Scissor Quirk

Christmas 2011: Cuba, Pt.2

Part One of our vacation photos, right here.

As I blogged about a few weeks ago, mister husband and I spent a week in Cuba over Christmas for our holidays...we decided to top it off with a 'tradition', of sorts: the mister likes to see at least one sunrise on the beach of every tropical destination we head off to. At first, I was skeptical - like, 'you want me to get up when??', but we'd done it before in Mexico and Hawaii, and both were gorgeous, so it was a go!

We had sort of a late night before, packing...we decided the only day to have an alarm (or clock, even) on vacation should be the last day, and our bus to the airplane didn't leave until noon, so we got up at 5:30 am, headed to the bar (which was open - yeah!), got some yummy boozy Spanish Coffee and headed down to the sand. The beach chair guys were already there..and were quite surprised...lol.

So, we settled in and watched the sun come up...it was beautiful!
Obligatory sunrise shots:

Only...there was one hitch.

I'm not sure if all beaches in Cuba have them, but this beach was covered in swarms of invisible painful biting little bugs! Like, a sharp pinching. All over you. At all times. It wasn't noticable during the day, but before the heat gets going, I guess these little dudes were in full swing...

These about sum up our realization of them:

Hah. Oh, man. We were confused, because they were so tiny...we didn't know where the bites were coming from at first, cuz they weren't leaving bite marks like mosquitos do. Anyhoo, the only way to ward them off was to either repeatedly slap every square inch of your exposed skin, or hop in the ocean, so I watched the rest of the surise from there...lol. And at least we didn't have bug bites, right?

Wrong. lol. About 20-some hours later - when we were picking up our luggage at the airport at home - the bites kicked in. Like, my-socks-are-itching-my-entire-itchy-feet, kicked in. For the next week and a half, our legs and arms were covered in little puffy, suuuuper un bearably itchy bug bites! lol. It was horrible.

Good thing they were balanced out by the lovely sunrise, that's for sure. But I highly suggest doing this sunrise-viewing in Hawaii, were they pride themselves on having no sand bugs...lol. :)

Favorite Photo (Pages).

My January blog assignment for American Crafts was to scrapbook two of my favorite photos, so here are the mostly 'Amy Tangerine' pages I made, for it:

I use this picture very often...lol. It's one of my favorites ever, because I feel like in my heart, I'm still very much the smiley girl in the yellow bathing suit, playing in the sun. Or at least I yearn to be...(and hope to be, this summer!)

And this photo was one of my very first successful self-portraits from-far-away, blurry as it is. It really sums me up. I had a blast on the shoot I took myself on to get it, and it feels really serene and reflective to me. :)

I just got a box of the newly released Dear Lizzy goodies and I can't wait to play with them!! Must scrap a little bit, this week...

Thanks for peeking at my pages!

This Week:

I told myself I'd do a lot of super-fun crafty things this past weekend, since I have this week off of university...but then I ended up doing absolutely nothing and it was heavenly. lol. Well, okay - I had to work on Saturday, and we went to see an screening of the Oscar nominated Animated Shorts, and 'The Best of the Ottawa Animation Festival' screening...and then Sunday mister husband and I braved the cold on the motorcycle for some thrifting and breakfast, but other than that...a whole lotta sleeping and watching 'Life on Mars' (which we are newly addicted to) happened.

So now I'm feeling the urge to be super-productive (and catch up, a bit) while I forget about homework for a few days, here. Big aaaahhh....

Here's what I wanna get done this week:

- Cook and eat lotsa veggies, drink lotsa water

- Finish my granny square blanket
...or at least sewing in all the ends so I can join them, soon.

- Start my English Essay & Drawing homework
we're writing on some Harryette Mullen poetry, it's actually a pretty cool.

- Plan the summer
we have both magically have a few months off & a billion places to go!

- Get operation figure-0ut-my-skin underway
it's been horrible lately! Like I'm 16, again. Ugh.

- Hang some legit curtains up in at least one room
we currently fabric hung haphazardly with nails up and it's driving me crazy!

- Finish coding this here blog - the top navigation is still not done... 

- Buy some sale boots
I go through at least 2 pairs a season, for all the walking I do. Is that weird?!

What are you up to, this week?
I'll be back with some scrapbook pages I haven't shared yet, soon. ;)

Spin me Round.

Hey, strangers! It's midterm time around here, so I haven't been doing much but madly finishing essays, prints, the start of scholarship application crazyness, and work. This means a bit more computer time, though...which means I've found a lot of new (old) favorite songs this week... ;) lol.

A few tunes I'm obsessed with right now:

How have I not heard this Mumford beauty, before?
Rediscovered that I love them.

I love Ellie's voice...such cute songs! I shot a video a few months ago for class that featured my boots and lots of leaves - the second video reminded me of it...

I'll post something other than videos, soon...heh. I finally get to sleep for a full 8 hours (yeah!), starting now, and then two more days of work (and an animation screening, thrown in there) and I have a week off from classes. Still have to work, but thank goodness I can partially chill for a small bit. :)

Til then, enjoy!

February 14th, 2012.

Us two in Cuba, December 2011.

Dear, mister husband:

I know you hate Valentines day (doesn't every guy?)
but so do I (however, not its' cheesy cards).

I don't want roses.
I would rather just celebrate the little things every day, together.
In a dream, we would celebrate with a camping getaway right now.

I hope this weekend we can get potted flowers that will live for more than three days, and thrift shop, and ride the motorcycle somewhere together, and cook dinner + have wine. Take a break post-midterms and see eachother for a full day (an exciting prospect!). You're a trooper, and it's been tough, this school/work thing - but thank you for being there. I can't wait until our next adventure.

It's been nearly 5 years (next week!) of seeing you always
and I couldn't wish for anything more.

I love you. :)

Happy Valentines to you and yours, today.