Ok, I can show off a bit! (pic heavy)

xraygirl

xraygirl

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Since I have the little bit of time to get on my computer (I do everything off the ipad) and some time before I head to class, I can officially show yall the things I love.... and soon I'll hopefully add a chameleon to the list.

Things I love: horses, orchids and succulents, playing around with photography, archery, salt water fishing, hunting, anything with radiology and helping patients! Heres some my pictures of random stuff :)

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This is my baby boy, Doc. I've had him since he was a 2 year old (hes 15 now). He went blind last year and has coped with it pretty well. Hes a Tennessee Walker who lives on about 15 acres of pasture of just him and his buddy, who beats him up if he gets a little to close... but yet they can't be apart (they have a weird bromance going on.)

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(^^^ what I used to do..)
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shot with my canon attached to a 20-60x80 Vortex Viper spotting scope
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(jewel orchid)
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I have bunches more... Baby toes, hens and chicks, jelly beans, stone faces, burros tail, etc. most of them came from my brothers wedding, they were table favors! I scooped up as many as I could to take home with me :)
 
laurie said:
Nice pictures, your horse is beautiful.
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He is my ham and overly spoiled! Love that boy!


MelissaB said:
Did you used to be a chef? What kind of food is that? It's very pretty.
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Yes! I was a pastry chef, after 8 years I had enough of it. The picture is a simple strawberry mousse with a tuile, dark chocolate cake with a Black Forest reduction with some brandy cherries... From my intern days at The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. I love it and miss it, but unless I own my own bakery business, I don't want anything to do with crazy restaurant owners or big companies anymore. There's a lot of drug use in the food industry, and the 10-15 hour days getting up at 1 am 6 days a week got too much. I started having terrible problems with my feet (plantar fasciitis, had surgery on one foot in December 2012 and looking at surgery for my other foot =/) and a pinched nerve in my sacral joint that is quite painful when it starts acting up. Plus I need a career with more dependable insurance. Most private restaurants and bakeries didn't offer any health insurance. I did a lot with my former career, I did various competitions around Florida for a few years and was able to compete in a national competition in Kansas cit MO in 2005, ranked 17 out of 50. Was cheated on that competition, but the past is the past! I'm moving into radiology... Wanting to specialize in nuclear medicine and MRI :) baking will ALWAYS be a passion, and it'll always be in my back pocket...... I have a pretty amazing baking business idea that I may act on years down the road! But for now..... Focus on college!
 
Here's another of back in my 'haydays'. I'm back on my ipad now, not sure how to upload multiple pics in one post, but I'll post a few of my baking days!
 

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This was when I worked at the Peabody hotel in Orlando Florida. This was a Halloween party we did. How many folks remember beetle juice? ;)
 

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That is very cool! I remember Beetlejuice, lol. Oh, I bet that cheesecake is soo good. The crunch of the phyllo with the velvety cheesecake, now I'm hungry.
 
Hehe ;) when I was in culinary school (Le cordon bleu Orlando Florida) while living with my dad, he would always joke with me about hurrying up and getting back to baking cause everything we made in the kitchen, we brought home. We alternated 3 weeks in a classroom, 3 weeks in a kitchen. When I worked holiday buffets at the Peabody, I seriously took home huge boxes heaping full of pastries and I would give them to family and friends. I remember one year, it was the thanksgiving buffet, the hotel decorated up an area with bales of BEAUTIFUL coastal hay, and they were chucking it in the compactor!!! One of the environmental services guys knew me and knew I had horses and stopped them.... He helped me load my poor little ford ranger pickup til it was sitting on it's tires with all that pretty hay. And I drove it 40 miles home... It was free!! Lol I had some happy horses ;)
 
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