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Bigger and Better Than Ever

March 18, 2017 by Rika 8 Comments

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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Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: New Look, News

Radio Silence

March 12, 2015 by Rika 22 Comments

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 ...

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Filed Under: Awesome, Blogging, Expat Living, Figuring It Out, Life, Real Talk Tagged With: Blog, Busy, Milestone, Musings, Readers

The Last Day of 2014

December 31, 2014 by Rika 18 Comments

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 ...

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Filed Under: Blogging, Expat Living, Happiness, Life, Living Abroad, Roundup Tagged With: Busy, Finances, Holidays, Milestone, Musings

What the Hell Happened?

May 6, 2014 by Rika 24 Comments

"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 ...

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Filed Under: Blogging, Home, Island Living, Life, Living Abroad, Money, Work Tagged With: Fingers Crossed, Housesitting, Lady Luck, News, Time Off

A Small Disclaimer.

September 2, 2013 by Rika 29 Comments

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 ...

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Filed Under: Blogging, Life, Real Talk Tagged With: Censorship, Pro Bloggers, Readers

Badass business cards from Moo Printing!

August 5, 2013 by Rika 13 Comments

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 ...

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Filed Under: Blogging, Life Tagged With: Business Cards, Creative Business Cards, Dive Instructor Business Cards, Moo Printing, Pro Bloggers

All Things Edible – My Guest Interview at 20 Years Hence

June 21, 2013 by Rika 4 Comments

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 ...

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Filed Under: Blogging, Life Tagged With: Expat Eating, Food, Guest Interview

Why Having a Blog is Awesome.

May 30, 2013 by Rika 22 Comments

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 ...

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Filed Under: Awesome, Blogging, Life Tagged With: Readers

A Year of Awesome.

March 9, 2013 by Rika 8 Comments

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 ...

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Filed Under: Awesome, Blogging, Happiness, Life, Real Talk Tagged With: Milestone, Musings

Liebster Blog Award!

February 12, 2013 by Rika 12 Comments

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 ...

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Filed Under: Blogging, Life Tagged With: Fun Times, Readers

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hiya! i'm a canadian paralegal-turned-scuba diving instructor-turned EFL teacher-turned digital nomad. i left my cubicle in 2012 and haven't looked back since. i'm a serial expat, but right now i'm back in canada on hiatus for a while. welcome to the place where i say things.

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