México.

I got back from our family’s vacation a couple of weeks ago, and have been meaning to ramble about it for a while here. We went to Cozumel for a week of diving and other topside adventures, which was exciting. It was quite an experience. Read the rest of this entry »

AOW.

Advanced Open Water Certification was this weekend. It is long, so be warned. Read the rest of this entry »

Good Times, Noodle Salad.

Here is a happy and excited outburst to counter the quite-bleak posts that preceded it. Read the rest of this entry »

Stir Crazy Cabin Fever.

I had gotten excited about assuaging said condition[s] with a couple of dives, but Dad was feeling like crap today. I was also feeling a bit under the weather, otherwise I would’ve lobbied hard for Sister and I to go all by out lonesomes. Of course, he would have freaked out and panicked and forbade us from going alone. I totally understand that; this is one of the times where I can understand his paranoia and desire for control. Anyways, hopefully we’ll actually be going diving tomorrow. I am really hoping that this is not as bad as the last time we went on Memorial Weekend; our second dive, we got down to about twenty feet, realized that the one-and-a-half-foot visibility wasn’t going to improve, came up, and went home. Seriously, when we started our descent, we held onto each other, and even then, I could only see Dad’s hand and wrist, and Sister said she could only see my hand and wrist. Read the rest of this entry »

Volley Two + SCUBA.

I think my mother is going to drive me insane. I am sure that I’m driving her nuts with what she views as my deviant/troubled/self-destructive behavior, which which consists of my keeping “strange” hours (sleeping from one to nine in the morning) and not going to the gym every day. I think she’s even got Sister in on this. If this keeps up, I’ll be a raving lunatic in no time. Read the rest of this entry »