A year+ later....

I know I always say it, but damn.... time goes by so fast!

Another thing I always say is that i'm going to update this blog as much as possible, but i think that this time i really will keep it up. For one thing, who knows how much longer I will be living in Hawaii and I want to chronicle every detail so I can look back and recall everything that i've loved, left and lost.

So morbid.

I always think it's so funny how one person's "Hawaii" is so different from another person's "Hawaii". So many people love living here so they can hike everyday and focus their inner self with positive vibes and blah blah blah... "My Hawaii" is so different. I love hiking, but I'm not really down with waking up every other morning just to climb a mountain. When I look back on Hawaii I'm going to remember waking up every day and thinking "I'm In Hawaii!" Even throughout the bad times and knowing that maybe I didn't go and do all the touristy or even local things that ppl love to do, but I know that my time spent here was spent loving every day with great adventures and even greater people!

Not to say that I'm planning to move anytime soon, but I know that eventually I'm going to move back to mainland even if I don't go back to Georgia. I really feel like the simplicity of living on the other side of the United States and being able to book a flight back home for the weekend is something that I always took for granted. I would love to go home for holidays, special occasions or just whenever I got homesick and not have to worry so much about the price of airfare. Someday I'll get a "real" job and have a normal 9-5 with weekends off and traffic everywhere I go. Someday.... but until that day I'm gonna enjoy wallering in bed with Levi until I get too hungry to be lazy and staying up into all hours of the night doing nothing because even if I go to sleep at 2am I'll still get 8 hours of sleep if I wake up by 10am! Such little things bring me so much joy!

I just realized something about myself that I never would have pegged myself as... I'm a procrastinator! Who knew I was one of those people who put off until tomorrow.... now that I've realized my fault I have been working on it in certain areas of my life.

Recently I took a trip to the dentist with Mitch to have a checkup and I knew that I would have a couple of cavities, but I never thought I would have as many as I did.... FOURTEEN!!! Well.... the dentist said I had twelve, but when he was fixing one of them he found two more inside it.... EWWW!!! So four trips to the dentist, $1,000+ bill and a panic attack later I am now cavity free! Just like mitch who NEVER flosses and didn't have any cavities to show on his checkup. Twisted.

So I was pretty hands on with getting my mouth in order, but I'm also in the process of getting back into school and need to get a spot on my arm checked by a derm. I really doubt that the spot is anything to worry about, but it needs to go away! School is such an ordeal with getting the shots, transferring locations w/in the UH institution and registering that I don't know if I'm going to be able to get in this fall, but I will do everything within my mortal being to do my best.

Work is going really well and has been super busy this summer! Got into about a thousand fights w/ different people for various reasons, but had a little talk w/ the good angel on my shoulder and have pretty much reconciled all of the bad relations with those I got into it with. Albeit that my reasons are valid for bringing on the controvery, but I got a bit out of control and started getting into it with EVERYONE and that's always when I realize i just need to take it down a notch and keep telling myself "BE NICE" which is surprisingly easier said than done!

I worked really hard and finally paid off my dental bill and finally feel like I'm making "me" money! But all of that ''me money" has a designated goal attached so it's not like I can just go shopping or making it rain... I have alot of trips coming up that I really want to make happen!

August before school starts I want to take a trip to Maui (especially since I haven't been yet) with the "Kauai Kawaiis" (Sopheap. Amanda. Wakana. Keala) and Bing and Maria! This time hopefully we can get a beach house and have beach parties! Maui is good because it's pretty inexpensive! I wish that the Ferry still was running, but I guess just like everybody else I never went when it was running and so it had to shut down!

Then in October or November I want to go to Japan! Mitch actually got to go to Japan w/ Kamehameha schools as a chaperone o their field trip and it really made me want to go back asap! I haven't been since 2006! The crew for this trip would be Bing and Wakana and anyone else who could make it! Hopefully Mitch can take some more vacay time!

And then for sure in November I want to go back and celebrate my mom's 80th birthday with her! I just found out that my sister that lives in Singapore will be coming back towards the end of November with her kids so hopefully I can go back around that time! I haven't seen them in forever!

And as always I'm trying to live healthy, debt free and according to the life plan of Suze Orman, but I'm still a work in progress! Maybe tracking my progress through this blog will help keep me in check! Other than financially and personally, i want to do better physically and need to get on a strict schedule of hitting the gym!

Maybe I should bust out my new years resolutions and see how I'm doing....