Movin' on up.: July 2005

Blogiversary

I missed my blogiversary.... but so did everyone else so I can truly see the kind of meaningful impact that my blog is having on everyone.

Random Thought

There are so many people that do not want to be the "norm". They fight so hard to stay outside of the "norm" that it ends up defining them just the same.

A Love Hate Relationship.

I have a love hate relationship with the ocean. When we were in Ocean City I mostly hated the ocean. It is violent and smelly and makes the sand stick in places that sand should not stick. This past weekend, however, was a love weekend.

My friends, Krista and Adam, invited me to stay in Rehobeth Beach with Adam's grandparents for the weekend. His grandparents own a 1970's trailor in a beautiful community set on the ocean. When you are on their front porch it feels like you are in a forest and not at the ocean but a short golf cart ride to their 20 foot pontoon boat and it is all ocean.

Every morning we would get up and go out to the boat. On Friday we went crabbing and I caught several crabs using a chunk of chicken meat. Crabs frighten me a little but I was able to pull them in, net them and then watch from the other side of the boat as Adam's grandpa measured them and dropped them in the live well. In Ocean City I learned to eat a crab, a real crab not just the legs like you get at Red Lobster but the hole thing. There is a new joy in eating crab when you know that you have caught them and cooked them.

On Saturday we went fishing, I caught two flouders but they were only about a foot each and they have to be 17.5 inches in order to keep them. Once again I was able to caste the line and real them in, then I watched as the boys measured them and threw them back in the water. In the afternoon we went clamming.

Clamming does not require a boat. You simply walk into the water and scrap a rake along the ground, when you feel like you hit something you dig it up. I caught mostly rocks and shells but between the four of us we caught 48 clams. I tried to eat a clam but it was gross so I just saved the shell.

Sunday we went fishing again, I mostly caught seaweed so we packed our bags and headed home.

I am getting to see so many new things. I felt like a little kid everyday as someone would try to teach me something new. While I learned how to eat a crab it was clear that I was a Kansas girl trying to eat with East Coast people. My crab shells were pulverized when I was finished and my meals were more exhausting than nourishing!!

See you later fishy fans.

I'm Skylar, Let's Go Out!

I so just caught wind of this from Dooce. I think that soon my family will resort to this in order to find me that "nice Christian boy" that they have been looking for (note they not me). Click on the "Request a Date" link and read the fine print at the bottom, I think that is my favorite.

More on the Ocean in the next post.

Okay, I just watched the video of the billboard review and I am thinking that there is a greater that average chance that Lance is a little light in the loafers. I am also betting that Provo is not a place that embraces lightness.

Ocean City, Maryland

Today we came home after a three day trip to Ocean City, Maryland. I am not good on vacation. Well I am not good on the way home from vacation. I am tired and sore from three nights on a sofa bed. I am cranky from three days in a hotel room with my family (who I love but seriously three days in one room!?).

We had a nice view from our hotel room. We could see the ocean and up the strip to the ferris wheel at the end of the boardwalk. The balcony was just big enough to set a chair on for come afternoon reading. The problem with that is the beach looks so inviting that you are sucked into going down to the beach and then into the ocean. The beach part I am fine with its that ocean part that I am not fond of.

I sit in a chair on the sand and read for days. I love listening to the sounds of the waves crashing against the shore. I like to watch the little kids build sand castles and then watch them wash away with the waves.

I don't like to be in the water. I don't like to be covered in fishy smelling, salt infested, sand filled water that obviously needs an attitude adjustment cause it just kept throwing me around like a rag doll in the rinse cycle of a washing machine. Everyday though we would wake up and the sounds of the ocean would creep up to our room and erase the memory of the previous days misery and we would load up and head to the water once more.

In the evenings, however, we enjoyed a salt free, dry life. We ate at an you can eat crab shack were they served the full crab and not just the legs. I had to have the waitress give me a lesson on eating a crab. We also went to Cold Stone Creamery two out of the three nights. We walked up and down the boardwalk and took a ride on a giant ferris wheel at dusk. It was very romantic, which made being with my family a little weird.

Well, anyhooo, today we are back.

Making up for lost posts.

I was going over my old posts because I have nothing to do and my blogaversary is fast approaching. July 23, 2004 is when I posted my first blog about moving. It has been nearly a year since I made the decision. I think that some people should have their checks in the mail to me since I obviously won the "you won't make it three months" bet. I have lived here nine months.

This past weekend was my brothers wedding anniversary and my mom I think watched David all weekend. This weekend is when it occured to me what I want. I want to have a house that my nephew can come over to and stay the weekend. My brothers deserve to have a sister that can be there for them and there children (Cory this does not mean I want to see any babies from you anytime soon). Now that I have determined what I want I have to determine how to get that.

In Feb or March I did a testing at school to assess what I should be when I grow up and it assessed that I should be an Actuary. We have an Actuarial department at my old job. They work with numbers and are very smart people. At first I shunned the idea because I do not want to get a degree that will keep me in an office if the only reason that I am there is because I already know the work and am comfortable doing it. But the more I think about it, I like money and math and numbers. I like an office environment, supply cabinets, in boxes, climate control. Maybe I would be a fool not to look into it. Maybe I could go back to AmerUs and be over Elizabeth. Awe sweet revenge is mine.

Any opinions are welcome here...

Palm trees at Daytona.

Shawn went to high school with Calvin Hayes who now plays for the Cardinal's triple A team. They were playing in Daytona when we went so we stayed to watch the game. That's Calvin by the way.

Daytona Speedway

Daytona Beach

The Shamu show

This one is just for Jason

Man being pushed underwater by dolphin

Tanner petting a sting ray at Sea World

Boardwalk outside Universal

Sunset over the fake New York skyline at Universal

Me, holding up ET

Marla and Janelle on top of the bar celebrating their birthday's at Hard Rock.

Universal Park, nice place and it wasn't crowded.

Mr. Incredible himself.

Tanner, Janelle, Trisha, Shawn and I at Honey I Shrunk the Kinds in MGM.

Update

I hate when people don't post regularly, now I have become what I hate. Summer is speeding by. I am now only working at Victoria's Secret but I was just hired at Hershey Park. I get free access to the park and it will help with the money situation.

We got back from Florida and went back to our hectic disheveled lives. I have rarely seen Tanner and Kenny just got home last night for the first time since Florida.

On Tuesday we are headed to Ocean City, Maryland for three days. Kenny has a conference and we will be tagging along for the free room at the beach front hotel. In a couple of weeks I will be headed to Delaware to spend a few days clamming at the beach with Krista and Adam. Then in August I am coming home!!!!! I can not wait to hear David say my name.

Tonight Shawn, Kenny and I are going to see War of the Worlds. So I will post a review shortly.

I start school on August 22nd and I turn 26 on the 27th. I was awarded $2,700 in grants and $960 in scholarships for school so that will help with the 15 hours this semester and the 18 next plus summer school. I want to be a juniorthis time next year so that I can move away from HACC and into a different school. I have not decided where. I miss my family. I think I may be ready to come home, or I am in need of a Kansas fix, either way two weeks should help.

Well more from the movies later!!

Movin' on up.

Sunday, July 31, 2005

Blogiversary

Random Thought

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

A Love Hate Relationship.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

I'm Skylar, Let's Go Out!

Friday, July 15, 2005

Ocean City, Maryland

Friday, July 08, 2005

Making up for lost posts.

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