Almost Christmas...

November is almost over and guess where I just came from! The beach! Ahhhh..... so good to live in Hawaii!

Mitch has been in Maui for almost a week now and it is driving me crazy! He went over last week to open up three stores for Verizon and has been over there with the big wigs having a good ol' time despite being away from home... but I'm so proud of him for working so hard and getting ahead in the company. He comes home tomorrow, but unfortunately has to go back on Friday for two weeks! Apparently they'll be staying in a bomb condo and it's like the ones you see on the Real World! So jealous! Since he's been gone I've just been working everyday and making lots of money for Christmas! Tomorrow will be my 12th day in a row at work, but that's completely okay with me! Especially since I have Thanksgiving off! Waikiki never closes so we're gonna be open for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Eve, etc. We're obligated to work two out of those threes days so I'll probably be scheduled for Christmas and New Years Eve, but I'll definitely be releasing those shifts, manipulating HotSchedules and paying if I have to just to have those days off!

It's gonna be so weird to not be home for the holidays, but I kind of want to be in Hawaii for my first Christmas here! I think it will be so cool to wake up Christmas morning to the warm sun! It's also my sister's 50th birthday and I would really love to be there for it, but I'll just have to deal with it I guess. As long as I'm here with Mitch & Levi then I will be happy!

I really am starting to wonder why I drink so much when I go out... I just don't stop until I'm completely done. Not that I'm slumped over in a corner choking on my own vomit, but more like I don't remember things and wake up in the morning with an insane hangover that takes all day to cure... I went out the other night to Three Nine Hotel for their monthly Fruit Fly event and Sy and his friend Dana picked me up and I had been drinking my concoction of Mandarin Vodka w/ Gatorade so I was pretty buzzed by the time I got there... then i met up with my new favorite, Rajah, who was there for his friends birthday and while there I had a couple of vodka/crans and some Jager Bombs and then we decided to go back to Waikiki and go to Fusions.

So real quick... this is my version of what happened when I woke up the next morning... I remember going to Three Nine Hotel and then after we got to Fusions I decided not to go in so I just went home and went to sleep like a good boy. This was my reality UNTIL I looked at my wrist and saw the huge F stamp on my wrist meaning clearly I went to Fusions that night. How could I not remember that whole part of my night? Not only that, but I remember spending all my cash at Three Nine so how did I pay to get into Fusions? And to make matters more confusing... I found $15 in my pocket! Did I make money that night? So many questions needing answers... but all in all I just need to stop drinking so much.

I'm still gonna be an alky, but maybe just a baby alky and not a full blown alky! So since then I have gone on an all vegetable/fruit/seafood/chicken diet and have stopped drinking soda... I feel like cutting red meats out of my diet will make me feel alot better. I ALMOST went on the Lemon/Cayenne Pepper/Maple Syrup/Water diet, but Mitch said it wasn't good for me and we could find a better method at the store. Plus I didn't find alot of persuasive reviews so I'll just switch up my diet for a while and see how that goes. It's been 5 days and I've only cheated a little bit (taco bell after beach today... i'm so weak!) and I do feel overall healthier!

I have to hurry and make a reservation for Thanksgiving dinner before everything gets booked! A little less traditional eating out for Thanksgiving, but living without a kitchen doesn't leave me much options... Gobble! Gobble!