Well that snuck up on me quick… didn’t I just write my month 13 roundup??
Here we are at 14 months! Flying by as usual. I haven’t been around much because I’m enjoying a 2-week visit from my very first visitor!! I’ve already certified him as an open water diver and he’s doing the advanced course this week. Another diving convert! We’re having a blast, much of it assisted by Ronrico and the weather has been perfect. It’s a lot of fun finally showing someone where I live and what I do!
Speaking of what I do, the other news around here is I just achieved my PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating … movin on up! PADI even tweeted me about it 🙂
I’ve also been asked by PADI to do an interview for their blog about being a scuba professional for a living… wow! Really cool to be approached by such a big organization. So look for that coming down the line soon!
You know the drill by now:
1. Gratuitous diving photo
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dive site: one minute west credit: ?? i forget. sarah, did you take this? |
2. Posts from the last month
- a surprisingly popular post on what I eat in Honduras … watch for round 2 on this one coming soon – an islander saw my post and decided to cook for me for a week to show what ‘real’ island food is. YUM!
- my treatise on why and how lionfish are ruining Caribbean reefs, and a delicious recipe. Cause if you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em!
- a monster post about eating my way through Vancouver
- to end the food trilogy, my last post was about my super exciting first whale shark sighting! And there’s even a video of it to boot.
3. The coolest thing I’ve found on the internet this month
Calming Manatee is the best/cutest website I’ve seen in ages. Photos of manatees with captions like “It’s okay. We still like you.” Whoever made this needs a high five. I’m not even ashamed to say I actually used this a few times this week when I got a little stressed. It works!
So funny, right? I love that you can keep clicking and get more and more of them. I still visit that site if I'm feeling a little bummed out… they always make me smile 🙂
Hahaha the manatees are great.
I just can't believe how busy you have been lately, so much fun and a lot of work to do. I'm really impressed. Keep going! Where do you take this energy from!?
Wow, it doesn't seem like so much to me but then I got your comment and I read back over it and damn…it is a lot! Haha! I have no idea where the energy comes from. Just a passion for what I'm doing I guess 🙂
You're killin' it girl!
Every day I'm hustlin!! xo
Love the manatee meme and congrats on your certification!
Thanks Alex!! I love those manatees too.. on the site you can just keep clicking "summon another manatee" at the bottom and they keep coming up with different ones. Too cute!