Summer update!

Hi lovelies,
It's been crazy lately. The summer started for the camp I'm working at here, and it's been non stop (yesterday was a 10 hour work day), and when you work with 80 kids for 10 hours, you get kind of tired, and forget to do things like blogging, eating, working out, sleeping, and the like ;-) (just kidding mom, I eat and I sleep).

Mermaiding is going well, I did a photoshoot a while back and received some new pictures which I'll post throughout, that was a fun shoot.(Photos thanks to EP Photography) I also am starting modeling here in Hawaii and have a photoshoot next Sunday for a cool abstract make up piece.  Also training as a free diver so I can hold my breath for a long time which can lead to a few things...
1. More ocean cred as a mermaid
2. Better likelyhood at getting hired at an aquarium in the future
3. Better underwater photoshoots
4. The ability to say I can hold my breath for longer than 2 minutes

Pretty excited, and nervous, apparently swam with a shark the other day and didn't know it as I was in my monofin in the ocean, but I didn't die or get eaten, so that's always great. :-) I was kind of terrified of this happening and walked Jeremy through my funeral arrangements to make sure that everything happened the way it's meant to (a few rules, good music, I must either be in a GORGEOUS dress (wedding or blue Miss Iowa) or in a tail (think about it, it'd be awesome and quite fitting, and less black than people always wear, make it a celebration that I had a fantastic life, and tell good stories, I'll be happy in heaven, so no need to be unduly down, you can be sad, I just don't want it to be drudgery and really depressing). See, not bad.

It's PCS season here in Hawaii, which means some of my good friends are leaving, and new friends are coming in. It's strange because I've always been the one to leave, to go to Africa, travel, college, whatever, I've never really had my friends be the one to go first. It's a hard thing to go through, but I'm glad I've had the chance to meet some of these ladies, one of which, Ashley, has drastically impacted my life while here in Hawaii and helped me find all my friends, and whom I adore. She's been a mentor, given great advice, listened, and laughed with me, she also likes Riesling as much as me, so she's a keeper. Oh, and she bought me mermaid soap, which I love.  She also has a son who is terrified of my fins but believes I'm his girlfriend. All or nothing bud.

I'm excited to go home in less than a month. I'm excited to see both sides of my family again. I'm excited to see my nephew for the first time, I'm excited to see my friend Megan who'll be 7 months pregnant! I'm excited to go back to camp to see my friends! I'm excited to see my girlfriends from college (who will all be back home for a little while, so that'll be amazing). I'm excited to go to Zombie Burger, Olive Garden, and especially Scratch Cupcakery. It's just going to be awesome, and I'm pretty darn stoked.

Radagast is on the left, Cosmo, Jer and I are on the right.

The boys are doing well, currently running amok in our living room, I know it sounds odd, but seriously, 2 dogs are WAY easier than having just 1. They play with each other and it's less stress on me than having Cosmo go, "mom, play, let's play, let's play, play with me" all day long. A good friend of mine is watching them for us while we come back to the states,they'll be happy there so that's always a good thing. Other than that not much is new, I registered as a business in Hawaii as "Mermaid Harmony" and so that's working through the system and got my EIN, so I'm super official now! Also in September I'll be expanding Mermaid Harmony to have a back up mergirl (one of my friends Kristen) and some extra mertenders, and hopefully two more tails (one for me and one for Kristen) my friend Billy makes tails, so we're working together to make it, but it looks like they'll be done in the fall. Which is okay because I'm busier than a bee in a flower garden.
We started growing plants (read trying to grow plants)...they are okay, random flowers in Hawaii, my thumb isn't very green but we're trying!

Bye Bye long blonde hair.

Oh yeah, and I cut my hair. It wasn't taking any dye because of the peroxide used a while ago, and it was dead from all the swimming, so I chopped it. This time around less dye, and no more blonde :-/

The front

So that's pretty much it for now, I'll try to post again more often, I hope you are enjoying your day and your Summer, can you believe Summer is almost over!?

Love you all, see many of you soon,

Am