hi again I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend...I had a very nice relaxing day, and got the much needed satisfaction that I have been waiting for the last 2 years here of planning...I just hope my plans don't get knocked out by a rotten typhoon here again...I had a pretty enjoyable evening last night, the one theatre that we have here only has one movie playing at a time...uggghhh I miss back home sooo much in our downtown area...We have a theatre with 24 screens...I have no idea who thinks up just having "one" of anything...So we went about an hour from here to the Navy Base to just get out and watch something anything, mostly due to restlessness...Me mostly, I feel like this place keeps closing in on me tighter and tighter day by day...Others don't seem to understand that no matter how much I try to explain it, or don't seem to want to understand it....I just can't understand how anyone can be satisfied staying in one place their whole entire life, not to mention a teeny tiny island and not ever want to go anywhere else, or have no desire to see any other part of the world..Anyways, I finally get there and am flipping down seats and flip down one that is completely off the hinges and everything and falls completely on the floor and on me...oww I'm really really glad no one saw honestly I have noooo idea how these stupid crazy things always always always seem to happen to me...I don't even plan them or sit around on my free time thinking them up what I'm going to do next....The movie was dead boring, disgusting, I prefer my Twilight series anyday to that uggh tooo disgusting for me, but I had nooo idea what I was in for...I'm halfway holding my breath that tomorrow nothing like that happens again to me, since I have to venture out again here...I heard the nicest song on the radio going there though...we are soooo behind here I don't get word of music or movies or whatever else until the rest of the world has heard of them for weeks...Anyways, this is a pic of my cat from back in Oklahoma...I miss him tooo much but I finally get to see him again next year...I picked him up in a parking lot someone flung out their car window..how sick is that??????? talk with u all soon everyone enjoy the rest of your weekend....

hi all, I hope that this week wasn't toooo bad, and everyone is geared up for the weekend.....I"ve really not much to say on here since not much is going on right now except same ole stuff....and it's really slow right now so I'm hoping either next month or after things will pick up a bit here.....

lol lol this was too funny....I couldn't even imagine someone to want to do something like this!!!!!! I'm scared to death of lizards, I wouldn't have to think twice about ever wanting to stick one (or one hundred!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) down my pants of all places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was just too eeeccchhhh for me even to read all the way through!!!!!!!


WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A German man who stuffed 44 small lizards into his underwear before trying to board a flight has been sentenced to prison in New Zealand for plundering the country's protected species.

Hans Kurt Kubus, 58, will spend 14 weeks behind bars and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine before being deported to Germany as soon as he is released, District Court Judge Colin Doherty ruled onTuesday.

Kubus was caught by wildlife officials at Christchurch International Airport on South Island in December, about to board an overseas flight with 44 geckos and skinks in a hand-sewn package concealed in his underwear.

He admitted trading in exploited species without a permit and hunting absolutely protected wildlife without authority, pleading guilty to two charges under the Wildlife Act and five under the Trade in Endangered Species Act.

Department of Conservation prosecutor Mike Bodie told the court Kubus could have faced potential maximum penalties of NZ$500,000 ($355,000) and six months in prison.

Bodie said the department sought a deterrent sentence for "the most serious case of its kind detected in New Zealand for a decade or more."

The geckos may have been worth 2,000 euros ($2,800) each on the European market, he noted.

Customs records showed that Kubus had also been to New Zealand in 2001, 2004, 2008, and 2009. In 2008, he had been with a Swiss reptile dealer.

Doherty said Kubus had come to New Zealand and set about poaching the animals in a premeditated way which would have had an impact on particular colonies.

There was potential for Kubus to end up with far more animals than he could have housed in his own collection and the rest would have been sold.

"I don't think you necessarily came here to steal to sell, but I am sure the fact that you might have had excess was figured into your thinking," Doherty told Kubus.

hi all, thanks for stopping by again here... I'm limited on my time again, so I'm not going to be able to put much on here but just a few lines is all... I hope everyone is doing fantastic, and up and ready for another week ahead....(last week of this month!!! wooooohoooo!!!!!!!!!) Which means I will only have 10 months left here once February rolls around...I seem to be getting in a better mood everyday....That's a good thing, considering what a slump I get into being here sometimes....=p

WOW!!!! check out my new lookin' blog now!! I had to give myself a few days to get over the shock and come back down to earth, but I think I'm fine now...just something I did not expect at all, and wasn't sure at first what I had been thrown to on here whenever I first saw this and realized it was...actually mine...I guess I can't mess things up permantely after all like I was sooo convinced that I could...Anyways, hope everyone else enjoys as well..wow again, and thank u thank u thank u again!! I'm trying my best to keep up with all of these really, it just gets kind of confusing sometimes since we are an entire day ahead over here in JAPAN, and this thing puts the date on here as the day before....I can only match it up with today's actual date if I do this at night when it's pitch black out...don't understand that at all, but oh well....hmm I went and tried it again a little bit on the ice skating thing here...still not really for me, but I'd rather do that than spend a day on a boat being sea sick for 5 hours, and who knows how long even after that thing is over...Whale Watching here has come around again, so that's all I've been hearing about, and I never want to do that again...I'm just tooo restless to want to stay on an island that you can get through the whole thing in like 4 hours tops...from bottom to top, and that's the whole thing... so they just rotate activities here over and over...ugggghhh what kind of a life is that?!?!? I think the more I go I will get more steady at this, and not be so utterly terrified, and trip right in front of everyone right when I'm just doing plain walking in flip flops, but of course not watching where I was going, and landed smack down next to a Japanese sign with what I thought was the word "CONGRATULATIONS" underneath it in English...lol lol...nope it turned out to be "COUNTERCLOCKWISE", not "CONGRATULATIONS". It sure did look like it though, I'm just glad I didn't know anyone there is all...It pays to go places totally unknown, and where no one at all knows who u are, so incase anything DOES happen,( it does to me no matter what part of the world I am on, I just attrach that kind of stuff....) they have no idea who u are, and most were all locals anyways, and didn't speak a word of English... so..so what...pretty funny actually I'm just used to it by now, that it doesn't even phase me really..Oh we all found this great place last night on the way back home here coming back from Naha and somewhere on the edge right when entering Okinawa City...everything from Australian, Chinese, Mexican, Italian, seafood and steak if u are into the steak thing....I grabbed up a card for the link to have a better look on it here and put it here to share of course...The Italian flag is etched in right when u enter how great is that....they must have knew I was coming....not really I guess since they've been around since like 1958, and I wasn't even around then...still great to discover these little hole in the wall places....=) http://pizza-house.jp keep havin' an awesome weekend everyone...talk with u all soon of course if u don't beat me to it...=)

Lovely Pairs

okay, I have no idea what I just did, but allll my videos are gone from here...i don't know what else to do on here if i can't add music to everything....guess i'll be absent from here for a bit cause i have no idea what happened and i don't want to keep looking at this...=(