these may be...

a few of the reasons why i don't mind coming back to the island...

this is one of the first things you see before you get off the plane. the first thing you see is a lot of blue ocean... then it changes colour a bit as we approach land and then you see reefs, land, and little white houses dotted throughout the green... we're overpopulating this little island but it looks pretty from above.

this is the view from my parents veranda. normally the sun is a big burning ball of red, pink, orange and yellow... it's awe inspiring really.

especially when you consider i look at this on a regular basis...

i am...

tired today!

talk about random

this one's for you miss k

us drunken fools chased the man down in order to get a picture for our scavenger hunt... although we was supposed to get a picture of this... we got a prize for most original clue/hint though!

although we had to promise to go visit him after... and we totally didn't.

is it bad...

... that the longer i'm at home the more i feel the need to down vodka and cran after vodka and cran?

feist; one evening

something about feist makes me happy... she's got such a innocent, vulnerable voice - there's nothing abrasive about her.
her videos are so tastefully done and so incredibly artistic...
what do you think?

just because

you've heard the saying, "when the cat's away the mice will play"?... well... that's the case when earl leaves the house. napoleon is free to be the nutcase that we know and love him to be. one day we were just fooling around, me chasing him, him chasing me, and for some reason he ended up with one of earl's one time favourite toys and it was just the absolute cutest thing i've ever seen in my entire life. well, just about everything napoleon does it the absolute cutest thing i've ever seen in my entire life. but seriously...
so anyway... i thought it was a one off thing until i gave it to him again...
and this is the result:


you know you can't deny that that shit is cute. look at it!

back in the black

so ladies and gentlemen, i'm back in the wonderful world of island life (although it's not so wonderful because i'm bored of it already... gees-a-loo the prices are ridiculous, the quality of the food is sub-par and i feel greasy!)

we had to make the tough decision that br would be staying behind to look after our little brats... wah! four months and no man! i'm devastated! *sniffle* all the troubles that we were having earlier this year seem to have gone on sabbatical. let's all hope they decide not to come back... and as they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder! i think we need this time to mature and learn more about ourselves as individuals... we were getting too used to defining ourselves as a couple and started forgetting the importance of our own needs... or we were starting to forget how our individual needs affected the other person, so it's also a good time to weed out those habits that aren't necessary in our lives.

i'm working back at the paper and things are going well... i'm happy for once here. let's hope it stays that way, right?

i also feel pretty good about myself lately... it helps that almost everyone i've seen since i've been back has mentioned how good i look. you don't really notice the changes that you make to yourself because you see yourself every day, but everyone else does... that hard work that i put in over the 8 months that i was away really made a difference. how could i stop now? i'm shooting for the moon and at least a size 5. there's nothing wrong with that, especially when you think about competing professionally... which i do all the time. i've started up a running programme, well more a brisk walk to jog programme and by the end of it i should be able to run a 5k... we'll see... i should at least have shed a few more pounds...

at any rate... aside from not having br here every waking minute and having to bunk with my folks again (now i have to manage my shower time and i'm so used to spending half the day in there) things are going okay... it's not so bad living with the parents - i think my enthusiasm to be healthy is infectious, they're eating better dinners (less carbs) and my mom even hopped on the bike last night while i was doing my job. if i can get my parents on a better track then this whole experience would be worth it...