so much for cheap music...
i suppose i should put this in a tag so hilary will read it... :)
okay, so... today is friday, but i have to record yesterday, so... i woke up late (like at 9, i think) and wanted to take a shower and go out to hale'iwa, but then i realized that kelly took our one and only towel surfing and so... i waited and waited. ended up taking a shower and using misc. clothing to dry off - so ghetto. and then i cleaned emmett's room cos the nothnagle mess was starting to take over a little bit. by the time i was done with that, kelly was back and then we went out.
lunch at the hale wai was amazing. bbq chicken plate - i could eat that junk all day long. and kelly had a kalbi plate (korean short ribs). that was good too.
after that, we came to the coffee gallery in hale'iwa (the only pubic place in town with wi-fi) to cross-reference some hawaiian music against itunes (cos i'm not gonna pay full price for an album if i can get it there...) and i should have made wednesday's entry then, but i forgot 'cos we saw justin and his girlfriend (whose name i have already forgotten...sadness.) and he distracted me with tales of how lame the C28 store is in San Diego. again, it was mentioned how much the guys want to come back out to FL... we want them to come, but it's so expensive and we have no money... :) oh well, we'll figure it out somehow.
anyhoo, after that we went to Jelly's to find hawaiian music (i was informed by justin that Tower Records went out of business...more sadness...) and NOTHING was cheap. ouch. i bought a bunch of stuff, but ,truth be told, i haven't opened anything b/c i just might take it back...
after that, we went to a local goodwill. i found the raddest vintage aloha shirt, you guys. it's fully lime green. ahmayzing. and so of course i had to have it and a couple of other hawaiian-wear items.
kelly bought jeans.
after that, we went downtown to watch auntie genoa. i have many thoughts on this experience... but i don't know if i'm going to bore you with them here. after auntie genoa, we walked around waikiki and then we drove home.
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today marks the almost-halfway mark of our trip. some thoughts and observations from me:
1. it had rained almost every single day since we've been here. not like, full-on RAIN, but like - drizzle...stop. drizzle...stop. the sky has been full of clouds, and because of this, i have not taken much video and have not taken a single still shot. one of my "missions" is to go to all the places that mean something to me and photograph them for...life. i'm hoping the clouds will lift off soon...
2. i have started to speak pigin again. not a lot - just a little bit. it's weird though... as i type this, the words form pigin in my brain, but i have to convert them into notpigin as i type. ...i miss the sound of it. pigin is very...singsong-y. i wish i could record it and bring it back with me, but somehow that doesn't translate in my brain...
3. i absolutely love hawaiian architecture. hahaha - i laugh inside as i type that b/c "architecture" sound like such a formal word for what lives out here. again, i will take pictures when the sun comes out, but to describe... many houses are built off of the ground - very practical for bugs, floods and the potential for small tsunami. b/c of the off-the-ground-ness, most of the floors are wood. i never realized how much i missed the sound of house-mates walking...the floorboards creaking...the house settling at night...
4. i have not yet contacted anybody. (don't yell at me!) i don't know why. ...like, kelly hangs out with some of the guys that he knows from living here, but they're not "my crowd". ...i heard that my old church kinda disintegrated a short time after i left, and i don't know where anybody is. i need to stop by the grace brethren church and chat with steve's dad to at least get in touch with roper, but all the rest of the "hope chapel crew"...? i don't know. i saw reyn at the olivia show and it was nice to see him, but i guess i'm not really connected to any of the others anymore. so, this is what i'll do... i'll make an effort to contact roper and then maybe i'll be able to see steve and frank and april and all them and that will be good... i don't know why i had to put that in here - probably b/c if i didn't i wasnt going to do it. maybe. whatever. blahblahblah...
5. i still have to find somebody to help me with my plant-mission. there are so many that i want to bring back and i'm starting to think that i will be disappointed if i don't get a wiggle-on. hahaha - that's funny to type...
hilary an' alli an' allison an' ashley an' anybody else in YG that checks this LJ - i really miss you guys. i wonder how you are doing and what you are filling your not-school-days with... have plenty of abnormal adventures for me. you only get this break once - make it count, guys!
aerin - what's going on with the truck? i hope good stuff...
dominick - good luck with YG 2nite, bro. it's gonna be awesome. have tons of fun, but don't tell me about it cos i'll be jealous. just tell me it was boring.
quinn - yes, i got the game. i'm sorry to not call you or anything, but between the holidays and getting ready for this trip, i became a bad and ungrateful friend. so sorry, luv. have not been able to play it yet, but it looks stinkin' fun... :) thank you very much.
andrew david - thanks for the call, bro. i am here... :)
patrick! - i hope NY is treating you well, my twin. i thought of you when i saw that vintage shirt... it rocks. i'll have to take a picture with it...
okay, enough babbling from me - i have to go put my laundry in the dryer.
i love you guys!
myself :)
okay, so... today is friday, but i have to record yesterday, so... i woke up late (like at 9, i think) and wanted to take a shower and go out to hale'iwa, but then i realized that kelly took our one and only towel surfing and so... i waited and waited. ended up taking a shower and using misc. clothing to dry off - so ghetto. and then i cleaned emmett's room cos the nothnagle mess was starting to take over a little bit. by the time i was done with that, kelly was back and then we went out.
lunch at the hale wai was amazing. bbq chicken plate - i could eat that junk all day long. and kelly had a kalbi plate (korean short ribs). that was good too.
after that, we came to the coffee gallery in hale'iwa (the only pubic place in town with wi-fi) to cross-reference some hawaiian music against itunes (cos i'm not gonna pay full price for an album if i can get it there...) and i should have made wednesday's entry then, but i forgot 'cos we saw justin and his girlfriend (whose name i have already forgotten...sadness.) and he distracted me with tales of how lame the C28 store is in San Diego. again, it was mentioned how much the guys want to come back out to FL... we want them to come, but it's so expensive and we have no money... :) oh well, we'll figure it out somehow.
anyhoo, after that we went to Jelly's to find hawaiian music (i was informed by justin that Tower Records went out of business...more sadness...) and NOTHING was cheap. ouch. i bought a bunch of stuff, but ,truth be told, i haven't opened anything b/c i just might take it back...
after that, we went to a local goodwill. i found the raddest vintage aloha shirt, you guys. it's fully lime green. ahmayzing. and so of course i had to have it and a couple of other hawaiian-wear items.
kelly bought jeans.
after that, we went downtown to watch auntie genoa. i have many thoughts on this experience... but i don't know if i'm going to bore you with them here. after auntie genoa, we walked around waikiki and then we drove home.
...
..
...
..
...
today marks the almost-halfway mark of our trip. some thoughts and observations from me:
1. it had rained almost every single day since we've been here. not like, full-on RAIN, but like - drizzle...stop. drizzle...stop. the sky has been full of clouds, and because of this, i have not taken much video and have not taken a single still shot. one of my "missions" is to go to all the places that mean something to me and photograph them for...life. i'm hoping the clouds will lift off soon...
2. i have started to speak pigin again. not a lot - just a little bit. it's weird though... as i type this, the words form pigin in my brain, but i have to convert them into notpigin as i type. ...i miss the sound of it. pigin is very...singsong-y. i wish i could record it and bring it back with me, but somehow that doesn't translate in my brain...
3. i absolutely love hawaiian architecture. hahaha - i laugh inside as i type that b/c "architecture" sound like such a formal word for what lives out here. again, i will take pictures when the sun comes out, but to describe... many houses are built off of the ground - very practical for bugs, floods and the potential for small tsunami. b/c of the off-the-ground-ness, most of the floors are wood. i never realized how much i missed the sound of house-mates walking...the floorboards creaking...the house settling at night...
4. i have not yet contacted anybody. (don't yell at me!) i don't know why. ...like, kelly hangs out with some of the guys that he knows from living here, but they're not "my crowd". ...i heard that my old church kinda disintegrated a short time after i left, and i don't know where anybody is. i need to stop by the grace brethren church and chat with steve's dad to at least get in touch with roper, but all the rest of the "hope chapel crew"...? i don't know. i saw reyn at the olivia show and it was nice to see him, but i guess i'm not really connected to any of the others anymore. so, this is what i'll do... i'll make an effort to contact roper and then maybe i'll be able to see steve and frank and april and all them and that will be good... i don't know why i had to put that in here - probably b/c if i didn't i wasnt going to do it. maybe. whatever. blahblahblah...
5. i still have to find somebody to help me with my plant-mission. there are so many that i want to bring back and i'm starting to think that i will be disappointed if i don't get a wiggle-on. hahaha - that's funny to type...
hilary an' alli an' allison an' ashley an' anybody else in YG that checks this LJ - i really miss you guys. i wonder how you are doing and what you are filling your not-school-days with... have plenty of abnormal adventures for me. you only get this break once - make it count, guys!
aerin - what's going on with the truck? i hope good stuff...
dominick - good luck with YG 2nite, bro. it's gonna be awesome. have tons of fun, but don't tell me about it cos i'll be jealous. just tell me it was boring.
quinn - yes, i got the game. i'm sorry to not call you or anything, but between the holidays and getting ready for this trip, i became a bad and ungrateful friend. so sorry, luv. have not been able to play it yet, but it looks stinkin' fun... :) thank you very much.
andrew david - thanks for the call, bro. i am here... :)
patrick! - i hope NY is treating you well, my twin. i thought of you when i saw that vintage shirt... it rocks. i'll have to take a picture with it...
okay, enough babbling from me - i have to go put my laundry in the dryer.
i love you guys!
myself :)