tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146313530190179312012-01-23T11:17:14.460-04:00Sometimes I live and work on Luxury Mega Yachts, sometimes I get dirty and salty working on Schooners. Spent last few years flip flopping between Key West, St. Thomas, Australia and New England. This blog is just my random ramblings and everyday occurrences. Island life at it's best...and worst!Joleahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03830285092716472829noreply@blogger.comBlogger6651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414631353019017931.post-22305398913092273992012-01-06T01:48:00.002-04:002012-01-06T01:55:06.350-04:00

"lying under your despair i cried for things lost things driven away things left behind scattered and strong i needed you to believe and so this is why I searched through my words for I could not hold your hand" - Kylie Johnson

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Morning people! I actually woke up before 10 today! Gettin' my day started with a few phone calls from friends was nice. One from one of my best buddies in Sedona, AZ, and one from my long time friend Chris here in TX. We have big plans for this evening! Chris and I used to run around together in college when he was Rodeo buddies with a guy I used to hang out with in high school. Turns out,

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I tend to get in the baking/cooking mood when I come home. This trip is no different! (Not to mention my new obsession, Pinterest.com ) I created a baked potato casserole today out of some leftover mashed potatoes I found in the freezer. Super easy. I had about a cup of mashed potatoes, maybe a little more. Half a cup of shredded cheese. 2 big thick cut strips of bacon, cooked. Half a can of

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It's official! I am home in Dallas, TX for Christmas! I flew in last night at 9:30pm. My brother picked me up and immediately took me to Taco Bell, then home to my parent's house. It's pretty chilly... it was 36 degrees this morning... Whew! Yesterday was my 29th birthday, so Jeff is taking me out for drinks some time while I'm in town but I was so exhausted yesterday I didn't feel up to

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Her name is Carly. :)

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I LOVE IT!!! That's my friend Joseph facebooking.... lol

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But I'm not a liar. Nor am I a person who misplaces my most prized possessions. As some of you know, I have been missing my passport for over a month.... I knew it would turn up. I felt it. I put off the extensive  and expensive process becauase i knew in my heart that there was no way!!!! no way!!!! i would have let that most important document out of my sight. so there i sat. then I moved. then

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For a bike ride in the cemetery.

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I have been HARD at work on my new place in between work and fun! I have also spent some pretty good money at home depot and the local hardware store. It's so fun and pretty much instant gratification when it comes to home repairs. This is my first time actually fixing up a place on my own and I am having a blast! Yesterday I finished my kitchen floor! Here are the old cracked and holy

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Time to decorate this blank canvas! Any suggestions? The first picture is the view off my balcony looking down charles st., towards Duval st. That's Irish Kevins at the end of the street. Lol. Here we go!

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Ahhhhhhhh......   I just had the most relaxing 3 days off in a row. I can't remember the last time I had that much time off! (besides when I was unemployed for 2 weeks a few months ago!) And let me tell ya, it was awesome. I did absolutely NOTHING. I watched too much tv, played on the internet waaaaaay too much, and somewhere in between naps I found a new place to live! I have been working at

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Great news! I just locked down a new apartment, right downtown, right above my bar! I am so excited! A great price too! THANK YOU UNIVERSE! Now I just need my passport....

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How y'all doin'? Things are a bit crazy down here in old Key West! As per usual... It's slow season here, which makes the locals go a bit nuts. This is the time of year that people start getting cranky, mean, stressed out, and downright weird. The lack of people in town and the lack of money coming in creates a riff that is only cured by season coming back around. This time of year is my least

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Mr. Mike Mezuel is an amazing individual I met back when I was in high school. He was a year younger than us and played Ice hockey. On the side he chased tornadoes in his mom's ford taurus station wagon... haahhahaha! All joking aside.. he is a great photojournalist and talented human being all together. If you have time please take one minute and vote for this kid and lets send his ass to the

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Hello folks! My computer has the grey screen of death and my hard drive is kaput. Along with all my pictures from the past 5 years, my STCW license, my ENG 1 license, my frequent flier numbers, my logins and passwords for countless crew services and web pages... basically my life is in ruins. My job sucks, the weather turned cold, my ex keeps weaseling his way into my life and my house, I don't

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God needed a good Drag Queen. He got one this evening.Cancer is a bitch. The end.

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Being back on my little crazy island has it's ups and downs.It's so nice to see all my old friends and catching up with them as we stumble across each other. I ran into my old friend Josh tonight who used to live with me and 6 Fury employees in the "Fury Frat House" back in 2004, that was fun. (Can you feel the sarcasm?) I also ran into my good friend Mandy whom I lived with for a long while

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Well hello there...So here I am, sitting in my enormous comfortable bed in my huge air conditioned bedroom in my amazing new house waiting for my hot tub to heat to the perfect 99 degrees in beautiful Key West, Florida. How did I get here? I asked myself that same question recently while lounging poolside sipping a sweet tea vodka cocktail while my long time friends ordered our third round of

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I'm out sailing :-)

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Live. Boston. Block party.

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Dinner with Spaz

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Live from the park

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Good morning from Lilly's El Camino!

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Hi there! Just a quick update... I am working and living aboard the Liberty Clipper in Boston and it's been a great summer so far. We work constantly, lots of 12 hour days for the crew and only one day off a week. It's hot and dirty and a pretty thankless job. I tore a ligament in my hip a couple of weeks ago so I have been sitting in the booth all day selling tickets instead of sailing which

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Apples to apples

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Storm rolling in yesterday. ..

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What a city!

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Good morning Boston and everyone in blog land!

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Bell in hand bar. Now.

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Sim going aloft to hang the Christmas lights on tonight's sunset sail.

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Clark Griswold would be proud! Gearing up for the lighted boat parade tomorrow night.

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Busy sailing to Nantucket a few weeks ago. Now that I'm set up with mobile blogging y'all wont miss a second of my crazy life! You asked for it Hevver! :-)

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Hustling bustling long wharf harbor!

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Go away derigible devil!

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I'm working on the schooner liberty Clipper! Having a ball! More to come I promise!

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Stay tuned...

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Not only does it finally feel like a chilly winter Key West morning, (which means that it should warm up to a cool 67 degrees in the "heat" of the day) but my new rigging knife came in the mail!!! WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Isn't it cute? Leopard print bone handle... surgical steel... and it came with a leather sheath! Oh and did I mention we don't have to work till 12:30??? Gonna take a shower and

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Everyone is safe and the boat is fine. They look to repair her in a few days and continue north. This was copied from the Amistad facebook page... -----As we reported earlier a rigging failure in heavy seas diverted the Schooner Amistad to Port Canveral in Florida! The Amistad experienced a rigging failure while sailing heavy seas on April 14th off the Florida Coast resulting in an emergency call

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I apologize for abandoning my blog for so long but things have been crazy, hectic, emotional and wild in my world.I guess I should pick up where I left off...We left the Dominican Republic in beautiful weather and headed up around the eastern end of the island turned west and sailed along the coast of the D.R. and Haiti. We ended up not stopping in Cape Hatian as planned, instead we continued on

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Ok, I haven't been completely honest with my blogging lately and as y'all know, that's not really my style... Things have been rough here. The company has been having financial "issues" and we haven't been paid. We are all broke and quite honestly over it. It's hard enough work as it is but top it off with being broke and not knowing when or if you will be paid makes it harder to stay positive.

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Things have been crazy. Truthfully it's kind of been a shit show but at least the crew are having fun together. I'm amazed how well we all get along. The sail from St. Thomas to the Dominican Republic was a fast 2 days and pretty nice. When we got here we were joined by 2 D.R. law students and 4 Hatian law students as well as one translator. We took them out sailing for 2 nights, rigged up a rope

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I promise to post pics asap. I promise to write a blog someday. We leave tomorrow to sail to Cuba. Should be about a week. We look to be there on the 22nd then in Key West on the first of April. The Dom Rep is sooooo awesome!!!! So cheap. I think I might have to spend the winter here next year! :) We had a blast at Carnival....

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whew!!! I have so much to tell you guys but no time to do it. We got in last night and cleared customs at 11am, I went to provision with Hanifa and just got back to the boat. We only have 18 hours here so it's tough. The crew is tired and in need of a break. News to come as soon as I get a moment. xo

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Delayed due to fuel delivery and customs, leaving in the morning. Headed to St. Thomas!!! Our plans change all the time! I will update ya when we get to STT!!! YAY! In sad news, the Schooner Concordia went down off the coast of Brazil yesterday. Our crew has friends aboard and the good news is, everyone was rescued. Click HERE for the story. Terrifying.

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Whew! Finally off work after a long day of stowing for sea. We spent an hour dangling from the top yard reefing the topsail and putting a storm gasket on it. In the rain. Damn I feel like a badass sometimes. I am starting to put a lot of faith in the rig and the tools we are given to make this job work. I am not as nervous aloft anymore because I am confident that our boat is well rigged and safe

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As you guys know, my contract with Amistad only lasts till the end of this tour which is sometime around the Beginning of April. After that I am basically a bum. At the beginning of our trip we had a special guest 3rd mate named Tommy who was just filling in till our full time mate arrived. Turns out that Tommy runs the company that runs the Schooner Quinnipiack out of New Haven, Connecticut. He

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The weather here is terrible!!! It's cold and windy and rainy! We can't leave till our "relief" captain gets here and the weather window opens up. So far we have deleted Trinidad, Antigua and Dominica and Jamaica from our plans. That leaves the Dominican Republic/Haiti and Cuba, onward to Key West for R & R then up the east coast to Mystic. Morale is decreasing with each island we delete but we

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WE HAD A GREAT TRIP! The crossing was just ideal. No bad weather to speak of, no really really heavy seas. We were at about 5 to 8 ft seas the entire time with your random rouge wave thrown in. I didn't get seasick, only about 3 of us who cared to admit it did. My watch is cool, we are split into 2 watches. A, B and C. I am on B(est) watch with Janet, Isaac and Sam. They don't talk much which

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Short and sweet, I left TX yesterday, had a great time, flights got diverted, had to spend the night in snowy Chicago. Ate REAL Chicago style deep dish pizza, leaving for the airport now. WE ARE LEAVING THE DOCK AS SOON AS I GET TO NORFOLK!See yall in Bermuda in 5 days!xoxo

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AMAZING!As you know I have been in contact with Dave over at www.livinglikeapirate.com and he has been very interested in the Amistad and our mission. Through email correspondence I gave him info about us and the trip, he expressed interest and offered to send me some "booty" a.k.a. a t-shirt and stickers and a coozie for my beer and some temporary tattoos for me and the crew. Too cool. Then he

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HERE is a link to the full story.

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After a solid 12 hours of travel that started at 4am in Norfolk, Virginia I am now home at my parent's house in Allen, Texas. So happy. So tired. So full. Mom made pot roast and mashed potatoes and gravy and corn. Yum. I am gonna sleep like a baby.I am pretty bummed that I wont be doing the crossing from Norfolk to Bermuda because I feel like the rest of the crew is going to learn so much and

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Ok, so here's the scoop. We don't have the internet on the boat and Norfolk is like on another planet and you can't find free wifi there to save your life so that's why I have been out of touch for a week. In other news, I started feeling sick Monday morning at about 1:30am when I woke up in a cold sweat. I took some dayquil when I woke up and went on about my day. Took nyquil and went to bed,

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Been in the frozen tundra for one week. Went to the Dr. today. Swine Flu. Flying to Houston or Dallas tonight. I will update you when I get home.

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Counting down and getting more excited. Tomorrow morning Lilly and I will be sipping bottomless mimosas at Molly Malone's in Red Hook for my going away party day. It's the only day she has off and she wants to spend it with me (surprise) I only hope we can go a whole day with me being sniped from a rooftop...In other news, I talked to my good friend John G, whom I have known since I lived in KW

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One of my favorite blogs is called "If it's Hip it's Here" and today's post is so awesome and reminded me of Maria!You should start making these things from tanks lying around at the yard to make extra monies!!! LOLCLICK HERE!!!And, another present for Maria today, the picture at the top of the page is called Kia Ora and she is a ferro-cement schooner!!! It's like AJ's big sister. :)Have a great

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I'm giving him a whole can of tuna for New Years.

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The cat was sitting next to me while I tanned today, and kept walking under my chair tickling the back of my legs with his tail. grrrr.... lol what a goofy gato.This is the view from my porch today,look at the water all churned up from our wind and waves the past few days...

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So, What woke you up this morning? ME?! Oh just a little thing called THE CAT THAT WONT GO AWAY!!!! Somehow in it's sneaky house entering maneuvers it got locked in the house. You know who it came to this morning at 7am when it needed to go out. It was SCREAMING on my inside window ledge. I have a window that leads to the hallway that has those louvered glass blinds on it. I kept yelling at it in

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This is the Gayest New Year on record!!!Finally!!! Anderson Cooper has been covering the Key West Sushi Drag Queen Drop forever and this year he finally came out to the idiots who couldn't figure out that he is gay. I already saw five of my queens and tons of friends on CNN. Hope you are all having a great time. I love you and hope your NYE is better than mine. My best friend abandoned me for a

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This is how my NYE is going right now....Hope yours is awesome, safe and happy!

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If you have a problem with seeing people hanging... do NOT watch the movie The Happening, with Mark Whalberg. I flipped over to it on HBO a second ago and its about 30 mins into the movie and I had not heard anything about it, there I was, innocently enthralled in the building suspense of the scene, I thought it was like a monster movie or something like that and all of a sudden.... LIKE THERE

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It's because I am bored in the fog at home. It rained all day, not only that, it was dense dense fog, like the clouds came down to the ocean. We never have fog. With my house on the mountain I never saw the sun. My clothes are still on the line outside dripping wet since 9am. They are just getting extra rinsed out. Our washer is outside and exposed to the salt air and whatnot so you have to get

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Testing the new signature... What do you think???

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It's so cold here. It's rainy and windy and like 70 degrees up here on the mountain! Of course I am trying to do laundry, we have a clothes washer but no dryer. Just a clothes line that I regularly "clothesline" myself on while drinking. It's pretty funny when it happens because I am usually the only one who is there to witness it and I just have to laugh at myself.My friend Jan is in town on the

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I found this little guy at the dingy dock here in St. Thomas at Yacht Haven Grande yesterday. LOL too cute! I didn't get the name though, sorry!!!

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I have nothing I need for this trip. I need good foul weather gear and warm clothes of which I have neither. I am going to freeze to death. I checked the NOAA site and the seas are topping out at 20 feet. What if I get sea sick? What if we hit a speeding whale? The schooner is 129 feet long. That's huge. Bigger than the Clipper. I need to calm down but my head is spinning. I feel like I may vom

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You are reading the lame ass blog of a bad ass chick that is the newest crew member aboard the freedom Schooner Amistad.... as if you people had any doubt about which job I would choose....I am so happy! Just ecstatic!I fly to Norfolk, VA on Wednesday.I have no cold weather clothes.Uh oh.Help.

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"Darkness can not drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate, only love can do that."-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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worst tip ever.exhausted.I need a new life.

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Counting the hours....Hahaha, this morning a couple of local guys hunted a goat down and tackled it and killed it in front of our charter guests... LOL!!!! I love island life... They didn't actually kill it, more like tied it up and drug it into the boat then the guy got out a knife and the kid ran down into her cabin all kinds of freaked out and the Dad ran over to the guys and asked them to

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Check this out!!!Everyone better tune in and watch the guys fish and play with Jose Wejebe on ESPN!!!http://www.spanishflytv.com/spanishflytv_schedule.phpI can't wait to see it!

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And no, I didn't go to the party. I went to the bar for a drink with Hal and he didn't feel like driving me over in the dingy.... :(I am so ready for this charter to be over.I wanna go home!

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on the downward slope now... I'm getting tired. And I am running out of ideas. At Peter Island. Went to willy T last night just me and Hal to celebrate my b day properly he said, I woke up with a temporary pirate tattoo on my ass and a headache. I drank too much and when my home-ing beacon went off I passed out in the dingy because Hal didn't wanna go home yet. lol things are well.

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Last night at the Last Resort was a really good time! There was live music and wine and shots of tequila. I had really delish ribs and these nice sweet potato fries and a salad. Yum! It was so nice to have a night off from cooking. I slept in this morning but not till I put out bagels and cereal and a fruit tray with a note saying that my birthday gift to myself was sleeping till lunch. lol. I

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Hal made a few calls to friends around the island and got a tip about the whereabouts of our dingy...Supposedly it was on a beach in Jost Van Dyke. So off we went in the boat after telling our guests the info. And like true pirates, we found it and stole it back!!! All while the thief yelled and cussed us from the end of the dock! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So we have our dingy back. :)We had breakfast at

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6am... CRASH!!! WTF???? I hear a glass break in the salon and walking around on deck. I feel the north swell. Great. I hear Hal cleaning up the glass which is fine with me because I know I secured everything before I went to bed so that means it was his glass that slid off the table. Ten minutes later he comes in the cabin to tell me that A. a glass broke, B. He kinda cleaned it up and brought me

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Moored here for the night.Apparently someone sneaked a peak at my passport as it was lying at the helm and the guests found out my birthday is Sunday. They asked me if I could be anywhere in the islands for my day where would I be (uh STT hello?!?!!?!) but I said it didn't really matter to me, which it doesn't because we are back in the BVI and we can't go back to the US. So they are giving me

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It is day 5 of the charter and we are anchored outside of Foxy's bar. I made bacon wrapped scallops with broc and rice for dinner! I par cooked the bacon to make it easier to handle then I wrapped it around the little scallops and poked a toothpic through. I pan seared them in the same pan I cooked the bacon in so it had a nice bacon flavor, I also added a handfull of minced pineapple to the pan

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Ok, quickly.Breakfast was a near disaster yesterday as I realized this boat was not equipt with the proper utinsels to cook breakfast... a.k.a. a skillet and proper spatula. And I forgot to get the Pam, which my mom will tell you is very important!!! "DID YOU SPRAY THE PAN?!!?!!?" So after a botched attempt at butter in a large pan and a shitty spatula and disgusting looking pancakes, I resorted

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Y'all really need to start following this blog I found, it's flippin hilarious! Especially today!!!Toast Floats

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