Tuesday Tea

Don't mind the title, I'm just rambling on here.

My husband took me out to steak dinner for our anniversary and gave me a sterling silver traditional Hawaiian bracelet. I'm too lazy to take a picture and upload it right now. It looks great on my tanned arms. Trust me, I'm tan only from about a regular tee-shirt sleeve to my fingertips. Anyway, I can't believe it's been seventeen years. Life does have its way of moving us along whether we want to or not, yeah?

So, I still have this wretched cold. It's in my lungs now and with all the coughing up lung slop it's heading into my ears. I've plenty of decongestants on hand, though, and if it sets in my ears I'll only be "deaf" for a week or so. I feel deaf anyway around here with the kids in school and the quiet of this house.

Nope. I'm not lonely, though. Hols keeps me busy, but so does keeping house and all the lovely quiet trimmings (crafting and reading, mostly reading).

I really need to get to the post office, but I haven't been going out much (to keep from passing this crud on, actually). I have a key fob to mail to the person who bought our car. It got packed into our things . . . and I have a bubble pack for Therese and that crazy pot holder to mail to Suzanne. I want to mail this stuff out (I have to walk past it constantly and am constantly reminded to do so, but my chest hurts and I think many would evil-eye me if I packed in the post with them coughing like they think I'm on my deathbed, which I'm not), but I won't get to it now until at least Thursday.

Teenie pulled out a loose molar last night. Yuck. But, the new one is right behind it. Her dental appointment is Thursday morning. The office is in Kapolei (maybe 15 miles away) and I have to laugh 'cos many tell me I could get an office closer to Pearl Harbor. That's the truth, yes, but this office comes highly recommended by old friends of ours who moved from here when we got here (we just missed each other by weeks) who we knew in MD. I laugh at people's idea of driving here 'cos, honestly, O'ahu is not big by any stretch of the imagination. People do not want to drive "all the way" over here or there. I'm used to road trips across the mainland, so driving an hour or two around the island is fun, and, easy. Driving into Honolulu and Waikiki you're going to encounter traffic, heavier at certain times of the day. That's what people mean when they say they don't want to drive over here or there - having to keep in mind heavy flows of traffic. We live very near the stadium and when there's a game? Oy vey, the traffic! But, still, it isn't that bad. The funniest thing about driving around here is that just because there is an off ramp does not guarantee there's an on ramp close by. Be prepared to drive through neighbourhoods to link back to a main street that may or may not shoot you back onto the highway sooner than later.

This post isn't that interesting, and, I apologize for that. But, if you want to read something interesting, you should click on my sidebar "Dispatches From the Island", actor Jorge Garcia's blog. He put up something interesting about the gecko's here (in his house, not mine; I do not know him personally).

Or, if you want to see the newest blog baby (I know about) go see Therese at The Musings of a Mom.

Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, look kindly upon your sons and daughters through Christ Our Lord.

Loads and Loads

My husband popped in a few minutes for lunch and announced our pack out dates. 18 May will be our thousand pound shipment (ETA Oahu late June); 20 May pack up all our crap into crates and boxes with pick up and start the transfer on the 22nd (ETA Oahu some time in late July). So, instead of finishing my prayers this AM, I am now running about rubbish heaping stuff. I'm putting heaps of crap into the back of my van to haul to the dumpster. Now, I ask you, why have I put off doing this in the first place? What the heck is wrong with me that I let stuff I am now going to throw out because we are moving sit here for AGES and not throw it out? What is wrong with me?????

But, something about moving OUT, makes me MOVE, ya know? His announcement has put some FIRE under my arse to get moving. Better on it than out of it, yeah?

Have a blessed day - and pray I don't injure myself in my frenzy!