Category Archives: my life

labor day weekend.

this weekend was pretty mellow and productive.  just the way i like it.  i took a lot of turbo kick boxing classes at the gym, hung out with good friends, ate lots of yummy food, and got runner’s envy with all of the races that went on this weekend.  the kauai marathon was on sunday and last year i ran it as my first one (and the fact that my mom and one of her best friends flew out to watch me cross the finish line made it extra special!)  i’m currently contemplating if 2 weeks is long enough to train for the maui half marathon on september 18.  we will see about that.  we will also see if my credit card wants to endure the pain of a flight, race entry, hotel, etc.

yesterday reis and i went to diamond head health bar and got acai bowls.  so. dang. good.  and then for dinner i decided to get crafty in the kitchen and “cook.”  aka make one of the only things i know how to: caprese (pathetic? yes).  i could eat basil with every meal and could easily live off of bread and tomatoes so this meal is one of my favorites because its tasty, looks pretty, and takes about .25 seconds to put together.  hope everyone had a great weekend!  hooray for a 4 day work week!

first friday.

friday night we met our friends in chinatown for first friday.  i normally can’t wait to hightail it out of downtown on friday nights after work, but i actually think first friday is kinda fun.  you walk around, eat, look at some art, people watch, repeat.  (plus i wanted to show off my new boots since fall is finally upon us.  yes, hawaii doesn’t really ever see “fall” but i’m from CA and i will break out my boots any chance i get!)  our friend (and amazingly talented photographer) brooke had her own gallery so it was cool to see her show of hipstamatic prints.  fun night with great friends and good food.  pretty awesome alternative to my usual i’m-a-grandma-and-a-homebody friday nights.  oh yeah, happy labor day!

wednesday night.

i loveee going out to dinner on week nights.  something about it just feels kinda special.  last night i didn’t want to cook (not that i ever do anyways) and we were going to get our usual mexican fix, but reis wanted bread so we got italian instead.  and then frozen yogurt followed per usual.  now this morning i’m off to run off all those yummy carbs i ate.  happy thursday!  two days until the three day weekend!

nesting.

is it bad that it’s only monday and i’m already counting down the days until the THREE DAY WEEKEND!?  yahoooo for labor day!

the majority of my weekend was spent in my new place organizing, cleaning, decorating, crafting…basically it was a big nest-fest.  it’s slowly coming together and feeling more homey which i love!

i finally got all of my important files and documents filed away neatly in my desk drawer complete with labels i printed out!  it feels so good to have things organized so i don’t spend 3 hours digging through a pile of papers when i need something.

my hair sheds like, a lot.  a lot a lot.  and my floors just needed a good sweeping anyways, so i used my new leopard broom (that i got at ross for $4!) to sweep up my place.  it’s crazy how much cleaner i feel just by taking the 4 minutes it takes to sweep my floors.

i did a little DIY project and finally got something up on my walls!  and i love how it turned out.  exactly how i envisioned.  (love when that happens).  more pics to come later this week!

and of course i ate some ice cream.  typical.

hope you all had a great weekend and you east coasters stayed safe!

back to school.

on monday i went back to school.  kind of.  i’m taking two online classes for units.  see, i’m a CPA….almost.  i have the required experience hours, i passed the test, blah blah blah, but i’m short twelve measly college units.  it’s pretty dumb actually.  cause these units could be in anything — i just need the dang units.  why taking a course in hospitality and tourism will make me a better cpa is beyond me, but i don’t make the rules.  i’m also taking a tax class which should be easy considering that’s what i do for a living…but we shall see.

reis will be studying for the next 50 years of his life so now our nights look a lot like this.  woo hoo!  aren’t we fun??

miss chinatown.

this past saturday night i spent in chinatown at the hawaii theater (how cute and old-fashioned is it?!)  to watch my old roomie nicky compete in the miss chinatown pageant.  it was fun getting dressed up, going to the theater, waving signs of her face, and screaming insanely loud for her along with the rest of her humongous cheering section.  and she kinda rocked it.  cause she WON.  she gets to go to miss hawaii this year!  she looked gorgeous and did a beautifullll job strutting her stuff up on that stage.  so proud of you, nick!!