Where's Abby (+ Dylan and dogs)

This sums up the last two months of my life pretty accurately. As one of my friends recently pointed out, it's hard to keep track of my life right now. I haven't bothered blogging too much about it because, well, everything was so up in the air I figured I'd wait til there was something a little more stable and concrete. Which it still isn't at that point now, even, but it's pretty entertaining with this collection of ridiculousness.  Job and House Confusion I'm not sure I even remember the sequence of all the events since I've been home, AKA America. To somewhat start from the beginning, I had that job at the coffee shop for a day. Quit that due to crazy boss lady. Moved back to Ocala searching for jobs and babysat for several families in the meantime. Didn't find any substantial jobs here so when I had (what I thought was) a solid living situation and potential job, I headed back to Jacksonville. I got one sales job opportunity and continued the...

      Last weekend, Leslie and I took a much needed mini vacation to Sarasota to visit some friends.    This pup and I walked around St.Augustine while Les got her education on before heading down on Friday.   On the trip down, we stopped to eat at an ordinary Panera, and walked out to the patio to find this view. Heathrow Panera, you win.  We made it to this #1 rated beach in the U.S, but it unfortunately wasn't at its usual beauty, and I not up to par to fully enjoy it. The salt water did its best at healing the effects of the wine. I'm convinced American wine is not at all as friendly or forgiving as Danish wine.  Our last night involved a ridiculous moonlit sky, a walk around Marina Jacks,  and drinks by the water at this tiki bar, O'Leary's .   Before heading out on Sunday morning, we had breakfast at this cute cafe and omelettes that changed our lives.  (Photo Credit: Leslie) On the...

I realized I've left out a lot of good stories in the last month that have made unemployment not so bad! ;)    We'll start with my cousin's wedding. Her and her hubby celebrated their marriage at their perfectly decorated lake house. It was  such a fun wedding with the (fully clothed) wedding party jumping in the lake, delicious food, one of the best wedding cakes I've had, and an awesome atmosphere of friendly people. The wedding party in the lake on the bottom left because... "Well, why not?!" We took a quick pitstop on the way to the wedding to see Falling Water State Park. One of (or the only) waterfall in Florida. Definitely worth it. More great memories at The River with Mark, Denise, and some extra family members one afternoon. Dad and I had a nice, quick kayak around, we all chilled by the river, got an unexpected spray by an air boat, and had a delicious meal at Swampy's. (Where else?!) Photo credit: Cindy! My first s...

   Readers, meet Allie... my beautiful but slightly strange cat.  Despite this being her first introduction in the blog and not posting a picture a day like most cat owners, I do love her. And for some reason, this pretty kitty is drawn to squares. If you put a magazine on the floor... She's on it in no time. Newspapers, towels...  Doesn't matter. We're wondering if it's just squares or if a circle or other shapes would have the same effect. Maybe we'll test that next and have a follow up.  But for now, here's my precious kitkat on squares.  Anyone else's cat do this or is it just Allie? What weird things do your animals do?

   Fortunately, that post I was eager to share with the world didn't wind up being the disaster I expected. One fine day, about three weeks ago, I walked into my room with intentions to swim and choose the healthy route in dealing with a break up. But upon entering the room, I plopped down on the bed "just for a minute," and somewhere in my pep talk to just get my suit on and go, I decided I was gonna paint my room... Normal right? So, off to the garage I went to see if we happened to have any leftover paint. Conveniently/inconveniently, there was an unopened can of paint.    Basically, in short version, I started taking everything off the walls which took big chunks of paint off with it. I was super inexperienced, didn't think to do the usual YouTube research for some reason (when it's actually needed), wasn't aware of the whole primer deal, and wound up peeling off the paint from the walls. A couple hours later, you'd find three white walls with seve...