Dear North Shore Lifeguard

I'm only putting this up because I suspect you're too checked out to have any blog perusing know-how, much less internet access...

So, Mahalo for the fun times...

Hilarious...

Taking the Peter Pan Complex to new heights

Tender group shot. How naive we were to the awaiting nausea...

I attempted to mask how petrified I was with a gigantic smile and laughing really hard the entire plane ride.
Also, on the way up, they kept opening the door to get a rise out of me, but that un-appreciation was not captured on film haha.
Also, Luman is on the verge of a seizure, and Andrew is about to rip that rope off.

One of my favorite pictures of me ever taken. LOL.

Also I was not briefed on how NAUSEOUS I would be mid air, after the chute was pulled, and as you swirl down. What the heck! Well, I guess I did have the wind knocked out of me.

I felt SO sick...

And of course, shout out to the birthday girl. We HAD to go on her birthday so she could get a free shirt. What a princess. Happy 24th Lumanizer!

Her guide jumps barefoot. Awesome.

"With sounds of rocks on the coast"

It's late, I just finished up Season 2 of Prison Break...I don't think I can do 2 more. I just want to watch the final movie and see Scofield and Sara together. OK.

But I'm of course creeped out by T-Bag's inevitable next escape and kill, not to mention dumb Panamanian officials, so to calm myself I am turning to V. Carlton..."Home" a particular favorite.

I really love living steps away from the water right now. It's basically my childhood revisited. I immensely miss that house, even though it was too small for our family. "No room for a desk in your room," says my mom. I'm not victimizing myself, I'm just nostalgic.

Since I'm fast running out of creative juice and battery juice, take what you will with that, the lyrics I'm pasting and video embedding. A lot of music tries to be vague for artistic interpretive purposes, and while I will argue for its place, I appreciate the straightforward too.

I saw her in concert 2 years ago and she is even more amazing live (absolutely she nailed that piano solo at the end).




HOME
Some people live in a house on the hill
And wish they were some place else
There's nobody there
When the evening is still
Secrets with no one to tell

Some I have known have a ship where they sleep with sounds of rocks on the coast
They sail over oceans five fathoms deep
But can't find what they want the most

Even now when I'm alone
I've always known with you
I am home

Some live in towns
Cardboard shack on concrete
All bluster and bustling life
They search for the color you can never quite see
Cause it's all white on white

Even now when I'm alone
I've always known with you
I am home

For me it's a glance and the smile on your face the touch of your hands,
And an honest embrace
For where I lay it's you I keep,
This changing world I fall asleep
With you all I know is I'm coming home,
Coming home

Hawaiians- 2, Me- 0

Item A)
First of all, I am being WORKED by the sun. Yeesh. Couldn't I have been even 1/32 Italian or something so I didn't turn into a tomato day after day, only to attain a mere semblance of a 'tan' by the END of summer? Nope, just me and my stark white Scandinavian skin trying to make it in near-equator latitudes.

Item B)
My phone got stolen out of my roommate's car today, in the parking lot of a church (the irony) overlooking Waimea Bay. At least it was a beautiful crime scene right?

(yeah, that beige-ish tower in the left third of the photo. not too shabby a place. bah.)

Maybe this is the universe's way of telling me to check myself out even more than I am.

OR

Maybe this is karma for me riding my bike around and saying to myself "Sheesh, I miss those happy-go-lucky Maori, Hawaiians are sure a grumpy bunch."
Seriously, they are Polynesia's version of hurried New Yorkers, only they still don't get anything done very fast. Just my observation.
It's okay, I might be pretty ticked too if Americans took over the beautiful islands of my grandfathers.

OR

Maybe it's just annoying...

"...per capita"

My friend on my New Zealand trip lived in Hawaii a few years ago...

Such a crack up, always came over to our house to play 'Pork and Beans' on the guitar. As much as that dang song was constantly in my head the last few weeks of NZ, I miss that kid.


He also had some great pearls of wisdom for my upcoming Hawaiian long vacation. Including, and certainly not limited to:

"The requirements for a good day: good food, good company, good weather, good surf - they are all fulfilled in Hawaii."

"You have to promise me you will listen to Bob Marley every day, as it will greatly enhance your experience."

"Hawaiians probably wear the least amount of clothes per capita." HAHA.


All duly noted.