Well, I realized today that I had totally forgotten about this LJ. I've not only outgrown only having one blog, I've also moved on to blogging at my own domain.

jitterbeangirl.com - the continuation of this blog
lens.jitterbeangirl.com - my photoblog
food.jitterbeangirl.com - my food blog

Hope to see you over there....

Today has been a fairly devastating day.

Y'know the type, one of those days where you begin to seriously think about some pretty big choices you've made in your life and you begin to ponder how it will affect the choices you will make down the road -- and you realize that it may even affect your ability to make a choice ( Read more... )

Today's scary wake-up call is brought to you by Escapades of Reason.

There is so much in both Jared's post and the article that it was based on that just screamed "slippery slope" in my mind -- it was like there was a 50-foot neon billboard with those words flashing in hot pink far before the Slate article ever mentioned the phrase. As Jared's ( Read more... )

Ticket to Seoul - $1334.77

0.36 fl oz of Refresh Contacts rewetting drops - $6.99

Actually getting to use said eyedrops on a 24-hour trip to Korea, thereby preventing anguish-provoked enucleation and thus being able to see that face you've been waiting four months to put your eyes on - PRICELESS ( Read more... )

Dear Drivers On Dark Roads on Dark Alaska Nights ( Read more... )

Hopefully by now it is painfully apparent that I am in love with living in Alaska. From my sidebar-bio in which I proudly proclaim myself an 'ecstatic Alaskan' to lens which is rapidly filling with Alaska shots to a few of the many new opportunities that living here has offered me that I have written about here, the evidence none-too-quietly shows ( Read more... )

As of two days ago I've been in Alaska for nine months. I'd always heard that Anchorage is such a new city that a lot of wildlife still lives in the city, so here I thought I would talk about some of my (very!) close encounters with Anchorage's moose population. You may remember my first "holy crap moose are all up in these neighborhoods" moment ( Read more... )

On Friday I'm taking a step that cannot be undone:

Sienna is getting spayed.

This is something that I'm having a lot of emotional turbulence over. See, it's like this. I'm totally smitten by my dog (if that wasn't already painfully obvious). This smittenness dictates directly into my brain, saying that she is Special Among Labs, a Prize ( Read more... )

I heard a joke at work today (which was kind of surprising given the political demographic and the overwhelming preference for Fox News vice CNN there) that had me in stitches for a good five minutes. Jeremy was lucky enough to get a voice mail that consisted entirely of the joke, but those of you less fortunate will have to read it here ( Read more... )

This weekend, at the suggestion of some of my co-workers, I went to see Brickat the Bear Tooth. While I felt really disturbed during some parts of the movie and I walked away from it with very mixed feelings, I found afterward that the more I thought about the movie the more I liked it ( Read more... )