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Looking Back on 2008

T-Moon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:03:39 +0000

Now that 2009 is here I want to take some time to reflect on 2008. I always knew 2008 was going to be a good year. I remember looking forward to it because it was 08 and 8 is just a good fucking number. It was only a year ago Ray and I were living the good o life in the rainbow state, Honolulu Hawaii.

It was almost a year ago that I started my first post on this blog, January 9th 2008. Since then I’ve written 121 post. I don’t really know who’s all reading it, but it sure has made my hand written journaling take back seat.

I cut my hair super short for the first time ever. It was kinda cute wasn’t it?

Ray got a new iPhone.

Ray and I ran in The Annual Great Aloha Run, just a little over 8 miles, and we all know eight is a good number to start with.

We voted for our first time for the Democratic Party. But just for the record, once Hillary was out of the election Ray and I voted again for our first time for President for Obama of course.

Ray bought me my first brand new computer. Mac 4 life baby!

MyBabyOurBaby Launched.

We finally found the dock where Lost, our favorite television series, was filmed at. We searched the island for it forever.

We went camping at Melekahana, our first time camping in Hawaii and Ray’s first time ever. He’s not a fan.

Rocked out at the Kokua Festival, a festival Jack Johnson puts on every year in Hawaii.

CheapPlacesToEatInOahuHawaii.com, my blog had become a major hit and one of Hawaii’s most popular food blog websites.

I called some lady a cunt on my last day of work, because she was.

We got to swim with dolphins.

We moved back to the main land, California first.

Ray got to meet some of my extended family.

Tried wake boarding for the first time.

Got to ride dirk bikes again.

Moved to Austin

Where we met the Semmlers, Shane’s older brother and his family and now mine.

Kidnapped Kuya Ben’s dogs.

Found the Agave Homes and fell in love.

Ray introduced me to Marcos. He works for NASA.

Went to our first roller derby.

Spent Bachelorette week in Florida with my best bud Jack Mother Fucking Dogg with a double G.

Got married, 080808.

Got my first tattoo with my old crew from V-Town.

Traveled to New York, but just for a couple of months.

I stopped eating meat.

Met Guav Mom and the Roses and I have to tell you I’m a fan. Hope we get to see them again soon.

I got to freelanced at Jimmy Z’s, thanks to Bea.

We got to be extras in Friday Night Lights.

I almost died from pneumonia.

I met the Semmler’s, the rest of Shane’s family, and now mine as well and went to my first professional basketball game. Go Mavericks!

As you can see I love recording my life and 2008 was a year worth recording. There was a lot of cherry popping going on and I got to meet a lot of people that will be in my life for the long haul. We also moved around a lot, Hawaii, California, Austin, New York, Dallas. Things are just never boring with us. I’m looking forward to a healthy, happy and prosperous year for 2009. I know great things are to come.

I Miss Hawaii :(

T-Moon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:10:58 +0000

I miss the beach and the weather, oh and rainbows. I know Austin is my new home now and I’m totally excited to be here but Hawaii is where my soul calls home. What I would give right now to be on the beach just soaking up the sun. Texas feels like hell, or a very hot oven. I laugh when I hear someone say, “today sure is a nice day.” Ha, if they only knew. They have no idea.

I'm Officially Living Out Of my Suitcase

T-Moon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:50:34 +0000

Ray and I finish sending the last of our boxes. We sent it all boat mail and the post office said it should take somewhere around a month or so to get to its destination but Ray’s dad has already gotten most of the boxes. Now that everything is sent, I’m officially living out of my suitcase. Of course we still have our drawers so I don’t technically have to be, but it just makes things more exciting actually doing it. But living out of a suitcase is harder than it seems and now I just have a pile of Doan’s shit inside a suitcase; nothing is tucked away neatly. We just shipped the car about four days ago. It really sucks donkey dick not having a car. Since it’s our last few days here I’d rather be on the other side of the island doing something I’ve never done before. Also, since Kola is flying out with us, this time with me underneath my seat, we had to get him the proper paper work and checked out. It cost us $222.00 and is only good for 10 days, which means I need to be outta here by the 4th, with Kola otherwise, we’ll have to pay for is exam and paper work all over again. The crazy thing is we haven’t even bought our plane tickets. Have you guys seen the prices for flights these days? Hawaiian Airlines is taking full advantage of the 3 airlines that have just went under and decided to jack their prices way up, since they’re the only airline now that flies to Hawaii. So one way tickets are now going for almost $600.00. Pretty steep right? Luckily our friend Val is a air hostest and is trying to get us super cheap stand by tickets for $85.00. I really hope it works out. I’m just so ready to get going already. Everyday the apartment gets smaller and smaller. I miss my family and I’m really looking forward to seeing them, getting everyone together for a nice dinner, tasting my mothers home cooking for a whole week, hanging out with all my sisters, taking a walk with my dad, and then getting the fuck outta there and getting on with the rest of my life with Ray and Kola. In the mean time, life has literally been a beach. We’ve been soaking up some Rays at the beach, since it’s only two blocks from where we live and doing a lot of walking. I now know that I am totally dependent on a vehicle and I’m o.k. with this. Ray will just have to figure out a way for us to drive on vegetable oil so we can still be green. We’ll, I guess that’s all for now.

Swimming With Dolphins Don't Suck At All

T-Moon — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:10:23 +0000

Our friend Jen, is a dolphin trainer for Dolphin Quest at Kahala Hotel. One of the perks of that is getting to swim with dolphins for free. I’ve been hoping and trying to have her get us in before we move. Since we were nonpaying customers I knew we took the back seat to other paying customers like Dave Mathews, who had just checked out of his room earlier this day. Anyhow, Jen calls me one day and was like, “hey, if you want to swim with the dolphins come in at 2:45. Fuck yeah, it’s not like I have to work or anything.

Kahala Hotel

I almost cried when I first got into the water. I’ve seen dolphins a million and one times but I never actually got a chance to even touch one and here I am swimming with them. Super cool.

Kahala Hotel

How cute is he. All the dolphins that live here are males and apparently they have sex with each other. I think I love him.

Kahala Hotel, Hawaii

Ray and I look so funny here. It almost looks like we just spotted a shark and just shit our pants.

Kahala Hotel, Hawaii

Ray loves the dolphins too

Kahala Hotel, Hawaii

This is us with our friend, Jen. I know your gonna read this eventually Jen so thank you so much for doing this for us. That was way cool of you to get us in before we moved. Ray and I had an awesome time. It was unbelievable. Noha and Hoku rock.

My Last Day At Work, Yippie Kai Yay Mother Fuckers!

T-Moon — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:33:51 +0000

I am officially unemployed and it feels phenomenal. On my last day of work I really didn’t want to go out with a bang. Everyone wanted me to have a drunken fair well event, but I’m not good at good-byes. I work with a lot of good guys and I’m gonna miss them but life goes on and I’m going with it. After work Brian and I had planned on running a few of his errands, but it got late and we decided to hit the bar instead. Our friend Donny met up with us, then Jen and Ali joined and later Scottie stopped by.

This is me and Jen. Don’t mind my eyes in any of these photos. When I drink I can never seem to open them.

Me, Donny, and Ali. I never really hit it off with Ali, but Donny was one of my favorites.

Donny and Brian, two very cool guys.

Brain was my closest buddy at work. We got along great because like me, he has a twisted sense of humor and can appreciate great music like Sublime. Oh, B-Rad, I’m gonna miss ya.

That guy in the back ground is Scotty. He’s one of those happy go lucky kind of guys that lives at the bar. Every bar needs a Scotty.

It’s story time, so as you all know, the day before this day I called some lady a cunt at work. That apparently opened the Cunt Door and now I just feel like calling everyone a cunt. There’s this lady at work, named Evette, that I absolutely despise. It seems like everyone at work is afraid of her because she has this mouth on her that just doesn’t quit. In the beginning they wouldn’t even schedule us together but as of late, we started working civilly together once a week but that doesn’t mean we even talk to one another. I don’t even say hi; she stays out of my way and I will stay out of hers. Anyhow, she ends up at the bar that night and slowly makes her way to our table. Everybody does the small talk thing because no one really likes her. I’m drunk and the cunt door is already open so I say, “hey Evette can I ask you something? Why are you such a cunt?” Of course she gets defensive and goes on to say she’s not a cunt, blah blah, blah. I assure her that she’s wrong, lying, and is in fact a cunt.” Anyhow, we do our little argue thing back and fourth. I was loving it because I just like confrontation. I enjoy telling people exactly how I feel and moving on. After she leaves Donny, who had been sitting there the whole time goes, “wow, you just don’t fuck around do ya?” No Donny, I don’t. Anyhow, that was that and again, it felt so good to tell someone exactly what I thought of them. I’m so glad she came.

I Called Some Lady A Cunt!

T-Moon — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:09:58 +0000

That’s right bitches, don’t fuck with me, because I could I be the bitch of all bitches, but considering this was my second to last day at work, I really didn’t give a fuck about getting fired. It’s not that I like bragging about fighting because those days are over for me. These days I’m totally refined, posed and stoic like Buddha but that is until somebody fines that button and pushes it. You see there are certain things that I absolutely adore about myself, one of them being that I will stand up to anyone that talks down to me because I have ginormous balls of steel.

To make the long story short, some lady at work tells me we need to hire people that work faster. I tell her, no she just needs to be more patient. She tell me I have a mouth on me and I say, yes, yes I do. She has nothing else to say so she calls me a bitch. I snap back and call her a cunt. She blows fire out of her nostrils because like all females, she detests being called the C word. She does the laugh growl thing like she’s gonna lay one down on me but obviously has nothing else to say so I leave. The end. I’m not going to lie, that worked me up. I could feel my blood boil and body tense; the feeling I get when I want to bash someone’s face in with a hammer. But when all was said and done, cunt had left the building and I calmed the fuck down I smiled at what I just did. Good job Doe doe, way to be a wise ass and stick up for yourself, once again. I make me so proud.

Barbecue Outside Kokua Festival

T-Moon — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:13:59 +0000

Every year since Jack Johnson became a somebody, he throws this thing called the Kokua Festival. It’s pretty fucking amazing and there’s always other big musicians that also plays, besides himself. Last year we also got to barbecue outside. It was really exciting because not only was Eddie Vedder playing, but we were still somewhat new residents to Hawaii so we were expecting to do this kind of shit all the time. Anyhow, this year Dave Mathews and Tim Reynolds were invited to play. I’m not really familiar with Tim Reynold’s stuff but I am a huge fan of Dave Mathews and since I’ve never got to see him in action I was all about getting tickets. Ray has been to a ton of Dave Mathews concerts since he is his favorite artist when it comes to music and he’s also a huge fan of Tim Reynolds and never got to see him live so he was totally for getting tickets too. However, after less than 3 minutes of being on sale the tickets were totally sold out. Fucking blows, oh well. I know I mentioned it before, but concerts outside the shell fucking rock. It’s free live music where I get to bring my own food, beer, dog, have all the space I want to kick back and relax and play bocce. It’s awesome and I last throughout the weekend and I got to make it to both events.

This is the first day, it gets a lot more crowed than this.

Shane and Ray. I don’t know why Shane has that face, maybe he has to take a shit, who knows.

I make Diamond Head look good.

Ray was craving Crunch n Munch for some reason today so we bought a big box of it and demolished it. I’m pretty sure it’s the reason why I had a stomach ache all night.

Ray walked me to the restroom across the street to avoid the long lines from the closer restroom. Inside the restroom some girl had busted her skull somehow and there was blood everywhere. I tried to take a photo but when I got out of the stall I saw like 6 firemen there all staring down at the blood trying to figure out how to clean it all up. On the way back Ray snapped this photo. Very pretty.

Lots of love in the air.

The next day, Ray dropped Shane and I off along with the rest of our things and Kola. I asked him to double check the car before coming back out to meet us at the park to make sure we got everything. Of course, he didn’t and we ended up with hot dogs with no buns. Oh, well. It’s not like it was 4:20 and I don’t have Mary with me, wait, it is 4:20, and I can’t find Mary anywhere, just like last year. Besides the few beers I drank, I was totally sober. Wo is me. Anyhow, Dave, Jack and Tim are playing live, I’m pretty sure I’ll be alright.

The night before I saw a lot of dogs at the park. It made me feel like a terrible mom, so I promised myself that I would take Kola out the next day.

This isn’t what it looks like. Shane bought Rolling Rock beer and totally overlooked that it wasn’t a twist off. None of us had a bottle opener so for the first hour or so he was trying to get it to open under my jacket.

This is me in my macro phase of my amateure photography skills.

One big happy family.

Ona and Jen made it out and they brought the Dolphin Crew with them, and another little Asian.

This girl here is what we call a Super Slut. She was totally making out with this guy so much that she had a whole circle of an audience with her in the middle. Hello people, Dave is playing and your more interested in live porn. Actually, I was guilty of it myself and had Jen walk with me to the back side of them so I could snap a photo of her ass, because it looked like a lot of it was showing from our direction. When we got around I couldn’t believe my eyes, this girl had her WHOLE bare ass showing, thong and everything. It was narly. I tried to take a photo but my camera wouldn’t focus and then of course they decide to change positions.

But here’s an earlier video I took of them.

Kokua Festival Whore from Doan Chung on Vimeo.

Jen and Ona aren’t in love at all.

By the end of the night Kola started getting cold so Ray put him in his sweater.

Everybody loves Kola.

It was a rockin concert. This will probably be our last time at a event outside the Shell. I had a bitchin time and got to hang out with good friends. Life is good right now.

I Quit, For Reals This Time.

T-Moon — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:49:12 +0000

So I did it again, I quit Sergio’s. I quit there once before, but after much consideration I decided to stay there once a week, Tuesdays. After coming to grips with the fact that we’re moving, I realized that I need to put my two weeks in soon otherwise there won’t be two weeks to put in. I really respect my boss, so I didn’t want to just quit without giving the proper two weeks. Since I was only there once a week and Brian is super cool, he said it was cool if I wanted to just have last Tuesday be my last night. It was fine with me, so now I don’t work at Sergio’s anymore. But, the chef there did ask me to come back to take some photos of the food. Even though I’m probably not going to do it, it was cool to actually get asked to take some photos for a business. As most of you know I’m a photo whore and when I get to Austin I’m thinking about taking my passion for photography more serious. Along with quiting at Sergio’s I also quit the Cheese. However, that was another story. I debated for a long time if I should even put my two weeks in there or if I should just be a total bitch and just quit one day. My conscious got the best of me and I decided to just give proper notice. I’m glad I did because I musta caught Kealoha on a good day because she was super cool about the whole thing, so cool that I even asked if she was happy to see me go. Anyhow, I finally quit both places this time, and this time it’s for reals, which means I’m just that much closer to moving to Austin.

Cheap Places To Eat In Oahu Hawaii Dot Com

T-Moon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:28:59 +0000

When Ray and I moved to Hawaii Ray suggested that I start up a food blog, since I not only love love to eat, but I’m so gosh darn critical when I eat. Before Ray I was computer illiterate and after Ray I’m like a computer genius. That’s a bit of an overstatement, but I am a computer whore. I’m addicted to being on the computer so it only made sense to broaden my horizons and start up my very first blog. I wanted to make it more of my own so I called it Cheap Places To Eat In Oahu Hawaii, because of the very obvious, I’m super cheap. Not only did it allow me to taste food but I also got a taste of my love of photography. I’m not claiming to be a master photographer or anything. But hey, you got to start somewhere right? I got a new camera that I actually don’t plan on returning, Cannon G9. It’s the perfect camera for a beginner photo enthusiast such as myself. Every time I go out to eat, which is like everyday, I bring it along and snap away. I love my food blog. I try very much to make it my own by putting a lot of my humor and personality in it, which means I’m brutally honest and I talk like sailor. I’ve gotten tons of comments of how much people are enjoying my blog. It’s really flattering. As of today I have almost 500 daily readers, that’s including the people that subscribe to my feed. The other day I even go a check in the mail, so I can now say that I’m a real food critic, since I actually got paid and all. It’s been about a year now and I’ve written on over 160 different places, not bad. I’m not gonna lie, at times it does seem a bit tedious, especially now that I have this personal blog; it’s a lot more interesting writing about myself. I guess my ego’s starting to grow because there are times I get tired of always having to take photos of my food. And I only get tired of it because I know I’m capable of taking some amazing photos, and it restricts me from doing so. Anyhow, I still love my blog, it’s my baby and she grows bigger and bigger everyday.

Here are a few of my favorite photos.

Camping at Melekahana

T-Moon — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:26:37 +0000

So we’re back from our camping trip and it was awesome. For spending only one night there I took a ton of photos. Ray and I got there super early and ended up exploring the area and killing time at the beach.

Ray was thrilled to find a clean toilet. I, on the other hand was a bit disappointed. What ever happen to roughing it?

Ona and Jen came mid day and brought the tent with them. I don’t think any of us are experinced at the art of tent making so when it was finally up we were super stoked and oh so proud.

Yah bitches!

Soon Holly and Mark made it out so we got the fire started and grill going.

But before that I took a killer photo of Ona and Jen making sexy time.

Of course no camping trip would be complete without smores. I love me some smores.

My baby is so gosh darn sexy.

Check out everyone’s stick compared to mine. You know I don’t fuck around.

Anyhow, this was an alcohol free camp grounds. I know pretty lame, but as long as we were discrete about it, like no open bottles or cans, they didn’t bother us. By the end of the night I was pretty sloshed. Mark and Holly brought our good friend Mary along and we all had a splendid time together.

The next morning we woke up early enough to catch sunrise. You know you want to throw up we’re so cute.

What about now? Are we still cute now?

Ray got over camping quick, like the next morning considering he didn’t get any sleep. I guess the ground was too hard and there was too much creepy noise going on all night. My baby is such a light sleeper. I, on the other hand, sleep great.

I made some beans cowboy style, right over the fire for breakfast.

Ona and Jen slept some more.

Mark and Holly took a romantic stroll down the beach.

I swang on a rope. If you look close enough you can see me wearing a set of two glasses, my seeing glasses and my sunglasses.

Mark and Holly kissing in a tree, K-I- S- S- I- N- G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage.

Holly and I pretend to direct a movie. I was balancing myself on one foot, my chair had no seat.

Mark found a pussy and Ray found a dick. What a pair.

Ray went on strike. NO MORE WORK.

We had to be outta there by noon so we packed up our shit and headed to the beach next door.

Oh, I forgot to mention, the campsite is loaded with cocks. I know the owners do this on purpose to get everyone up and ready to check out by noon. It was the most annoying thing in the world. I almost got to see a cock fight. Unfortunately, it ended shortly after it started. I wouldn’t mind seeing one die after what they put me through.

We were planning on taking Marks surf boards out and paddling them out to the near by island. During low tide you could actually walk out to it, but it was high tide and a bit too rough to attempt.

Instead, we relaxed, drank, sunbathe, Ray practice his golf swing, we played horse shoe and then ended the day with couple bocci.

What you see here is professional bocci form. You guys should be taking notes.

A lot of fondling going on.

Ona’s got it down.

During our game Holly impulsively runs out to the ocean. I’m like, awe, she’s being totally spontaneous. Nope, I was wrong, she had to take a piss.

And the winner is . . . green team, Mark and Holly!!!

That’s about it folks. I had a phenomenal time. We definitely need to do it again.

The Byodo-In Temple

T-Moon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:10:31 +0000

A couple days ago, Sunday, we had plans to go to Melekahana Beach with our friend Amber. We drove to Amber’s and from there she drove. On the way she was like, “have you guys been to the Byodo-In Temple?” By do what? Huh? The crazy thing is this beautiful temple sits atop a hill in a cemetery. Yes, cemetery. I’ve been to this cemetery before, don’t worry nobody died. Thing is this is just a really gorgeous cemetery but I never knew there was a temple there the whole time. We made a spontaneous stop. It cost two dollars per person to get in, nothing is free in Hawaii. Here are some photos of what I missed out on last time.

This is what we walked up to. It was like walking into a Chinese fairytale.

Amber and Ray

My first thoughts when I saw this place was that it would be a really nice place to get married. Amber said people have gotten married here before. Crazy, right? To get married at a cemetery? Might even be bad luck. I don’t think I’ll risk it.

Here are some photos last time we were here. Ray, Shane and I were out exploring the island.

I’m not a fan of being buried but if I were this is where my body would rot.

Happy Birthday Jen

T-Moon — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:44:53 +0000

Last Friday was my friend, Jen’s birthday. She and Ona have been dating for about a year now and the two of them together are my favorite lesbian couple. They’re super cute, happy and totally in love. Anyhow, for Jen’s birthday we were all suppose to head down to Rumors decked out in our 80′s gear but Ona decided to be super girlfriend and throw Jen a surprise dinner party at Jen’s favorite restaurant, Aunti Pastos the night before. She totally blind folded her, drove around in circles so Jen wouldn’t count the turns and figure out where she was, and walked her down the street to Aunti Pastos still blind folded.

She cut into her ice cream cake before I got a chance to take a photo.

Jen and Ona looked totally gorgeous tonight.

I don’t know half the people here. Most of them are from Dolphin Quest, where Jen works, I believe. I’m not in the photo because like always I am the photographer recording and documenting memories, a very respected and major role. Somebody has to do it.

In Ona’s words, “tragic.” One word to totally describe the way we looked that night. What made it even more tragic was that 80′s night at rumors was moved to Saturdays. Ray warned them that there would be a bunch of old geriatrics in cages there. How my honey knows this I don’t want to know. Anyhow, they did confirm that there were a bunch of older people there and moved the party to Irish Rose. I was happy to hear of this news because Irish Rose is my favorite local bar. It’s like a big dive bar that you could actually illegally smoke in and has free live music everyday of the night. What I love even more was that I heard the party was moving before we had left the house, so I was able to remove my skin tight leggings and leg warmers but left my shirt on because it’s 80′s but still totally fashionably sensible.

Tragic, totally tragic.

I love this photo because everyone is totally immersed in a conversation.

I love this photo because everyone is totally immersed in a conversation while my honey and I can’t stop staring at each-other.

Yes Jen is locking lips with a boy, but they’re both gay, drunk and Ona’s there so three strikes and your good to go.

Amber and Beth even made it out. We didn’t find out till a few days later that they were both totally drunk beyond recognition. I know, totally look sober to me, very interesting.

Happy Birthday Jen!

Drunken Nights at Deep End

T-Moon — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:22:53 +0000

In our left corner we have Amber Watt from Colorado and in our right corner we have Ray Hernandez from Mexico.

Drum roll please . . .

Amber wins!!!!! Ray looses once again. Go back to Mexico and practice some more.

I went home on this night drunker than I have been in a very long time. I met Al, he’s a flamer and an Aries. I don’t know if you know or not but Aries and Aquarius are super compatible so before I left he got me this monstrous shot of patron. Big mistake. I never really get hang overs but the next day I felt like shit and missed my driving test. No license for me, I’m stuck with a permit for now.

He are some more photos from the time before at Deep End.

Ray’s first break in a long long time. It scared the fucking shit out of me.

Cockaroach Cove

T-Moon — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:53:55 +0000

Driving along the beautiful coastal highway there are several spots to stop and enjoy the breathtaking view. One of the most popular spots is not because of it’s larger parking lot but because it’s right above Cockaroach Cove. This place is sorta hidden along the highway and you don’t really notice it until you lean over and look down to see a few beachcombers laying out or having fun in the water. It’s a steep hike to get to but it’s awesome once your there.

Ray and Shane opening a can of whoop ass before taking off

Here are some photos of the last time we were here during our vacation. Holly shit, that was over a year ago.

That’s Shane and Ray up there.

My Baby Our Baby Dot Com

T-Moon — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:17:12 +0000

My Baby Our Baby launches. It actually launched last month so this post is a little late. Ray’s been working on this project for, well, since we’ve lived in Oakland. After coming up with the designs he was ready to get this site up and running. Along the way he had to deal with flaky programmers that would basically dick him around. Finally, after wasted, antagonizing months, money, and time we just wanted to deal with someone who knew what they were doing, were professional, and affordable. We’ll as you all know, we packed up and moved to Hawaii. Ray quit his job. The lead developer of and our very talented friend, Beau quit shortly thereafter. Somehow Ray convinced Beau to adopt this project. With Ray’s creative talent and Beau’s geeky brain MyBabyOurBaby.com was finally born.

MyBabyOurBaby.com is like an online baby scrap booking site. It’s a place where you can share and show off how cute and adorable your little one is. But it’s different because as you as the parent build a networking site around your baby by inviting everyone that’s involved in your baby’s life to the book either as a contributor or a reader. Let’s face it, at this day and age everyone has a digital camera. If your baby’s around, someone will be taking a photo of your baby sooner or later, locking in a very special memory. Chances are you will never even get to see these photos and they’ll just be stored away in the back of some hard drive or camera disc never to be seen again. MyBabyOurBaby will let you and anyone you allow to upload these photos, write a little story about it, share it with everyone you invite so they can see how your baby is doing, growing and is connected to. Basically the book of your little one will grow even if you don’t have the time to write just as long as someone is writing. Just think, birthdays, holidays, babysitter, etc. There’s memories of your baby out there waiting to be cherished. Also, another cool factor is that the site will upload the photos in chronological order so you can read it in the order that it all happens. It’s super innovative, different, totally easy to use and beneficial.

As you can tell, I’m super proud of my honey. I’ve been there since day one, acting as a right hand man, if you will. I’ve seen his enthusiasm, passion, losses, disappointments, and avid determination he has to see this through. I can’t tell you how proud of him I am. Since it’s launch it’s been written about on several sites and currently has about 300 members. Here are some links.

Also, Ray made the front page of the local paper and with it he brought his niece Sianna.

How cool is that? Congratulations honey. I’m so proud of you.

Picnic Outside Incubus Concert

T-Moon — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:58:57 +0000

Hawaii’s not really known to be a place where musicians go too often for concerts. Being away from everything, it’s kinda off course for most tours. Usually when big name bands do happen to make it out here tickets sell out faster than pot brownies on 4-20. Last week Incubus had a concert They were playing at the Shell, which is a super small stadium about 3 blocks away from where I live. Some would argue that Shell Stadium sucks balls because it’s so small and others would argue that Shell Stadium kicks ass because it’s so small. I think it kicks ass for being located in the park so close to where I lived, that way I get to enjoy some free, live music with my friends over some BBQ, and drinks. We’re not the only ones who do this, the park is usually packed with people when there’s a concert going on.

Ray, Shane and I came early to scope out a good spot. We brought our boccie set and had a few rounds in before everyone got there. Last time I played open a can of whoop ass on everyone, this time I think I came in second.

It’s smart to bring a bunch of plastic cups to events like this to put your alcohol in so the cops won’t harass you. It’s one of those things where everyone is drinking and the cops all know, but as long as your a little discreet about it they won’t bother you.

This is our friends Holly and Mark. They’re a super awesome couple that usually comes around when Ona and Jen do. Mark came a little late because in attempt to find a parking spot he almost got ass raped by some gay. He was a little traumatized throughout the night and of course we all gave him shit for it.

Ray is a very violent man. He’s from Texas so he still pretends that he carries around a gun.

It took me like four times to get this picture right because my eyes kept coming out closed.

Jen, Ona, and friend. I obviously don’t really know the 3rd girl all too well, since I don’t even remember her name, but she was also around the last time we had an event at the park. Who knows maybe we’ll see more of her.

Alright, so the best part of the night was at the end. I don’t know why but for some crazy reason Shane had this idea to do ring around the rosie. He actually had this idea to do duck duck goose earlier on, but no one really paid too much attention. Anyhow, finally everyone was like sure, let fucking do this shit, draw a bunch of attention our way, and look like a bunch of stupid drunks in front of the cops. So there was like 6 of us the first time. We were laughing so hard and having so much fun that when we all fell down some hippie chick comes over to us and goes, “um, yeah, I was wondering if you guys were going to do that game again, and if I could play.” We were like fuck yeah, so we gathered a few more on lookers to participate. This time the circle had grown to be about 15 people. It was so much fun to see a bunch of drunks playing ring around the rosie. By the time we fell, more people came wanting to play. So of course we we’re all like, fuck yeah. The last and third time there were probably like 30 people, who knows. It was one big fucking circle of drunks playing ring around the rosie. When we all fell down everyone was laughing histerically. Some girl even managed to film the thing. Ray and I are trying to get a copy of that video so I could put it up here and document it. The night couldn’t have ended better.

Still at Sergio's

T-Moon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:11:37 +0000

I don’t know exactly how it happen, but after I quit Sergio’s my good friend Brian, along with a few others talked me into staying for just one day. Brian’s a really good sales person and the following week I went Brian, my boss and decided to stay on for just one day, Tuesdays. I thought about it and even though I don’t make as much there and there’s so much more work, the people there are so cool. I work with a bunch of characters, like myself, so we manage to make work super entertaining. It’s a fiasco sometimes. And when word got around that I was leaving, everyone seemed real bummed out by it, which was really flattering. Anyhow, as for now, I’m there one day a week.

Ray Lost a Bet

T-Moon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:22:09 +0000

Last month we were all hanging out at our friend Amber’s house. We all like to watch Project Runway together sometimes. Anyhow, Ray was dumb and made a bet. I don’t remember exactly what the bet was but he obviously lost because he had to down a bottle of beer. Way to go babe!

Good job! Now make another bet.

Another Great View

T-Moon — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:09:24 +0000

On March 10th Ray and I happen to be out on another one of our spontaneous drives and we found this view from some park at the top of the hill. That’s the thing about Hawaii, no matter how much of it I think I’ve uncovered it’s still never all of it. There’s still so much to find. I love it here.

Crazy About Lost

T-Moon — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:11:32 +0000

Just so all of you know I’m obsessed with the show Lost. I’ve been a dye hard fan since the first episode. I really don’t know how I even begin watching it since when it first started I was living alone in Vacaville at the time and wasn’t really into watching television. Anyhow, soon I met Ray and got him into it. Since then he’s been hooked and when we moved to Hawaii we got Shane hooked on it. I requested every Thursday off just so I could stay home and watch the freaking show. Once I was scheduled to work when the season finale was scheduled to play so I called in sick, said I had direrrah, just so I could watch. The thing is I never call in sick, even when I am sick. Our friends Sara and Justin are crazy into Lost as well. They moved to New York, but before they moved they would come over and we turned it into a drinking game. Every time something would happen, like when Hugo says, “dude,” or when Desmond says, “brother” we had to take a drink. By the end of the show we’re all piss ass drunk. It’s so awesome. Anyhow, one great thing about living in Hawaii is that the show is filmed here. For a while I was determined to be an extra on the show. I obviously wasn’t that determined because it hasn’t happened yet.

Within the first month of moving to Hawaii we ran into Sayid. That’s his screen name and unfortunately I don’t know his real name, but when I saw him that’s what I referred to him by. I told him I was a huge fan and introduced myself. He was way cool and introduced himself and was even willing to take a photo with yours truly. It totally made my day.

Anyhow, Ray and I are super spontaneous. Some days we end up driving around the island even before we realize were taking a trip around the island. When we first moved here we were super crazy stocker fans and would drive around the island looking for places, and landmarks where Lost had been filmed. This dock is major because it’s the scene where they let Michele and his son Walt go in exchange for Jack, Kate and Sawyer. If you watch Lost then you know what I’m talking about. Anyhow, we’ve been trying to get to this dock for so long now. We have always knew where it was, but as far as exactly what street to drive down, we could only guess, and even then, it was private property. Not too long ago while on one of our spontaneous drives I manage to talk Ray into flipping a bitch and turning down the hidden street to what we think will lead us to this dock. We drive down this private, local, scary, bumpy, road. I mean, there were cages for cock fighting, you know that kind of street. Anyhow, at the very end we come to this house and in the back yard is this dock. I had to walk it, but it was obviously private property. Soon some mean looking local comes out and says, “this is private property.” I don’t want to go all into our conversation, but I manage to convince him to let us walk back there.

Isn’t that freaking awesome. We were stoked. It was a little awkward since there were people fishing out there while we cruised up and were totally tourist and start snapping away with our cameras and iphone, but still totally worth it.

After that we kept driving and about an hour later we drive up to the Lost Bunkers. This is filmed a lot during the show. It’s where the Others use to live and where Lock and his followers are staying now on the show. We found this place a long time ago, but since we were on such a Lost kick this day we decided to stop and actually check it out.

I love it.

Again, we found this earlier on but we believe with 100% certainty that this is part of the plane from Lost when it crashed and some crazy monster kills the pilot just before he’s about to reveal to Jack and Kate that they are lost and no one knows exactly where they are or their coordinates.

Once Shane called us while he was working in Kailua. We met him at Muddy Waters Cafe and who do we see, Jack, or Mathew Fox. Of course I walk up to him with camera in hand and ask if he would take a picture with me. Again, I refer to him as his screen name, Jack, instead of his real name Mathew Fox, but I didn’t know his real name then. He turns out to be a total dick and says no. I admit I should of confronted him less abruptly, but that’s still no excuse to refuse to take a picture with such a dedicated fan. I could understand if there were a lot of people in the cafe and it would draw up a lot of commotion and unnecessary attention, but we were the only ones there. He just replies, “uh, no, I’m actually on my way out.” It totally ruined my day and now I forever hate him. What a total douche bag.

When Jackie Chans restaurant was still around they would have Lost nights where everyone would come just to watch Lost and then at the end everyone we would play games and was able to win prizes. Our friends you see here, Justin and Sara won so much shit because like I said they’re huge Lost fans too and knew everything about the show.

It was good times. I didn’t realize until Shane started watching that they are super detailed oriented. Every time someone is reading a book or a picture on the wall or music in the background is a hint or clue, which makes the show even more cool. Anyhow, just wanted all of you to know that I am one of those crazy fans; like those crazy star trek fans, I’m like that, only for Lost and not as weird.

Lanikai Bunkers

T-Moon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:53:30 +0000

Lanikai Beach is mine and Rays favorite beach. It’s been rated as one of the worlds top beaches and has currently been in the top 10 for the last few years. During the warmer and calmer mornings Ray and I would drive to Lanikai almost every morning and go swimming. It was such a good work out. We found this hike awhile ago but just recently Ray and I decided to hike it again. I don’t know if the hike has a name and if it does I don’t know it so I just call it the Lanikai Bunkers Hike since you have to hike up to a couple of Bunkers to get this view.

Pretty ridiculous right? This has to be one of the nicer views for hiking. How lucky am I to be able to be within a half and hour of a drive away from it all? Last time we only hiked up to the bunkers but this time we decided to go a past the bunkers. It was a wild hike that lasted over an hour and finally led us to the other side of a gated community. We didn’t want to walk all the way around back to our car so I talked Ray into breaking in to the gated community and making our way back to the car. He reluctantly agreed. Anyhow, this is one of my favorite hikes, mainly because of the breathtaking view so I just wanted to share it with you guys.

Ray’s really sweaty and I’m really happy for a good reason.

I Quit!

T-Moon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:15:38 +0000

Yep, I quit Sergio’s. I don’t think I ever mentioned it before but I got a job at Sergio’s about two months ago and last Saturday I quit. This has to be the record for me for shortest job held. You see, I got the job under the impression that I would be making roughly around 3-4 hundred a night. The person who told me this is the wife of the general manager at Sergio’s and now I know she likes to over exaggerate. I work with her at my current job and she got my friend Brian a job there and when I asked her to get me a job she said that they don’t hire females. So instead of asking the managers wife, I asked my good buddy Brian to get me a job. The GM, whose name is also Brian told Brian to tell me to come on down, which basically meant I got the job. Any how, to make the long story short my plan was to quit my current job and stay at Sergio’s once I adjusted. There was a lot of things I really liked about being at Sergio’s. The staff is pretty cool, with the exception of one or two guys, I really like my boss Brian, which was really refreshing because I don’t know the last time I really respected my boss, we get fed at night, for free, and after work we’re welcome to try the wine, just as long as we clock out and changed our shirt. I came home many nights nicely buzzed. Anyhow, now why the hell would I quit? Here goes, after working here I’m not sure if fine dining is quit for me. I’m just not sophisticated enough. I don’t like rules and there’s a million rules when it comes to fine dining and I don’t just mean which utensil to use. I have to put the tea cup at four o’ clock and the champaign glass to the left of the knife but the cocktail glass to the right of the spoon and not to take the bread basket before bringing a new one, the list goes on and on. Now, I know it’s not so bad once I get it all down but the money really was the breaking point for me. I make more at my joe blow job than at this place and the work is so easy and a lot less work involved. At Sergio’s the side work never ended. These people really take pride in their job because they polish the hell out of every fucking thing. I can’t tell you how much I hated all the tedious bull shit work there. I came home tired all the time and had to wake up to do it all over again. Of course it was nice to have a lot of money but I was starting to loose my sanity. I never had anytime for myself anymore let alone my honey and dog. Ray had been trying to get me to quit for the longest time. He even bought me this computer as bate to leer me away from work. It took me so long because I really enjoy having a boss I respect. Last Saturday I pulled Brian aside and put my two weeks in. Telling him was really hard and I felt like I was breaking up with a boyfriend that didn’t want to get broken up with. It sucked and I hate that I let him down but I have to do what’s best for me.

The Great Aloha Run

T-Moon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:14:50 +0000

We did it, we ran our first run together. The Great Aloha Run is approximately 13 km or 8.15 miles and happens every year in Honolulu Hawaii on the 3rd Monday in February or on Presidents Day. Proceeds go to non-profit organizations here in Hawaii.

The night before I worked my ass off and didn’t get home till past midnight. It was really busy and I didn’t have any time to eat dinner. I didn’t realize this until I had already gotten home and was too tired to even care. I haven’t mention this before but we have this crazy geriatric neighbor who’s also a landlord, potential drug maker, seller what-ever. My point is he has drama like every other day at all hours. The night before the marathon I got probably 3 hours of horrible sleep due to his loud, obnoxious drama. We woke up at 5:00 a.m. and didn’t have time to even think about breakfast before we got ready and bolted out the door. There was tons of traffic due to the run so we ended up getting there late but so were a lot of other people. When we got to the stadium we took the last bus down town where 25-30,000 people waited to run their happy ass back to the stadium.

We walked up to this large mass of runners waiting to hear the gun fire off.

The sun was just coming up. This is us before the race. Yes, I wore my diva glasses the whole time.

The gun fired and that was it, ready or not baby lets fucking make it happen. We basically had to walk up to the start up line even after the gun went off because it was too crowded to even run.

Hillary supporters stood at the started up line to show some support. This was very exciting for me so I gave a shout out, “yeahhh, Hillary for president!” This apparently excited them because they all responded with a shout back, “yeahhhhh!” It was awesome.

When I first saw the map of the route I was hugely disappointed with it. Hawaii is so beautiful and we have to run here. That’s preposterous. However, there’s an up side to this. During the run I realized that we were shaded for most of the run. This allowed runners to stay cool and not feel so fatigue, therefore we had more energy to run. Fuck the scenery when your running over 8 miles, all you care about is shade and water.

This is my sexy baby. Right now he wants to kill me but one day honey you will thank me. This photo was taken at about the 6.5 mile mark. No more shade.

Overall, I have to say it was such a great experience. On my next run I would definitely do some things differently. For one, I obviously brought my cameraa, but I forgot to export the photos from Ray’s birthday to my laptop. I had to go back and erase photos just to be able to take photos of the run. I thought I had charged my Ipod the night before but I failed to open up my monitor so I actually ended up depleting what was left of my battery so bringing it was a complete waste and extra unnecessary weight to carry around. So on top of making sure my Ipod is fully charged I would get different head phones. I would get new shoes. I’m still running on the same shoes I got over a year ago. I would eat dinner the night before and have a small breakfast that morning. I would try to get a full nights sleep and leave early so we don’t have to rush. So basically I would do everything different next time around but I wouldn’t change a thing. I’m super proud of Ray and I because we basically ran the whole thing. Ray had so much heart. You could tell he really wanted to run the whole thing but we had to stop a few times because both of our knees were really hurting. Oh, that’s another thing, I would wear a knee brace next time. But we never stopped for more than a few minutes before we were back jogging. After the race Ray and I drove See’s candie got some truffles and then waited for California Pizza Kitchen to open. Ray smelt like ass but I tell him till after lunch because I didn’t want to have to go home to shower and change and then come all the way back. After lunch we came home and past out for like 6 hours. It was the best sleep I’ve had in a long time.

Shane Lost a Bet

T-Moon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:07:49 +0000

Shane before the bet. I think he’s a little bitter.

Every once in a while we’ll have these absurd bets. They happen at any given moment when one of us will disagree on something and then someone will say, “you wanna bet.” We’re dumb and would much rather gamble our pride and honor instead of money so we’ll come up with these ridiculously embarrassing things we have to do in public. Basically we compromise a little bit of our soul every time. The other day we were all watching a movie and Shane goes, “that’s the girl on Lost.” I knew it wasn’t and go, “no it’s not” and that somehow sparks a bet. I called the bet, loser had to come out of a restroom at some restaurant wearing a swim cap and leave it on for the remainder of dinner.” Like a retard he agrees and looks it up on the net. Needless to say I was right and Shane is not very happy. The next day after work I suggest we go to CPK in Waikiki. This place is super touristy and always busy. Our friend Amber didn’t want to miss it so she comes along. Hey, when it’s not your soul being compromised the more the merrier. Here are some pictures of our night. Enjoy.

Ray and I feel pretty good about this.

Amber’s giving her support.

Why the long face Shane? Don’t worry, it doesn’t look like your wearing a swim cap at all.

I forgot to mention that the place was packed and we couldn’t have been sat at a better table. We were right in the center of the restaurant. It was amazing. I think the worst part for Shane was when he had to put the swim cap on and walk out the restroom trying not to draw attention to himself. Since the kitchen is an open area all the cooks glanced over at him and all the servers chuckled and passed it on. After about 5 minutes the humiliation fizzled and he said it was by far one of the easiest bets he had to do. No worries, I’ll come up with something better next time.

Shane Lost A Bet: Swim Cap from Doan Chung on Vimeo.

Our First Marathon

T-Moon — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:17:02 +0000

The Great Aloha Run is coming up and in an effort to stay true to my new years resolutions I decided to sign up for it and forced Ray to as well. I don’t think Ray was too happy about it but I know he’ll thank me for it one day. The Great Aloha Run is an 8.15 mile run. I know it’s not a full 26 mile marathon but I think it’s the perfect size for first marathon runners such as us. Ray knows that I’ve been wanting to do this for some time now and encourages me to finish strong but I really want us to do this together. I’m lucky because running has always come easy for me. I could not run in months and then get up and run for miles and miles. I’m blessed with really good lungs. The run is on February 18th, so we have roughly around one month from now to start training. I can’t wait.

An Evening With Deepak Chopra

T-Moon — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:04:34 +0000

For my birthday Ray got me Deepak Chopra tickets. Lots of people don’t know who Deepak is which I find odd. To sum it up, basically he’s a spiritual advocate of the interconnection between mind and body, a huge believer in the power of meditation and believes that through meditation one will be more conscious and aware. Also he believes that meditation and self-awareness are the primary factors in both illness and healing. Honestly, I don’t get everything he says, I’m just a fan. Being in the holistic community for some time now I do believe in meditation and mind body connection. Reading his books always seem to shed some light on things and humbles me a bit and trust me, I need all the humbling I can get. Ray’s not going with me, which I think blows but it’s probably for the best. He’s not into that sort of stuff and I don’t need someone poking fun next to me while I’m in deep thought. So on January 28, two days before my birthday I will have an evening with my mentor Deepak Chopra, along with hundreds of others. Go ahead and laugh I don’t care I’m a true fan and I’m excited.

I'm A Registered Voter!

T-Moon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:24:33 +0000

Guess what, I’m officially a registered voter. Today Shane, Ray and I all drove down to the DMV and registered to vote. I always wanted to be more involved politically but held back because it didn’t matter; my voice wouldn’t be heard because I still wasn’t a citizen, so I thought. I got a letter in August 2007 stating that my application for citizenship had been denied and that I was ineligible for naturalization because I was already a citizen, as of September 27, 1993, the day my mother became a citizen. I can’t tell you how upset and relieved I felt all at the same time. Thousands of dollars I’ve spent and my parents spent and not to mention countless hours. Oh and how do you put a price on the emotional anguish I had endured. Most of you haven’t had to deal with the INS. They are ignorant, dense fools that have huge authority complexes. I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to tell one of them to fuck off but refrained because I didn’t want my paper work to accidentally get thrown out. Anyhow, I did ask them if I had to go through the whole process, several times, since my parents became citizens while I was still under the age of 18 but was told that it didn’t matter I still had to go through it since I didn’t take the oath with mom. Well, obviously that was a complete lie but I guess it doesn’t matter now because I can vote and I will.

Now, who will I vote for. I’m liberal and I’m a democrat. If you ask me I think the government is way too involved in our lives. My vote is definitely going to Hilary Clinton. Like I said, I haven’t been too involved in politics in the past but I’m changing. I’ve watched a few debates, thanks to our roommate Shane. I’m actually torn between Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton but I really think it would be something amazing to be able to see a female president in my life time. Ray’s voting for Hilary too, which I think is pretty cool that we’re both for the same person and for the same reasons. Also, she’s making health care in America her first priority and I think it’s an issue that needs to be address big time. If you haven’t seen Sicko you ought to. I know a lot of people hate Michael Moore but this film is really an eye opener that many of us can relate to. I for one hate the fact that my parents have to travel to China to see a doctor because it’s cheaper for a plane ticket there and back, hotel, food, doctor and other travel expenses than it is to go see a doctor here. How retarded and sad is that. And every time I see them it’s like they can’t wait to get older so their social security kicks in. It’s so sad that American treats their people this way. Also, Ray’s been needing to go to the doctor for several reasons, from is shoulder to his elbow, to his weird stomach pains, to his teeth. It brakes my heart. Anyhow, I haven’t been religious about keeping up with who’s for what and that sort of stuff and to tell you the truth I probably won’t. I’m just not passionate enough about politics. All I’m saying is now I have no reason not to be more involved and I’m starting by voting.

Hello World!

T-Moon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:57:50 +0000

Hello world! This is my first post on my personal blog. Right now is 12:09 a.m. Tuesday Night, well I guess Wednesday morning. If your wondering why I’m up it’s because I can’t sleep. The truth is I have horrible sleeping pattern. It’s like a roller coaster. Some nights I take ny quil just so I can get some shut eye but I find myself waking up feeling super tired with bags under my eyes. Anyhow, I figure I mine as well make use of my sporadic mind.

I saw my friend Cammie today. She’s here from California for her brothers wedding. It was really nice to see her. I’ve been thinking a lot about the people in my life. I like to think of my friends like clothes, I could care less about most of them and then some of are like a timeless dress. Cammie’s like a blouse that never goes out of style. I’m pretty lucky because I have a lot of good friends in my life and most of them have totally proved their friendship to me in some way or other. I hate to admit it but I’m high maintenance even as a friend. It just seems as though I’m the one who always needs a favor instead of one of them needing a favor from me. Cammie is taking care of our boat. This is huge because right now we have no where else to store it, since we live in Hawaii. Anyhow I miss a lot of them and it sucks because most of them live so far away.

Well it’s the beginning of the year and I figure that now is the best time to graduate from my hand written journals to an online journal. I’ve been recording my life since the 5th grade when my parents moved us to Atwater California. Even at a young age I knew my life was worth recording. There’s no way that I could ever give up writing in my journals but this online thing allows me to share my thoughts and life with my family and friends and to just vent. But I really think that Ray’s gonna be the only reader for awhile, I know everyone is so busy with their lives and Ray’s just my number one fan.

2007 was a good year, tough but still a really good year. I know one day we’re gonna look back at this era in our lives and know it was all worth it. But lets not relish in the past and instead focus on the present. Right now I live in Oahu, Hawaii with Ray my fiance. At first it was so weird to say fiance because I never said it before and now it’s weird to say fiance because he’s more than that to me. I feel like he’s already my husband and I his wife. We live with our friend Shane. He’s like a good pair of sandals that you wear with everything and now are perfectly molded to your feet. I’m not saying we step all over him, but more like I think he’s a good fit. I met Shane back in February of last year while Ray and I were on vacation out here and somehow we live with him now. I tell everyone he’s like a male version of me because we see eye to eye on damn near everything. It’s crazy to think we went from living in an 8000 square foot warehouse to sharing a cozy 450 square foot apartment. I’m guessing it’s about 450 square feet who knows it could be 475. Some might think three’s a crowd but it’s really not. Yeah, it could be a little overwhelming at times and I think all three of us have really compromise a lot but overall I’m astonished at how well we all live together. Now it’s just like we’re family. It’s really cute. Anyhow, it’s always been a dream of mine to live in Hawaii and now that I have I know why. The air here is clean, the beaches are clear, the water is pure, there’s a rainbow in the sky everyday; it’s just breathtaking here and even though I know it’s not practical to be here forever I will always consider Hawaii my home and come back to her. I also work. I don’t really want to say where, because I’m a little embarrassed or ashamed. The truth of the matter is I’m a server. I hate that I’m still doing what I was doing like 5 years ago. You see for the past 4 years or so I’ve been a massage therapist. Money was great but I just got burnt out on it. I don’t know if I will get back into it. I kinda feel like my sanity is more important than money but now I’m just in a quandary. To say I hate my job is an understatement. Oh, Kola, our dog lives with us too. I’ve had him since I was 18. He was a puppy back then.

As for my New Years Resolutions I have a few that I would like to share.

1. Run in a marathon. It doesn’t have to be a full marathon, any one will do.

2. Pay off the rest of my debt. Let’s just say it’s a lot.

3. Educate myself on anything money. I want to learn how and where to invest, start a savings, open up an IRA, etc.

4. Finish my painting. Ray and I took an art class and I started this painting. I’m no Ray when it comes to painting but I am proud of it and I want to finish it so I can hang it up one day.

5. Get a passport. I got a letter from the INS saying that I’m denied citizenship because I’m already a citizen. And they couldn’t tell me this info when applied like 10 years ago because . . . I have strong feelings of animosity towards the INS, seriously. Anyhow, now that I’m a citizen I need to get a passport so if I want to travel I can.

6. Start up an online journal. I guess I can just scratch this one off. Ray has turned me into an internet whore and I love it. I use to be one of those stubborn people that didn’t want to change with the times. E-mail? Why, I have a phone or better yet I’ll write a letter. I still think letter writing is more personal and sentimental but I now see the need for technology and internet. Sharing and giving knowledge is something great and I want to share my life with those who care to read about it.

7. Be more conscious about taking care of my mind and body. I know everyone’s resolution is to loose weight and although I wouldn’t mind loosing a few pounds I think if I just focus on taking care of myself through exercise, meditation, and trying to be more conscious about what I put into my body, everything will fall into place.

8. Keep in contact with those I love and let them know I love them. This is my family and friends I hold dear to my heart. You know who you are. I love you guys. Thank you so much for being there and loving me unconditionally.

Me and Cammie after dim sum.