Alaska

packing for girls camp
    –should’ve gotten ready earlier. classic.
wearing sweats
    –like always these days. eat fish wear grundens.
have my funny columbia hood on
    –I’m cold. I miss not being cold.
listening to Silver and Gold by Danielle Ate the Sandwich
   –my new favorite. love this song and her.
eating coconut m&ms
   –many thanks to dear Anita
smell like fish and bleach
   –I like it. and I love cleaning boats. best summer job ever.
sitting in my sunshine yellow room
   –I love having space. and I love my car muchos.
looking at pictures from my grand Jerusalem adventures
   –miss miss miss love love love. the best times ever.

[Easter morning at the Garden Tomb. One of the best days of all time.]

Has been quite windy lately, a couple days it’s been too windy for most boats to go out. That means less work for me and less work for Lisa! So we went on another grand adventure. It was most excellent of course, as are all times and talks with her. We hiked down Diamond Creek with Gilligan and Cody. I love those doggies. And the beach. Ahhh I love that beach.

Within the last two weeks I have gotten THREE BOXES in the mail.
What a lucky girl I am to have such wonderful friends!
A box from Carla, a box from Anito, and a box from Alexis and Elena!
Mail makes me a very happy girl.
It probably makes other people happy too.
So I should send some mail.
I will do that today.

By the way, have you heard of Day Zero?
You should check it out and start a list.
101 things to do in 1001 days.

They parted ways.
But it’s all good in the hood.
Happy Annidivorceary, Parents. :)

Twas a verrrry windy day today.
Pretty much no boats went out fishing.
I only had one boat to clean tonight.
That was probably my one and only almost day off this summer.

Didn’t really know what to do with myself today, having almost the whole day off.
Most fortunately Lisa asked my to hike the Homestead Trail with her.
We had an excellent time.
I love her quite a lot.
She is nothing but wonderful. She’s pretty much awesome, as the sign says.

We finished our little hike and stopped by Holly’s. I feel like I haven’t been there or seen them forever. But they weren’t home. So Lisa, Jake, and I just hung out there anyway, scavenging the fridge and cupboards for something to eat. :) I love the Keintz home.
Then the baby magpie needed feeding. I took this picture where Gilly looks like he’s trying to eat little Ludlow. But he’d never do that. Ever.

PS I made two new pairs of parrot earrings today!

Remember when I got pulled over a while ago, and got caught with expired plates that Mom and I stupidly, out of complete stupidity, tried to cover up with a non expired sticker from a different car? (We do have a little bit of reasoning for that, but it wasn’t very smart. :) )
Well I had to go to court for it this morning, because improper use of plates like that is a misdemeanor.

Court was funny. The video I watched told my I was a criminal being charged with a crime.
That’s weird; I don’t really feel like a criminal.
It was an interesting experience though.
People preparing for missions don’t get to go to court all the time, so I’m a lucky one.

But it’s a bugger because Mom and I had to pay a $350 fine and I’m on probation for a year.
Probation… funny. But I’m leaving the country in two and a half months so who cares. Haha.
Oh yes, and I have a misdemeanor and a criminal record.
Be looking for my name in the paper.

I was wearing my grundens aaaaallllllllll day again.
And my xtratufs too of course, for 18 hours in fact.
That’s a long time in grundens and xtratufs, just like I like it.

I went fishing with Captain Mike on the lovely Arctic Addiction and it was an very excellent day.
We got a lot of very nice fishies and had a grand ol’ time.
Monster lingcod, oodles of black bass, a few yellow eye, and some sweetsie halibut. :)

And there was this super cool old dude out fishing with us too.
His name is Paul. He is 80 years old and from New York. He is an old school photographer too.
I loved fishing with that ol’ fellow. And he caught the beastly fish below.

We were doing some excellent fish catching, supposedly because there was a lady on board. :)

I drove the boat on the home the first hour, behind Ronnie in the Sweet T, while Mike cleaned fish.
I got to see some whales and rainbows on the drive too. Magical.

We got back to the harbor and I had seven boats to clean.
Most fortunately, my dear sister Stacy girl cleaned three of them for me.
But I was still sporting those grundens and xtratufs in the harbor till 11 pm.
Good thing I like in Alaska where it’s still light at that time of night.

I just love summertime in Homer, Alaska.

Yesterday Jakey Bob brought home this 191.8 lb halibut!!!
“What a hog!” they say.
He had to fight through some winds and waves to get there, but he made it to his new secret spot and caught quite a nice load of good fatty fish, including the beast pictured above.
I’m so proud of the brother of mine.
Such a good little skipper he is.
Wish I would’ve been fishing with him yesterday, but at least I was in the harbor for all the excitement of pictures and weighing and cleaning and such.
Twas such an excellent day with all the sunshine and especially with this MONSTER fish!!
Good boy Brother. Good boy.

I LOVE fishing with my dear brother.
I love it even more when my favorite half neighbor Lisa is there!

I love that we’re all sporting sweet orange grundens here. There’s nothing better.
I love the poofballs on my hat too.
I love that Jakey taught me how to filet halibut. I like doing it. Fun stuff.

I loved everything about this day, except getting a bit sea sick.
I love being at sea with Captain Jake and Deckhand Lisa and Higgy and peeps too.
I love these days fishing with Brother. Especially when we get such nice fishies!

Remember my niece Natalie?

Well after an unfortunate encounter with Holly’s haircutting scissors,
she has now sort of become my nephew Nate. :)

Though with some headbands, large flowers, and a semi proper haircut by Holly,
things should be growing back to normal in a few years or so.

Dad just painted his house.
Holly and Stacy just wore his coveralls.

Today is Brother’s birthday.
I like him a lot.
I’m so glad he’s my brother.
And I’m so glad he’s back in the harbor because I absolutely love visiting him.
He’s super cool.
I love being with Jakey Boy.
I’m so happy he’s here.
And I’m so happy about the wicked awesome family party we had.
Holly girl is the best hostess.
And Brother is the best birthday boy,
and the best brother.

I woke up early this morning.
Hence today is going fabulously.
Spent a couple hours on the beach, running, frolicking, visiting the eagles, journaling, and listening to sweet jams.
Sister came after a bit too. She’s fun to play with.
And I played with my darling nieces this afternoon too.
We ventured to the store and I bought some dark chocolate. 60% cacao. Delightful.

Today is Sasha’s birthday.
No wonder it is such a good day!
Sasha has truly blessed the earth with her wonderful self.
She is such a lovely lady full of randomness and joyfuls.
How could you not love her?
I really think anyone that meets her instantly falls in love.
I know I did. I’m so lucky she’s my goodie friend.

Today is also grand because it’s marks the anniversary of Katie and Nathan‘s year of wedded bliss!
You couldn’t meet a more spledid couple.
I just love these two muchos and am so happy they found each other and that they’ll spend eternity together!
Their joy is contagious.
And their wedding pictures are marvelous.

One of the best parts of today was…
TIE DYE FRIDAY!
Natalie and I had much much very much fun.
I love tie dye.

Today was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
And note to self: always get up early.

I just got home from cleaning 8 boats in 5 hours in a torrential downpour.
And I got to see three beautiful rainbows tonight.
I listened to General Conference podcasts while cleaning,
both in English and Portuguese.
Though I only understood a few Portuguese words.
I am so happy I’ll be speaking Portuguese… in Brazil!

I love cleaning boats (or I love the monies I get from it).
I like smelling like fish and bleach and wearing sweats and xtratufs.
I love the harbor, especially since Brother is there now.
I love the people, the smells, the sounds. Good stuff.
One thing I do not like however, in fact one of the few things that really angers me,
is when I accidentally rip my headphones out of my ear.
It’s so annoying and never fails to aggravate me.
That happened a couple times tonight. Annoying.
But luckily I only get angry for like 2 seconds
and then I’m back to enjoying the rainbows and sunshine.
It’s so obnoxious when I rip them out though.

One other slight annoyance of boat cleaning,
is when the hose sprays me in the face.
Kind of unpleasant, kind of funny.
Either way, it’s all worth the money.