Well, school is officially over and I'm starting on this whole vacation thing. I'm slowly getting used to the idea of having free time...it's a weird foreign concept to me. Any way, my vacation has thus far consisted of me going out to lunch at Poke Stop with my friend, going to the beach, cruising at Zippy's with a bunch of people, and then having a really good talk with one of my best friends until the sun came up. I think I'm learning to have fun...heh...

I'm very looking forward to this weekend! Thus far my boyfriend is coming home for a week, Friday we have a CD release party to go to for my friend's brother's band, and more fun up at the beach. So excited! I'm also going to get a few shades darker...so I look less like a vampire.

The madness is ALMOST over!!!! As of Wednesday I will be settled into Ewa Beach with my dags! As of Friday I won't have school until August!!!! Even though I still have to work, I don't care very much, it's the closest thing I've had to a vacation in three years.....THREE YEARS.

I'm so giddy with the prospect of free time I don't know what I will do first. Well ok, I can't be too crazy at first seeing as how having to throw hard earned dollars into remodeling that place so it was close to habitable has spanked my bank account. However, I can still plot and plan for when money does come my way. I've always loved plotting, it nurtures my evil side.

I'm thinking that I deserve a treat after this, just can't decide what. Maybe I'll finally get up the courage to do my second conch piercing? Maybe start working toward my next tattoo? I dunno, what I do know is that I want some type of body modification and to go out to a bar. Mmmmm, thinking about it, I can already taste the ice cold beer.

Well, my left arm and only my left arm is sun burned due to a fantastic drivers tan I got going from doing errands and stuff today. In exchange for my sunburn I got my room painted today and tomorrow I will be working on the floors so hopefully by tomorrow night or monday I can have all my stuff moved in and I will officially live in Ewa Beach. Still tons of stuff to do after that but atleast I can put an end to manual labor. We painted the walls green and will be doing a black and green or black and purple checker board floor. Can't seem to decide what style of art I want to hang on the walls though.

Any who, as my camera will be charged by the time I must start my journey to Ewa Beach tomorrow, there should be pictures for the next time I post. I'm a little bumbed that we ended up working till after the sun went down, we were gonna hit the beach in the afternoon to cool off....which would have been nice as it was oppressively hot today.

Still need to find time for school work....keep telling myself I need to get stuff done...thing is...which is more important? School or a place to live? Hmmmm....priorities are a bitch I tell you. Also have to make the time to dig down deep into my Puerto Rican roots and cook some food for Spanish class tomorrow. I'm thinking tembleque (hispanic haupia/coconut pudding) but trying to make pasteles (puerto rican tamales) or gondule rice sounds neat too. I mean it's the first time in class where I can sort of show off my heritage outside of having good pronunciation of spanish words. Any who, I must away to Walmart for more building supplies...more to follow tomorrow hopefully with pictures and junk!

Well, after weeks of struggling with boxes, storage, trips to Ewa Beach, and cat alergies we are almost moved out of our old house. We aren't quite moved into the new one just yet but it's a relief to not have that dead line looming over my head. I'm really looking forward to sleeping in and being able to catch up on school work (which I'm soooo super behind in). Never thought there would be a day where I would look forward to sleeping.

So, I also found out that I have to wait to graduate until the fall. Apparently it is more expensive to get a teacher out of bed in the summer than it is to get them out of bed any other part of the year. So I'm trying to force myself into thinking this is a much needed break for me as I haven't had a vacation in three years or so.

Last week my soon to be ex-room mates dog attacked my dog. My boyfriend let the poor thing out to go to the bathroom and this ill treated American Bull dog latched itself straight onto her throat. There was no mistaking it for play that dog was in full altack mode. Well I broke it up as I normally do and patched up my dog as best as I could. Now weeks later I try to give her a bath and to my horor I find that an abcess the size of a baseball where the bite happened.....So off to the vet I go tomorrow. I think it's kind of dick thing of him that he didn't even offer to help pay for vet expenses. As far as I know that's the law in Hawaii....I don't know....this moving is old to me and I just really want to relax for a couple of days.

Yesterday was my best friend's birthday, he opted to go to Ferrel's...which is an ice cream place here. It was awesome and epic even! I finally figured out how to upload photos from the camera I got for Christmas so for the first time ever I can have a picture blog. I hope you all find it as funny as I did!

This is the birthday boy


This is the giant monster ice cream creation he chose to share with Dean Dean the dancing machine (my boyfriend to the people on the streets).

Dean didn't like the taste of the flaming sugar cubes...Love this picture!

This is our friend Justin and the other monster ice cream creation he had the other table eat.

This is Justin giving some inspirational words to his fellow ice cream eaters...very much in the vein of William Wallace, Martin Luther King Jr., and George Patton.

After all of the Drama people began to eat, taking on this mamoth ice cream challenge of doomie doom.

Well, my Easter was colorful and fun. I know fun isn't usually a word thrown in with this holiday but it was. I went to my Grandma's house where my parents stuffed us with smoked ham, garlic asparagus, and cheesy spaghetti squash casserole. This was followed by cherry cheese cake and pineapple upside down cake. Yum yum yum, love homestyle cooking! Especially when I'm not the one in the kitchen having to make it. Ooooh and my mum gave us all easter candy....and it just dawned on me that I sound like I'm six....but it was still rad. Any who, after that we visited my boyfriends folks place where we hung out, drank coffee, and I concentrated on not dying from my cat allergies (as I've said before, they are close to being cat people). Then we ended the evening at my friend's house where I met his boyfriend who, by the by, makes a pretty convincing girl. So yeah, that was my Easter!

Things outside of that have been totally nuts since I'm trying to move, while balancing school and work. My boss has scheduled me every day that I'm not at school so this has had me creatively schedule moving boxes around that pain in the butt that is my schedule. Right now I sort of feel like Sysephus pushing a rock up a hill only to have it roll back down. For as many boxes as I've packed already, it looks like I barely made a dent in my room! This will not do! Hopefully I can make some head way after school today.

Other than I'm trying to find the first season of Magnum P.I. on dvd for my friends birthday this Friday. Turns out that while they were filming the show here, Tom Seleck held the baby version of my friend....ever since then he's found big bush mustaches comforting. So I thought for his birthday I would make him a basket O Seleck....you know...as a fun thing.

Isn't it funny the problems life puts before you? I mean, there are problems you will have to face that never in your wildest dreams did you think would be a problem. For instance, having to figure out a way to make a doggy diaper for a Great Dane, creating variety when faced with creating several hundred zombies, and the latest and greatest problem to find a solution to....containing agressive ninja trained chickens.

I grew up in suburbia, even better Hawaiian suburbia...which is a million miles away from being rural. So now that we are faced with this move to Ewa, I have a new variety of wierd things I never thought I'd have to figure out. The first issue being that my dogs like catching birds and my boyfriend's mom has chickens running all around their yard. So, to keep the chickens alive and my dogs out of trouble, I need to figure out a way to keep the chickens out of harms way. Well ok, out of my way too because chickens are creepy eratic beasts that plot to come after you like an L.A. street gang just as soon as you drop you guard. So, how does one solve this problem and avoid the poultry menace? The answer came to me completely accidentaly while surfing this site. Turns out Twwly knows a lot about the whole chicken situation and shares a video about one of these....


Brilliance! Now the chickens can run around, lay eggs, eat bugs, and not be devil beasts! So we just need to put one of these together and put a coop together and the threat is gone. I know this seems like a lot but part of the reasons we are moving is to help his folks out. They work at night and sleep during the day so I don't mind helping out with the animals and the yard. No clue what to do about the cats though....never really had cats or was around cats growing up so....yeah....his mom did mention wanting to make a cat kennel. Heh, I want to make it look like it's from the 1800's and call it the cat house. They have a lot of cats, it's insane....we're talking close to cat lady numbers here.



Also his mom said that I could plant what ever I wanted too. So excited about that! So gonna plant a garden so I can make Puerto Rican food....herbs and veggies and stuff. Also came up with a neat idea for a dog garden to plant near the kennel. Hawaii sucks when it comes to mosquito issues so I came up with a garden that won't poisen the dogs but will keep the bugs away....feeling so smart right now!

I know this sounds terribly domestic but I have all sorts of stuff to look forward to once I'm out of this place! I'm just not looking forward to all of the moving stuff that has to happen between now and then. So yeah I also heard Ewa Beach is great for bikes, so I'm thinking that would be pretty rad since where I live now has no real side walks and it's nothing but hills. So I can't wait to get myself a nice beach cruiser and take my dogs out and about. This one seems ok....since I can't quite afford to do any of my custom ideas yet.



So yeah, that's what's bouncing around my brain meats, hopefully I can find the time to fit in school work, work, and creating a luchador quilt on top of it all.

Well, I suppose that old addage about being careful what you wish for is true. I mentioned change in my last blog and boy is a bunch of change happening for me. At the moment I think I have some mutated form of the bubonic plague of which I must of contracted while enforcing the ten second rule or something. In mere days I went from head cold to having no voice and coughing till my ribs hurt. It feels...less than sexy.

It also looks like I will be changing my residence to Ewa Beach. I'm actually looking forward to the move since I'll be able to save some money, be more active, and my dogs will be in a better place. Granted, the plan is for us to be out of this place by the end of the month so there's going to be a lot of work to do and I have no time for this being sick business. I have to admit I'm a little nervous and I'm hoping and praying that my plans all go smoothly, especially since we are doing all of this while I still have to keep up with school stuff.

So yeah, lots to do and not much time to accomplish it!

It's un-godly early and I just got home after dropping of Dean-Dean the Dancing machine at work. I can't go back to sleep and I have no clue as to why, I mean, I had only been asleep for two hours when I first got up. I suppose I shouldn't care as it is currently Spring Break and my only obligation for the day is going to work at six.

I've been thinking a lot about change recently. Things really need to change in my life, I need to move out of this dump and put myself in a place where I can start taking care of business and be a bit happier. I mean it would be amazing to be able to get money and not sink it right back into bills and rent. I think this also might be inspired by the fact that it has been nearly two years since I have gotten any new tattoos and the other night a really nice lady came into the store and recomended a bunch of traditional artists to me.

By traditional I don't refer to old school Sailor Jerry tattoos but rather the traditional hand poke methods from Polynesia. It would be very neato to be able to arrange for a traditional piece, even more so now that I'm learning about the history of Hawaii and have really started to appreciate where I come from. Well alright, at this point the dry spell has been so long I would settle on several different design ideas.

Either way, I think it's time for another change in my life. Seems like I have a two year limmit and things need to get changed up a little bit. Ofcourse this usually refers to my job but seeing as how I my job isn't totally bad I wouldn't mind just change in general.

I feel like bitching and whinning for a sec so I think I'm going to indulge myself. This just plain old sucks! Dean is off island until thursday...so I miss him... My friend was sposed to come over for dinner tomorrow and celebrate Saint Patrick's day with us and she has yet to call even to flake. I'm supposed to be going to a play on wednesday but I can't find anyone with that stupid evening free. My new boss's version of being efficient is dumping his work load and the work load on the shift before ours on me and the Chad. The result being that we end up there way after closing having to work for free. I want a new job.... I want a new place to live...I want my mommy...

In lighter news the one shinning happy place I have right now is the fact that I've managed to find a story worth writting so I've started writting again. I haven't done this since high school because I got burned out from all the pressure my teachers and parents were placing on me. I'm pretty happy with how things are coming along thus far. I read the first few pages out loud in class and managed to physically give a couple of girls goose bumps...which made me happy...makes me feel like I'm doing something right.

I hope everyone else has a good Saint Patrick's day! Let me know if any of you live through a good story!