As promised, here are some more pictures from our recent vacation to Hawaii. These are the professional pictures that we purchased (and paid an arm, leg, and first born for). I did notice that in the pictures from the Luau, those flip flops and that dress make my legs look stubby. Euw. LoL.

++++ Please excuse the compression of the pix… I didn’t crop them so they are still HUGE but WP keeps them small. ++++

Well, enjoy!

I believe karma has stricken me with tasteless lunch because I strayed from my diet. Today, deciding to give Breakfast Club’s breakfast a try, I got the Country Fried Steak & Eggs.

Country Fried Steak & Eggs - Breakfast Club

Total #FAIL. The CFS was soggy, the eggs were watery, and the hash browns were soft and cold. I was rather disappointed in today’s meal, not saying Breakfast Club makes bad CFS but today it was not good. Maybe it’s because they were closing soon, who knows? Maybe it’s Karma saying “Keleigh, DON’T EAT THAT!”. It does, however, seem kind of pointless to work out every morning then eat like crap.

Definitely going to stick with my Big Salad next time.

Today I went to Breakfast Club in Downtown Orlando for some lunch. I’ve always driven past the restaurant but never really gave much thought to eating there since I eat breakfast at home. Well, thanks to my dearest nemisis Marky Mark, I discovered they had lunch. Not really sure what I wanted but wanting to stay on my healthy diet I decided to have a chef salad. Let me tell you, this salad was AMAZING. I wish I could let you taste it from my blog it was so good! Like, ORGASM IN YOUR MOUTH GOOD! Haha!

Here are a few pics of my Green Salad Goodness. Maybe I should simply call it, the “Big Salad”. Seinfeld anyone?

Since it’s been over a month since I’ve been sadly back from Hawaii, I really needed to start getting pictures up. Here is Phase 1 of my pictures, these are from Snorkeling at a reef reserve on an excursion with Captian Zodiac’s Raft & Snorkel on Kona, Hawaii. I have to say it was a wonderful experience…. and this big Seal you see in the pictures, is an endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal.

Also, A few more random photos for you.

Taste the Rainbow

Rainbow!

Smile!

Please enjoy! More from my digital camera coming soon! Also the professional one’s taking on the ship.

Well hello there!

It’s been awhile, yes? I have to extend my apologies for the lack of blog updates, again. LoL. I always feel like I have something to share with the world but since I spend most of my day at work on a computer it’s like ugh, do I have to? when I get home from work.

Anywho, I have some exciting things to report, not that you care.

Hawaii: At the end of January I flew to Hawaii to take a nice long cruise to all of the Hawaiian Islands. We chose Norwegian Cruise Lines’s Pride of America. Beautiful ship, awesome service, awesome company. I totally recommend NCL for any cruises you wish to take.

Hawaii, however, was absolutely beautiful. A lot of people in Florida say that there is no point of visiting Hawaii because we have beaches and palm trees here. Boy are they missing out! Hawaii is much, much more than beaches and palm trees. Each island is unique, beautiful, and the culture of Hawaii is so amazing! The natives are also extremely nice and always ready to share a piece of their heritage with you. We hiked up the volcanoes, we snorkeled around the reefs and saw an abundance of tropical fish as well as the endagered Hawaiian Monk Seal. He was about 3 years and BIG. LoL. So CUTE though! We hiked in the Rainforest where we learned that you can pretty much live entirely off of the land. The vegetation supplies fruits, vegetables, and even the stuff you can’t eat has some sort of medical usage. Absolutely wonderful if I do say. One day I will post pictures, LoL. Maybe I will even share them with you, but first I need to show my family! They are still waiting. Oops. :-\

College I am officially a College Freshmen. Yes, it’s true! I begin college in May…it’s been 7 years since I graduated High School so this should be interesting. I’m being a dubbed a “non-traditional student” and that makes me feel old! 25 is not old though! Ha! But yes, soon I have to go shopping for school supplies and you can probably expect blogs about how much I hate math but when it comes down to it I am really REALLY happy to be back in school.

Gym & Healthy Eating In my quest to lose a few inches around my waist so I can fit in to my jeans again, my boyfriend and I have adopted a new healthier lifestyle. We’ve cut out soda (RIP: Sprite) and alcohol (which I didn’t really drink anymore anyway), cut down on red meat, sugars, and junk food. We’re eating a lot of fish for our Omega-3’s , limiting our starches, eating lots of salads, fruits, and veggies. w00t. He’s been a gym goer but I myself, have not. I’ve never needed to work out but as I approach 30, slowly but surely, it seems I must start. This morning at 5:00am we got our happy selves out of bed and went to the gym. I am sore, my arms are useless but I FEEL GOOD! Now the hard part is to keep the routine going and get up everyday and go. *sigh*

That seems to be the bulk of want I wanted to post in this post…so…yeah. I have other things to blog about but I must get back to work. It’s taken me three hours to type this because I’m squeezing in words every few seconds, lol.

P.S. If you have any healthy food recipes you need to send them to meeee! Mahalo!

Since the iPhone’s creation and launch users have flocked to AT&T to get on board the iPhone craze and phenom. With the ever increasing Features and Apps you can pretty much do anything with the iPhone. Thus, “There’s an App for That” was born. In the widely popular “App for That” commercials to boast the abundance of apps available to do this, that, and the next thing while on “the World’s fastest 3G Network” just by purchasing and using the iPhone, popularity continued to soar and it seems like everyone had an iPhone.

Then, as it seems, Verizon had an epiphany. What good is the “World’s Fastest 3G Network” if you can’t connect to 3G because it is not available in your area. And so it begins. “There’s a Map for That” commercials begin. Verizon picked at the open wound of AT&T and the fact that they do have a small 3G network compared to that of Verizon. While this is only half true [read this for the technical hoopla], it resulted in a lawsuit filed by AT&T against Verizon, a counter-suit from Verizon and then the dropping of both lawsuits.

As if that sore was not sore enough Consumer Reports ranked AT&T dead last in Customer Satisfaction. Ouch. One thing is for sure, AT&T’s iPhone Exclusivity contract will be coming to an end, probably sometime in 2010, and if their act (and network) isn’t cleaned up and iPhone plans revised to be competitive instead of more expensive, we will see a mass exodus of iPhone users to competitors for network coverage, satisfaction, and/or price of plans.

Now, enough of AT&T, Verizon is not without its woes. Currently, the FCC is investigating Verizon’s sudden increase of their early termination fee for “advanced devices” from $175 to $350 and the FCC is also investigating whether Verizon is guilty of some shady charging practices. Apparently Verizon is charging a $1.99 fee for users who accidentally access Verizon Mobile Web without a data plan. $1.99 doesn’t seem like much but multiply that by thousands of users who inadvertently press it and they’ve made themselves some free money! Read more about this at The Register.

So basically we have a choice regarding the top two Wireless Giants. One that ranks poorly in customer satisfaction or one that has some shady money making agendas.

T-Mobile anyone?

Tiger Woods

In a testament to show how much the world has become addicted to knowing the private lives of others, the Tiger Woods “transgression” has been a hot bed of speculation, gossip, and privacy infringement. According to many local citizens of Central Florida reports and news media have actually flocked to known hang out places of Mr. Woods to talk to folks who may or may not of seen anything, to get an idea of what Mr. Woods was like out of the spotlight and if they’ve witnessed any of these infidelities or flirtations.

Can the media get any more pathetic? This all started with a story running in some super market tabloid reporting that Mr. Woods engaged in extra marital affairs with some VIP Club Hostess and then a few days later poor Tiger crashed his car in the weeee hours of the morning. And then from there, speculation swirled, privacy was invaded, all these women are coming out saying they too have had intimate relations with Mr. Woods.

Let me break for a second to send a message to those women -
First of all, your 15 minutes of ‘fame’ are for all the wrong reasons. Not only are you happy to “Kiss and Tell” (when you think it will benefit you), you are telling the world and other possible mates, famous or not, that you do not respect the privacy of the other party. You’re showing the world that you’re quite happy with sleeping with a married man (or just showing your shallowness by only sleeping with a RICH married man thinking you’ll get something from it) .
Second, it does take two to tango. You were just as wrong and just as at fault as Mr. Woods for the consent to any intimate or extra flirtatious relations.

Ok, what was I saying? Oh yes, the media on a rampage. Ever since the accident it’s been non-stop gossip and prying into the life and history of Mr. Woods and he said she said. Last time I checked Tiger Woods was human, he was a man, and he is not perfect. Am I saying this was right or something for his wife to brush off? Definitely not, my husband cheats on me and he’s gone. However, this matter is for the Woods family to deal with PRIVATELY. It is none of our business and it is not helping that we find it necessary or tasteful to print, write, talk, about any of this. Gee, Keleigh, why are you writing about it then? Why? Because I’m not fueling the rumors or the fire, I am simply telling you people to shut up and let the Woods family deal with this in privacy.

Mr. Woods has already lost a lot of respect from a lot of people and I can’t say that he wasn’t asking for it but he already has to face his wife, his children, mother, and his close friends and provide them with answers. Those are the people that he needs to be answering to, not us.

Black Screen of Death

On November 27, 2009 a dingleberry of a security “professional” from a computer security company that will go unnamed because they suck published a report that a Windows 7 security update was causing computers to crash and display the “Black Screen of Death” rendering them “useless” but of course, NO ONE CONTACTED MICROSOFT!

According to Ed Bott, who covered this story thoroughly, the original blog post went unnoticed until November 30, 2009 when it was picked up by the IDG News Service and from there it just spiraled out of control with a plethora of blogs and articles written and published on this supposed Microsoft F-up with no one actually doing any fact checking.

Now, I am by far not a journalist or professional writer, but it seems to me that when publishing something such as a security related article you would want to have the facts. Of course we can have our opinions about things and interpret things differently but this was not that article. With the blame placed directly on Microsoft, and quite blatantly too, the only interpretation of this article was that Microsoft caused this, they are fault for the millions of users who may encounter this “Black Screen of Death”.
And then we have the kicker. After all is said and done, this BSoD is of no error of Windows 7 and the company retracted that information and said…

“Having narrowed down a specific trigger for this condition we’ve done quite a bit of testing and retesting on the recent Windows patches including KB976098 and KB915597 as referred to in our previous blog. Since more specifically narrowing down the cause we have been able to exonerate these patches from being a contributory factor.

“We apologise to Microsoft for any inconvenience our blog may have caused. This has been a challenging issue to identify. Users who have the black screen issue referred to can still safely use our free fix tool to restore their desktop icons and task bar.”

Not only was that a lame attempt at an apology, I mean, come on, inconvenience? A challenging issue to identify? It wasn’t too challenging for you to quickly blame Microsoft. And what’s with the plug? Use our “free tool to restore…” Why would I want to use a tool from a company who cannot properly diagnose a problem and where it comes from? No thanks!

Ohhh myyy gawwdd!! It’s Thanksgiving already and then Christmas follows! Where did the time go? Really? It seems like I just moved moved to Orlando, moved again, and then moved again! Lose me? I lost me too! BUT all that matters is that I am finally back in my permanent home and I really hope I don’t have to move again for awhile. This weekend will be spent putting away the final details of the move and organizing the closets and cabinets. I also have a gazillion and one pictures to hang. w00t!

Now, Thanksgiving is next week and I will be back in Tampa. We’re going to have a FULL house of at least 28 people. (WOWZA) And that’s just immediate family and a few relatives. I have a huge family.

Haven’t decided what I want to do for Black Friday yet…. Maybe go grab some good deals with money I don’t have. Maybe stay in and decorate a Christmas tree, hang some lights… and drink some Eggnog!

This weekend I will have to find all the Thanksgiving deals and sales and prep for them. Just in case I go shoopppinngg!!!

What is everyone else doing for Turkey day? (Or Tofurkey Day for the Vegetarians).

I grew up swimming in pools and all of a sudden I get earaches EVERY TIME I go swimming now, it’s ridiculous really. Yesterday the pain was so bad, inside my ear, down my neck which was a bit swollen. Totally sucky and a pain in my EAR! I will either have to give up swimming or look goofy with earplugs. Maybe I will get some pink ear plugs… look all cool.

In other news, I am dogsitting this weekend for my friend Kia. She is taking a break from her mutt, lol. I am happy to have the little munchkin/hellian. She’ll be busy all weekend and won’t be able to give Kizi the lovin’ she needs so I’m substituting. WIN! We’re going to go for a lot of walks, that’s fo sure! I’ll have to take and post pictures later… she’s a cute little devil. Just like her mom *cough* haha.

Also, I had plans to go back to school to further my edumacation, that’s not happening at the moment. For some awful reason I do not qualify for any, NADA, NONE, ZILCH, financial aid. All they want to give me is loans… I do not do loans, especially these days. Who knows what strings will be attached to them. SOoooooOOoo, I will wait and see what happens.

Big Thanks to those who shared their opinions in my previous rant. I appreciate the difference of opinions, however, please refrain from name calling or bashing any specific political party. Each have their flaws and their problems. If we didn’t have two opposing sides we really wouldn’t be where we are today.

Just testing the wordpress iPhone app. I like how it goes horizontal so that is a plus. Anyone else use it? Or am I the only one? Lol.