HELLO FROM ST. THOMAS!!!

I have really been slacking on the blogging but I am going to try to keep you up to speed from now on!

I am back in Frenchtown, living at Villa Olga! It's HOT HOT HOT and I love it. All my old friends are still in town and it's been awesome catching up with them!

I got a great job at a very well known long standing restaurant here in Frenchtown called Bella Blu.
I will be working there 5 days a week or more which is awesome!

The food is great and it's the oldest restaurant on the island! 32 years. Their specialties are Shnitzel and pastas. It's sooooo good! I am trying to stay away from the pasta for fear of getting faaaaaat! I am so lucky I got this job! The people who work there have worked there for a long time, the girl I am replacing has been working there for 2 and a half years.

I am living at the guest house right now with Jill and Doug but pretty soon I will be moving into the house that Jill and Doug bought over the last year when I was gone. The house is right here in Frenchtown, it's a two bedroom place and I would have a roomate who is already living there. Jill says he is really nice and laid back, he's a surfer. Sounds like someone I could get along with. Jill actually took me over to the house the other day and showed me around. The house is beautiful! HUGE kitchen, a real living room! HUGE bedrooms! I can't wait. It's so nice to have work so close, it takes me less than 5 minutes to walk to work. It's a huge difference from when I lived here before. I used to have to get up at 5:30am to walk to the safari stop to catch it by 6am, in order to make it all the way across the island to work by 7am just to work all day on the boat, drag tourists through the Baths at Virgin Gorda, fix them lunch, put away the lunch, take them snorkeling, save their lives, take them back to St. Thomas, clean the boat in the heat of the day all to get back on the safari at 6pm to be home at 7pm, completely, thoughrouly exhausted. I don't want to do that 6 days a week again. At Bella Blu, I wake up at 9:30am, take a swim in the pool, take a shower, get dressed, walk up the street, work from 11am-4:30pm, walk home, take a swim in the pool, have a cocktail, watch a movie, go to sleep. Oh boy. On a day where I work the night shift it's even better! Wake up at whatever the hell time I want, lounge by the pool, or go into town for lunch with Meg and the crew of the Schooner Doubloon, or go to the beach, then come home by 3pm, shower, get dressed, walk to work by 4:30, work till 10pm, come home, watch some tv, go to bed. Oh boy. YAAAAAAAY! And sometimes I will work a double but thats all good too because it's mas dinero! Oh and we are closed on Sundays so I never have to worry about missing out on SUNDAY FUNDAY!!!!

Speaking of Sunday Funday, The 25th annual Texas Society Chili Cook-Off is being held at Brewers Bay here in St. Thomas on August 16th, a Sunday!!! I was here for it last year and it was one of the best days ever! This is my landlord Doug at last year's event...


And this pirate ship on the right is the Schooner Bones, where me and all my friends took breaks from the heat and the chili on the beach while the coast guard dropped frog men out of helicopters! We hope to bring the boat around again this year and do the same. Swinging from the crosstrees while intoxicated probably isn't the safest thing to do but hey, at least we all landed in the water.

Chili cook off madness.

I am looking into the captain's courses because the one I wanted to take isn't till November. I hope to find one in August so Lilly can take it with me. She wants to come down for a while but she wants to be productive as well. Smart. If she can't take her class while she is here then she is just going to go back to Key West and take it because she can live with her family. I hope we can find one sooner. Well, I think that about updates everyone on everything. I will write more later!

BYEEEEEE!

At this point...

I can imagine you are all quite tired of my behavior. I have managed to quit yet another well paying job in search of something that excites me. The yacht wasn't my scene. Not gonna say anything more than that, if you want the whole story you can email me. I quit in Newport after the offshore passage. I loved being out there in the middle of the ocean for 6 days. It was so quiet. But after that I was happy to be back in the land of people. Newport was fun, got to see some old friends. Then I went up to Boston for the Liberty Clipper crew reunion! It was awesome!!! Saw all my old sailing friends and had a great time with Lilly and Sean. I am currently in Provincetown, Mass, staying with my friend Will that I worked on the Schooner Jolly 2 Rover with this year in Key West. He is living here for the summer. This is a beautiful place. Cape Cod is so green and lush!

After careful consideration of my life's direction I have decided to move back to St. Thomas and pursue my 100 Ton Captain's license. I want to take it where I took my STCW license course because I like the way the guy teaches. Not to mention, I really miss that water and the sand and sun and the life down there. I have amazing friends. Can I just say that right now? I called up Jill and Doug who were like my surrogate parents in STT, and when Jill answered the phone the first thing she said to me was, "when are you coming home?" I said, how's Saturday? She said "perfect, call me when you get here you are staying with us."

I have a few jobs in the works there too. I think I would like to bartend a few nights and work on a boat a few days to keep it interesting. I was working myself to death doing all day trips on Limnos. When I get my capt license I will see about maybe running little 6pac boats to Jost Van Dyke or something like that. Who knows, that is a ways off.

I just got to thinking, obviously I am going to work on boats for a living. Thats what I do right? Ok, well, its time to move onward and upward. Can't just keep on being a deckhand forever now can I? Besides, I think I would be an awesome captain.

Sorry for being a total mess. I haven't been blogging because I have kinda been dissappointed in myself. So, here I go again on my own.

I'm really gonna try harder to make you proud of me instead of just shaking your heads saying "what the hell has she got herself into this time?"

Well, I leave P-Town on Wednesday, headed to Boston to visit Lilly and Sean again before I fly to St. Thomas on Saturday.

Catch ya on the flipside. Island time.

One day.... we will leave the dock....

Hello everyone! Happy Saturday! Things are around here are calming down a bit. We have most of our projects done and we will be leaving here on Tuedsay evening. Our generator will be done on Monday but we have to wait for a shipment on Tuesday before we leave. Monday I have to go aloft and wax the mast from top to bottom. 100 feet up! Hope they don't drop me! :) I have had a nice time here in Ft. Lauderdale but I really really really want to get out on the ocean, and get to a new town where I have never been and see some things I have never seen.

It looks like it will take us 6 or 7 days to get from here to Newport, RI. We will be there till the 14th of July then we will head to Martha's Vinyard.

I commemerated my Key West spring with a new tattoo.... yep...

YAY! MIKE IS ON THE BLOGGER!!!

Yall check out my good friend from High School's new blog. Mike is a storm chaser and photog and is freakin awesome!!! Go welcome him to our world!!!

DAMAGE PATH!

MOM! Make these...

http://www.seasaltwithfood.com/2009/05/hasselback-potatoes.html

they look YUMMMMMM!

MOM! Make these...

http://www.seasaltwithfood.com/2009/05/hasselback-potatoes.html

they look YUMMMMMM!

LOL

Our charter site...

http://www.oysteryachtcharter.com/oceana.html

Got a haircut and re-squeezed the spinnaker...

Productive day at the dock here at Harbour Towne Marina in Dania Beach, Fl.

This morning started out with our computer tech from New Orleans coming to the boat to sort our our interwebs problems... needless to say I am up and running on my mac! I feel relaxed and at home now that I have my own bunk and my computer attached to the web. Ahhhh....

Then I pulled everything out of the lazarette so we could get the giant spinnaker out of there, when I say giant.... I mean GINORMOUS!!! This thing weighs like 500 pounds. no joke. That's it, the colorful one in the pic. Well we had to raise it in its squeezer thingy that keeps it all together and re-pack it because it was all messed up so that was a sweaty job. Then we put it back in the laz and I packed all the dive gear and lines and fishing gear on top of it. whew!

Then, we did some laundry and the guys came to disassemble the generator that decieded to eat itself last week. Dirty job. Then I cleaned the interior and tried out the new vacume we bought. It's VERY quiet and light.

Then we took the bimini down and gave it to the cleaning dudes to get the stains removed before we leave next week.

Then we wrapped things up and headed into town. Lee needed to go to Best Buy to get a new flat screen and blu ray player so he dropped me and Amy off at the hairdressers because we both were in desperate need of a hair cut. I haven't had mine cut since D.D. cut it last year... no joke... So the lady started cutting, and cutting... and cutting... she cut about 4 inches off. I needed it. Feels good! Now it's time to color it and get on the big blue watery road. North bound and down, rollin up and truckin'!!!

Amy is cooking traditional english "Toad in a hole" and no Mom... It's got nothing to do with eggs in toast...

Sausages laid in the bottom of a baking dish, covered with a mixture of eggs, milk and flour, baked in the oven till the whole thing rises like a big biskit!

p.s. that pic was taken before our hair cuts in Miami Beach.

TA DAAAAAA!

Sitting still for another week or so...

Well, one of our generators bit the dust on friday so we are headed back to ft. lauderdale tomorrow for another week or so while we wait on our gen to be fixed... sucks because it puts a damper on our fun plans up north. We are still going to NYC but we may have to shorten or postpone the Boston area visit... blah. Oh well. The owner already said that we could take our time heading back south after the big new england summer trip. we will be here in the yard for 6 weeks starting in October. So we may stop in the Boston area on the way back down and also in Charleston or Savannah. I would love to go to either spot! I really miss Savannah! Mom sent me a lil care package and I asked her to send my book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil because that book is awesome and takes place in Savannah... I read this morning for about 30 mins before I had to put it down and get to work. It's just so freakin good! It's a true story so if you ever get a chance to read it I highly reccomend you do so. j

I fell in the marina on Saturday night. My cell phone and ID and credit card are at the bottom of the marina. Good thing I postponed getting that iPhone! As soon as I find a bank of america I can get a new card and get back on line. I'm so excited!

Our owners trip on Saturday went really well! Everyone had fun and they invited us to go bowling at Lucky Strikes lanes here in south beach yesterday so we did, it was so fun! We bowled and drank and ate and had a blast! I taught the owner of my boat the top gun hi-five, you know when Goose and Maverick are playing volleyball and they do the hi-five then bring it all the way around and do the low five... classic. We were on the same team so that was our deal... they are probably wondering where the hell they found me... lol!

My old chef Justin from the Seattle yacht is in ft lauderdale now too! His generator broke as well so I will be seeing them soon. I just saw them in key west a couple of weeks ago but I can't get enough of Justin and the scoot!

It's hot as hell here. South Beach Miami!!!! I am ready to get out of here though. Ready to head north where you need a blanket at night. My focsle doesnt have a/c yet so it's freakin hot in there right now. good thing mosquitos don't like me because I have been sleeping with my hatch open.

SHIT! I FORGOT TO WATCH THE SEASON OPENER OF TRUE BLOOD!!!! DAMN!!! It was last night. I will have to watch it online...

Gotta go. Back to work!

Sailing.... take me away....

Hello! I know, I know, I haven't been updating my blog but my computer wont connect to our internet for some reason and I have no time to take it to the mac Dr. so I have to use the boat computer whenever I can...

So, here we go.

The boat is great! Crew is fun, we get alog really well. I made some new friends while we have been in the yard here at Powell Bros. Marine in Ft. Lauderdale. The crew of the megayacht Double Haven have been entertaining. Danny and Ian... thanks for entertaining me! Ian took me to a badass concert on Tuesday night, the artist was Bon Iver and it was freakin' sweet!!!

It's been a busy week because we are putting the boat back together as it has been torn apart for a month, dust everywhere, the deck is covered in soot from the damn generator for the yact next to us so that is a big job. 82 feet of teak. Not to mention waxing the hull and the white parts on deck... all my job.

Tomorrow we head to Key Largo where we will anchor out for the night just the crew, then we will have guests on board Sat. morning and will sail north to Miami Beach where they will get off. We will be staying in Miami till Monday or Tuesday and then we will head to New York City! We are headed straight there, no stops, head out into the gulf stream and ride it up more than likely. Capt. says it should only take us 5 days.

They dropped the iPhone down to 99 bucks so I think I am going to buy one on Sat. when we get to Miami. My phone is acting up. I think I finally dropped it too many times. I will post some pictures when I can, we have a camera on board so don't worry we will be documenting our adventures!

Boy... I'm hungry.

OH my, so I have gained like 10 pounds since I got on this boat. Amy cooks all this great food and I just can't not eat it! I am stopping today though... I went from eating maybe half of what I have been now and riding 10 miles a day on my bike and walking all over the island all evening to eating 2 full meals a day and never leaving the boat. Makes a big difference.

Well, that's the news... Not too exciting yet! But it will be... :)

FINALLY!!!

OK. Now I can tell you guys what's going on....

I got a job on a Sailing Yacht!!! http://www.oysteryachtcharter.com/oceana.html click there to see it!

I am the deckhand/stewardess and the other crew are husband and wife Capt and Chef team. I am loving it so far. I am in Ft. Lauderdale now but will be leaving on the 13th to head to NEW YORK CITY. The owners are awesome and so are the crew.

My plans are as follows, this is what the owners told us yesterday...

June 13th - crew only- sailing to NYC for a few days for fun

Then to Marion. Mass for a week or so because the Capt and Chef have buddies there and they want to see them. Marion is 30 mins south of Boston so someone will come pick me up and I will go visit Lilly and the Clipper crew for a few days.

Then we sail to Newport where we pick up the owners.

Then on to Provincetown Mass (P-town) where we will stay for a few days and where I will get to visit Will!

Then on to Martha's Vinyard

Then up the coast of Maine almost all the way to Camden... ;)

Then back to Newport

Then up to Nova Scotia

Then we aren't sure if we are going up and around Nova Scotia into Halifax but if not we will head back down and do some more cruising around the Maine coast in August then we will drop the owners off and make our way back down here to Ft. Lauderdale for another yard period for the month of October.

I will be living in Miami in a condo for the month of October.... :)

Then we head to the Caribbean for the winter.

Make our way all the way down island.

Through the Panama canal

To the Galapagos Islands....

Onward to the South Pacific!

From there I just don't know....


BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA SDK S JDKFDJASKNAKVNSKDHGOWIERWRQEHWGD;XKFRHDGFG;A;SDK!

OMG!

Whew...

I gotta get a camera!

I feel a change in the wind... again...

Hope it's not an accidental jibe.

The aliens are communicating...

through my VHF radio on channel 63a. Just thought I would let everyone know...

They have been at it for a few days now, wonder what they are talking about!

Chillin at work on a beautiful Key West morning!

Morning hammock swingers and back porch coffee drinkers!!!

It's me.

Just got done with my first 5 mile bike ride of the day which puts me here at work at the yacht club. Just watched an amazing sunrise over Mt. Trashmore (the dump) and a badass full moon rise over the yacht club. Time to buy a new camera.

Right now I am watching Luis drive a huge fork lift with a boat on the end. It makes me nervous but he does a good job. We have a lot of people that keep their boats in our dry storage and when they wanna go out on the water they just call and we put it in the water for them.

Job is good, I am good at it but I miss being on the water. I am lucky to have such a good job at this time in the world and also during slow season in Key West so I am gonna stick with it. I am thinking about getting a little island car of some kind for the rainy season though.

I have all sorts of new friends and fun things have been happening. I don't know how to begin to catch up so I wont. I will just start with the most recent stuff.

Lilly is leaving for the summer, headed to Boston on the Schooner Liberty Clipper. I am really sad that she is leaving but she will be back soon so I will be ok.

JUDY IS COMING HOME!!! Actually she is home, she is in Ft. Lauderdale right now and arrives on Monday!!! YAAAAAAAY! At least she is coming back before Lilly leaves. It's gonna be like old times but better! Me, Judy, Mandy and Sarah... all back together. Look out world!

My new friend Joshua and his brother Caleb and his Dad Fishbone are artists. Check out thier work here at http://www.designsbyfishbone.com/ amazing stuff. When I met Fishbone he told me he was so happy to finally meet me because he had a dream about me some time ago that inspired him to make some art pieces... he calls me his inspiration now lol! Go to their site, click on Catalog, Off the hook, scroll down click next page and scroll down till you see Jolie and her squid whip. YEP. He DID dream me up. I don't have any pics of me and Joshua yet but I will post some when I do. Having a good ole time. It's nice to hang out with someone I can have a conversation with that doesn't start with "so there i was, wasted, running from the cops..."

;)

What else.... Um... I am a size 4 now! Pretty much the size I was when I was in high school. HELL YEAH! Now that I'm not drinking every night I will probably loose some more weight. I don't really want to though. I already look like I'm gonna topple over already.

Everything is good at my apartment. I love it. My roommate is awesome. We never see each other unless it's in passing each other going out or coming in. Perfect situation. We sit down and chat maybe one time a week if we are both off work on the same day. She is very neat and tidy so we never have a problem with that.

OH! Jose just pulled up! I love Jose... http://www.spanishflytv.com/

He is so freakin nice! Maybe one day he will take me fishin...

Oh! I went deep sea fishing the other day with my buddy Bobby who is a member of the club. His boat is called LET'S GO!!! and his charter company is called LET'S GO FISHIN! LoL. Heidi and I went out with him last week and we went all the way out to 600 feet! I have never been in water that deep or that blue. It was like the most beautiful thing ever! He was going nuts about how proud he was of us for not barfing. The boat is only 35ft long. I told him we are badasses and he should have known that already! We were even hungover! Heidi made the first catch of the day, a nice sized tuna. Then we didn't have much luck but we did see a sail fish. We caught some yellowtail snapper and I caught the only one that was a keeper. We will go fishing with him again when Judy gets back to town, take Mandy with us too.

If you wanna see my yacht club go to www.ycoa.com and click on Key West.

Sorry I have been away!!!

Been busy.... single again... having the time of my life... working alot... lost my camera and my ipod.... met a new awesome guy that is not a loser... things are going well... will have more motivation to blog now that i don't have to spend every waking moment with Evan. :) Gotta go, Lilly's going away party is tonight and I have to attend...

When getting boarded by the coast guard...

It helps if they are adorable and you are almost naked....


Cousins Steph and Charlie (lilly's cousin and his girlfriend but they are my cousins now too)

dude... kw never ceases to amaze me... these guys were sailing under umbrella

Dylan and Lilly on the best day ever.

Best day ever wakeboarding from the beach at boca grande, an uninhabited island about 45 mins away from kw.

Dylan and Zak, love them.

pictures

Me holding a gator
Lilly holding a gator
Gators in the wild
cave art
us at Paynes Plains
Me at paynes plains

I'M BACK!

Sorry for the lack of blogging but I have been without internet access most of the time. Things are going great! At the moment I am relaxing on Lilly's bed in Gainesville, Florida. We decided to take a "mental health week" and drive up so she could take care of some final school stuff and I don't start my new job for another week and a half so it seemed logical that I come with her.

Oh! Confused you say?

I am not working at the croissant shop anymore. I got a REAL job. I am the assistant dockmaster at the new YCOA marina! TADAAAAAAAAAAAA! Yes.

Why do I need a mental health WEEK?

Anyway....

Lilly and I took a 4 mile walk and a 12 mile bike ride today! YES I SAID TWELVE MILES!
We are looking so sexy.

Here are some pics.

damn blogger wont upload them...

just know this... we got really close to some alligators in the wild and took pictures of ourselves with them.... They don't call them the University of Florida Gators for nothin!

p.s. I know I am a stupid girl but that's my prerogative.

I am down to a size 7.... and counting!!!!!

p.s.

Everything is fine with me and Evan! We are too much alike in the first place so we do the same stupid things when we get freaked out lol. He took me to meet his Mom yesterday... uh oh! Haha she is awesome. Exactly what I thought she would be like! I am off to work on the Rover. See ya later! 

lost my phone

new number is 305- 879-2276 call me or text me so i have your numbers....

Still alive!

Just busy and have no internet access now that I have moved out of charlie's house. Technically homeless, but I have good friends that have couches and extra bunks on their boats. 

Doing great! 

So happy! 

Life is sweet! 

Here are some pics for you...

Evan and Damien at Cowboy Bills...

Evan and Will on the dock... 

Me and Ivona Richmond on a boat! 

Lilly and Me and Evan hanging out in the bed...

OH happy Valentines day!!!

I forgot to even tell you a story with that last post!

Yesterday was so awesome!

I worked and then met up with Lilly. Her dad is so cool, he took these two Navy fighter pilots fishing yesterday and told them they should meet up with us last night at Sloppy Joes. Go dad for setting up blind dates with Top Gun boys!!! So, Lilly and I set off to the bar. We meet up with them and boy were we in for a surprise. One of the two has his wife with him... (DAD! NEXT TIME YOU SET US UP ON DATES MAKE SURE THEY ARE SINGLE!) lol. It was cool because it wasn't just the two guys, it was a gaggle of pilots. We are introduced to them all and wouldn't you know it... the last guy I am introduced to says, "I'm Pete." And I... without hesitation... say "PETE MITCHELL????" And raise my hand to give him the Top Gun volleyball scene hi-five and I am just hoping he gets it... HE DOES! We totally do the hi-five and everyone goes crazy and starts buying me and Lilly beers and long story short Lilly and I will be going flying in the fighter jets soon....



Why am I so awesome?

SO... Evan bought an X-Box 360 yesterday so he and Brian were having a Man Date so me and Lilly continued on to the Green Parrot to dance dance dance the night away and ran into everyone there. Davey was asking me where my schooner boy was and I said all sad like "he's not coming out tonight" and we were laughing and just then.... EVAN EDWARDS APPEARED AT THE DOOR TO THE BAR! LOL! Me and Davey started jumping up and down yelling "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!" And when he saw us he just shook his head like oh no... Lol. We have so much fun.

He came to find me! :) We are staying home tonight and I am cooking us valentines dinner. Or maybe we will just order pizza.

Gotta go buy a bike.

HERE WE GO!!!!

This is my boy Evan Edwards. Schooner pong night at Blue Heaven. Yes. He has a legless-armless-bald mannequin strapped to his back. That's Geri. She has been around the Appledore for a long time. You may remember this picture....
Well that's her on the handle bars of Aaron's bike. Somehow she lost her legs over the years...


Messy Monday. Lilly. Tourist map in hand. Duval Street.

This is Brian. He works on the Appledore. He has a fabulous mustache. He is Evan's best friend.



This is Lilly. She drew herself a finger mustache to match Brian's. I love her.


This is Lilly on "Messy Monday", the day we decided to drink all day just because we can. This was 9:30am.

This is Sarah. We used to be roommates, this is also Messy Monday at 9:30am.

This is Lilly. Messy Monday. We found a bike on the street that had no wheels or seat or handle bars so Lilly picked it up and started hollering about someone stealing all her bike parts. LOL I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES LAUGHING AS I TYPE THIS!!! IT WAS SO FUNNY!


Messy Monday. Lilly and my old captain Chris who left me at the reef one time. We all had breakfast and we laughed about how much we fought and he apologized for what an asshole he was to me and then he wore my sunglasses the entire meal. Yay mimosas and bloody mary's!

Messy Monday,Lilly,Sarah, Mandy and Brian.

Different day. Heidi and my best boy friend down here Will. He works on the schooner with me. Isn't he beautiful??? I wish he batted for my team.

Captain Justin of the Appledore and Captain John of the Liberty Clipper in deep thought about a game of Wii.


I had to post this picture because I think it's beautiful but unfortunately this is Lilly and Man Meat. The happiness just doesn't last sometimes and thats sad. She is my favorite lady.

So, I'm real busy...

Doing laundry right now at Lilly's house but I have to go to work in a little bit. Things are going really well for me here. Sadly though, Lilly's man meat cheated on her and now we have commenced to running him out of town. Not even joking. He is a terrible dreadlocky asshole.

In other news...

Mr. Jimmy Buffet is in town and he threw a private party for his friends and family at Margaritaville last night. Lilly and her parents were there. She tried to get me and Evan in but it was a strict invite only thing. I'm probably gonna meet him soon. I can feel it. Actually today Lil and I are working on a lyric for a new song he is writing. He emailed Lil's Dad and asked if he an Lilly would brainstorm this topic for him. I can't tell you what it is because it's in the works but how cool are we??? So we are sittin here writing songs for JB himself. Lilly said he was so fun at the party, be-boppin around. David Blaine, the magic dude, was there too and was eyeing Lilly the whole night. It was magical... LOL.

Oh! Lilly got a job as the host of a fly fishing show they are shooting down here and she is so good that they are talking about having an actual national show on THE TRAVEL CHANNEL!!!! Look out Samantha Brown, you ain't got nothin on Miss Lilly !!!

I will post some great pics as soon as I get them downloaded...

Hope everyone is doin' ok out there, sorry i haven't been commenting on your blogs but I haven't had time to think let alone blog!!!

Oh... and... things are going very well with me and Mr. Evan. :)

hi!

update...

Evan comes home today.

Lilly is still home...

Working alot!

Moving to Capt. Betsy's house.

Hung out with Kelly McGillis from Top Gun last night!

My life is awesome.

Guaranteed to brighten your day.

Also! Even happier news, my great buddy Justin, the chef from my last yacht got fired from the yacht he went to and is coming to visit this weekend!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! My partner in crime! I can't wait to see him. I sure do miss him. :) YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Got job number 3!!!

Waiting tables at the mexican restaurant that I love! lol! Now I'm off to 801 to see about a bartending gig! WOOOO HOOOOO!

come on 4th job!!!

Horrifying.

Yesterday was a tough day.

Lilly came home which was awesome, we went to the middle school that she went to growing up to say hi to her Dad who was helping with the pig roast fundraiser they were putting on. Then he went home and we decided to stop by Chris' house to say hi. We hung out for a bit then Lilly suggested we stop by her house to pick up her mom's bike for me to ride instead of her pumping me around town on her's all day. So we rode down her street and at the intersection right before hers I noticed some cop cars and people standing around outside on the side street but we thought nothing of it. We pulled up in the driveway and went into the house. We saw her parents outside in the back yard both looking at something so Lilly said "shhhh I bet it's an iguana." so we crept up behind them being really quiet as to not scare the iguana, then we realized they werent looking at the ground. They were looking through the trees that seperate their back yard from the caddy corner neighbor's yard. Before they could even say anything to us our eyes locked on what they were looking at.

I have never been so horrified in my life. Before my eyes could even tell my brain what was going on we were looking at a man. A man hanging by the neck from the support beams of the patio of the neighbor's house. I am shaking just typing this. I have never seen anything like that before in my life. Lilly said I must have kinda gone into shock because when I saw it i just kept repeating "what happened what happened what was that what what what" and I don't remember saying that. Her mom just hugged me and and Lilly walked into the kitchen, opened the liquor cabinet and poured us two big rum and cokes. All day yesterday we were just drinking to try and forget what we had seen. Thank god he wasnt facing us because the visual of that would have really really ruined me. I hate to be grafic and visual with you but the thing that really got me was his movement. He was swinging in the breeze. OH god i am so sorry for sharing this story but I had to. It was just the worst thing I have ever seen. He looked like a young, clean cut man. What in his life turned so bad that he decided to end it? I can't imagine ever feeling that way. Lilly and I were telling everyone we saw how wonderful our lives are and getting all mental with folks. It's just a shame. I am really freaked out and I can't get that picture out of my head.

Sorry I had to share.

OH MAN.

I just realized after really taking a close close look at my front teeth that the only thing that saved my front teeth from being broken off at the half way point was the wire my Orthodontist cemented to the back of my front teeth when I got my braces off in High School. I think the cement and the wire held my teeth together because I can see cracks in my left front tooth. Now I don't know what to do. I guess I will just keep my fingers crossed that the cement holds em together till I can afford insurance to go to the dentist. What a fucking bummer. What a fucking idiot. I have never felt so stupid. Also I think I may have a deviated septum. Lilly is gonna have to feel it when she gets here because she has one too. Oh for fucks sake. I have laid off the drinking, deciding to stick with beer instead of the vodka that I am sure had something to do with the incident. Still having a lovely time but the busted face really rocked me mentally. I stayed in my house for days just sick at myself. I compare it to the time my best friend in college, Kassidy, flipped her car on the highway while drunk, with another person in the car, into oncoming traffic, at 3 am, and they both walked away unharmed. We told her that was her wake up call. To lay off the booze. What happened a year later? She rolled her new car on the road by her house while wasted, this time she wasn't so lucky. The car came to a sliding stop on the driver's side with her arm pinned between the door and the pavement. She nearly lost her arm and had to have skin grafts and reconstructive surgery to put it back together. She had to re-learn how to use her hand and she was a guitar player.
I have just been so mad at myself.
Hanging out with Evan has been a big help. He is a big drinker so I end up kinda watching out for him instead of trying to keep up which I used to do. I can drink beer with the big boys and I have never had a problem maintaining, I know it was the liquor that did me in, but I am still wary of it all. I like to go out and be involved in all the fun but now I try to just drink about half of what I usually do.
I guess I am just saying that I am so much more aware now that I have busted my face.
That's a good thing.
I don't need any smug remarks about dangerous drinking habits. I just needed to vent. You can comment and all but you know what I mean... I don't need any negativity.

OH MY GOSH! On a funny note, I am watching David Letterman and Renee Zellweger is on and she is absolutely TANKED!!!! She is hammered!
I hope she doesn't fall on her face.

THE FACE.

It's almost totally healed. :)

And, as you can see... I am wearing my new work shirt, as I am now a barrista 2 days a week at Croissants De France. My good friend Richmond is a manager there and hired me. So, I have 2 days a week on the schooner and 2 days a week at the coffee shop and now I just need to get this waitress job down the street from the shop for like 4 days a week and I might just be able to get my act together. Thing is, I can over lap these jobs, on the boat I don't have to be there till 3:30 and at the shop I get off at 2. I went to work at 7am.... oh my. Well, if I get the waitress job I would either work at 11am-3pm or 3pm to close so I could pretty much work every day of the week all day long if I set it up right.

My buddy Evan went on vacation yesterday and I am already so bored and lonely. Good news is... LILLY IS COMING HOME TOMORROW!!! YAAAAAAAAY! She is moving home! Couldn't live without me! :)

I might pop down to the Appledore this evening to see the boys, maybe even bring them some goodies from the shop. Gotta be extra nice to them now that they have branded me the "Yoko Ohno" of the Appledore... Brian says I stole his best friend and they haven't seen him in weeks. I told them they could have him back... I was lying! Besides... It's not like I have him chained up in my basement or anything. ;)

More pics!

Thought you ladies might like to see how the crew of the Appledore dress on the delivery trip... think I might have to go next time!!!

Appledore crew fully clothed... Bryan, Evan, Capt Justin, Damian and Matt. These guys have been my constant source of fun since I got back.


A classic. Reunion night in KW, my 26th birthday presents, Charlie and Scottie!!! That face is classic Scottie for those of you who don't know him.... He says hi "Momma Jolea".

Happy belated Birthday to me!

So... Had breakfast with my new yachtie friend and then he asked me if I wanted to walk down Duval with him and help him find a new wallet because his is just falling apart. I said I would. We went to like 5 stores and I was just dying because I am not a shopper but I was having fun with him so I kept up. We walked into the Coach store and he was looking at the wallets and I was just wandering around aimlessly which is what I do in stores like that because I can't afford anything in there. I stopped at this really cute green handbag because I am a green feind and this was like the perfect shade of green so I was looking at it and inside and then I found the price tag.... 180 bucks... yeah I put it down... So I kept on walking around the store and this girl who worked there started talking to me and asked if I lived there and blah blah blah we were talking about the weather and all this stuff and then I realized he was standing by the door with his bag ready to go, so I excused myself from the conversation and we started down the street. About a block later he reaches in the bag and says "Happy Belated Birthday." And hands me this wrapped package... OH. MY. GOSH. I was like "YOU ARE CRAZY!" I'm like WHAT DID YOU DO? I opened it up and sure enough... there was the bag I had been admiring... I didn't even know he saw me looking at it! HOLY HELL! I'VE GOT A LIVE ONE!!!!

My new bag....
So, apparently when you don't even let a boy get close enough to kiss you (and you have a broken face) they want to buy you things.

I am so confused.

Oh my.

Gotta get ready for dinner and the yachtie tent again. He leaves on Friday morning. Ok. Bye.

;)

I have been playing this game all wrong for a long time.... now I know how to run the show. Don't even let them near you. It makes them crazy.

Amazing... I've still got it... even with a busted face.

so.... I went down to the Schooner Appledore dock party tonight just to "show face" because that is the true beginning of race week for us. That and the Shot and Knot contest at the Schooner Wharf bar. So I showed up just to have everyone run up to me and look at me like I was a new caveman... basically they all surrounded me and looked me up and down grunting things like "ugh.... i thought ugh...ush...:" I was like ... Uh Hi!!! Yeah I look terrible I know I fell down.... but everyone had a amazed look on their faces. So. I said .... what's wrong? Apparently... by the time the schooner kids got ahold of the rumor I had.....

A. Broken my jaw
B. Broken my nose
C. Busted all my teeth out.


Thank god for schooner talk.

So. When they finally saw me it was so much better than what they were thinking so everyone thinks i look great!

But on to better news....

I went to Martini Monday with Jason and he invited his South African friend Chris out to meet us and even with my crusty face... we hit it off... maybe it's because Chris recently stabbed himself in the face with a screwdriver and is having surgery next week to reconstruct his face... but... we really hit it off. His face has a hole in it... My face is scabby... he asked me to have breakfast with him in the morning.

I am going. You better believe it.

Even with a fucked up face he is a beautiful man....

What a funny meet cute.

I will let you know how it goes.

p.s. He drives a Porche which I am not sure Like.... but my bro drove a porche so i think its ok.... interesting.... he is just here for race week but he lives in west palm beach.... hmm....

UH OH.

See ya.

ps. he stabbed himself on accident... He is a sailboat rigger, he was aloft trying to fix something and he slipped and stabbed himself in the face with a 12 inch screwdriver, dodged being stabbed in the brain but poked a hole in his face from the left of his nose to the left of his left eye but broke his nose and cheek bone in the process....

he's still cute.

Hey Yall!

Seattle Heather finally started a blog!!! Go check her out HERE!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY HEATHER!

My face... when it happened and today... and my hero Reno.

At 4am on Saturday Night.

This Morning.
My Cherokee hero Reno who picked me up off the ground and cleaned the blood off my face. (I don't know who the girl is) He has lovely hair. Nice boy. ;)

Race Week has begun!

The Acura Key West 2008 Yacht Race is on! Tomorrow marks the firs races and it runs through Friday night. You guys can catch it on ESPN 2 and you can click HERE for the website.

It's a pretty exciting time in town. All the yachties and shiny sailboats are in town taking up all the dock space. Lots of clean cut guys about town, a nice treat compared to the schooner bums usually milling about. Don't get me wrong, I love schooner boys, but sometimes it's nice to have a guy around that wears cologne, or at least showers more than once a week...

On the job front, it's pretty dim. The office job I was told I had in the bag turned out not to be in my bag at all due to a veto from the higher ups. Basically I am a 26 year old boat girl and the other lady up for the job is a 45 year old office girl. Bummer. Oh well, did I really want to be stuck in an office? I don't know. Maybe. So, I think I may try to go work at the Conch Farm which is a very busy bar and restruant at the marina. I know they make good money and at this point that is what I need. Money. The Jolly Rover is going well but I only get to work like 2 days a week because they have a full crew. Still applying for yacht jobs as well.

In other news, like an idiot, I tripped and fell down outside my apartment on friday night and busted my chin and upper lip on the sidewalk. Classy. Oh don't worry, my face broke my fall. I have all my teeth and didn't need stitches but it scared me. I am scabby. Gonna change my name to the Scabby Pirate Wench. I blame it on the fact that I was wearing my slick bottom cowboy boots when I haven't had to wear anything but flops for a while. Yeah. Boots. I'm not even gonna post the picture of my face because yall would just scold me and I don't wanna hear it. I know. I know what you are thinking and I know...

It sucks because no cute boys are gonna want to hang out with old crusty face (me) this week. I am a fast healer so I should be back in the game by Tuesday. :)

For Rachel...

Click HERE.

Still cold. Still looking for a real job.

I am about to head over to the Rover to see if we have a sunset sail tonight as we didn't yesterday due to the cold weather. It's a bit colder today so I fear the worst. I have all my crew agents on the case again for me. Just thinking I might not be able to stay here this time around with no savings and no real job. Everyone says I should stick it out for a few more weeks because season is about to start full swing and I will find something. I am just stressing out. I could try to find a bartending gig. Actually I need to just get my drug test up to date with the maritime consortium here and I can work 4 or 5 days on Rover as "real" crew. Capt. Chris asked me if I needed time to study for my drug test, I just laughed and said no. He said he was just making sure. Lot's of folks on this island do need time to study for theirs but not me. My drug of choice is beer. Oh, and this new liquor called Firefly.... OMG. It is - get this- Sweet Tea flavored Vodka....
O....M......G!!!!!!
IT TASTES JUST LIKE SWEET TEA! YOU CAN DRINK A GLASS OF THIS STUFF STRAIGHT ON ICE AND BY THE TIME YOU ARE FINISHED YOU HAVE A SOUTHERN ACCENT EVEN IF YOU AREN'T FROM THE SOUTH!!!!
Everyone who was with me the first time I tried it said "Oh! There's that Texan accent! We knew you were hiding it somewhere!" Apparently I don't have a thick accent unless I have been drinking.

Ok. Gotta bundle up and head out into the frozen tundra.... 60 degrees with the wind blowing 30 knots off the water really is cold people.

COLD SCHMOLD GRANDMA????

Oh my goodness... It's gonna be in the 40's here tonight... YOU GUYS STOP SENDING YOUR COLD WEATHER DOWN HERE!!!! I wore my boots and jeans today! I am making ghetto chicken and dumplings soup cuz I am cold! No heaters here! Charlie's girlfriend is lonely now that he is gone so she is coming over after dinner at a friend's house. I am totally excited about my diner. It's two cans of campbells chicken noodle soup and a pack of pillsbury biscuits. I warmed the soup till it simmered then threw all ten biscuits into the pot with the lid off for ten mins then covered the pot for another ten... now I am gonna eat. Yum.

Working tonight... maybe?

If the weather holds out I will work the sunset on the Rover. I didn't get to work last night because the girl that they are trying to replace with me was working. Her one day shift. Chris should just fire her but he doesn't want to be mean. He cut her hours in the hopes that she gets the point. In other news... I have been waiting around for 3 weeks for this office job to start... I keep getting pushed to the side and one day they talk to me like "when you start" then the next day someone else says "when we make a decision on who to hire", I am so frustrated. I really thought I had this job locked down. If not it's going to be really hard for me to stay here. I have already reactivated my crew agent accounts. I will just get back to work finding a yacht. At least I am in Florida. The office job said they were really busy with end of year/first of year stuff, which I totally understand, but at the same time, they know I have no job, and this is key west, and I'm broke. So broke I can't even put minutes on my phone! Grrrrrrrrr! I fucking hate this!!!! Now that I know I have the potential to be financially secure and not worry about paying the next bill it really gets to me that I am sitting here jobless and broke.

Judy is in Thailand, her boat isn't sure if they are going east or west due to Pirates. Wow.

Oh my gosh I am still sweating. I just cleaned all the floors in the house. Sure wish I had a little shop vac to suck these cobwebs down from the corners and clean the window seals and baseboards. Old house, old dust. And it probably doesn't help that we leave the doors and windows open all the time and the leaves and dirt just blows in. It's so nice with the breeze blowing through though! There are no screens in this house.

Charlie leaves today for Isla Mujeres, Mexico. He is doing a sailboat delivery with Andrew and Ryan. ( I wanted to go.) It's a boy's adventure apparently.... They will eventually end up in Cancun and I will bet money I don't have that they didn't want a girl hanging around to ruin their fun.... even if it was me.

So, house to myself, no job, no girlfriends, I wonder who will keep me company. I should call Charlie's girlfriend and have her over because she is going to be lost without him. They are together 24/7. I do have a Nintendo Wii that I need to become an expert at. That's what I will do!

10:34am here on the island and I have been so productive already! I need to wash clothes though... that is an adventure because I have to load up my suitcase with my dirty clothes and soap and walk a few blocks to the laundry mat and then sit and wait for like 2 hours. Blah.

I think I will make myself an egg sandwich for brunch.

OH, the pic at the top is my friend Ivona Richmond! She's the one on the left.... :)