Retinal Rachel

2012-01-30T01:20:00.001-08:00

I have this much laundry but instead of putting it away I'm synching blogger to twitter.

2012-01-30T01:08:00.001-08:00

I finally upgraded my iPhone and now blogpress works do I can upload borig photos of things! Like that it is gray outside today!

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Monday April 18th
Ger & Olly!

Lois and red-me

Tuesday April 19th
Train beer! Win!

I <3 baby Fi!

Thursday April 21
andy's first burrito!

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Sunday April 17
Ben rides 2 bikes

Saturday April 16
at big pit (national coal museum)

Ben is a miner

Aileen is waiting for the train to move

Friday April 15
Fancy appetizer for date night!

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Thursday April 14
Chris created the megaton!

Mmm pot of leeks! (soon to be leek & potato soup!)

Wednesday April 13
this is what life looks like as a receptionist

Millennium stadium on a cloudy day...

Tuesday April 12
this cat hung out with me for a while

Monday April 11
View from pen-y-lan

Sunday April 10
Waking up in the Wye valley:

Morning camping Rachel is not the most pretty Rachel

Saturday April 9
BBQ camping dinner!

In the caravan to the campsite!

Amy and Crispin lead the way!

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Thursday April 7
Giant burger!

Tuesday April 5

River Taff

Monday April 4
Cardiff yacht club

Thursday March 31

Tired of Deflyn pulling my arms...

Wednesday March 30
in the woods...

Tuesday March 29
Time for Deflyn's walkies!

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Sunday March 27

old post office

14th century church

Monday March 28
Job fail.

Tuesday March 29
The morning after the night before...

Thursday March 31st
Welsh valleys on a cloudy day

Jen facing the windy mountaintop

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Friday March 10

This is the city where I live

Saturday March 19

Little Sheeps!

Miner!

Wednesday March 23

Mac the puppy!

Yumtastic outside lunch

I went shopping while tipsy and bought sprouts and ice cream

Friday March 25th

Baby Fi!

Birthday Tea with Lois!

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Sunday March 13

Bikes too sleepy to ride home

Pontypridd!

Looting the skip (new beer taps!!)

Bye bye Volvo

Friday March 11

Purple uni building?

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Tuesday March 9

I love a clean house!

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Saturday March 5

Thursday March 3rd

Wednesday March 2nd

Sunday February 27

Saturday February 18th

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Saturday February 12

this lion has googley eyes

My wallet has no money, just recipes from castles.

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Friday February 11

Caernarfon castle

Gulls at Conwy castle

Conwy is really pretty

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Wednesday February 9

Castle Coch

Tuesday February 8

Bunnies in London

Important people in London

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Monday February 7

I like it when the hotel says goodnight

Sunday February 6

London is pretty

Saturday February 5

Hello from London! I'm back :)

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Sunday September 6th

New housemate Tom

Saturday September 5th

Flying into London Aussie Stereotype

Friday September 4th

Packed… again
At the airport, 48lb luggage!

Thursday September 3rd

Errand day – fixed glasses!
Strangest store-front ever

Wednesday September 2nd

At the Miwok Indian Museum
Arrowhead purchase for WelshCake man

Tuesday September 1st

My Grandma

Monday August 31st (Happy Netiya Day!)

New softball gear!

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Sunday August 30th

Real America – large quantities of disturbingly cheap food
Thanks shopping cart, I agree!
Family photo outtake

Saturday August 29th

Checking the apple warranty
My darling Apple computer is alive!!

Friday August 28th

Family game night
We found this notebook at the library.

Thursday August 27th

Arizona from above
Flying through the clouds
Once again I’m leaving… on a jet plane… don’t know when… whatever.
Phil’s new toy
What remains of my former life, packed and ready to go

Wednesday August 26th

The aptly named Shiner Commemorator
Little Ari!
The dual uses of Suite 100
II
My former 9-5 home in DC
Bye-bye Honda car… I loved you much but I needed $$ more

Tuesday August 25th

Haircut!

Monday August 24th

Riding on the Metro

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Sunday August 23rd

Mmmm Chipotle Burrito
Eli also loves a burrito

Saturday August 22nd

One of these things is not like the other….leaving Grandpa’s farm

Friday August 21st

This is my collection of “art”
Un/Re packing is a messy pain
Egg sorter at Grandpa’s farm
New Jersey Wal*Mart
Baseball!
II
America explosions

Thursday August 20th

Back in New Jersey 2008 Rachel tells 2009 Rachel where her bags go
My belongings in New Jersey
In this box – running shoes, coffee tumblers, and hard liquors.
Why did I own so many cards
I was sad to leave BofA because I loved this debit card photo

Wednesday August 19th

Packed for my trip to America
15 hours later…

Tuesday August 18th

Much like this picture, my focus is always on Huw. I think this is progress…
Cleared out of Bob’s house

Monday August 17th

Anna rules the pool tableMoving once again…

2009-08-16T04:47:00.000-07:00

I know, I’m losing days like it’s my job. I’ll blame my job. Next week I’m going back to America, let’s see if that makes this blog more or less interesting and/or on time

Sunday August 16th

Packing and laundry day

Saturday August 15

Cardiff Cubs won the Cardiff Tournament 2009 Cardiff Cubs 2009Victory Drink!

Wednesday August 12

Huw is now a Giants fan

Tuesday August 11

Wales can be very very grey

Monday August 10

I walk by this building every day and never realized it was funny

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Sunday August 9th

What position does the wizard play? Softball also happened this weekend
trophy winners!

Saturday August 8th

Pimms O’Clock!
Fruit chopper
|Trashmaster
Fake British Mexican-style food

Friday August 7th

Sloppy full English to start the day
10am empty festival
The Welsh bar
Giant cider bar
USA/Rest of the World
Rogue & Sierra Nevada - $5 per bottle
Ian clears the lines
5pm Busy festival
View of London from Earls Court
Waiting for the train to Manchester
Train beers

Thursday August 6th

Cardiff Bus Station at 5am
Welcome to the Great British Beer Festival
Behind the scenes
Thirsty Patrons
12 hours of work later… a nights sleep in a college dorm

Wednesday August 5th

Softball day – Mr. O the pitcher!
Captain Mike

Tuesday August 4th

Abandoning the new house & taking all my things back to the old house

Monday August 3

Dirty hostel courtesy of boys rugby teams
So many dishes

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Sunday August 2nd

Sam the artist
Fireworks!
II
III

Saturday August 1st

Weatherspoons Breakfast
Bad parking job
Tea Time!

Friday July 31

Stewie is on the 45
The Irish Singer

Thursday July 30

Flooded bike path
On the Taft Trail to Pontypridd
Yes there is mud splashed on my face.
Also look at the fantastically Welsh sign behind me.
Indie band at Cardiff Barfly

Wednesday July 29

Graffiti Math!Happy Tom at the kebab shopSleepy Huw

Tuesday July 28

The plumber came. Now the ceiling looks like this:

Monday July 27

Coffee with Kim

The new house… a painful photographic journey

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Here are the photos of our new house. On this particular day we went to the letting office, they told us it was ready, we paid, they gave us the keys, and this is what we found when we entered the supposedly ‘ready’ house.

The downstairs Pink Room Storage thru the guest room Huw’s Room
The Blue Room (my room)
The Pink Room
The Bathroom
Wall of Kim’s Room
Found inside the closet
The living room
Leaky ceiling
More crap they left
Dirty fridge
Dirty fan…
…drips oil onto dirty stove
Moldy Sink:
more crap.
Moldy Cabinet
downstairs toilet:
There was still garbage in the bin
Crap left under the stairs

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Saturday July 25th

My new (future) room

Friday July 24th

Drinking a cuppa at a pub on a Friday afternoon
We found this in the house. I’ve been listening to too much Kansas
Junk the former tenants left in the house

Wednesday & Thursday

I moved into a new house and it was yucky and I am not going to post pictures yet
because it’s messy and needs lots of work. So let’s skip to Friday.

Tuesday July 21st

Huw the preacher
Welsh bible
pretty
I
II
III
Wales

Monday July 20th

Arriva Trains to West Wales
Cenarth
II
III
Walking from Carmarthenshire to Pembrokshire
I
II
III
Last drink till Ireland
I could read all these words in Welsh!
Rural mail
Welsh Bowling

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Saturday July 18th

View of Bath from Amy’s Apartment
Gravy getting a catnip fix

Friday July 17th

Stop the Press!
Bristol
II
Happy Birthd-AMY!
Pool Fail
Spectator sport

Thursday July 16

Before Welsh Dorothy gets sent to Oz

Wednesday July 15

New Shoes!

Monday July 13

Stacey and Katie sitting in a tree… K.I.S.S.I.N.G!

Sunday July 12

RIP $5 Chinese Velcro Shoes
Giant connect4 or tiny British boys & table?

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Saturday July 11

Passport fail (wrong sized passport photo)

Friday July 10

Ashes in Cardiff (it’s cricket)
River Taft
Looks like rain
Messy nights in Cardiff city center

Thursday July 9

Kim makes popcorn
how I sold $360 of alcohol on my first bar shift

Wednesday July 8

Sunset

Tuesday July 7

Rainy afternoon
Snacktime
Fancy dinner time

Monday July 6

Battle of the Bands

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Sunday July 5th

Umbrella Amy (Tournament day 2 was rainy )

Pimms O’clock cures the rain

Saturday July 4th

Pimms O’clock at Bristol Softball Tournament

Softball Tournament

Camping near the field

Friday July 3

Graffiti in Bristol

Bike trail

Suburban Bristol pub

Pink Bristol sunset

Thursday July 2

Working at a hostel = serving shots to Aussies

(the one on the left is a Kiwi)

Wednesday July 1

Wednesday is softball day!

my new room

Tuesday June 30

Day of mourning

Monday June 29 (Wales road-trip day)

Tenby

Diolch (It’s “thanks” in Welsh)

Rini in the ocean

Tenby II

Tenby III

Welsh Countryside is very pretty

Pembrook Castle

Pembrook I

Pembrook II

St. David’s Cathedral

III

Beach

Sunset

III

Sunday June 28

Moving day – lets cook potatoes one last time

Empty room

Cardiff at night

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Saturday June 27

Armed Forces Day

Red Robot Hoodie Project Success

Friday June 26

Playing in the Welsh Mining Museum (Rhonda Valley)

II

Roman Amphitheatre in Caerleon

Caerleon

II

The Belt Buster

Pint

Dragon by the Bay

Thursday June 25

Picnic

II

Wednesday June 24

Cardiff University History MA success!

Brewery

New Bike! (and more reading in the sun)

Tuesday June 23

Used Book

This whole page shows that George is Lennie’s Friend

Month to date

Monday June 22

Train to Barry Island

Snacks at Barry Island

Barry Island

II

Rini and her new bike

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Sunday June 21

Welsh is a strange language

Sunday Market remains = seagull feeding frenzy

The Red Robot Hoodie Project progress

Saturday June 20

I wish you used an apostrophe to express your conjunctive thoughts

Flowers I

II

Traditional British Night Food: Kebab

Friday June 19

Pontypridd

II

III

My favorite snack: red pepper, soft cheese, and crackers

Thursday June 18

The Red Robot Hoodie project begins.

[Black Red Robot Hoodie was purchased in 2004, but the hoodie was too large so grey hoodie was purchased and Red Robot was sewn onto back of grey hoodie. Gray hoodie was falling apart by 2009 so blue hoodie was purchased as new home for Red Robot.]

Wednesday June 17

Green Peas and Black Tea

Room rearranged

Books to read

Tuesday June 16

This burger stand just showed up one day

Mini Stonehenge

Bute Park

Chillaxing (chilling and relaxing) outside the Castle

Monday June 15

Laundry Day

A pint and a plan

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Sunday June 14 (GWBCF Day 7: take-down)

Stuff I see on my walk to work #4 (gross)

After the festival

Driving in the Cardiff International Arena

Empty Ciders

Sitting down, for the first time in 7 days

End of festival: 66 hours of work over 7 days, free beer & cider, and 6 weeks till I do it again in London…

Saturday June 13 (GWBCF Day 6: festival!)

Keeping an eye on things!

Dancing

Happy Customer

Mine

The Otley boys

Friday June 12 (GWBCF Day 5: the festival begins.)

Wake up for day 5 (the 10am to midnight shift…)
Hippie Ale

Millennium Stadium at midnight

Numbers from drunken would-be suitors

Thursday June 11 (GWBCF Day 4: Festival!)

11am – the festival begins

Welsh beer section

Wednesday June 10

Stuff I see on my walk to work #3

Sunny day!

Tuesday June 9 (Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival [GWBCF] day 2: set-up)

Stuff I see on my walk to work #2

Behind the scenes

Cooling system set-up

Front bar

Monday June 8

Stuff I see on my walk to work #1
Museum

That’s $4.80 a bottle

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Sunday June 7

Indian Food Experiment

Masala Dosa Success!

Millennium Stadium

Sunday Market

Saturday June 6

Comfy Ed

Flower

Driving in the rain

Rainy day

Friday June 5

Tent Event?

Thursday June 4

Hmm

Better

Yucky

Most Improved

Wednesday June 3

Walking to Softball

Tuesday June 2

Football outside the Castle

Circus?

More of the same

Pretty

Monday June 1

Cricket. Not a wicket

Caerphilly Castle

Daisies

View from my apartment

I made a friend. She gave me her number on a playing card.

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Sunday May 31

Practicing cheap British eating

Saturday May 30

My new room

Cardiff Rugby Stadium

Friday May 29

What do you do with a drunken sailor? Put them in Cardiff city center

Writing in the park

Cardiff Castle

Thursday May 28

Walking along the river

Signpost in miles – no Kilometers here…

Wednesday May 27th

Welcome to Wales, here are some sheep

Crossing the bridge from England to Wales

Arriving in London

Tuesday May 26

Packed (again)

Monday May 25

Family Game Night – Mom’s Turn.

Candy Scroungers

VI

V

IV

III

II

I

Before the parade

Downtown Mill Valley

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Sunday May 24 (Pre-Memorial Day BBQ)

Bailey

Home Made Hummus

Alaska Halibut Dip

I made a pie

Also Hamburger Cookies

Saturday May 23

Bridge

Boat

Bay

$1 flip-flop sale fail

I found Waldo!

Brains

Puppy Circle

Friday May 22

Petaluma Church

Terrible Thrift Store Shoes ($3 new!)

Thursday May 21

Izzy is inquisitive

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Wednesday May 2o

Baking Project #3: Peanut Kiss Cookies

New BooksBuddy

Tuesday May 19

Clean Room SuccessGrad School Fail 1

Grad School Fail 2 (MBA was a long shot…)

Democracy

Kitty. Television. Office. Submarine.

Monday May 18

SFO. Flying.

I

II

III

Classic.

The Other White Cardiff

Sunday May 17

Modern Art Museum

Beach Cannon

La Jolla
Seal Beach

Me in Malaysia (almost)

Words to live by

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Saturday May 16

Bridge

SFO

Candlestick Park

San Diego

La Jolla I

La Jolla II

La Jolla III

Friday May 15

Broken Clock Project

Clock Success

Guard Bear

Thrift Store IThrift Store II

Thrift Store III

Thursday May 14

Cleaning Project

Math 141 notes. Apparently I used to know Number Theory

Humanities 110 notes. Apparently I did not pay attention.

Give away piles

Wednesday May 13

I went to the dentist. Scout is unimpressed with my loot.

Loan Applications 1 & 3 - Stafford and JFCS

New MP3

Tuesday May 12

Big Buildings

Cable Car

City Art

Monday May 11

Baking Project #2: Cookies

Sometimes I only use the beaters so I can lick them after.

Mower Classic:

Mowing Fail

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Tuesday May 5

Unpacked - 2 drawers, 9 hangers, 1 shelf

Wednesday May 6

Cooking Project #1: Muffins

Loan Application #2: HFL

Thursday May 7

Mill Valley, California… That’s My Home.
Justin-Herman Plaza

Eco-Friendly Rooftop

Friday May 8

A History of Whales

Saturday May 9

A History of Wales
Mini-golf Fail

Sunday May 10

Library Success