WELCOME TO THE BRAND-SPANKIN-NEW CUBICLE THROWDOWN! It's bigger and better than ever - and I can't think of a more apt way to celebrate my 300th post than with a completely new site! Lots of things have changed in my life, so I wanted my site to be updated too. While Roatan and diving will always have the #1 place in my heart, I wanted my site to be a little less scuba-centric and better reflect what my life is like now.A Brand New Cubicle Throwdown While I've had a couple redesigns in the ...
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Radio Silence
Oh, hey there. Guess what? Contrary to what many of you seemed to believe by the content of your emails, I did not die here in Honduras! I am still alive and kicking (and definitely knocking on wood). I am healthy and happy and all is well.Pardon my pause in posts for the last two months (eeeek...yikes). You'll have to trust me when I say it just got away from me. After a few weeks it just felt weird, and I let it keep going and going like when you keep watching a Friends marathon and after ...
The Last Day of 2014
Hello again from the Caribbean!After a somewhat unintentional month-long blog hiatus, here I am. At first I was just feeling uninspired, with not much to say. Then I was feeling censored, as there were a lot of things happening here on Roatan safety and security-wise that people were asking me about, but I couldn't write about it on my blog. I'm sure many of you don't know this but there are plenty of islanders who have found out about my blog and read it. While I'm always happy to have new ...
What the Hell Happened?
"What the hell happened? Where are you?"I have heard this a bit over the last few weeks. After I went off on a tired and teary rant about how I just wasn't having any fun here anymore, I sort of disappeared, as I tend to do any time I get overwhelmed. I just shut down and watch Netflix or read books all night and check in on Facebook sometimes, and that's about it. I had a lot of long conversations with family, friends and even strangers about what my next move was going to ...
A Small Disclaimer.
I never, ever thought people were going to read my blog.I was never planning for it to get as big as it has, and comparatively it isn't even that big. I was shocked the first time an advertiser approached me, and had to put my big-girl panties on and ask other experienced bloggers what to do, because I didn't have a clue. Thankfully I'm part of an amazing online community of fellow bloggers, and all the ladies I wrote to went out of their way to show me the ropes.Now I have ...
Badass business cards from Moo Printing!
I'm getting pretty excited to head to Canada on holiday in FOUR short days! I can't think about it too much or my head will explode with everything I want to do there. High on the list right now is: drinking water out of the tap, taking a bath, eating sushi, walking around at night and of course, seeing my friends and family (after sushi). So in the interest of not exploding my head, here is something completely different for you:Anyone who knows me in real life will know I'm not the ...
All Things Edible – My Guest Interview at 20 Years Hence
I've been interviewed again! This time by the amazing duo Steph & Tony of 20 Years Hence, who I've been following along right from the beginning of their round-the-world journey. They write some of the most informative and thorough travel blog posts I've ever seen and are super nice and funny to boot. Click here to see my "Chewing the Fat" guest interview over at 20 Years Hence!ceviche and a pisco sour in peru!Thanks again for inviting me to ...
Why Having a Blog is Awesome.
I feel like I shouldn't have to tell people why having a blog is awesome. First, you get to have your very own space on the internet. It's like when you finally got old enough to not have to share a room with your little brother any more, and you got one that was all yours and his stupid lego wasn't everywhere and you didn't have to put masking tape on the floor to show where your space was and where his was. Not that I ever did that.....Second, you can keep in touch with friends and ...
A Year of Awesome.
Cubicle Throwdown turned one year old this week! (source)How can I even begin to recap the last year? It's been a year since I first came to Roatan and learned to dive. It's been a year since I fell in love with this little island, and felt the pull of the 'Roatan Vortex'. It's been a year since I decided that life is short, and I'm not spending the best years of it sitting behind a desk doing something I don't enjoy.I had no idea what I was doing when I set up ...
Liebster Blog Award!
I'm so flattered to be nominated for a Liebster Blog Award by Jessica at Ways of Wanderers!A little background: Liebster Blog Awards have a bit of internet mystery about the origin, but the basic idea is that up-and-coming bloggers create 11 questions, tag 11 other new bloggers (apparently defined as less than 200 followers) and answer the questions the tagging blogger gave to them... and the chain goes on and on to help people stumble upon new blogs and gain followers, while getting ...