My hair is getting long. Well, long for me anyway.
I wonder at what point I will actually start growing up.
I keep thinking about babies, and I believe I finally understand the ticking clock.
I'm saving a little bit of money.
There are a thousand things that I want to buy with that little bit of money.
So many amazing visitors coming in the next 9 months - mom and dad in August. Megan and Nicole in September. Corrie and friends in April (for her 40th. WTF??)
Had a bitchin couple of weeks with my man - lots of connection, activity, and happiness.
Started a program called Donate Your Fat - it's an awesome way to get healthy, and contribute to a worthy cause in the meantime. I'm on Day 8 of 40. If you want to sponsor me - ANY amount, find me on www.donateyourfat.org
I need to buy myself some special shoes for the lava rock.
My goggles keep fogging up in the ocean...it makes snorkeling in 30 feet of open water, 1/4 mile from shore a little scary.
I think I'm going to ride my scooter into town today and go to the arts and crafts store. I need to make Jake and Nicole a wedding gift - TARDY.
I made turkey burgers last night - they leaked a weird meaty goo because I baked them, but they were quite tasty regardless.
My new favorite treat - Safeway macadamia nut brownies. They are sinful. So is the Dairy Queen Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The King
I have a nice update from the weekend forming in my head, as well as pictures to share, but for now, just know that it was very relaxing to do absolutely nothing.
I read 750 pages in The Stand. I fully intend to read the last 450 this weekend. Again. For the third time. And now I want my Stephen King collection here with me.
I read 750 pages in The Stand. I fully intend to read the last 450 this weekend. Again. For the third time. And now I want my Stephen King collection here with me.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The Wedding of the Year
Nicole and Jake got married on Friday!!!
This is part of the reason that June flew by so quickly - wedding prep, and lots of fun with the Bachelorette, extra massages for family members, and dinners with a whole bunch of people from Idaho and Ohio.
It was a pleasure to meet all of Nicole and Jake's family and friends - an awesome crew of people, as to be expected. Nicole is one of those people that I'm magnetically drawn to. She is grounded, successful, happy, and has a great approach to and appreciation of life. I have that with a very select few people from home, and I wasn't sure if I would ever find that in others, espeically here on Maui, where so many people seem transient, flighty, and unsure of themselves. Luckily I found that in several Mauians, and Nicole is one of them. I'm honored to call her a friend, and I look forward to a lot more happy memories with she and Jake.
This was actually my first Hawaiian wedding, and some of the ceremonial traditions were very moving. My favorite was when the officient asked Jake and Nicole to turn and face their friends and family, and to accept the love for them that was brought by each person. He asked them to meet each person in the eye, to have an exchange of love. It was a big wedding - over 200 people there - so the exchange took a rather long time, but it was so powerful.
The reception was awesome too - Ryan Robinson band played, and I sang a couple songs with them. Ryan and I surprised Nicole with "Lucky" by Jason Mraz feat. Colby Callait, and that went over really well. She had originally wanted that as her first dance song, but Jake wasn't in love with it, so they went with something they both loved. But she still really like that song. I hope that we get to see video of that soon because I have no idea what I sounded like. Or maybe I don't want to see video, cuz in my head it sounded AWESOME.
We closed down the reception, shaking our groove thing until the very last minute. It was such a happy, awesome wedding.
The next day I met Nicole and a bunch of ladies for a performance of 'Ulalena, which is a musical theater production about the history of Maui. The lights, the set, the actors, the vocalists....the whole production was incredible. It reminded me a bit of the fantastic-ness of a Cirque performance, but with the polynesian culture and mythological characters. The musicians were elevated off the the right of the stage, and were lit so you could watch them the whole time as well - lots of traditional instrumentation....just breathtaking. It was amazing. I'm totally going back.
As with any major event like this, I just can't believe that it's gone and past. But then I'm reminded when Nicool so goofily answers the phone..."This is MRS. FREEMAN!"
This is part of the reason that June flew by so quickly - wedding prep, and lots of fun with the Bachelorette, extra massages for family members, and dinners with a whole bunch of people from Idaho and Ohio.
It was a pleasure to meet all of Nicole and Jake's family and friends - an awesome crew of people, as to be expected. Nicole is one of those people that I'm magnetically drawn to. She is grounded, successful, happy, and has a great approach to and appreciation of life. I have that with a very select few people from home, and I wasn't sure if I would ever find that in others, espeically here on Maui, where so many people seem transient, flighty, and unsure of themselves. Luckily I found that in several Mauians, and Nicole is one of them. I'm honored to call her a friend, and I look forward to a lot more happy memories with she and Jake.
This was actually my first Hawaiian wedding, and some of the ceremonial traditions were very moving. My favorite was when the officient asked Jake and Nicole to turn and face their friends and family, and to accept the love for them that was brought by each person. He asked them to meet each person in the eye, to have an exchange of love. It was a big wedding - over 200 people there - so the exchange took a rather long time, but it was so powerful.
The reception was awesome too - Ryan Robinson band played, and I sang a couple songs with them. Ryan and I surprised Nicole with "Lucky" by Jason Mraz feat. Colby Callait, and that went over really well. She had originally wanted that as her first dance song, but Jake wasn't in love with it, so they went with something they both loved. But she still really like that song. I hope that we get to see video of that soon because I have no idea what I sounded like. Or maybe I don't want to see video, cuz in my head it sounded AWESOME.
We closed down the reception, shaking our groove thing until the very last minute. It was such a happy, awesome wedding.
The next day I met Nicole and a bunch of ladies for a performance of 'Ulalena, which is a musical theater production about the history of Maui. The lights, the set, the actors, the vocalists....the whole production was incredible. It reminded me a bit of the fantastic-ness of a Cirque performance, but with the polynesian culture and mythological characters. The musicians were elevated off the the right of the stage, and were lit so you could watch them the whole time as well - lots of traditional instrumentation....just breathtaking. It was amazing. I'm totally going back.
As with any major event like this, I just can't believe that it's gone and past. But then I'm reminded when Nicool so goofily answers the phone..."This is MRS. FREEMAN!"
Thanks You Guys
I've been totally blog-less the last few weeks. I can't believe I only posted once in June. I'm pretty sure that the month of June was only in pretend, by the way. WTF, where did it go? On to heaven with Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Billie Mays.
My only comment about the MJ death is that yes, I'm very sorry that he is gone. Much in the same way I'm sad when anyone gets dead. I'm sorry for his family, and for his friends, and for his children who will feel the physical loss of their son, brother, father. But past that, I'm over it. We (the public) didn't know him. What we knew was what tabloids and newsstands wrote about him, and we knew the character that he portrayed in the public and while performing. That's it. So I'm not personally sad - empathetic, yes - sad, no. That might sound a little harsh, but hey, that's the truth. Now I'm just fascinated with the media frenzy and all the stupidity that makes us want to know what MJ's net worth was. WTF?
I'm more freaked out that Billie Mays is dead, because if the ShamWow guy becomes the next big pitch man, I'm going to carve out my own eyeballs. Or get one of his professional hookers to do it.
Last night I got to go on a date with my honey, and that was very nice. After a loooong day at the office (almost 12 hours!), I met Bradley here at Mala for a nice dinner. We enjoyed sunset and a delicious dinner, some cocktails, and each other. It's been a long time for us, so much going on this past month, and it was nice to reconnect a little. I'm looking forward to things getting more back to normal in the next couple months. We're going to take off this weekend, camp somewhere on the west side maybe - just me and my boy, fishing, swimming, snorkeling, diving, and killing octopus for bait. What a life.
I'm also looking forward to a lot of reading. For some unknown reason, I picked up The Stand again....and in a heartbeat, I was already 100 pages into it. So now I'm obsessed again...we'll see how much I can blaze through with two full days of camping/lounging on the beach. I think we're going to blow town on Friday afternoon, and head straight out, get the poles set up, and enjoy some dinner.
I love filling up my camelbak and wearing a head lamp.
And watching episodes of Law & Order on my iPod in the middle of the night. I'm so hard core.
Oh, and to the title of this little blog - thanks to those of you who commented on my last post. You re-encouraged me to keep doing this. I do miss it when I slack off.
My only comment about the MJ death is that yes, I'm very sorry that he is gone. Much in the same way I'm sad when anyone gets dead. I'm sorry for his family, and for his friends, and for his children who will feel the physical loss of their son, brother, father. But past that, I'm over it. We (the public) didn't know him. What we knew was what tabloids and newsstands wrote about him, and we knew the character that he portrayed in the public and while performing. That's it. So I'm not personally sad - empathetic, yes - sad, no. That might sound a little harsh, but hey, that's the truth. Now I'm just fascinated with the media frenzy and all the stupidity that makes us want to know what MJ's net worth was. WTF?
I'm more freaked out that Billie Mays is dead, because if the ShamWow guy becomes the next big pitch man, I'm going to carve out my own eyeballs. Or get one of his professional hookers to do it.
Last night I got to go on a date with my honey, and that was very nice. After a loooong day at the office (almost 12 hours!), I met Bradley here at Mala for a nice dinner. We enjoyed sunset and a delicious dinner, some cocktails, and each other. It's been a long time for us, so much going on this past month, and it was nice to reconnect a little. I'm looking forward to things getting more back to normal in the next couple months. We're going to take off this weekend, camp somewhere on the west side maybe - just me and my boy, fishing, swimming, snorkeling, diving, and killing octopus for bait. What a life.
I'm also looking forward to a lot of reading. For some unknown reason, I picked up The Stand again....and in a heartbeat, I was already 100 pages into it. So now I'm obsessed again...we'll see how much I can blaze through with two full days of camping/lounging on the beach. I think we're going to blow town on Friday afternoon, and head straight out, get the poles set up, and enjoy some dinner.
I love filling up my camelbak and wearing a head lamp.
And watching episodes of Law & Order on my iPod in the middle of the night. I'm so hard core.
Oh, and to the title of this little blog - thanks to those of you who commented on my last post. You re-encouraged me to keep doing this. I do miss it when I slack off.
Love you all!!!
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