January 5, 2012 “They still played with me once in awhile when it was just the one kid. But now there’s TWO little humans! Nobody’s going to play with me anymore!”
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Archive for the ‘photos’ Category
New camera, new visa
January 4th, 2012
January 4, 2012 My trusty old camera is slowly dying, feature by feature. The latest casualty is the flash, so I broke down and got a new camera because I’m going to Egypt tomorrow and then on to China in a few weeks and I didn’t want my old camera to die mid-trip. The new [...]
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Mmm pumpkin…
January 3rd, 2012
January 3, 2012 Yep, this is a pumpkin leftover from Halloween. It was just hanging out on my porch minding its own business until this week when somebody decided it looked tasty. Also, check out what’s above the pointy top of the chomp mark: a perfect little snowflake!
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Toes
January 2nd, 2012
January 2, 2012 My brother and my nephew hang out and eat junk food one last time before my brother heads back to China.
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Happy New Year!
January 1st, 2012
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions but this year I decided that now was a good day to start posting again. This is my tiny nephew looking out the window and through a giant snowflake decoration. I don’t know what he stopped to stare at though. We were at my aunt’s house today hanging out [...]
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Afghan Girl
March 31st, 2010
Yes, I know, this isn’t a female Marine. But the caption mentions female Marines working on a census in Afghanistan and I just like the photo so here it is: A young Pashtun girl watch smiles as US Marines hand out trinkets in her village March 11, 2010 in a hamlet near Khan Neshin in [...]
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Bye Bye 00s
December 31st, 2009
Some of the places I got to go this past decade: 2000 – College! I took this for a photography class. 2001 – Honduras 2002 – Mexico 2003 – Boot camp and then here, MCT! (Marine Combat Training) 2004 – Okinawa 2005 – South Africa 2006 – Iraq 2007 – Finland 2008 – Honduras 2009 [...]
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This is My Christmas Post
December 24th, 2009
I don’t usually do holiday posts but then I went to the mall on Christmas Eve with my mom and found this in a bookstore: Hopefully the tackiness of it comes through in the photos. It is a lightweight plastic, turquoise, fake suede-covered Mary Mother of Jesus…thing? It’s not a doll and calling it a [...]
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Camel Face
December 17th, 2009
Cairo, March 2009 A camel at the Giza pyramids. He was probably being ridden by one of those obnoxious men who follow you around with their camel and try to harass you into taking a camel ride. No thanks…
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Behind
December 16th, 2009
Cairo, March 2009 I bet you don’t see this view of the Sphinx very often: its butt and tail!
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Texas Tree
November 27th, 2009
Texas – November 2009 I went to Texas for Thanksgiving this year, the tree was outside our hosts’ house.
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Veteran’s Day Photos
November 13th, 2009
Some photos from the Boston Globe’s Big Picture feature today about Armistice Day Remembrances: Tammy Duckworth, Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs watches as U.S. President Barack Obama departs on his first official trip to Asia on Marine One at the White House on November 12, [...]
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Bob
October 8th, 2009
Cairo – March 2009 This isn’t a very good picture, I took it from inside the car and across the street, but I think it’s funny: Arabic grafitti and then “BOB”. Ha.
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I am a female Marine currently in the Individual Ready Reserve. I like to sleep, travel, read, eat, explore, and take photographs. I read lots of news and I like reading about life in other countries. I am easily amused and my dream job is to be snoozing in a warm patch of sunlight, hopefully with a piece of tasty cheese nearby for when I wake up hungry.
