- finally got the thank you postcards designed from our wedding
(see above). i am telling you, you cannot go wrong with vistaprint and 100 cards printed for free; all i had to pay for was the upload of the graphics and for shipping. and they literally printed in a day and are on their way here now. on a side note, the koi graphic on the backside of the postcard is a planned tattoo for the husband and myself. i am long overdue for another tat!
- it's ironman time here on the west side of the island, so the roads are packed with bicyclists and runners. and lemme say, they have no clue what a stop sign means. i have already almost taken out 3 different people who ignored those red things and flew in front of my jeep as i was turning, having to jam on the brakes with my heart beating a million mile an hour. and they never miss a beat or wave a hand in apology. this is the first year i have lived on the west side so it's a new experience in patience. saturday should be interesting as so many roads are blocked off; i'm not sure how i will get home from work in the morning because the race starts at 745 and the route between work and home runs smack thru the area it all starts. i had to do a triple take when i realized just how many miles the bike portion is: 112. one hundred and twelve. and let me say, that stretch of highway they ride on is hotter 'n hell and at many parts, windier 'n hell. good luck.
- the work schedule of four days on (10pm-8am) with three days off is pretty grueling. when i get home from work sunday morning, i have been trying to just stay up the whole day so i get back into a night-sleeping routine. which, most times, by about 2 in the afternoon my head is spinning and i have to nap. nap: sleep until 8pm...have some dinner, crash. crash: sleep the deepest sleep until 9 o'clock monday morning. after many talks with my boss and her boss, i seem to be finally performing my "core duties" on a more regular basis, rather than supervising the team and not getting any of my stuff done and feeling like i'm not "doing my job". i really like the group of people i directly work with in addition to most everyone else who is on the night shift. there are one or two people on my team that i wonder just how in the hell they are keeping their jobs; by now, you should pretty much know what you're doing and how to do it. and they amaze me by still asking the same questions or neglecting to do (what i perceive as) simple tasks that should be second nature by now. i miss working in the world of advertising, but it's not like my job is boring or not challenging. but it's not like i miss advertising and graphic design enough to freelance and not have a dependable paycheck.
- i'm looking at getting an iphone 3G(s). i really want something with basic video capabilities just to shoot stuff when i am out and about or when the husband and i go to cool places. i looked into the nano, but then realized...for 50 bucks more (and ten dollars more per phone bill a month), i can upgrade my first generation iphone (2 years old now), get double the memory space (8gig --> 16gig), *and* have a 3 megapixel camera with video. and let me say, the crappy photo quality on my phone got crappier when i realized the outside of the lens is either chipped or cracked or something. still in the thinking stage right now, but it seems like a no-brainer.
- the window a/c unit in the ohana is teasing me. i need to find a way to build a frame for it for the previously-jalousied window it's going to go in. it doesn't sit in the window anyway near how it "should", where i can utilize the accordion-style sides to close it in. and it certainly doesn't have a sash (or whatever you would call it) that i can wedge down like a normal window has. sunday's mission to to definitely get it put in, one way or another. i am over sleeping daytime with the crazy heat we have been having. i want to flip a remote control to cool temps and fall blissfully into sleep.
- the husband's schedule alternates between days (his normal) and nights. poor guy; i cannot imagine switching back and forth. he is one of the hardest working people i have ever known with the weight of the world on his shoulders. i cannot imagine THAT many people having to answer to me. it *is* like full-time babysitting. even with the small groups i have supervised in the past and even now (what, maybe 7 people tops?) it was painful at times with the amount of questions and drama.
- we paddled this past monday and had a great time. i was coming off a minor flu, so i cannot say my cardio was up to par, but still...to be out on the water in the canoe was awesome.
- have you ever overall been so happy in your life that sometimes you are afraid it will all go away or that something will change it...or even worse, that you do not want to talk *too* much about it for fear you are bragging to other people? lately i have been thinking a lot about the times in my life when i wondered if i belonged where i was, or if love was ever going to find me or if i would feel a sense of satisfaction about things in general. it is not to say my life now is perfect, but from my standards...well, it is pretty damn good. yea, i would love to have a job that really got some sense of satifaction from. i would love to be in better shape and be as fitness-motivated as some people i know. but overall in the scheme of things when i think about my life: i am right where i want to be. and i appreciate that more than words could ever express. just food for thought.
so the store had these gill porcelain statues ON CLEARANCE for awhile and i have been patiently eyeballing them (actually, since day one of work). they are representations of the gill repro-art that we have hanging throughout the house (i wish we could afford an original piece of the art. i think i saw one here locally for about $4,000 or some high number i knew i could never afford). 
honestly, i spent more time drooling over the wrapping/packaging than i did about what was inside the box. they could have left nothing in there and i would have gotten just as much enjoyment out of this when it arrived via UPS the other day.
it is only a short walk down our street then onto the crossroad and you can get to the water. there are a few beaches up and down this main stretch of road that goes into town, although most are not very large and more locals and surfers with a few tourist stragglers. actually, up and down, there are some awesome sunset views.
dogs and peanut butter. doesn't get much better than this.
- finally got the thank you postcards designed from our wedding (see above). i am telling you, you cannot go wrong with vistaprint and 100 cards printed for free; all i had to pay for was the upload of the graphics and for shipping. and they literally printed in a day and are on their way here now. on a side note, the koi graphic on the backside of the postcard is a planned tattoo for the husband and myself. i am long overdue for another tat!
since he was a pup, jeep has always loved to be under my desk, either at home or when i brought him into work. the more "cave-like" the better, even if he has to squish himself in there and cram his body. the husband and i have to be aware of where he is, so we either don't step on him or roll his paws over with the wheels on the chair.
i am trying to narrow down from all the people who shot photos at the wedding so i can create one of those bound photobooks that are so cool. i mean, they're only like $60 bucks and looks like something you would take out of the library!
