Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Very Random
These are some very random pictures I downloaded from my phone...
Itty bitty pineapples, taken at Coral Castle.
My son took this picture with his phone and shopped it. I love how she has her foot raised up behind her head.
I took this on my way to Lake Placid last weekend. This section of US27 is nothing but sugarcane fields, and some were being burned. Smells bad, but not nearly as bad as the refinery smells when they're burning cane. It's like baby vomit...and I'm not kidding.
As I sit here in 70 degrees, windows wide open and just enjoying the fact that I can have the AC turned off for a change, this is my home in Pennsylvania. My husband took it a few weeks ago and though the snow there has come and gone a few times, they have a bit more than is in this picture now. He says lots of people are sledding and having fun with it. Wish Aidan and I were there. We miss sledding!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Caching in Highlands Hammock State Park
I took this picture with my phone, then doctored it up a bit. I like it!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
New Years Stuff
Today will be no day of rest for me. I still have Christmas stuff to box up and put back in the attic, floors to sweep and mop, laundry to do and the STEELERS-Broncos game this afternoon.
Tomorrow is an important day. I am doing something that I've never done before - getting a mammogram. I know, I know...it's horrible that I haven't had one yet. No excuses other than I just keep forgetting to schedule one. I am looking forward to tomorrow...I've heard they can hurt a bit (and no wonder having your boobs squished down like pancakes!), but it is worth it. I have a clean bill of health for everything else (yes, even my MS has remained inactive since I was diagnosed in '06), so what better way to start the new year?
Speaking of New Year, I have made a couple resolutions. I am going to truly try keeping them, too, unlike the decades of previous years' unkept goals.
1. Loose at LEAST 20 lbs. This is so do able it makes me laugh. I just have to get back into my walking routine.
2. Buy one Christmas present a month, put a note on it as to who it's for, and store it away in a box in my closet. NO MORE broke Christmas's. NO MORE last minute shit.
3. Read more!
4. Do one crafty project a month (possible Christmas presents?? 2 birds with one stone??)
5. Get myself and Aidan moved up to Pennsylvania and start that new chapter in my life!!!!
So has anybody ever actually kept ALL of their resolutions? Let me know if you have!
Tomorrow is an important day. I am doing something that I've never done before - getting a mammogram. I know, I know...it's horrible that I haven't had one yet. No excuses other than I just keep forgetting to schedule one. I am looking forward to tomorrow...I've heard they can hurt a bit (and no wonder having your boobs squished down like pancakes!), but it is worth it. I have a clean bill of health for everything else (yes, even my MS has remained inactive since I was diagnosed in '06), so what better way to start the new year?
Speaking of New Year, I have made a couple resolutions. I am going to truly try keeping them, too, unlike the decades of previous years' unkept goals.
1. Loose at LEAST 20 lbs. This is so do able it makes me laugh. I just have to get back into my walking routine.
2. Buy one Christmas present a month, put a note on it as to who it's for, and store it away in a box in my closet. NO MORE broke Christmas's. NO MORE last minute shit.
3. Read more!
4. Do one crafty project a month (possible Christmas presents?? 2 birds with one stone??)
5. Get myself and Aidan moved up to Pennsylvania and start that new chapter in my life!!!!
So has anybody ever actually kept ALL of their resolutions? Let me know if you have!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
A Case of the Blahs
Here I am. In Miami. My husband of almost 2 months is in Pittsburgh. We had planned on Aidan and I moving up there on December 27th, but things got in the way. Namely legal issues. I had to file for a "modification of visitation" and get legal permission from my ex to move out of state. Thankfully, we talked and agreed on everything. My lawyer had originally said the whole thing would be between $400 and $500. I've paid her $450. Last week, the day she filed all the paperwork, she informed me that I owe her $711! AND that it will take "several weeks" for the judge to sign off on everything.
I was livid when she told me all this (which was via email). I don't make a lot of money and it will take me a long time to save up that much money. My husband offered to send me some money, but I just don't want to take any from him. I feel like it's my mess and my responsibility to straighten out, eventhough I know it's "our" deal and it's not a "mess". I am going to try to find some stuff to sell on Craigslist. There's not much else I can do. The majority of my paychecks go toward bills and food, with very little left over to save.
So here I am. In Miami indefinitely while a whole new chapter in my life lies waiting to begin over 1200 miles away. Yup, I got a bad case of the blahs.
For some strange reason, this picture is cracking me up right now...
Makes me think of my lawyer and the purdy new machete I got for Christmas...
I was livid when she told me all this (which was via email). I don't make a lot of money and it will take me a long time to save up that much money. My husband offered to send me some money, but I just don't want to take any from him. I feel like it's my mess and my responsibility to straighten out, eventhough I know it's "our" deal and it's not a "mess". I am going to try to find some stuff to sell on Craigslist. There's not much else I can do. The majority of my paychecks go toward bills and food, with very little left over to save.
So here I am. In Miami indefinitely while a whole new chapter in my life lies waiting to begin over 1200 miles away. Yup, I got a bad case of the blahs.
For some strange reason, this picture is cracking me up right now...
Makes me think of my lawyer and the purdy new machete I got for Christmas...
Monday, January 2, 2012
Coral Castle
Today we went to Coral Castle to find a geocache. We never did find the cache, but it wasn't a wasted trip. A visit to Coral Castle is always amazing. This is the story behind it all:
From Wikipedia...Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by his 16-year-old fiancée Agnes Scuffs in Latvia, just one day before the wedding. Leaving for America, he came down with allegedly terminal tuberculosis, but spontaneously healed, stating that magnets had some effect on his disease.
From Wikipedia...Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by his 16-year-old fiancée Agnes Scuffs in Latvia, just one day before the wedding. Leaving for America, he came down with allegedly terminal tuberculosis, but spontaneously healed, stating that magnets had some effect on his disease.
Edward spent over 28 years building the Coral Castle, refusing to allow anyone to view him while he worked. A few teenagers claimed to have witnessed his work, reporting that he had caused the blocks of coral to move like hydrogen balloons. The only tool that Leedskalnin spoke of using was a "perpetual motion holder."
Leedskalnin originally built the castle, which he named Rock Gate Park, in Florida City, Florida around 1923. He purchased the land from Ruben Moser whose wife helped assist him when he had a very bad bout with tuberculosis.[4] Florida City, which borders the Everglades, is the southernmost city in the United States that is not on an island. It was an extremely remote location with very little development at the time. The castle remained in Florida City until about 1936 when Leedskalnin decided to move and take the castle with him. The Coral Castle website states that he chose to move in order to protect his privacy when discussion about developing land in the area of the castle started.[5] The second commonly held notion was that he wanted to relocate to a more populous locale after being badly beaten one night by hooligans looking to rob him.[6] He spent three years moving the Coral Castle structures 10 miles (16 km) north from Florida City to its current location in Homestead, Florida.
Leedskalnin continued to work on the castle up until his death in 1951. The coral pieces that are part of the newer castle, not among those transported from the original location, were quarried on the property only a few feet away from the southern wall.
Leedskalnin charged visitors ten cents a head to tour the castle grounds. There are signs carved into rocks at the front gate to "Ring Bell Twice" and a second sign just inside the property that says "Adm. 10c Drop Below". He would come down from his living quarters in the second story of the castle tower close to the gate and conduct the tour. Leedskalnin never told anyone who asked him how he made the castle. He would simply answer "It's not difficult if you know how."
When asked why he had built the castle, Leedskalnin would vaguely answer it was for his "Sweet Sixteen." This is widely believed to be a reference to Agnes Scuffs (whose surname is given by some sources as "Skuvst"). In Leedskalnin's own publication A Book in Every Home he implies his "Sweet Sixteen" was more an ideal than a reality. According to a Latvian account, the woman existed, but her name was actually Hermīne Lūsis.[7]
When Leedskalnin became ill in December 1951, he put a sign on the door of the front gate "Going to the Hospital" and took the bus to a Miami hospital. The doctors discovered Leedskalnin was suffering from advanced stomach cancer. He died in the hospital three days later.
These lounge chairs are actually kinda comfortable!
Would you enjoy sleeping on this bed?
I like this table...
...and this one in the shape of the state of Florida, complete with Lake Okeechobee!
The main house...er...castle.
It may not look like much, but you have to remember it was built by ONE man, without powerful machinery.
It truly is an amazing place to see, well worth the $. Next time you're on your way to the Keys, stop by and check out the castle that Ed built!
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