My Lighthouse

Aunt Becky - everytime I go to my favorite beach, I think of you and your love for lighthouses. At Bill Baggs State Park, there's a historic lighthouse from the mid 1800s, and it's now the oldest standing structure in Miami-Dade County. I just finished my article on it for HelloMiami.com, and you can see it here. Oh, the beach was also voted one of the top ten in the U.S. It's so nice and relaxing.

But here are a few pics of my favorite favorite beach and the beautiful lighthouse! I didn't get to climb to the top and take a picture the other day; it started storming soon after I got there. When Mom's here, I'll climb it with her and take some pics.  :)  You're right Aunt Becky, she probably will need a wine IV heheheh.

Historic Lighthouse from the 1800s.

Mark fighting the current.

Clouds are concentrating...storm will commence soon!

Rain, rain, go away.

Alright, I'm off to read! Love you all.

Book Club Website!

My friends and I have a book club here in Miami. It was actually started by my friend Rebecca, and she just recently moved to Seattle for law school. She was one of the girls I went to Disney with. I wanted to share the blog I started for the book club girls, in case any of you wanted to see what we were reading and doing! We just recently decided to open up our group to other people, and I've had one woman respond to my Craigslist ad so far. (We are keeping the group Women Only.)

Here's the website: www.brickellbooklovers.wordpress.com

It's on WordPress, not Blogger, but I'm trying that, too. Since I am a writer, and blogging is very hot right now, I need to know both pretty well. I'm also starting a cooking blog about mid-twenty cooking, and I'll share that as soon as I add a little more.

Miss Shelby looks so so sweet! I just saw Aunt Becky's new pics on facebook (3 day pics), and she already looks older and sweeter! I can't wait to meet her :) I'm so proud of you KK.

Also, Mom is coming to visit me in less than a week! Everyone please keep her calm about the airplane :) heheheh. Love you all!

For fun, pics when the Bank of America tower was PURPLE! (It was SO AWESOME!!!) It's usually white, and sometimes for holidays they'll make it red/white/blue (like Labor Day), or sometimes it's different colors for sports teams winning various things. But I could not figure out why it was purple the other day! Still, purple is my favorite color!

Pool Daze

So, without further ado, here are some pictures from my lazy pool days at the Axis in Brickell.





Hope everyone's having a great Labor Day long weekend! :) Mom's coming to visit me in less than two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D

Everyone has it -- WeDDinG FeVeR...

Except me! Hahah, so Mark and I were in TN in July for his brother's wedding, and then I was recently at Zach's wedding (one of my very good friends from Hume Fogg). Here are some photos of the festivities!


This is Mark and me dancing at Ally and Scott's wedding in July. I ordered this one. :)

And this is us being silly before the ceremony! They took quite a few of us laughing.

On the way from our hotel to Zach's reception, Corey and I carried this cooler, our wedding gift to the couple. Everyone gave us very strange looks, but it was on their Target registry! Apparently everyone thought we had filled the cooler and were bringing it with us to the party...

Here is Dawn, Elizabeth, and me at the reception. Dawn is my friend Aaron's fiance (they are getting married in a few days, again, the FEVER), and Elizabeth is my bestest friend from Meigs/HFA!

Me and Liz, looking a tad sweaty from all the dancing...

Corey and I are showing off the cooler, Price-is-Right-style! Gotta love it! :)

It's Wednesday.

Mark's birthday was a success! We had been eating a lot of cake recently, so I made chocolate covered strawberries and chocolate/rice krispie bananas instead. They were a hit!

We went to Havana Harry's for dinner and the to Brickell Irish Pub for drinks after. Everyone mingled and met some new friends.

This is Mark's piece of cake from Havana Harry's -- sooooo good.

These are the chocolate covered strawberries I made!

Mark eating my chocolate bananas - don't worry, he's not naked. He has pants on. :)

And here are the bananas!

I made him a painting for his birthday. Here are a few pics of the painting. You can also see it on my art blog.




Hope everyone has a good Wednesday! I woke up early, worked out, ate, and now I'm going to write write write! Adios.

Happy Birthday Mark! 23 is OLD!

Happy Birthday to my best friend and roommate Mark! (And boyfriend, too.) He is 23 today; so old!! Hehehe, just kidding ;) he likes to call me an old lady. The pic above is Mark at the airport Chili's drinking a margarita last August on the way to Napa Valley.

Mark and I at Key Biscayne, sometime last summer.

On the streets of San Francisco, an awesome city!

Very old drawing I did of Mark reading.

Mark trying out the shaker that Karen got us for a housewarming present, along with several really cool cocktail glasses -- thanks again, Karen! Mark really enjoys measuring his drinks ;)

This is Mark with our old neighbor Carlo. We used to hang out with him a lot when we lived in the house, and he'd feed us and drink wine with us. He's an older Cuban man, and sometimes the language barrier was difficult, but at that point we'd usually just all be laughing. :) I miss him.

I like Mark because he plays with me. Like painting nails and doing hair. :) He's silly.

Halloween 2008. I was a cat, and Mark was himself in a green shirt.

Playing guitar, several days ago.


Tonight we're going to eat at Havana Harry's and then probably go out after. A new Irish pub opened within walking distance of us (actually only about 2 blocks away), and we tried to go Friday for their opening, but it was too packed to get in! We might try again tonight. We've got a big group going, mostly women, since Mark's such a stud!

Happy Birthday!

Epcot on HelloOrlando.com :)

Hi guys,

I wrote an article about Epcot Theme Park that is now on HelloOrlando.com. You can view it here! A special thanks to my friend Becca who graciously let me use some of her photos for my article. Thanks again!

I would greatly appreciate a click or two :)

Today I'm just working away on HelloMiami, book reviews, and my other writing gig, which is basically shorter articles for a website called Demand Studios. When I get some posted, I will put the links here for easy viewing!

Also, check out my art blog if you're interested. It's really still an infant, but you can click it on the left side of this blog in my Supercool Links area.

Hope everyone is having a great day.

Love,

J