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>I'm lying here on my deck hammock and it is a perfect night. It is not too hot, not too cold–balmy and breezy and the sun is setting. The trees surrounding the valley are lush with rain and my crazy neighbor has what can only be described as massage music playing. It is peaceful, calm, and what I wish every moment of my life could be.
Sadly, for I would love to live here for the rest of my days, I believe my time here is drawing to a close. The budget for my existence in St. Croix drains dry at the end of september and there doesn't appear to be a new well to draw from.
A wise (lazy?) person told me recently to be like water and follow the path of least resistance and I took that advice to heart. I will follow where this life takes me–what is meant to be will be.
For now, well, I am content to watch the sun set.

>Please, I know you all are aware of my dorkiness. I just feel the need to share this *particular* dorkishness. I have a hurricane tracking map. I am fairly certain it is meant for children. But every time I get an email update about any tropical storm (why yes, I have signed up to receive email updates from the national hurricane center–why do you ask?) I immediately grab my sharpie and map and plot the longitude and latitude to see where the lil' bugger is.
I am excited–it is my FIRST ONE!!! But I must tell you–whenever anyone sees my map–the mockery abounds.
Yesterday I bought a red cross solar/crank/battery powered radio (NOAA/AM/FM) that can also charge your cell phone! How freakin' cool is that?
I'm sure there will be mockery there too.
*sigh*

>Please allow me to point out that I know how lame it is to complete such surveys. I shall not judge your judginess (and feel free to complete this beast and send it back to me either in email or comments.)…

1. What time did you get up this morning?

My alarm went off at 5. At 5:45 I actually got up. Left at 6.

2. What is your favorite color?

I usually answer blue, but in reality my favorite color is a deep purply blue.

3. Do you like to read?

I could read every day all day. I love reading. I get lost in stories and when someone talks to me the real world always shocks the crap out of me.

4. Have you ever been in love?

Quite often. Disturbingly able to fall in love with almost anyone/everyone. That has been a little more inappropriate now that I am married. 🙂

5. How do you take your coffee?

Large and black. (that’s what she said!) That’s actually not true, I just wanted to make that joke. I like it with cream (or 2%) and delicious artificial cancer-causing non-sugar. Preferably splenda brand of non-sugar.

6. Do you eat breakfast?Yes. pepperoni pizza – yes I am aware I eat like a frat boy

7. Do you prefer sleeping alone? No, well, yes. but no. I guess in a perfect world where the bedroom was cold I would prefer to sleep with someone (probably my husband 😉 ). But when it is freakishly hot–do not touch me. Additionally I am no fun to sleep with because I move around all night and steal most of the bed.

8. Do you smoke cigarettes? No, I don’t like the smell. Additionally since I play with asbestos daily it seems imprudent.

9. Have you ever burnt your hair? No, cause I’m a slacker and scrape my hair into a ponytail daily. To burn it I would have to attempt to style it.

10. Do you sleep with a pillow? I sleep with 5 pillows. And occasionally a dog and lately a kitten.

11. What are your habits? Diet coke. I am die hard diet coke addict. It’s an issue.

12. Do you want kids? I have absolutely no idea. Scares the crap out of me.

13. Are you an only child?No, I have a sister.

14. Do you like road trips? In theory–yes. In practice–they can become tedious and you can begin to hate everyone in the car with you.

15. Where do you work? I used to work for a medium sized company which got eaten by a giant company and then I was an employee for the giant company at far away at a giant oil refinery before the giant company got in trouble at the refinery and had to find a new company to work for if I wanted to stay which turned out to be me working as an independent contractor.

16. Do you brush your teeth in the shower? Yup

.17. What did you do tonight/last night? I read, ate dinner, watched tv, then bed.

18. Do you prefer being single, or in a relationship?? I guess relationship. 🙂

20. What is your deepest secret?I killed a man in Reno. With my bare hands.

21. Have you ever been cheated on? I have absolutely no idea

22. Once a cheater, always a cheater?Probably.

23. Pajamas or naked? depends on temperature and number of mosquitos.

24. What do you take when you have a headache? Advil and drink something with caffeine.

25. Roughing it or luxury hotel?Luxury.

26. Beach or pool?Pool at the beach.

27. Would you give your number out to a stranger?Yup

28. Ever hitch-hiked?Nope

29. Ever picked up a hitchhiker? Yup, but I have regretted it approximately 2 out of 5 times.

30. Roses or daisies?Roses.

31. Do you consider yourself conceited?Not in the very least.

32. Is your hair its original color?Yup

33. Do you wear makeup?Yup, not daily though.

34. Do you eat ranch with your pizza?Yup.

35. Do you believe in God? Many of ’em.

36. Do you have a crush on anybody right now?Nope

37. Does he/she know it? n/a

38. What was the last thing you ate? Refinery breakfast
40. Where is your favorite place to be? In bed, when it’s chilly, all covered up and reading a book

41. Do you think you’re attractive?I don’t, but I’m spending lots on therapy to change that.

42. Are you allergic to anything? Amoxicillin. I get itchy and hivey

43. Ever had your heart broken?Yea, but when I look back I’m like “why the hell did I care that much?” and I feel really stupid.

44. Who was the last person to hurt you? Greebo the cat. He tried to eat my nose in the middle of the night.

45. Who was the last person you hurt? uh. dont know.

46. Do you wear socks to bed?No but sometimes I try and wake up and they are off my feet.

47. How do you feel about breast implants?I would never get them, but only because I already have freak-show huge boobs. But if someone else wants to get ‘em, mozel tov.

48. What kind of shampoo do you use?Aveda shampure. I like the smell.

49. Have you ever been in love? Yup. a lot. 🙂

50. Do you think love is real for young people? Sure felt real.

51. ? ?

52. What are you? Human. I think.

53. Say your opinion, or keep it to yourself? Yeah. say it.

54. The snow or the sun? Sun. 🙂

55. Have you ever been out of the country? Yup.

56. Where do you want to raise your family? St. Croix (for now) but as my family is husband, 2 dogs and a kitten. Well…not all that much raisin’ to do.

57. The city life, or the quiet? both.

58. A club, or movie night?Movie night. But with cocktails.

59. Mercedes or BMW? Neither.

60. Do you like to dress up? sometimes.

61. How long does it take you to get ready after you get out of bed?11.5 minutes

62. Describe your perfect type of girl/boy? I am really quite eclectic. 🙂

63. Save your money or spend it?I am the most irresponsible person with money you will ever meet in your entire life.

64. Do you wear a belt? only when my pants are falling off and if I remember

65. How many pairs of jeans do you have?5 I think.

66. Do you want to get married in a church? Nope. didn’t.

67. Shower in the morning or night? Night.

68. Is there ever a justified reason to lie?To save your own ass. Just kidding. Not really.

69. Favorite disney movie? Little Mermaid.

70. What’s your favorite movie? uh. too many of them. 🙂

71. Shorts or jeans/pants? Shorts. It’s really hot here.

73. Do you think you and your best friend will still be best friends in 10 years?I would like to think so.

74. Who’s your bestfriend? Am lucky enough to have a lot of friends. I guess my best oldest friend would be my old college roomate…we text a lot and communicate a lot regaring textsfromlastnight.com

75. Are you a good girlfriend/boyfriend?I’m an okay wife. 🙂

76. Do you like being in a relationship? yup.

77. Hats or no hats?I can’t really pull off hats, but I envy those who can.

78. Do you fall for people easily?Yes. I fall in love at least 2 times a day.

79. Is it hard for you to open up to people?It’s hard for me to open up to people about serious stuff.

80. Do you watch what you eat?Yep, I usually look at my food before I eat it.

82. What do you want to be in the future?I don’t know and it causes me extreme anxiety every day.

84. “True love never dies”? Nah. True love never dies but it does tend to take the other one for granted after a while.

85. If you could change one thing about your physical appearance what would it be??I want more tattoos.

86. Mom or dad?What a f’d up question. Both.

87. How long have you known your best friend?I think I’ve known my oldest best friend since college.

88. Whats your favorite meal of the day?Brunch.

89. Do you have any secrets? Yup.

90. What is your worst fear?One of my family members dying and not being able to get to them.

91. Do you play hard to get?Uh, no. I need to work on that.

92. Are you hard to get? depends how that question is meant…

93. Do you like Memphis?I’ve never been to Memphis.

94. Do you use an umbrella? Nope.

95. Night or day? Night night night. As long as I don’t have to get up in the morning. 🙂

98. Do you consider yourself ‘nice’?Here’s my policy: if you’re nice to me, I’ll be the nicest most fun person ever to you. If you’re not nice to me, I can be a snobby, elitist, snarky, unnecessary bitch to you. Just be nice! Geez!

99. Are you fake? Nope. All parts are factory standard. 🙂

100. What should you be doing right now? Showering.

>Okay, I am prepared. I have water, I have food, I have 100lbs of dog food, I have cards, I have 5 new books on my fully charged kindle. I have clean clothes, blankets, pillows, flashlights, lanterns, candles, a first aid kit, and a truck full of gas. You know what I don’t have? I don’t have a freakin‘ hurricane–that’s what I don’t have. Tropical Storm Ana–the fickle bitch, she down-graded back to a Tropical Depression and she is ever so south of us. I was looking forward to Ana, she wasn’t too strong, but good enough to show me what getting to miss a day of work due to a tropical storm would be like…But noooooo. Fickle.
Then there is Bill, freakin’ Hurricane Bill. He looks like he is swinging North on me, which is really probably good ’cause, well, he is a little rougher and tougher than his fickle sister Ana.
So, my nerdy little self is keeping an eye on Bill, marking locations on my dorky hurricane map.
I shall keep you informed. 🙂
Although, to be fair, the weather channel is probably better than I am at this meteorological crap. So maybe check there first for updates.
*hugs*
-Heather

>So, I may have some new friends coming to town. Ana and Bill. 🙂 For any of you who do not know–Ana & Bill are tropical storms and they are heading my (St. Croix) way. I have water, I have food, I have candles, I have shutters. 🙂 I should be just fine. Ana is set to hit (and she shouldn't be too bad) on Monday. Bill, well who knows about Bill. He will prolly landfall around wednesday or thursday. There is another behind Bill–but that one doesn't have a name yet.
Anyway, just keeping you all informed. I will let you know how it goes.
*hugs*

>…I hate being late. I hate it. I freak out if I think I haven't prepared enough prior to wherever I am going. Now, in the consulting world–this helps. You get to clients on time, you usually know as much as you can ahead of time. You appear impressive to said clients.
Here in the Virgin Islands–I am a freak. I am the person sitting for a half hour waiting for someone. I show up 10 minutes early–they're 20 minutes late.
*sigh*
I am also the fool who shows up to parties early–which drives my husband insane.
Well, I'm going back to waiting some more.
Hugs, ya'll.
-Heather