As expected, late last year I received an invitation in the mail for the “45th Annual Awards Banquet” for Locations LLC. What I hadn’t expected was the theme – Chinese Elegance. As you can probably guess, this theme was, quite literally, foreign to me. What in the world is Chinese Elegance attire? Last year’s theme … Continue reading
Aloha Peeps, It’s official. It’s finally happening. After twelve years of military service (eight post-graduate), Daniel will be a civilian! Welcome back to the dark side, honey. He is finishing up his MBA in less than 6 weeks – that was crazy fast – and has just accepted a job in San Francisco, scheduled to start in June! We … Continue reading
Maybe it’s the fact that in the last six months Daniel and I hopped to another island, or that I took a personal R&R to Nashville and Indiana, or that one of my best friends just came to visit, or perhaps it’s the sunny whether, or maybe, just maybe it’s that Daniel and I are … Continue reading
Daniel and I have had a big weekend. Even though we were tuckered out from Thanksgiving, we made our way downtown last night to attend the West Point Society’s beat Hawaii cocktail mixer/pep rally. The event details online said “doors open at 6:30” so we figured arriving around 7:15 was no big deal. Wrong. We … Continue reading
Well, I didn’t exactly catch up on sleep last night. I slept snug as a bug in my cozy covers for about 3 hours until Daniel got out of bed at 2:00am to check on a noise coming from the front room. When I saw him peer around the frame of our bedroom door, as … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Daniel!!! 29, how does it feel? Daniel is about three and a half years older that me, but we have a little joke that each year he is aging at a faster pace so that when he turns 60 I’ll still be in my 30’s. Even if that’s not the case, maybe I’ll … Continue reading
Karma is a you know what. Yesterday I commented on some Facebooker’s obsession with making others feel totally frantic and unprepared for Thanksgiving. I even made some snarky sarcastic mention that commissary was going to be out of butter. As if that would ever happen [insert eye roll]. The rampant threats of bare shelves were not getting under my skin, but rather I wanted to spend the better part … Continue reading
It’s that time again. I regret it has been nearly eight months – eight! – since I have made any noise on my blog. Lame. Does it count that I’ve been thinking about re-establishing the daily updates since August? Not likely. I was re-reading my posts from thanksgiving last year because I desperately need to make a grocery list for … Continue reading
I was beginning to worry we may not have one, but today we found the floor! It feels so good to walk through the house without tripping over cardboard boxes and plastic bins. We filled 20 Hefty black bags with junk. TWENTY. Sorry, taxpayers, for paying to ship all that stuff here. We’re hoping to … Continue reading
Whelp, I’m wiped. Our Saturday got started relatively early. We had to get up for a seven o’clock Hoosier tip off! Indiana ran circles around Minnesota while the #1 ranked Duke lost to #20, NC State. Wahoo! During halftime, we took Charlie boy back to the beach for a morning swim. He is the best … Continue reading
