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  • I am 34 years old, work as a Space Shuttle technician and live with my husband Andy, six small dogs, two parrots, and two tiny tortoises. Birds have always been a part of my life since having small pet birds as a child. I was a bird watcher in high school and even traveled all the way to Costa Rica mainly to look at birds. My career path has followed "birds" as well: airplanes first, as an aircraft mechanic, and now space shuttles. The main birds in my life right now are Charley, an Eclectus Parrot who thinks I am his real mother, and Holly, an Eleanora Cockatoo that we adopted.
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Sidewalk Etiquette

This is a little bit of a rant, so be forewarned.
I love to go walking in my neighborhood and in the two neighborhoods that adjoin it. I do not so much love the way people treat their sidewalks, often forcing me to walk out in the street.
A few simple rules:
Do not park your vehicles [...]

What a long strange trip its been…

Well 2005 is drawing to a close, and all in all it has been a good year. We have all stayed relatively healthy and happy and have made some good progress along the way. Here is the year in review:
We finally got our pool project finished early in the year. What a [...]

Blogging transcends the subconscious

You know how sometimes when you dream at night people that you talked to during the day appear in your dreams?
Well, last night I dreamed that I was in an unfamiliar mall shopping with one of my blog friends, Glitter of GlitterGlamGirl05. We had e-mailed earlier in the day and I guess that is [...]

Vacationing, but busy busy

The Christmas tree was driving me a little batty as it took up a lot of space. I was finally forced to take it down yesterday, and that signals the beginning of the end. The end of vacation, that is. There are only five days left of our Christmas vacation from work, [...]

Tired of neighborhood living

You know with all the crap we have been through with our neighborhood and all of the scumbags that live here, Andy and I have been dreaming of living in more of a non-neighborhood kind of environment. I mean really, we just lost our only good neighbors a couple of months ago, the [...]

Today is another holiday, and I don’t mean Boxing Day

For those of you who don’t know, today is a holiday known as Christmas Second Day, as it is celebrated in the U.S. Virgin Islands and apparently no where else in the world. I found it very interesting when I lived in the the Virgin Islands that they had so many holidays. Some [...]

I heard the waves on Christmas Day…

Since it is just me and Andy here, and no other family, we tend to have rather unconventional holidays. Take today for example. This morning while everyone was huddled around their respective Christmas trees, we were at the beach, of all places. We got up this morning and took a little ride [...]

Merry Christmas! I got you a huge car payment!

I have been seeing a lot of those commercials on TV lately that feature people giving a Lexus with a huge bow on top to their loved ones for Christmas. Can the average person really do this? If Andy bought me a car as a surprise without my knowing it, I would KILL [...]

My poor little pincushion

Cody (my diabetic dog, for those of you who don’t know) has been having some problems with his blood sugar lately. I think it is partly because he has lost so much weight. He was nearly fifteen pounds originally, and now he is down to under eleven pounds.
I have taken him to the vet [...]

A new gig on the side

I have been offered and accepted an incredible opportunity, and that is to be a contributing blogger on a newly reborn website, Mobility Site. It is described as “A weblog covering mobile gadgets and technology. PocketPC, Smartphones, MP3 Players, and more!” by its founder, Chris Leckness. Chris is the founder of the very [...]