You know, there's nothing like trying something completely different to put you in your place when you're feeling pretty confident about something. For me, the "something" is scuba diving, and the "something completely different" is actually two separate things: aquarium diving and drysuit diving ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is our first wedding anniversary. We wanted to spend the weekend in Monterey to celebrate but couldn't get away this weekend, so instead, we went a week early! Saturday morning was spent hiking around Point Lobos National Reserve, which is a few miles south of Monterey. It was very pretty, with trails taking us through pine forests, ( Read more... )

Yay, my husband and (another) one of my best friends are now scuba-certified! Charlotte and Frederick completed their open-water classes with flying fishes colors, and are now ready to dive their little water-logged hearts out in Kona later this summer ( Read more... )

Wow, it's already after 2:00. What a nice lazy morning (afternoon?) after a couple of busy days. Frederick is currently downstairs assembling the remote-controlled robotic centipede I got him for Xmas. Yay, I think I chose his present well!

For the second year in a row, we spent Christmas Eve Day in Monterey. We explored the MB Aquarium all ( Read more... )

Today I went diving, for the first time in two years! I dove Monterey with my friend Dan while his girlfriend Karine finished up her certification classes. We had two nice (albeit cold) dives, and I saw several neon orange anemones, a couple of shrimp, many cute hermit crabs, a flatfish (sole? c-o turbot?) I hadn't seen before, and a big male ( Read more... )

Mmm, it's been another couple of lazy days spent at home with my boyfriend, my cat, and a few good books. Christmas was very nice, and started the morning of the 24th as Frederick and I got in the car and started driving. When he asked what I wanted for Xmas, I replied "a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium", so we spent the day there. I saw a ( Read more... )

So much going on in my head that I want to write about, but so little time. In the past several weeks I've been working, going to school, doing homework, attempting to get enough sleep, packing my apartment, clearing out some space in the house, and preparing for my upcoming vacation. Sadly, I haven't had any time to spend with friends or to be ( Read more... )

What a wonderful weekend! It began waytooearly Saturday morning, when Jonathan came by to pick me up and drive to Monterey. We procured caffeine and bagels with the spiciest, most delicious sundried tomato cream cheese, and headed south to the land of kelp forests.

A few hours later we were at Lover's Point in Pacific Grove, geared up and ready ( Read more... )