Pieces of Candy

restless...

Peices of my week


found this poor guy on the steps at work.


slowing baking in the sun b.c someone or something ripped off this 2 back legs!


caught this little man. he turned green to brown right before my eyes!	... when i was little living in FL, my brother and i would catch these guys-take advantage of their toothless open mouths read to bite and run around with them dangling from our earlobes!

my watermelon plant is seriously out of control

like seriously... its taking over...


another baby egg plant! :) yay!

Banksy found a new place to hide. even he wont go out side these days.


my hair is getting blond- on the top- i got this natural fade thing going on

so yeah, basically there's a whole lotta nothing going on these long hot dog days of summer.booooring.

Meet Banksy Roo & the rest of the zoo.

because they bring me happy in the midst of sadness ...

meet Banksy, my one year old part bobcat kitty. funny story about this cat, when i moved into my apt. i knew i needed to get a cat imminently for fear of losing my sanity in the silence. just so happened that my friends cat had kittens (again) & was more than willing to throw one my way. only a few weeks old at the time, i was told the cat was a girl- so for 3 months this poor cat pranced around in a pink collar with this very masulan sounding meow and was called Lucy Roo, until the day i saw her balls and "the pink thing. "LUCY YOU HAVE BALLS!! and a PENIS!! " oh my word it makes for some good story telling. but all is well that ends well because just so happened i wanted a boy cat named Banksy : it only took 3 months of Lucy to get him :)

what a ham he is.

meet Tate the 2 year old turtle, i found this little guy in October of 2009. i was in a a pretty terrible mood and went for a walk to try and shake it, when low & behold i found Tate only the size of a half dollar. hes been my pick -me-up ever since.

and then there's the newest addition to my zoo Toots the baby turtle. found her out in a pond and decided she'd be much better off coming home with me. i put her in Tate's tank- he didn't take to her so kindly- she swam around for her little life while he chased her & nearly took off her head! poor little TootsieRoll- shes now safe in her own home until shes big enough to not get eaten by her new family members.

even though hes not home right now, you should meet Striker the ball python. trust me he's the most chill snake your ever going to meet. i just love him.

and i cant forget about the cat who started it all, my Bianca. i had to leave her with my mom when i moved out, only because it would have got really ugly if we had to fight for her.. she is nearly 10 now, i drop by for visits, she gets so happy- i love how she remembers me. i love my Bianca Pretty Kitty to pieces.

Getting on the right track..

      Well its been 6 days, 6 long emotional days since he decided to drive back to CT. we've spoken since then, its helped my anger to settle a great deal. but my sadness still lingers, and I'm sure it will until i see him again. he's convinced we need this. in his own words "from the beginning i pledged us with unnecessary bullshit & need a fresh start with you" as painful as it is, I'm trying to respect it. I'm trying to push away my pride & selfishness to realize maybe this is what we need. we were stuck in an unhealthy cycle, we got so caught up in petty fights, so caught up in emotions that we lost track of our senses.
      4 years apart was a long time, long enough for us to become strangers in a way. we had grown into 2 totally different people than were were in high school. when he moved in with me Feb. of 2011 we had no idea what each other needed, wanted. we couldn't communicate. in a way, him leaving gives us a chance to to step back, look at the whole picture. we can take everything we learned & we can rebuild, confident in the fact that we can come together strong & with new found respect for each other.. hopefully sooner than later.
     Hes the only one for me & i the only one for him. we're both sure of this. no matter what our friends & families say, no matter how many negative opinions are shared with us, we know this love is real. it may be hard for them to understand why were push through these struggles but its not about them. its about us. its about the promise i made to a boy when i was 15- no matter the distance, no matter the time, no matter the sacrifice ill stand by your side- i intend to honor that promise until the day the Lord calls me home.

Trainwreck

...once again, a tiny argument got out of control, but this time he left. my boyfriend of 7 years left me Friday night, he packed everything he could into his car and drove 18 hours straight back to Connecticut. taking my hopes & dreams with him, he decided we needed -space-. he'd only been here 6 months!!... (we had been apart 4 years when i moved to SC in 07, he joined me Feb. of this year) ... when the going got tough he got gone :(

devastated.

I'm at a loss for words

Pizza! Pizza!

the homemade kind -yum! last night babe and i headed over to our friends Trey & Laura's house for some pizza making fun . i tired my hardest to do the whole pizza dough spinning in the air, but was quickly shot down due to gravity. stupid gravity. so we opted for the pull and stretch method. end result- faaaabulous!

gather supplies

don't forget the yeast!

knead knead knead!

dough

sauce it! ( Laura's homemade)

cheeese it!

peperoni it!

bake!

cut...

Bon Appetit!

oh happy day

after weeks and weeks of talking about it, my love and i finally woke up early Saturday morning packed a cooler, a few other necessities then loaded up the car and headed for the beach! Beaufort was our beach of choice - mainly because it was the closest ( at 3 hours away! ) sheeesh we need to relocate somewhere closer to the coast! it was nice to see Justin (mylove) enjoy himself so much! smiles never left our faces!