1.) Fish- I am studying to be a fisheries biologist and it is no secrete that I find fish amusing and facilitation. My thesis topic is coho salmon juvenile life histories. Below you will find a picture of a lovely dead coho salmon; I have handled many of these over the course of my career and graduate studies, and will no doubt handle many more for the remainder of my life. I suppose you could say I was a very lucky lady! So why am I interested in other kinds of fish? Isn't one really awesome species of fish enough to be obsessed with? Maybe I just have an obsessive personality, but I love learning interesting things about interesting organisms, and, in my opinion, fish have the most widely interesting range of evolutionary derived characteristics and adaptions.
Each time I learn something new about fish, I think it is wonderful and amazing, and I tend to want to share it with people. By sharing I hope that they find it wonderful and amazing too! This has become a pattern, and I bet it will continue for the rest of my life. *hopefully*
2.) Crafts- I love doing crafts. I don't get as much time to devote to these as I would like, so lately I haven't been able to post as many "Look What I Made" blogs. But rest assured they will eventually return. I have a very long list of crochet projects to make, pictures to paint, mixed medium art to attempt and various other craft projects to devote time to... when I get the time. Right now all my materials are in a different city than I am, and I'm renting a room that doesn't have room for many projects. As soon as my living situation settles down and I get a real place to live, the crafting blog post will make a return. I just can't help bragging about what I make. Even when what I am making occasionally leaves a little to be desired.
3.) Nature- I am a nature girl. I've always been drawn to the natural world, mostly to the forest and the beach. When I was a very little girl I wanted to grow up to be a mermaid or a fairy. Now that I am older I figure a fish biologist is a pretty close compromise. (Don't tell any male field biologists you happen to know that I think their job could be done by a fairy.) My nature love is mostly expressed by hiking and taking random pictures of trees that I think look awesome. In the past I have enjoyed backpacking and kayaking trips and plan to do much more of those in the future.
4.) Food- Who doesn't like food!? I love food. I'm a kind of picky eater since I don't eat meat. But being a picky eater has make me appreciate a greater variety of food than I did before I stopped eating meat (Almost 7 years ago now!) I love to experiment with baking and cooking, and really enjoy eating out at a variety of different places as well. I get happy when I find something new and tasty so I like to share that with people.
5.) Books- I like to read a lot. I don't get enough time to read as much as I would like to, but that doesn't stop me from acquiring books to read when I might have that time in the future. I like to keep track of what I read and occasionally share books that I find interesting or engaging.
6.) Nesting- One of my number one dreams for the future is to own a house with a deck and a yard where I can have a garden. I spend way too much of my free time dreaming about this imaginary future house, and it's imaginary future garden. Until a time that actually happens, I've been collecting ideas for home decorating and gardening. I call this my nesting instinct, and I have it bad!
7.) Awesome Pictures- I really love to post awesome pictures and maybe my favorite pictures to post are supper cute adorable animals. I might just be saying that now, I love all kinds of awesome pictures equally, but just happened to find this baby hedgehog picture, and wanted to include it in my 100th post!
8.) Working out - Because of my love for number 4 I've made a real effort to continue and expand my love for exercising. Mostly this is in the form of running and yoga.
Running- I've signed up for a half marathon training class for next term and am looking forward to what I can learn from that class!
Yoga-I've taken one term of yoga and plan to take another class next term. I think the awareness of my body and my increase in flexibility are great benefits.
9.) Science-All around science is awesome. Enough said.
With the 100th post and the time I took to sit down and actually split my life up into 9 "lives" I've introduced labels to my blog. From now on (maybe) I will be including labels on each of my blogs (or trying to when I think about it) that will categorize the blog post into one of the nine subjects outlined here. I will try to keep it at nine, but can see a time in the future where I might have more interests and thus more labels!
