A little about me, uh? Well, let me see. I have been in P’quoddy for a little over a year now. You can usually find me at the back table over at Sand Dollar Ella’s enjoying, swell, you know, and thinking about how I should write something. I don’t get ‘round to it as often as I should, but when I do, it is usually something very poignant. That is the right way to spell poignant isn’t it? I am happy to be selected for the first Survivor: Passamaquoddy. Do I expect to win? Not really. Hey, just like the lottery, you got to play to win, and I’ll probably be at my usual table thinking about it and end up missing the challenge. But when I show up, I will probably do something very poignant. Just late. But should I win, it will be based on these two qualities: perseverance. I will persevere through anything, like the time I ate my weight in snow crab legs over at Ella’s. Sure, I was sick for two days afterwards, but I stuck to it. Just like the time reversed to leave the “it’s a small fin” attraction when it broke down and I was stuck there with this little clown fish singing “it’s a small fin after all” over and over and over. Anyone else would have jumped ship and made for the exit. No, not me. I stuck it out. So, if I win, it will be based on that. That, and the fact that I don’t mind wearing the same T-shirt for several episodes if necessary as long as it is a cool T-shirt.

Oh, and the second quality? I usually write something very poignant. More to follow… Team Piranha: We Got Teeth and We’re Not Afraid To Use ‘Em.

April is too busy with other things (“Endeavors” is what she calls them) so she asked me, her Gram-gram, to write her biography. April was born just a few miles from Passamaquoddy, in the fishing town of Misconception Bay. She was such a little cutie; she had such chubby little cheeks it was hard to tell which end you were looking at. She was born on the night of a rare April gale. I remember that storm; the bridge over Cod Cheek Creek blew off of its foundation. April’s parents decided to name her after that storm. She was supposed to be named Gale but her father was so nervous when he filled out her birth certificate that he got her name and the month mixed up. When her mother saw the error, she then thought that April would be a lovely name but she wanted it to be spelled with a “Y”. But the battery in her father’s hearing aid must have been shorting out, all he could hear was “Why, why in April?” He was yelling back, “’Cuz that was when she was born!”

April has always had her eye on the prize. When she was a little girl she dreamed of marrying Captain Savage, who ran the local bait shop in town, Savage Live Bait and Sushi. At that time he stuck a fine figure of a man, who then had him charged with assault. We are so proud of our April; she is the only person in our family to make it all the way through school. When she graduated from the fifth grade, oh, I still get a little choked up. After a stint running the Squid Jigger Café, April decided to indulge her creative bent and opened the Scrapping the Mackerel where she sells fish bone art. Her Cod bone weavings are all the rage. As well as her fish bone necklaces. She recently has been doing scrapebooking, yes I know people try to correct me and say that it is scrapbooking, but she works with the sludge and bones that are scraped off of the gutting table. She makes elaborate books embellished with fish bones. She can normally be found loaded down with bags full of item she swiped from Stan Back to use in her creations. I think that she will win this Passamaquoddy Survivor because we in Misconception Bay have never liked those Passamaquoddy folks.

I started going to Disney in 1984 when my then boyfriend took me on a trip for my birthday.  I was 17 when we left town. My mother told us not to go and threatened to have him arrested for kidnapping if we left the state (he was 18).  We told her we just wouldn’t leave until midnight.  Of course, by 11:00 we were in Jacksonville at the house of a friend of his.  I was such a rotten kid!  LOL

Around 1986 I was working in Dollywood when it opened.  It was fun and it gives me a bit of a different perspective when I go to Disney.  Of course the mindset there was a bit different.  Heck, if it rained the folks on vacation there acted as if we had ordered the rain just to ruin their vacation!  The best part about working at Dollywood though was the day before opening.  Dolly made it a point to come meet all the employees.  I got to give Dolly a hug!  Well, sort of a hug.  I couldn’t get my arms around the woman!

I went to Disney on my honeymoon with King Charming.  We had a wonderful time and it was the first time that either one of us had been to Epcot so that park will always hold a special place in my heart.

I took my kids to WDW in 1999 and they had a blast.  But it wasn’t until 2006 that I really got hooked badly.  I went to WDW probably 7 or 8 times that year including 2 week long trips.  We had a blast and I’m definitely hooked now.  It’s like an addiction, isn’t it?

So how would I characterize myself?  Well, I know I’m a winner.  Nothing has ever stopped me and nothing will.  I know I’m going to win this Survivor contest even if I have to tell other folks that I’ll stay in the state until midnight (don’t notice the woman behind the curtain sneaking out the door)!  Trust me, Team Piranha is going to rock the socks off of that Sushi team… Little nibbles at a time until they’re completely gone!!! 

Ryan’s publisher called and apparently he haven’t been leaking enough scoops from the Survivor set…

“Survivor Passamaquoddy is going to be filled with highs and lows and enough heartfelt drama to fill the headlines for weeks. Plus, I get to spend a few weeks in Passamaquoddy, a spot I try to visit at least a couple of times a year.

As for who is going to win? Well, who better than a born and bred reporter to get the dirt on the other players, spin the story, and grab the headlines for himself?!?!”