Radio Silence

Oh, hey there. Guess what? Contrary to what many of you seemed to believe by the content of your emails, I did not die here in Honduras! I am still alive and kicking (and definitely knocking on wood). I am healthy and happy and all is well.
Pardon my pause in posts for the last two months (eeeek...yikes). You'll have to trust me when I say it just got away from me. After a few weeks it just felt weird, and I let it keep going and going like when you keep watching a Friends marathon and after hour 6, you're not quite sure why you're still sitting there, but there you are. Not that that's ever happened to me...
Sometimes I feel like I don't have much else to say on here about expat life on Roatan. I'm nearly at 3 years here, and this month I've celebrated my 3rd blog birthday. I've been writing here for three fucking years about mostly the same stuff. Are you guys bored of it yet? And sometimes I get mad that I can't write about things like where I spend the majority of my day now and current events on the island, because there's always some asshole here who has a problem with me and uses my blog to put fuel on their fire. It sounds dramatic but I guess it kind of can be. At this point in my life here I'd rather just shut up and avoid problems. I'll leave them tucked away until the day I leave for good.

Every year I run into more and more people on Roatan who shyly (or rather boldly, if we're in a bar and it's after 10pm) come up to me and ask if I'm Rika from Cubicle Throwdown. YOU BET YOUR ASS I AM!! It makes my day to meet readers and while it's always a little weird that you guys know so much about my life and I don't have a clue about you, it makes me feel like a celebrity... and just in case I haven't said it before, I have always wanted to be famous. And I have no problem settling for quasi-internet-famous because I still get to turn to my friends and say, "SEE!?! People KNOW me!" while they shake their heads over their beers at my high level of ridiculousness. Honestly though, it's so hard to explain the feeling I get when people tell me that my blog and I have inspired them to execute their own cubicle throwdown, to pursue scuba diving as a career (side note: is now a bad time to tell you I don't work in diving anymore?), or just to plan a vacation to Roatan. The fact that I, some random girl on the internet, have had even a tiny effect on people's lives is humbling. For those of you just joining us, or my die-hard readers who have followed this roller coaster ride for three years, all I can say is THANK YOU for being a part of it. It's been an interesting three years.
I have lots to fill you guys in on, so I hope you'll stick around -  and on my end, I promise it won't be another two months before I post. I have a trip to Miami to tell you about, a brank-spankin-new FAQ for the Roatan FAQ section, and most importantly - everything about my party-to-end-all-parties amazing 30th birthday bash, island-style!
In the meantime though, I'll be here for a little bit, doing what I do best on Roatan:

Chat soon, rockstars. xo
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