the creepy sand face castle

so on tuesday, tara, my best friend from portland (and stanford), was coming through berkeley in her travels and stopped to spend the day with me. we went to muir beach, which is up in the marin headlands, north of san francisco. we also went out for pizza, stopped at safeway, and then went back to my place for a sleepover. early the next morning, she went to the airport to fly off to hawaii. from there she will get on a boat and spend five weeks doing some sort of ocean research related to her studies. apparently the reefs are turning to acid or something.

it was fun to spend some time with her again, since we hadn't spent much time together in the last four or five years. while at the beach, i took some pictures of course (you may want to click for larger views):

ick. i look bad.

tara looks better, even though the lighting isn't great

cute border collie

yes, there does appear to be a dead bird in the background of this picture of a bird

look at this interesting house, with its many windows for ocean views

there were lots of fancy houses

pretty waves

look, a boat

fishing?

so our sand castle/village endeavor started with this little castle we found that someone else had made:

clearly created with a mold

we moved farther down to wetter sand, and started our creation. somehow, this first building's odd shape and towers ended up looking like some sort of creepy face. i realized this once i made the door that looked like a mouth. i then added some eyes just for fun.

i added some bushes outside this sand building, which only made is creepier.

creepy sand face

tara made an entrance thingy

the dead crab leg was a little disturbing

then tara made this one:

and i made this one:

tara made another building, we added a wall, and i made a bushy/grassy/forresty area

and then i made a mountain

mountain behind the village

we lined the road to the other castle with rocks/boulders

must go through dead crab leg gate to enter or exit

it's a long road to creepy-face village

then, this fluffy dog peed on my mountain

and last but not least, a funny dog action shot:

portland pictures

so i haven't been updating here much. i'm just so busy on the days that i work, and then when i'm at david's place on the other days, i can't use his computer like i use mine. i'm going to try to update more often though. at least once a week.

i have a whole mess of pictures that i want to share, so i'm going to start on that.

here's a couple pictures from my home... good old portland oregon. these were sitting in a folder where i keep my pictures that i have not yet shared with the world. the first two are of david and i, at a park called powell butte. behind us you can see the wonderful mt. hood.

i miss my portland...

i'm holding my dog, bubble, and wearing my special warm jacket that david got me for my birthday

my cute cute david!

this picture is of my two awesome dogs: bubble the pomeranian, and whiley the australian shepherd/american eskimo mix. i haven't seen them in eight months. (they are living with my parents in washington.) i miss them too :(

bubble would lay on whiley like this, and he didn't mind. silly doggies!

new blog

welcome to my new blog. (whatever that means.) this new, fancy blog is a continuation of this old, musty blog. feel free to look around there if you wish to know more history about me and my life. you can also get to the old blog, and the even older blog, by clicking those "blog generation" links over there to the right.

to learn more about me and my life more quickly, you can click on over to my 100 facts about me page, which is linked over to the left. there you can find out all sorts of random things and look at fun pictures.

even more fun is my spiffy weasel page which you can get to by clicking on that cute little ferret up there on the right.

so take a look around, and come back soon to see my updates and my continuing to blog about my life and whatnot. if you like things like cute baby bunnies, tsunami nightmares and creepy guys handing out flowers at the laundromat, then you surely won't be disappointed!