It means a couple really awesome things: 1) I get to drive all boats up to 100 tons. 2) I get a raise when my Merchant Mariners license arrives. 3) I can forever make my living on the water. Never again do I have to set foot in an office or laboratory. :)

I passed my test for my Master's Captain's license and got my towing and sailing endorsements! WOOHOO!!Done with 8 hours of testing! NOW TIME FOR ALCOHOL!

I love my dogs. One of them is making me crazy because he started barking and jumping at the TV in January, and no amount of spray bottles/cookie distraction has worked on averting his bizarre fixation. Anyone have advice?

there's a house in key west called casa roja (I may have spelled that wrong) and its red and beautiful and in midtown with a yard. its not especially large or grandiose, but its functional and i imagine that the inside is gorgeous. ive always wanted to go inside, but its a private residence. mostly i just want a place…

in the florida keys. its been so beautiful, it reminds me of why i put up with the craziness.

I work on the water. Its been gorgeous the last few days. I was swimming with sharks for the last two days! No cage. No knife. No bangsticks or spear gun. Just me and my mask, and them and their fins. Unbelievably beautiful. I havent seen them in a long while and I was just so pleased. I had to share. (PS: I am…

My car alarm was going off really early in the morning and I couldn't get it to stop. My now-husband came out to yell at me, because he was hungover and (rightfully) annoyed. "Raaaa—" became "do you need help?" He fixed my car, and we went for drinks a few nights later... Two years later, boom. We're married.

1) My husband and I have been married 3 months exactly, today.

Thanks! Its unreal. I never thought that I'd get married ever, and then definitely after moving to Never Never Land here in the Florida Keys, but here we are: a married unit. Very strange, but very nice.

We have been married for three months! It's so weird and awesome!

also called assbagitis.

I am finally watching season two of American Horror Story. To say I like it would... I dunno, seem weird. It's unbelievably disturbing.

I get to start a new job tomorrow, which will give me better hours. Better hours= better quality of life.

It's been, like, almost a full two years since I've actively commented on this site. 80%was due to the fact that I forgot how to log into my twitter, and 2o% because life just got some unbelievably busy.

I'm enjoying a foreign zombie movie night as the weather forced cancellation of my trip tonight. LOVED Dead Snow, and am currently watching Horde. Anyone have any favorite foreign (ie, not from the US) zombie movies they'd like to suggest?

Experiencing RAGE today, Jezzies. Worked four of six hours of a trip in the pouring rain (and lightning!) Because we were unable to put people in the water either for a swim or kayak, and we came home because it became unsafe, one of our owners was screaming at the captain that he and i were not going to get paid.…

I have a Twitter account, but I don't understand how Twitter is supposed to work. I guess this means I'm officially old... :/

Boyfriend is home from NOLA after three months. We celebrated by going for brunch and then headed to the jumping bridge where we repeatedly hopped off a tall bridge into a dredged channel. And wee kept "scaring" each other about landing on submerged sharks. It has been a beautiful Saturday before the insanity of the…

I just youtubed it myself, and holy smokes. Just... yeah. I work with a wide range of people and personalities, and no one in my circle even approaches this vile level of horrid.

I have worked for some doozies of bosses, but none comes close to approaching this level of cray. Not even the teeny tiny chef who threatened me with a cleaver when she ran out of cocaine.