Island Life

I'm in love with island life. Waking up at sunrise to a hot cup of coffee. Grabbing my surfboard, strapping it to the roof of the van and driving to the beach with the windows rolled down, Jack Johnson blaring out of the speakers, the wind blowing my hair.

Carrying the board over the dunes and up the beach. Waxing the surfboard, then heading out to the sandbar to catch some waves.

Sunrise on the East Coast

Hot and Humid

Hot, humid, and sunny- that sums up the south in the summer . The past two days I noticed this film in the air that made everything look hazy. It turned out to be the humidity. The humidity is so dense that you can see it in the air. To top that off, it's been around 98 degrees and sunny. Not good weather when you have to sit outside in a lifeguard stand for hours at a time.

A Typical Day

I thought my life would slow down as summer aproched, but I was wrong. I'm a part time student, lifeguard, babysitter, and petsitter.

This is how a typical day goes:

Get up and go for a half hour run

Eat breakfast

Walk one set of dogs

Walk another dog

Grab lunch

Head to the pool to lifeguard for 4 to 6 hours

Go from work to friends house to babysit two kids for an hour

Get home after dark to eat dinner with the family

Go to bed to get 6-8 hours of sleep and do that all over again

another storm on the coast

As my sister and I spent an evening at the beach, this storm rolled in.

I Hate Big Government

A government big enough to supply everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
-Thomas Jefferson

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
-Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Now I'm off to a TEA party at the capitol! Happy Tax Day.

Thai Peanut Stir-Fry

Since my brother-in-law is part Thai, my sister makes an abundance of Asian food. When I visited them last, she made this mouth-watering dish- Thai peanut stir-fry. All it requires is stir-fry with peanut butter mixed in. Put the stir-fry on top of a bowl of rice and add chopped peanuts to garnish it off. We put them in white, square bowls and ate it with chopsticks!
Delicious!