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Here are some instax shots I took during our 10 hour hike through Taylor Valley.  We finally just posted about this incredible experience over at Weird Birds, go check it out. p.s. I finally spruced things up a teeny tiny bit, after completely destroying my layout a few months ago and then ignoring it... Check out the new banner!  

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Lake Hoare from Elizabeth Endicott on Vimeo. So Kevin and I had the date night of a lifetime.  We had two days and one night at Lake Hoare, a camp in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.  We had to work for a few hours, but the rest of our time was spent outside, marveling in the incredible landscape.  I've never seen anything like it, and the 9 hour hike we took quickly rose to one of the best experiences

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[photos are from the last week of our brief summer in montana, taken with my thrifted vivitar] We have WEEKS left.  Not months, but just mere weeks.  A little under four, which is perhaps, in some books, still a month, but I'm counting them as weeks because I am ready to get off this continent and COOK, SMELL LIVING THINGS, WALK BAREFOOT, LOOK AT STARS, PET A CAT, CHOOSE WHAT I WANT TO DOOO!

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Have you seen this?  It's Woody Guthrie's New Years Rulin's from 1943.  I love it so much.  Next year, my resolutions will look a lot more like this.  Down here, the name of the game is safety.  There are safety presentations, safety lectures, safety committees, safety meetings.  At a recent safety meeting, (and don't ask me how these are related) we had to sit through a woman talking about her

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It's a quiet week here in McMurdo.  We've been enjoying each other's company after the 10 day, 900 mile separation.  These are a couple of pictures of our date night, which involved Scrumpy, seals, and snuggles - as all good Antarctic date nights do.  Go check out Weird Birds for more pictures.

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The changing of the seasons in McMurdo Station, Antarctica looks a lot different than I had grown used to in New England or Montana.  We're reaching the pinnacle of summer down here, which means one thing: mud.  All of the snow melts for about a month and reveals town as a mud pit.  Janitorial life involves a lot more floor maintenance.  Sweeping away from the sides of the hallways creates a

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 This glorious bed in a glorious room shared with a glorious man, looking out on glorious Antarctica. Making ouchies fun and cute. My (very picked over) table at the craft fair.  My friend Gabe was nice enough to provide moral support throughout the ordeal, which was in the middle of my night, since K was out at WAIS Divide. While spending our first anniversary 1,000 miles apart was certainly not

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How has it been over a month since I last posted anything?  It's been so busy here, with both of us doing a bit of traveling, getting new people situated on the crew, the big craft fair, and celebrating a year spent together.  All very exciting things, which I hope to post about in the coming days. I got to visit the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for five days in preparation for the

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 We've switched to night shift, which I wasn't very excited about, but it's proven to have a lot of unexpected pro's.  One of which is that the nights are filled with colors like this, as the sun has stopped setting, but rolls sleepily along the horizon every night, setting the sky ablaze.  Station is also quieter, and though we have far less opportunities to hang out with friends, we have more

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Ivan the Terra Bus zooms along the road to the ice runway in front of Mount Discovery It's bizarre how cute a 56 passenger vehicle can be.  Lately the sunsets have lasted for hours and are truly spectacular.  Pretty soon the sun will stop dipping below the horizon and it will be as if it is the middle of the day, all the day.  But for now, we're relishing the gorgeous colors cascading across the

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My week's collection of skua: the tiniest bottle of Tabasco, a slide of snow covered mountains, a miniature shovel on baker's twine, a clothespin, a very small medallion, a metal cutout of pine trees, and a penis whistle. Skua is the system in which we give/take items that are no longer wanted by one person, that another person might want.  A lot of people get excited about clothes and food

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[a sun dog on sunday.  a sun dogs is a ring around the sun created by ice crystals in the sky, like a rainbow] I'm here.  I've been here.  In Antarctica. All of my blogging energy has been directed towards Weird Birds, my blog with Kevin, but I though I would pop in here and point you in that direction, but also fill you in just a bit. We've been here just over three weeks, but it felt like we

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Just a quick note that you should go check out the blog that my boyfriend Kevin and I started today, and will be updating weekly throughout our adventures!   Weird Birds!

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I start the week long journey back to Antarctica tomorrow. Tomorrow also marks exactly one year since I first stepped foot onto that crazy, coldest, highest, driest, windiest continent.  Today I'll be oscillating between packing and enjoying things I know I'm going to miss.  Just one last tuna melt with fresh dill and tomatoes.  Just one last stroll up behind the house into the mountains. 

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Since I'm leaving Montana in two days to start the week long journey to Antarctica, I thought I'd post a few pictures of some the delicious food I've been eating in preparation for seven months of expired, processed crap.  Don't get me wrong, I'll be in Antarctica, where having several choices in a cafeteria type setting is pretty luxurious, I suppose.  But still.  I miss good food more than

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I leave for my second season in Antarctica in six days.  Somehow this has completely and utterly snuck up on me, and tonight involved a walk up the mountains behind the house (with some whiny coyotes a little too close for comfort) during which there was some venting and some verbal stressing.  But it's good. Believe it or not, Antarctica is going to be a chance to settle down for a

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Little Buddhas - Chiang Mai, Thailand Not much to say today.  Working furiously on some projects... it feels extraordinarily good to be working in this particular medium again.  It's a gift, so no peeks yet, but sometime soon. This week is busy.  On Friday I zip over to Seattle for a few days with my brother to meet up with Kevin.  I can't wait!  I haven't been to that magical city in a couple

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Sometimes I think that the purpose of life must be to try and get to the white line at the horizon.  I don't know if anything more beautiful exists.

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Back home in Montana.  Enjoying a multitude of quiet, still moments.Eating delicious Mama-made dinners on the porch overlooking the Bitterroot mountains.Setting up a makeshift studio for my coming weeks, absolutely burning to create, feeling freshly inspired by this article and this book which I devoured in one sitting.Tomorrow: farmer's market, thrift stores, a long walkTonight: writing

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Outside: Inside: I'm headed "home" to Montana today, after more than two months of roaming and visiting on the East Coast.  Perfect timing, because I am in serious need of a mountain fix. Listen: New Little Dragon Look: How fun is this? Love: These crochet portraits

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Growing up, I spent a lot of time at this lighthouse.   Brooding, dreaming, plotting, fretting.   Thinking. I never thought that I would be back there, as an "adult", five years after moving away from Maine, doing the American Gothic pose with the man I love.

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As much as I love my Fujifilm Finepix s1000, and as much as I admire it for lasting longer than any other electronic I've ever owned, its clunkiness was not cutting it for my roaming lifestyle.  I was missing out on shots because I had to wrestle it out of a bag, and struggling with a big heavy hunk hanging around my neck while navigating Vietnamese alleys.  It will still be in rotation,

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i missed tuesday's instax yesterday because i spent 11 hours on public transportation, getting myself all the way from philadelphia to new york city to boston to lowell.  boston and philadelphia will be chronicled later.  maine and new hampshire too, for that matter. for now, take a peek at my week in the glorious city of all cities.  kevin and i have done quite a bit of traveling in

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i cannot tell you how magical this week has been.  kevin in new england?  frolicking with the maine girls?  watching the sun rise over the atlantic?  making delicious things like eggs benedict with perfect homemade hollandaise sauce with my man at my side?  sipping margaritas with friends while looking out over the portsmouth harbor?  too good! this instax is of my parents (who are finally

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  i've got a picnic lunch packed, an overnight bag, and a reservation at a very new england-y bed and breakfast.  kevin arrives at the airport in a couple of hours.  we're going to have a little pre-getaway tonight, and then he gets to meet a whole bunch of my people for the first time.  he also gets to see where i grew up.  kevin + maine = one of the greatest merging of my worlds yet! p.s. this

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i have lots of pictures to share soon, but for now, here's a gif (via animals being dicks) of a penguin living out my seal fantasy.  sometimes in antarctica, we could get pretty close to these big furry slugs lazing out on the sea ice, and i always wanted to climb on top of them.  which of course is against the antarctic treaty, so i didn't.  but this cracks me up every single time, especially

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1. copious hours spent in the studio / 2. working on packaging / 3. if you're going to do a prototype of something, why not make it be a gift for your favorite frolickers? / 4. two little cross-eyed monsters / 5. creepy eyes at the flea market / 6. giggling with cousins / 7. adventures in ikea

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 i flew to boston late last night and haven't had a chance to check out my new surroundings yet.but here is this week's instax.  bangkok. taking a quick, no-stops flight last night reminded me of bangkok, since we flew in and out of that city about a half dozen times as we skipped around southeast asia.  all of them quick, no-stop flights.  oh, bangkok.  i recommend walking around chinatown,

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i've been thinking a lot about making it happen.  a phrase i've come across several times in the blog world lately, a phrase that suits the situation. it being… i'm not sure exactly.  i suppose, supporting myself by creating things.  well, not even that.  just creating things and having them reach the hands of others. i've been thinking about what it takes to do this - how much perseverance, how

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copious amounts of watercolors, thank you notes, and earring making have had me sitting with headphones on and realizing that i need some new music.  lucky for me, there's a free download of warm weather's new ep dances, AND a new single released by one of my all time favorites beirut.  cutie pups on the covers of both, to boot.  [click on album for link]

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poor christchurch.  this gorgeous city just can't catch a break from mother nature it seems. it's crazy to think back to first earthquake last september, then the insane aftershock that messed with our travel plans (although very minor to what the people there faced), and now more?  iy iy iy.  it also makes me wonder if this will change the travel route to antarctica this year.  generally we

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1. red rocks amphitheatre / 2. a perfect picnic / 3. pretty close pho / 4. the view from the curtis / 5. downtown denver geometries / 6. an evening in the park with bubbles, kites, and bikes / 7. the best bloody mary yet / 8. glitter gospel elvis / 9. there's sunset in that stream / 10. boyfriend and estes park / 11. a tree of lights

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my trip to denver:- reuniting with my love after thirty four days apart - biking between skyscrapers- watching the finals, rooting for both teams- after recently abandoning three and a half years of vegetarianism, trying cow tongue, oxtail, tendon- lounging in the curtis on the fun and games floor- meeting a whole slew of kevin's people and feeling my heart growing bigger with each of them-

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i'm on my way back from denver today.  i have lots of pictures to post soon, but for now, here's an instax i took of a thoughtful buddha in chiang mai, thailand. edit: staying in denver for three more days.  pictures soon!

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yeah yeah yeah, so i'm failing at posting anything but tuesday's instax, but at least it's something.  posting while traveling is not easy, with time flying extra fast as it is.  i'm heading to denver tomorrow to see kevin, so i will have pictures to post when i get back. this is my beloved zoe, one of the last pictures i got to take of her before she passed away due to old age a couple weeks

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i had my mom take this photo, and i'm kind of glad it came out a little awkward with my head chopped off because it makes it's that much more appropriate.  sent this instax to kev last week in a package that was waiting for him when he got home from australia.  since denver and charlotte (where i am currently) are too far apart, i'm taking a brief hiatus from my stint out east to visit him for a

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This post is a little late today because instead of arriving at the Charlotte airport at 11:30 last night, I arrived at the Greensboro airport at 12:45am, and then had to drive almost three hours to my aunt's house.  Without my suitcase.  Which is still somewhere out there. But now I'm here, and will be in North Carolina for a month before heading to New England for a month.  I'm getting my

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here's the weekly friday installment: the digs i've been having a lot of fun with clothes lately; it's such a dynamic and immediate form of self expression. my mom came across this quote the other day and shared it with me:"clothes and courage have so much to do with each other." - sara duncanso true!  so true! so here's what i wore on 12 may.  i had this dress made a few weeks ago in hanoi,

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here's thursday's weekly feature: scrumptious the french chef escoffier said, "good food is the basis of true happiness."it's certainly a key element. and scrumptious is such a good word, don't you think?  it's one of those highly appropriate words, along the same vein of onomatopoeia - it doesn't sound like it, but it feels like what it's supposed to conjure.  say it out loud, say it slowly. 

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tuesday's instax. doesn't exactly have a ring to it, but that's what this is. i bought an instax 210 as a first-antarctic-season-complete gift for myself.at first i was shocked and highly amused by how huge it is... it's really, really big.big enough that my friends joked that at least nobody in southeast asia would try to steal it from me.but this camera has grown on me.  in a big way.  (punzies

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[photo taken by my mother with my instax210: zoe and i enjoying sage covered montana mountains] hi.it's me. i've been gone for so long, and this space feels at once comforting and intimidating. i've been to the bottom of the world and back, and now i'm home in montana.a lot has happened, but that's to come. i just wanted to say that this space and the projects i'm currently working on was my

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 after one of the longest journeys of my life (36 straight hours of traveling including a 3 hour jaunt into singapore), we arrived in cambodia.  dr. fish foot massage (tiny fish that eat your dead skin... very ticklish)  elephants!  my power animal :)  posing in the angkor ruins  street kids are everywhere, "hello pretty lady, hello sister, you buy something?  only ten for one dollar!" they are

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yesterday the four of us took care of business most of the morning and then set off to do the takaka hill walkway it was a glorious stroll along the tops of ridges.  we would go through tunnels of dense moss covered forests and then come out to fields of limestone carved into intricate, sharp ripplesat times we would literally have our heads in the clouds, as there was a distinct line of clouds

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TODAY, I: mountain biked on some truly spectacular New Zealand single track trails, hiked through otherworldly mossy forests, realized I have just a week until I fly to Cambodia, relished in how lucky I am to have the most amazing family, ached for all the friends I haven't seen in far too long, felt my heart bursting with love for my adventurous boyfriend, enjoyed absurdly fresh and scrumptious

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I've been in New Zealand a week now.  Every morning is still like a breath of fresh air though, after all the cold, the white/brown/grey palette, the nonexistence of living things, the 60 hours of work a week.  I wake up, snuggle with the boy, watch as the sun comes streaming in through the large open window, and then make some eggs, maybe eat some of the homemade granola my mother just made

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Did you let your self out?  Did you let love in?  Did you take chances, while staying true to yourself? - an excerpt of an email from myself, sent on 18 june 2010, received 17 february 2011 (my six month mark) through futureme.org Yes, yes, and yes.  I sure did. I last posted in November.  I had such earnest plans of posting often here, providing outsiders glimpses into this bizarre culture at

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It's been almost a month since I last wrote.  And it's 6 days shy of my 3 month mark.  But, see, I have about 100 great excuses for why I haven't had time to write, and a few of those reasons are captured in the photos above.  My life has been so full and rich, I barely have time to think, let alone try and write words so that people out there can even begin to understand.  It hasn't

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I thought I'd pop in and share some of the awesome pictures that I recently acquired from a guy headed to Pole.  He takes amazing photos and hung out with the janos for the past week, so he captured some great shots of the people I love most down here.  These are definitely some real slices of jano life.  I'll post some pictures of my first real hike soon!  I also have a video that he shot

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Ahh!  I swear I've been trying to post for so long, but things always pop up.  Like right now, I planned all day to do a long, thorough post this evening, but I only have 15 mins now, since I got signed up for a massage class, and got coerced to have wine and girl talk later this evening.  So this is going to be pretty quick.  This is a picture of some of the glorious ladies I work with, and the

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Like how all of my entries are named after how long I've been here?  It's just because it's completely shocking every time I take note of the time that's passed... "it's only been a month?!  it's already been a month!?" It has flown by and yet I feel like I've been here forever.  When I first got down here, it was almost totally dark except for maybe 3 hours during the middle of the day.  Now

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I swear I didn't mean to go this long without posting!  Every evening I have had good intentions to go to the library and make a blog entry, but the nature of this place is that you're bound to run into someone with fun plans.  Like last night.  On my way to the library, I ran into a friend who wanted to go hiking to see the stars.  And bam!  There I was, out on Hut Point, having my mind blown. 

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Oh my goodness, so much as happened since I last posted.  Hence the lack of posting.  Lots of ups and lots of downs.  Well, actually not too many downs because I've been refusing to think about anything negative, but once I let my consciousness beyond the walls of the building I'm in, the loneliness is rather suffocating.  Yet at the same time, I'm with all sorts of people everyday, alllllll day.

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Today is my sixth day here on the ice, and it already feels like a lifetime ago that I was strapped into the side of a C17 cargo plane, listening to the obscure punk rock provided by the guy sitting next to me, trying to imagine what it would be like when we landed.  I've already acquired such a new, bizarre wealth of knowledge, and yet  still feel like I have no idea what's going on. I'll start

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I'm staying in the most darling little B&B called the Windsor.  It's only blocks away from the botanical gardens, downtown, art museums, etc.  Plus it comes with a glorious breakfast (although I wasn't completely sold on having spaghetti, baked beans, and creamed corn come with my eggs), a cute old couple that runs it, and their dog Winnie who wanders the hallways.The seasons are just beginning

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Money ain't a thang!First thing after walking into the Raytheon Office, I was given a wad of $210 for travel money.  Then I sat in safety orientations for the rest of the day.  Very uneventful.  The afternoon before was spent hanging out in my hotel room.  I met my first ice person on my shuttle from the airport to the Red Lion, and he was not friendly.  "You're a first year," he stated; it was

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So this it.My last night before beginning the journey to Antarctica.  It's going to take me a week to get down to the ice, with an orientation in Denver, a long layover in LA, a 15 hour flight to New Zealand, another flight to the south island, crossing the international dateline, and a few days in Christchurch NZ, then one more flight to the ice.  Phew!  Needless to say, I'm excited, I'm

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This is just a quick note to let you all know that this weekend will be the last opportunity to order anything from my little shop.  I wish I could keep making things and selling them from Antarctica, but apparently running any sort of a business from down there is prohibited.  Oh well.  Order anything before 7am MST Monday morning, and I'll throw in a little surprise too :)Click on any of the

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Oh my, I've got a lot on my mind. Processing the emotionally difficult but wildly fun and empowering job I just finished up at Flathead Lake. Starting to put my mind towards the week long journey to the bottom of the world I'll be making in exactly one week. Beginning to pack, which is literally my least favorite thing to do.  I have never packed for 7 months in the coldest place on earth and

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Totally loving my brief, crazy summer job right now, tutoring the children of the migrant workers who pick cherries around Flathead Lake.I learned the word for soulmate, "medianaranja"... as in, "you're my half of an orange."  Isn't that the best?I sat at the end of a dock and watched crazy lightning over dark burgeoning clouds.I ate cherries and broke the language barrier by somehow agreeing on

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[click on this to get the full picture.  it's far away.  very far away.] Oh my.If anyone ever tells you that they're going to apply to work in Antarctica, just for fun, just to see if they get hired... laugh at them.No really, laugh at them.  Because they will have no idea what they're getting themselves into. I started applying for jobs six months ago, and that was after several months of

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This is a list of noises from an abundant summer afternoon, sitting on the porch with my eyes closed, the sunshine on my back like hot heavy hands.  Just in case I forget these sounds while on the bottom of the earth, the least hospitable place on our planet. - The nervous giggles of mourning doves as they hop back onto tree branches, just out of reach of whatever caught them off guard - A

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I've been thinking a lot about this space and what I share here.  Not a lot, as I've realized, scrolling through the past couple months' entries.  And it's funny because the blogs I enjoy the most are the ones where people are really putting themselves out there, sharing moments from their lives, exposing their weaknesses along with all the other great shiny stuff.  But there's this fine line

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It's wicked hot.The kind of hot where your eyelids are heavy and it's too much energy to think.We went tubing down the Bitterroot River, which was glorious and refreshing, but the heat sank back into my bones as soon as we got home.I have things to say, but for now this heat is holding my mental capacity hostage.So I'm posting a bunch of miscellaneous pictures from my trip out East.  Outtakes if

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I'm back from Boston.It was a glorious trip, filled with laughter and love.  Perfect in so many ways.I must say, I forgot how awful humidity is.  And I'm looking forward to forgetting again.It's always a little bit difficult going from one home to another, because there's the excitement of returning to one, and the sorrow of leaving the other; these feelings are often irreconcilable.  There's so

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I've been riding around in the back of a van the past few days, craning my neck to see all of the diverse scenes whizzing by.  The landscape is so drastically different than it is in Montana.  Here are a few shots I've snapped haphazardly from the backseat.

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I don't know about you, but it seems that whenever I take a vacation, I feel like I have all the time in the world for the first few days, and then suddenly it's over.  This evening feels like I'm starting to shift into that time warp, so today I am just sharing images - no captions.  Just scenes from a glorious summer day spent in the city of Boston.Ahh... Now I'm off to savor this before it's

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Oh my!  The past few days have been such a whirlwind.  On Wednesday, after watching this gorgeous sunset and experiencing the most insane thunderstorm ever (the lightning was literally like a strobe light), I flew to Boston.  Except for some reason, in Minneapolis, all flights to Denver were canceled.  So there was a sad night spent in a run down motel, watching trashy television.  But finally, I

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I'm having one of those days where I am literally moving in slow motion.  Procrastination at its absolute finest.  I have errands to run, people to meet, an entire house to pack up... but nope.  I'm sitting here sipping some ice water, eating a tomato, and adding a couple of pairs of earrings to the shop.  And I am quite alright with that.So go look, because unfortunately I'm taking the whole

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The days have been such a blur that I hadn't been paying much attention to the dates.  But this morning, I woke up and took a peek at the calendar to see how many more days I have to get my act together in time to fly to Boston, and I realized that exactly a year ago, one of my most treasured adventures had just ended.I bicycled 400 miles around the Olympic Peninsula with my parents, then met one

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So, that jewelry I was working on... I've decided to share some with you!  I had been experimenting with shrink plastic and came up with some really fun, summery designs.  This is a pair I haven't stopped wearing for the past week.Then there are feathers,avocados,and more variations of this fun design.I even designed some special packaging for them!  So fun... the first big group of them are

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hi just a quick post today to share a mix i made in preparation for my journey to antarctica. i hope you like it! edit: for some reason the embedded player isn't working for me, so if it doesn't work for you either, you can also find the playlist HERE

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Okay, first of all, I just saw Flashdance for the first time last night, and I want ALL of Jennifer Beals' clothes from the film. Except maybe the shirtless tuxedo she wears to dinner... I wish I could pull that off.  How fun is it to bundle up on cold rainy evenings and watch '80s movies?  I hadn't seen any in way too long.Okay, now that I've gotten that off my chest, can we also just briefly

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Moments from a Summer's Monday:-Waking very early, only to stay in bed and watch the sun move across my walls-Rising to bake coconut bread with sliced almonds and chocolate chunks [recipe]-A long, meandering bike ride along the river, pausing to dip my toes-Buying new underwear, and work clothes, and other necessities for the upcoming adventure-Revisiting my novel for the first time since its

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I was just perusing some of my recent posts, and came across the one about my seven weeks of free time.  I had made myself a schedule to maximize this time, and just like that, it's gone.  No, seven weeks haven't passed yet, phew.  But what I thought was going to be almost two months of art and cooking and reading and long walks and relaxing has turned into a couple weeks of preparation.  I'm

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Wow thank you so much for all the support in my upcoming adventure! A lot of you asked what I'd be doing down there, and I'm afraid my job isn't all that glamorous, since my work is supporting the researchers who do all the cool science stuff.  I'll just be cleaning - dorms, bathrooms, facilities, etc.  But!  My department is known for being very artsy and eccentric, so it sounds like it will be

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Sorry it's been quiet here all week!I've been interviewing for various jobs, and I am excited to announce that I have taken an offer!I'll be working in Antarctica starting in August for almost 7 months.So exciting, but now that has materialized, I'm a little terrified as well.I'll be going down when it's still mostly dark, and only a small number of people are down there.  Not many people get to

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It's raining again.But it's okay because every time it stops for a couple of hours, I go out and take shots of gorgeous little droplets sitting all over the place.  Just hangin' out.Today I went for a stroll up in the North Hills, and got pretty soaked.  But I went out to visit the sheep that are working up there.  Their job is to eat the invasive plants like spotted knapweed.  This picture is

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Yesterday, I was visited by this cat.  He was a dream come true.I had been getting a little blue with all the rain, all the changes, the transitions, all the processing.Deciding that a cat would solve my problems, I began lamenting to people about how my little house was just oh-so perfect for a kitty, and I how I wished I could just borrow one for the day.And then, yesterday, I opened my door...

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It's still raining.  And it's still suiting my mood, my demeanor, my day's activities.  The soft sounds of water falling from the sky has been comforting as I process everything that needs processing.  Feeling slightly cabin feverish this afternoon, I bundled up and went for a long, meandering bike ride.  Got completely soaked in the process, but it was so invigorating.  I didn't bring my camera

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It's been a dark morning, but perfect for thinking.I woke up a little bewildered, wondering why I needed to turn my light on at eight in the morning, until I registered the sound of the rain.  I've been sitting at my new desk in my living room, facing out the big windows, freshly picked lilac in a vase.  Writing my thank you notes, opening mail that I've neglected the past few weeks, eating

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Quite suddenly, all is calm.The cousins and aunt flew out this morning and my roommate left for Mexico.Quite suddenly, I have a blank calendar and a partially empty house, just for me.I've noticed that when I'm crazy busy, I crave silence and solitude and free time, but once it's handed to me, I get restless.  Today I allowed myself to stew in all of the different emotions that were somewhat

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This morning I took a morning walk through the sage and white flowers with a mug of peppermint tea.  I'm allergic to caffeine so peppermint is the biggest boost I can get in the morning.My aunt, mother, and I went to the farmer's market and got blue eggs and green garlic.  I also bought myself a ginger lemon cookie that I ate with a mug of milk.I walked the cousins down to the neighbor's farm so

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I've been hanging out with these goonies all week.My cousins are here from North Carolina and it's been all giggles and goofiness.We hiked up to an overlook of the valley.We dressed up in fake mustaches and cowboy hats.We mountain biked around a lake.We made oatmeal peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, oh my...We picked lots of ticks off of ourselves.We mooed with the cows and talked to the

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I have to admit, being done with school still hasn't completely sunk in.I'm still nagged with that feeling that I should be working on something, I must have some homework to do, I need to study.Knowing myself, this feeling isn't going to vanish overnight, so I've decided to channel it toward positive things.The past few weeks involved a lot of sitting... in classrooms, in cafes studying, at my

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Hello.This picture captures this past week.The fuzzy mess of studying and exhaustion, and just way too much going on.BUT!But, but!  I am done.Done with college... how bizarre.There's been lots of celebration and family visiting and recuperation.I'll be back asap with a real post.

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Hello!Just a quick note on this sunny Monday afternoon.I just listed this sticker set in the shop, the same stickers you guys saw in the last post.They're a summer set, all bright colors and full of sunshine!I'm just so pleased with the way they came out... and have been sticking them on everything!I'll be posting a set of these elephant stickers later this weekSo keep your eye out for that!It's

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with a mug full of tea and a mind full of magic...stopping to admire my new aloe plant... it was a gift from a stranger who was walking around missoula handing them out to those who were smiling...enjoying a peanut butter spoon for breakfast... the organic, real, just peanuts kind of peanut butter...making little 2x2 envelopes for mother's day gifts...and cutting out my new stickers (more on this

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The skies have been mercurial this weekend.  Dark, so dark the lights have to be turned on at 3.Light, flying and firing down the hallway.Back and forth and everywhere in between.The dark grey sure made the budding trees pop.And rainbows!  The kind of rainbows that make you wish lugging along the camera on a run was possible. This evening involved a trip to the movies, the baking of a rhubarb

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 I had been watching the bang-bloom-blossoming that's been going on all over the place for lots of other bloggers, and quite jealously I might add.  I would admire all of the gorgeous photos, and then gaze outside with an air of melacholy; it seemed as if nothing was happening.But finally - finally! - Missoula has let forth.I came across this flowering tree on a stroll with the dogs, and it was

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I didn't mean to be gone so long.It was just one of those weeks.However, I still found time for beauty... Look at how brilliant the skies were!And see?  I frolicked across this field!I kept an eye on the blossoming new life overhead!I made these cookies!  And ate a whooole bunch of them to fuel my studying and paper writing and job applying, oh my!And I found time to go thrifting!  Look at the

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spending lots of time at my desk this week...study study study...but luckily there are pretty things everywhere i look!i hope the same goes for you!  and you!new sunglasses, a new pair of shorts, and it's supposed to be 75 degrees tomorrow!back to studying so i can escape from my desk briefly after classes...

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Thursday and Friday were filled with:- A sky holding thousands of clouds- Coconut ice cream dipped in chocolate- A walk in which the distance was determined by a dog- Heart to hearts on bicycles- Raspberry Italian soda- Dancing to trumpets- Bluebird sightings - Frolicking through the mountains- Turning the heat off- This year's first Montana sunburn- Ice cream sandwiches with Mama-made extra

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Hello, hello!  A very quick hello!Today has been one of those most magnificent days, where suddenly little bursts of green are exploding all over the place, and the breeze is a cool whisper on your neck, and your new Birkenstocks add the perfect little pep to your step!Ahh, I am smitten with life today!A dear, dear friend is in town visiting, so this is brief, but there will be much to share on

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Some findings from yesterday's bike ride.Today is about being gentle with myself, about allowing myself to do what I want, about letting go.It's about looking forward.---Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway and checked out my new Etsy shop!  I'm excited to announce the lovely Andrea is the winner... send me an email with your address to liz dot endicott at gmail dot com and I

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I set out for the North Hills yesterday afternoon to clear my mind.  It was an overcast and windy day, so I was hoping to have the fields to myself.  The only person I encountered was this man, who seemed to be walking for similar reasons.  I forget that a large camera swinging around my neck is rather conspicuous to others, and was caught off guard when he asked if I was out to "find some

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Is anyone having as busy a week as I am?  It could be of course that I'm just being a baby after being on spring break for a week and a half, but it seems I have NO free time this week.  Because of this, I'm postponing the deadline for the giveaway.  Perhaps I'm breaking a cardinal rule from the Book of Giveaways, but that's how it's gonna be.  Now the deadline is 9pm MST Sunday, 11 April.  So if

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Today I am 23!  I've learned that I am a woman of goals, so I decided to set some for this new year of mine.Compile a collection of short stories and poems Get a tattoo Allow myself love, romance Make it to 100 entries of Tangible Ingredients, and then keep going Complete a sprint triathlon Leave the country (in a big way) Do another cycling trip Successfully cook fish Submit a short story

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This is my last sparse, quiet, almost-wordless post.  Tomorrow is my last day of freedom before returning to school, where procrastination and a highly active brain inspire far more interesting posts.  Thanks for bearing with me.Be sure to stay tuned for Tuesday's post.  There's a birthday, and a giveaway, and an unveiling, oh my!I hope you've all had absolutely marvelous weekends, and are headed

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i sat outside in a tank top and a skirt, making earrings in the sunshine.  chickadees were chattering and my cheeks got burnt.the next morning i woke up and everything had changed. it was simultaneously disappointing and delightful. the snow melted quickly, but the mountains remain frosted, shimmering as the sun dances its way across the sky, in and out of the burgeoning clouds.  all the mud has

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So far my time home has been full of:rainy drives,sage in the mountains,darlin' doggies,moss covered boulders,so many freshly born calves,and glorious skies. Enjoy your weekend!

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