize for that. I’ll get on that soon, I swear. At any rate, being in Anchorage without a vehicle, we have been read more

I keep meaning to write this post and yet it keeps getting passed off without me doing it. In large part because of a lack of time and in other parts due to a lack of free time at the computer. On my journey out of Anchorage for my job, I was doing work in read more

Sometimes I swear Firefox is out to drive me crazy. All summer it has eaten my bookmarks continuously. Luckily I’m able to resync it between the craptop and the big bad machine back home in Oregon. However, when I went to do that today, I accidentally hit upload, thereby killing about half my bookmarks. Blergh! read more

I’ve been terribly neglectful of this here blog. There’s just been so little time to write and it may get worse before it gets better. We’re moving today, from the UAA dorms we’ve been staying in for two months to a furnished apartment not too far from our office. It has internet but I’m not read more

i’m back from the bush. apart from the rain, it was a fantastic trip. there will be tons of photos later i promise.

too little time. in fact, i’m headed out to where there are no phones, no internet, no email until august 7th. don’t expect a post right away, but there will be spectacular photos shortly there after.