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Free trip to Freeport

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

I’m back from what is without a doubt the shortest trip abroad I’ve ever taken. I’m not even sure if “abroad” is the best word to use, considering I’ve traveled farther for an afternoon of shopping, but The Bahamas is still a separate country, even if they didn’t stamp my passport when I passed through the empty customs hall.

I had to wake up painfully early yesterday morning to get to Port Everglades by 6:30. It wouldn’t have been quite so bad, except I’d been woken up by a kitten jumping on my face and hadn’t managed to get back to sleep. When I got to the port it took a while to get through check-in and I was seriously regretting not having stopped off at Starbucks on the way over. By the time I made it through the first enormous line I had a headache, by the time I made it through the second I had a migraine, and by the time I actually made it onboard and to the breakfast buffet I was prepared to physically assault a waiter if I didn’t get my coffee cup filled within two seconds.

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Work in the Bahamas? Don’t twist my arm…

Monday, June 19th, 2006

I promise, this will be my last comment about lizards (maybe)…they are so unbelievably HUGE down here! I was at Home Depot yesterday wandering around the garden section and I saw this little lizard, like the cute green ones that are all over the place back home in Gainesville. So I bent down to look at it closer and then this other massive one runs out in front of me and stops. It was HUGE! Not as big as the iguana, but all the same…this was like one of those lizards you see on Discovery Channel documentaries shot in Africa, with its hind legs about three times longer than its front ones and windmilling as he ran. It was the funniest thing! I tried to chase after it with my phone to get a picture but it ran under a pallet before I could get a good one. When will the lizard wonders cease to amaze me?

I managed to get quite a lot done this weekend around my apartment. It’s been arts and crafts and other random tasks as I’ve tried to piece the place together one part at a time. So far things are coming together nicely! I’m still short two end tables, but the coffee table came Saturday morning and the others should be here in a week or so. I’ve been getting pictures printed, hung, picture frames painted, shelves decorated, fake trees bought and potted, and patio furniture polyurethaned. That was no fun task. I started last week, and was halfway done with the first chair before I started feeling something funny in my nose. It turned out that the polyurethane fumes I was breathing in were beginning to seal my nasal passages shut! Oops! I also managed to get a nice plastic coating on my arms and legs while I was at it. I finished the job tonight and thought I was being really smart by tying a bandana around my face to protect myself from the fumes. I thought it helped, but that was just until my noxious fume-induced high wore off and I realized my lungs were coated in plastic once again. So now not only are my chairs protected from the elements, but my lungs are as well.

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