Well I made it

As surreal as it felt I am back in Seattle. Picked up my luggage and made the journey home to North Bend. Just to be greeted by massive amounts of mail, and dishes. I thought about it this morning I should have taken before pictures I started to clean and after I even just picked up a bit. Took me 2 hours to sort through mail, note: it wasn't even all my mail. I then proceeded to start on dishes, 90% of the dishes in the house were dirty, but unfortunately the power when out. How great is it to return to cold weather and RAIN. What was I thinking. I can't complain about the house too much my bro hasn't been able to take care of it like he could b/c he has been sick. So I have unpacked, taken care of mail, and started on dishes. Just wanted to let ya'll know that I am home safely. I already miss Hawaii though.

There is no Steve like Skooba Steve

Current mood: thoughtful


So logging onto the mind control unit of myspace, I noticed someone had a blog named Scuba Steeeve. I would say I got a bit mad and sad all at the same time, because, as everyone from the 808 knows there is only one Scuba Steve. He is a rock star of the reef.

I can only say so much about this guy, (I wish I could say more and infact did, but of course my internet crashed and erased all the good stuff I had on here. So here I am trying to sum it up as much as I can. Steve "hey that is my new pic for my myspace", "motorboatin' son of a bitch", who doesn't even have a myspace. States he will get one once he knows how to spell computer. Oh Steve at least we will always have Dave & Buster's.

again click on pics for a larger photo

How much Bullsh@* can I person deal with

how much Bullsh@* can I person deal with
Current mood: angry


Right now I feel like I want to die. I don't care by what means I just want it all be over with. I know this comes across as sounding petty but I really F***ing hate my roommate right now. By a supposedly "miscommunication" no one even asked me about going camping tonight having fun on the beach. No instead they take off with out me once again. This hasn't been the first time since I wasn't hired by the park. I have been ostracized for well over a week now. I pretty much am a hobbit in my little hole in the wall room that I have (and I do mean little). Supposedly it isn't just me that is having a rough time. Hello, I am the one who is 26 just gave up 6 months of my life, to be rejected by the place that I would love to work, have everyone at the park that I hung out with leave (because the internship is over) or completely forget about me b/c I am not worthy anymore, not even receive a thank you of some kind for all the effort put in, being 26 and still not anywhere close to where I should be career wise, and be sitting all alone in this house b/c of "miscommunication". HAHA

I know this is coming out all bitchy and probably very in concise, but right now I have a bunch of pent up anger, rage, and sorrow that are busting the seams of me right now.

So, I sit here and just having the feeling of wanting to come home more than ever. I keep feeling like it isn't worth it for me to stay here get a small time job and try to reapply at the park in a couple of months. If I did reapply I could do it from Seattle. It isn't like I need to be here to send in a resume. It would mean me finding a new place to live, but whatever. WHY DOES LIFE SUCK SO MUCH??

Another phenomenal day in Hawaii

I had another outrageous day in Hawaii. It started with getting up well before the sun did, I felt like I was back in Seattle getting ready to go to work b/c of how early it was (5:30 am). After not being able to sleep well the night before, I just switched rooms, have a new bed, and have been lounging around for a few days reading in bed; it finally caught up with me. But back to the main point of this blog. So on the road at 6 am with one of my roomies (his last day at the house) we headed out to meet with another ex-intern. We pick her up in Pearl City and head out for Wai'anae (it is pretty much as far away as you can get from Hawai'i Kai and through rush hour traffic even). Shortly after 7:30 (oops we were suppose to be there at 7:30) we arrive at the boat dock with gear in hand to go diving!!! Again all I can say is it was amazing. Everything was picture perfect. The weather, outstanding, the sights great, snacks and beverages superb! The first dive was a 90 ft sunken Mine Layer called the Mahi. It was sunk in 1982 to be an artificial reef. I can say that it has succeeded. We saw so much coral. Also so an some beautiful fish, Eagle rays just hovering in the current, some Nudibranchs (I was soo excited on the inside), Urchins, and a well hidden frogfish. The visibility was excellent (compared to my good old puget sound). After surfacing we headed toward the second sight on the boat. Along the way we got a special treat by seeing Humpback whales spouting, fluke slapping, and we even got the amazing (sorry for the overuse of that word) privilege of getting to see one of the large beast breaching. We could see the complete chest and the entire pectoral fin clear the water before he/she came crashing down. WOW!!! The second dive to me seemed unneeded after such great things already, but life just got better at Papio Place. We could actually here the whales between breaths, again an huge range of fish. Puffers, triggerfish, surgeons, convict fish, trumpet fish, more nudies, urchins, and a grand palette of coral. Some got lucky enough to see a taco (octopus) unfortunately I missed that. I am so excited and ready for my next expedition (I can't believe I waited this long to go diving here, I hope to set up another trip shortly after I get a job and am making some money).

WHAT A TRIP

Okay so this will be hard for a lot of you to believe, and it is understandable. Yesterday I did something that I have wanted to do for a long time; I jumped out of a perfectly good plane. That is right folks, I went skydiving. It was an awesome rush. My tandem guide said it was the best thing you can do with clothes on, I think I agree. It was literally like I was jumping into an aerial view photo of O'ahu's north shore. There is no concept of how far you exactly are from the ground, 14,000 ft was jump point, and we free fell for a minute. How exhilarating was that. I will let you know it wasn't all fun and games, I have bruising in places that aren't so fun (much like when I slipped and fell on the gate at work)and my contacts blew out of my eyes. BUT it was all worth it and I suggest you too try it.

I will be updating my photos on yahoo sometime today and tomorrow, b/c I have over 90 photos to add from the last few days at the park and the last few days with the new great friends that I have made. I just want to let all of them know that they have made a huge impact in my life and I will never forget them!! *sniffle, sniffle*

Check out some photos from my landing, click on for a larger view!!


Me upon landing approach With Range


Jess and me after our death defying event

The friendship quiz that is scary

What You Really Think Of Your Friends

Marie is your soulmate.

You truly love Gloria.

You consider Maceo your true friend.

You know that Eric is always thinking of you.

You'll remember Casey for the rest of your life.

You secretly think Devon is creative, charming, and a bit too dramatic at times.

You secretly think that Ryan is colorful, impulsive, and a total risk taker.

You secretly think that Katey is loyal and trustworthy to you. And that Katey changes lovers faster than underwear.

You secretly think Louis is shy and nonconfrontational. And that Louis has a hidden internet romance.

What Do You Think of Your Friends?

A day with the sea lions

I had quite the experience the other day. Now as interns we get to help with the sea lions just a bit. This is b/c they can be pretty dangerous, but also b/c the sea lions in our area are in training. These means we have two young sea lions, also two older sea lions that came have minimal training (or had good training years and years ago). The thing that made the day cool was that I got to help and interact with all of them. With Leona Kai (3yr old) they are working with her to be less skittish and nervous in different environments. I got to help do A to B's with here. This means the trainer sends her to me, I re-enforce the behavior, and then send her back. We did this outside of the enclosure so she was ooh soo cute running back and forth in front of me. The trainers then had Wyland (2yr old) out in the pool to practice him getting use to interactions, so I got to put my hands on his back and pet him. What a squeal of delight!!! Another experience I had was with Ma'alea (older near-blind sea lion once trained), working on her interacting with people. So Azu had her give me some kisses; the funny thing about this is I was on her blind side so when Azu said kiss she didn't know where to go. Which means she once necked with me (kinda scary for me) then kissed Azu's wetsuit, and then finally got it right and kissed me on the cheek. They are also working on bringing Kamani (large older sea lion) out of the enclosure. So I got to act as a spectator so she can get use to people around.

I also got to do a sea lion interaction yesterday, these pictures are from that. Ohhh Sooo Cute...


Maukele gives me a kiss, whats with the snarl?!?


Maukele still snarling

Discombobulated

I feel all out of sorts for the past two weeks or so. I haven't been updating my blog like I use to. I guess it has come down to me trying to get things in order for Christmas, although it really doesn't feel like Christmas. I have been working on Christmas cards, getting presents bought, packaged, and ready to ship, making my Christmas letter and photo, and wishing I had all the ingredients to make my holiday ginger spice cookies :( . I have also been spending a lot of time job hunting. It is soo hard to believe the internship is going to be done with in a month, and I need to be prepared if I don't stay on at the park. I.E. looking around the island for another job hopefully using my degree and not some standard job to "get me by". The house is pretty festive now, Kyle bought a tree, I decorated stockings for all eight of us in the house. And with the help of my family I have a nicely decorated felt tree hanging in my room with "picture" ornaments of things I love. Today I even got some wrapped presents to go underneath of it until Christmas morning :) At least this year I will have something to open on Christmas morning even though it is the second one I have spent without my family.

Other than that things have been clicking along at work, at home, and out and about. I have been keeping up on updating the yahoo photos, so check those out when you get a chance. The newest additions is from the Parks Christmas party. Tons of cute photos of the interns and trainers. I hope everyone enjoys.

PS I do miss you all back in the quah. Feel free to call me when you get some time :) xoxoxo

How cute is this!!

Me and Kermie!

Aloha

The proceedings of screaming like a girl

So you know how you come across those situations where you can't help but scream like a girl? Well one of those happened at our house the other night. A rat through who knows what kind of means seem to have taken up residents in a roommates room. I go up to see what the commotion was and of course they are screaming like a girl. I trying to be the "tough kid" in the situations tell them that I will get the rat out. I also told them that most times I can handle my own but may (small chance) scream like a girl as well. Well, of course they were screaming at the slightest move of the rat. At one point I will admit I did scream like a girl, but I do have a valid reason.. The rat ran across my foot. Now who knows why we do such things in some situations where you think you are going to Mr/Miss cool. And you think you can handle it no matter what, but something catches you off guard, maybe it is peer pressure and some ungodly way catches you off guard. So just remember next time you see a rat squeal like a girl for my just so I don't feel like such a pansy.