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Rant and Rave

I’m just gonna start off with a rant and then end with a rave so it can be on a positive note. On Friday, I had a day off from work and decided to pick up my brothers from school and spend time with them and my cousin who was leaving back to school in Chicago. I may have mentioned this before but my brothers are very young and I could be their mother. Well if I had my kids early in life, then yes, I can be their mother. I’m not. So the first pick-up was for the youngest at the preschool. It was nap-time and I told the teacher I was picking up Jayson. She was very friendly, don’t get me wrong…but I still believe she was very rude. She asked who I was and I told her and then the questions started. First she asked how old I was, and sorry but I am now at the age where it is SUPER rude to ask me how old I am. I am pretty sensitive about my age now, haha. Then she just keeps going, so I basically have to share my life story about my father and him having kids with his new wife, etc. She bombards me with non-stop questions, where do I live, who else is in my family, majorly personal and sensitive questions. I’m not comfortable but I answer them because, get this, I don’t wanna be rude! So after the whole inquisition, she then says she has to check my ID to pick him up in case I’m kidnapping him or something (ha! sarcastically).  Then at the end she has the wonderful foresight to tell me that if I had a kid, my youngest brother would be an uncle.  Thank you for the information. I’m glad she had a laugh at her own rude joke.

Anyway, sorry that was the rant. Maybe I’m at that point of the month where I’m sensitive but I still think her personal questions were rude. I got the sense that the way she asked them were also judgemental. Sigh. Other than that I had a pretty good day off, can’t wait to share the pics with you! Let me share with you a picture from Lanikai last week!

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Day off – North Shore, HI

So as I have mentioned before, I was super stressed in December with a lot of different projects at work.  When my final project was complete, I totally took a vacation the day after.  Since I was taking the day off, I wanted to make it a productive one and I certainly think I did!  We drove out to Wahiawa to try Sunny Side Bakery, then up to the North Shore to get shrimp for lunch.  The day ended with dinner and a movie, while that included a lot of “doing,” I felt completely relaxed!  Let me share some pictures!

140109-01Pupukea Beach Park.  There was a guy sitting up front forever which ruined all our shots.  I finally got this when he left…hehe.

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Christmas 2013

Late post but I just wanted to share some quick pictures from Christmas. A picture of my present from my friend Kristian. As you will learn in this blog, he’s an amazing gift wrapper. Take a look at his gift this year!  He already has an inspiration for next year and I’m super excited to see it executed. Hahaha…for lunch, I cooked up a whole bunch of portuguese sausage, eggs and rice for the family. It was delicious!

140108-01Courtesy of Kristian!

140108-02Best breakfast (for lunch!) ever!

Teddy’s Bigger Burgers – Cheesy Tots

Have I shared my love for tater tots with you? I bet I have. But I’ll share again. I like tater tots. I like that Teddy’s serves tater tots. I also like that they let us be gluttonous and add on cheese sauce. It’s definitely a guilty pleasure. Have you tried it? You should. I just wanted to share that. I also wish we had a Sonics here so I could get tater tots with my food instead of regular fries. Am I in the minority? 🙂

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Happy New Year!

2014 is upon us!  Another new date to remember to write.  When I worked at the bank, knowing the new year was required.  Especially when depositing checks!  So much has changed in the past few years.  I remember when I used to play with both fireworks and firecrackers during new years eve.  I can see why they need to ban it – the smoke nuisance can really affect anyone with asthma.  I remember once when I was a kid, I was playing with firecrackers and it popped in my hand.  My hand stung for like the whole night.  I would freak out if it happened to a kid in front of me but for me, it was a cool experience to have.  Hahaha okay sorry.  Just reminiscing a bit.  I hope you all had a great 2013 and I wish you all the best in 2014.  I leave you with a picture I took during a trip to Hilo a few years back.  This was like the calm before the storm called Saddle Road.  I didn’t know I drove on that thing until afterwards, it was nuts.  Happy New Year!

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Staycation

Hi folks!  I hope you guys are having a great holiday season!  I’ve been off since Christmas day and it has been great.  I’ve been spending time with family and friends so it’s been hard to update as regularly.  My cousin is back from Chicago for the break so I’ve been trying to get some quality time in with her!  I have all this pictures burning a hole in my hard drive that I must share with you guys!  And share I will!  I promise.  Just wanted to drop by in the meantime to say hello.  Here’s a picture from my day off last week.  I had a crazy month so taking that day off was amazing.  Boy was I productive!  I went all around the island that day!  Here’s a picture from the Pupukea Beach Park…:)

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!  I hope you have a wonderful holiday season.  I already had a battery mishap – all things should come with batteries!   Okay positive attitude.  🙂  Anyway, I hope you folks get some good rest, good food and good gifts!  Hopefully you have some time off too!  Here’s a gingerbread tree I made…!

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Fendu Boulangerie – Honolulu, HI

We ran an event in our office recently and ordered lunch for the participants.  Since I helped out – I scored a sandwich of my own!  I’m not sure if Fendu Boulangerie would be known for their sandwiches, but they are good!  I would definitely recommend them!  Here’s how two of them look:

131214-01Black Forest Ham Sandwich – delicious!  I couldn’t eat mine on the same day so I had it the next day and it was still good!  It’s a testament to how good the bread was!  I definitely recommend this. 

131214-02Vegetarian Sandwich – doesn’t that look great?  I love all the grill marks.  This wasn’t my sandwich but my coworker seemed to like it too!

Spaghetti

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131211-02Just a quick update with some spaghetti I had earlier.  A friend was nice enough to give me some food as she returned my container.  Was onolicious!  Thanks bra!

I Lied

So I totally said my time would free up a few weeks ago and I was dead wrong.  It’s probably been more hectic than ever, the next two weeks are going to be crazy too.  I apologize.  I’ve been doing some restaurant-ing the past few weeks too so I hope to get them up for you folks.  I’ll try to work on some posts tonight.  Please bear with me!  I am pretty excited to share some recipes I made too!  It’s the holiday season so I’ve been baking up a storm for various events/bake sales…or just to eat.  LOL.  Hope you all are doing well.  I’ll end this post with another Chicago picture.  Sorry!  I couldn’t believe how beautiful this picture was that my cousin was able to capture from her room.  Can you believe her view?  Willis Tower!

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