New Project

Yay, with lots of free time this week, it's the perfect time for me to figure out my new planter boxes my Grandpa built for me. Yesterday Mom and I went out to Lowe's to get supplies. We got netting to line the bottom, a bag of river rocks (30 lbs, what??), a big bag of potting soil, 2 pots of rosemary, 2 pots of basil, one big pot of cherry tomatoes, one of parsley and one of spearmint. This morning I went to Koolau Farmers and got one cilantro and one oregano. I got the last cilantro at Koolau Farmers, and would still like to get one or two more. Yum.

So I started putting everything together this morning and I ran out of potting soil. Lame. I even went back and added more river rocks on the bottom, which was quite a feat, considering there was tons of soil already on top. But, good thing I lined the bottom with netting, so I could just grab both sides of the net, lift it up, and put it in the other box while I added more rocks. Genius moment. I had to go under the house to grab cement blocks to put under the planters and was randomly glad that we don't have bats down there. Under the house is a scary, dank place. Sad to think that I used to want to make that my "hangout spot" when I was younger.

The cherry tomato plant will go in a separate planter, given its "take over everything" mentality. But I still need soillllllllllllllllllll.

I hope these plants don't die. I don't necessarily have a good track record with growing things.

Raena and Timothy are here!! Yayyy. He and I had some fun in PhotoBooth tonight. :)

He was thrilled! Hahahah. Obviously.

Well, I'm sitting here while watching KHNL at 2:45am, waiting to see how the earthquake in Japan will affect Hawaii. Everyone is asleep, sleeping through the tsunami warning alert. I am tired but will prevail in staying up to see what happens.

So my awesome cousin, Rebekah (see her here), told me about this site, Pinterest, where you can "Pin" things you see online. I'm now obsessed. Now I purposely go online just so I can pin things. Ahahah. It's good to feel like there are people out there who are into the same things as me.

Some of my favorite things. Is this weird?

1* My cute cute cute nephew Timothy. Born on December 4th and currently weighs 16 lbs. Whatttttt. Can't wait for my sister and the baybay to visit in March!

2* This Marc Jacobs bag. Yes please.

3* Necklace from...I forget where.

4* Yelp. Best idea ever. Erica and I's best friend.

5* New glasses.

6* Neutrogena Advanced Solutions. For the past couple months, I haven't been able to find this set anywhere. I was freaking out. I even resorted to looking for it on eBay. Someone in Australia was selling it for $50-something. But, today, just when I was about to try something else, I saw this on the shelf at Target!! So...I bought two.

7* Watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The season just ended--good thing The Real Housewives of New York will start soon.

8* Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure nail polish. Plum's the Word. Best nail polish ever.

9* Eating with Erica. We are champions.

10* Der-How!! I will see him in March, hooray!

Who knew it would take an 8'x9' storage space to barely hold all of my stuff. A sofa, dining table, 2 benches, 2 bookshelves, mattress, box spring, 2 chairs, a dresser, 3 side tables, a couple mirrors, and many many bins and boxes. Where did I get all this stuff?! I feel so ridiculous with all of it. Thank goodness Alicia is here to help me. And thank goodness Der-How has been here to fit everything together. Yesterday he said to me, "You weren't very good at tetris when you were younger, were you?" Ummm, no.

Der leaves today. Sad face. Then Alicia and I will leave someday next week, the 22nd at the latest. Then we will make our way up to Portland to see Chris and Raena and baby Timothy and my parents! Yayyyyyy. I'm excited! I'm also hoping we get to eat chowder.

I'm so tired of moving every year. I think the feeling people get of being ready to settle down is 90% being fed up dealing with packing up boxes and storage units and Uhauls and coordinating work and a move out schedule. Also, leaving friends "behind" is no fun.

Anddddd we're ready to go do errands. Cross your fingers I don't pop another blood vessel today.

Some holiday cheer...She & Him performing on Conan.

I would like to have a new apartment. Of which I have been agonizing over for the past couple of weeks. It's such a high to look at apartments and try to envision yourself living there. I love it. I do not love unresponsive property management companies that do not return my phone calls. Nevertheless, I found one that I like and am itching to move, seeing as how my move out date is next week. Eech?

Good news, Alicia is coming to visit/help me move next week. I cannot wait. It is so fun to have family in town. Even better news, Raena and Chris had their baby on Saturday and it is a boy!!! Baby Timothy!! I am so happy and am so excited to be with everyone in Portland for Christmas.

[Sidenote: Right now I'm watching Hawaii 5-0 on TV. It's somehow comforting to watch and helps with homesickness. Weird, a crime show being comforting. I like how they portray Hawaii and how they're actually pretty accurate with names of places and stuff like that. Also, side-sidenote: I like playing I Spy J.Crew clothes during the show. Thanks to Mom for telling me to watch it. ]

I had a weird experience during my break today. I went to the little convenience store down the street to get a diet coke. Two people cut in front of me in line and didn't seem to care or notice. One of them was a guy who rushed in and bought a container of hair gel. The other one kept changing his mind about what lottery ticket to buy. I just wanted to get a diet coke and fruit snacks. You know when you walk in somewhere and somehow feel like you just walked into a washer full of chaos? That's what I felt like today. In only 5 minutes. I walked out of there feeling like I needed to do deep-breathing exercises.