one week from today

no more hawaii...

i can hardly wait

have you ever heard the wolf cry, to the blue corn moon...

well how about hearing a wolf howl with the passing sirens because she thinks that they're her friends?

this is pretty much my favorite thing, ever...

i had to video this somewhat secretly, because she gets very self conscious and embarrassed if she knows people are watching her do it.

by this time tomorrow...

it will be 2010

it feels like time is moving simultaneously too quickly and too slowly. some minutes drag on forever, to the point that makes me wish that i was already in california, getting settled in to wherever i end up living. but on the other hand, i am leaving the place that i have called home for the past seven years in a little over two weeks, which makes that period of time seem monumentally short. all i can hope for, is that when the day comes that i have to leave, i'll still feel as ready as i do right now...

a sigh of relief...

is anyone else really grateful that this year is almost over?

i know i am....

bring it on california.

where are you christmas?

this year's christmas was spent in hawaii, not unlike the past five years or so. i'm pretty much used to spending it sans family, which some people may look at as 'sad', but for me, it has always been more pleasurable to spend it with what friends i have had out here than to go and spend it with my resentful mother...but i digress. this year was just another sign, in a long line of signals from the cosmos that i should leave hawaii. don't get me wrong, i love hawaii, it has been a great place to live, and i feel truly blessed to have had the opportunity to be here for as long as i have, but this year's christmas felt...different. in addition to apparently not having any job karma coming my way, i also have no housing karma-even though over the years i have let countless number of people crash at my place, even if they were people that i didn't know at all. when it comes down to it, if people are really in need, i have no problem helping them out. now that i have been, technically, homeless since the 19th, i have not been able to find a solid place that i can stay at.

i guess i just expect more from people. it's not because i feel entitled, but it's the fact that i feel that they should dip into their compassion for others, especially around the holidays, in a predominantly lds church community...

in light of certain recent events, this year has gone to crap. and i keep telling myself that next year will be better. however, that's what i said last year, and i've tried to keep an optimistic attitude, so it's not a self fulfilling prophecy. so here's hoping that this year will be better than the last...

it's the end of an era...

it's official. i have a ticket. i've made appointments at the vet for both animals. i have a quasi job offer.

so for those of you that i haven't told, i'm moving to the san francisco area on january 16th. as for you hawaii folk, let's hang out before i head back to the mainland!!!!

where's your favorite place to eat on the north shore?

so i'm writing for this website now called the examiner, and i am their 'north shore restaurant examiner'. this means that i basically write reviews for any restaurants that i choose, within the boundaries of laie/hauula to wahiawa.

so where is your favorite place to eat? if you tell me, you might see it featured here...