Seriously rain?!

So, here I am sitting in front of my computer eating macaroni and cheese like a starving maniac...just relaxing and listening to my island music. But oh my goodness! What a day! All I can say is that the whole "April showers bring May flowers" better be damn for reals already! It was raining all day today...wait, no, I take that back...it was literally POURing all day long. Uhm...let me think...yeah, I think it was pretty constant flow...maybe there was a whole total 30 minutes through out the whole day that there wasn't rain...but oh my! I woke up early this morning and thought that I wasn't even able to go to school because I know I heard the rain all night long...and it's wasn't the light sprinkles...oh no, it was the full out open heavens and a steady flow of waterfallness going on.

Let me try to explain to you where I live. I live here in Kailua...but right near Lanikai...and there is only one exit to leave my place...one. I know, kind of scary when you think about it...especially if that one exit is a bridge over an ocean canal thingy...so if it floods...the bridge floods and no more way to get out from where I am. So, yes, I do take tsunami warnings and flood warnings seriously...I have to go somewhere higher up so that I won't be stranded. So, when I woke up to the water flowing from the sky, I thought that I wasn't going to be able to go to school. But alas, I was wrong and driving to school was a tricky obstacle course...because it wasn't flooded per say...but there were HUGE DEEP "PUDDLES" that my little tiny trekker had to go through...and there were crazy people who still got up and was running...so of course I couldn't just fly through the puddle, no I had to go snail mode through those buggers so I wouldn't have to be labeled the "jerk driver" for splashing everyone! *laughs* The hard part was everyone was doing it so it was pretty slow going...but I got to school.

...and I swear my lil keikis were spoon fed sugar before coming into school! They were bouncing off the walls, dancing all over the place, screaming and yelling who knows what...it was a mad house! And all this, but we couldn't even go outside to try to release some of their pent up energy! Shoots! I was going insane myself from the trapped feeling of staying inside all day! All in all, this day was a pretty...crazy? fun? draining? Well...all of the above.

Another Anuhea song, "Higher Than the Clouds" ....Island music can always relax me!

"When you love everything you have, then you have everything you need."

DollGirl

Oh so goodness, lets see how long this post will be! I know that I haven't kept up with all my blogging...and shoots, I NEED too! I was reading my past blogs, and I was laughing, crying--well, not really...but felt like it, happy tears, of course!!! *laughs* But shoots, come on now, girl! I need to keep up with my blogging, so I will try. I can say that I will try to write at least 3 times a week...but nah...I'll just try to write as much as I can...

Wow, nearly a year since I last wrote...and yes, I think I will scratch that whole challenge that I was going to do...I think it would be nice to finish that...but not now. "Ain't got time for that!" *laughs*...but I will try to write more. I still love to write...to whoever wants to read whatever I write, but time can be funny and the next thing I know is...wow...A YEAR...well no...ALMOST a year since the last I wrote and let me tell you SOOO much has happened...

Let me try to remember the highlight parts...I know I'm going to fail already, but that is what I get for not keeping up in the first place...*laughs*

I would say that the biggest and by far the best highlight for me would be the birth of my baby niece! Oh goodness....! I adore being an "aunty" and I love that little girl SOOO much. Ily Joy was born on August 14, 2012 at around 5pm...and I have to say she is the youngest baby that I have ever held...I got to hold her when she was 3 hours old...and she was SOOO tiny! I can't even imagine life without her...how did I manage to live without her for so long!

oh okay, I PROMISE I am wearing shorts in these pictures! I promise!! *laughs* But this is me holding my lil DollGirl when she came home for the first time...I love being an Aunty...and I am just so bummed that I don't live near her! It's SO hard living "far" from family...but this little girl can
usually get me to drive to the "other side" of the island just to be with her for the weekends! I wish that I didn't get out of work so late so that I can see her during the weekdays...but yay! That is what facetime is for...and yes, I do facetime with DollGirl plenty times...so that helps. My sister told that she believes that I was the first person that DollGirl [yes, that is my name for her...that at IlyBoo] recognized after her mom and dad. So that makes me smile. Yes, this little one has my heart...so yes, I will share more pictures of her...because I can!

These pictures make me laugh!! She makes me laugh! But yeah, I love taking pictures her...this me DollGirl and I when she was...uhm...3-4 months old. Can you tell that by the end she was all pau! 

"All pau, Aunty! No more pictures!"

 So, I try to go to my sister's place at least once or twice a week...and it's always SOOO hard to go back home...because look at that face, could you leave that face?! So this is her holding my bag and I pretend she is telling me that she doesn't want me to leave! *laughs*

 She is SOO much fun to play with! We play hide-and-seek...where I would hide and I will call her name until she finds me...and yes, she gets SUPER excited when she "finds" me...and this is her when she "found" me...look at that smile!!! Ahhh!!! So cute!

 One of the millions of outfits that I got her! This one I got her for a 6 months old photoshoot...but then she ended up wearing it afterwards to go to church. So I don't really go to church anymore...but ever since DollGirl was born, my sister can find ways to get me to go to church because I really want to see her! *laughs* So my sister will send me pictures of her all Saturday morning until I decide that I want to go see her...at church. Oh shoots! *laughs*

So big girl...her is the recent picture of her...and she is a little bit older than 8 months...She is SOO independent already! Look at her! I love her so much! AHHH!!!

Oh okay, so this isn't as long as I thought that it could be...but I'm actually sleepy now...so I guess for the next few days, I'll just be writing a lot of "catch-up" posts...but whatever...at least I'm writing again! *laughs* But for right now, I'm going to sleep...

And the song I'm going to leave you with...is the song that I am currently loving by Anuhea ft. Justing Young..."Forever Summer" so have fun listening to this island song!

"Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile."

The Basics of Me. [part 9]

 Growing up, the early years [Part 2]:

*What was your earliest memory?

 

My earliest memory?! Oh wow...hm...I know that my early memories have a lot to do with my brother. He was my constant shadow. We were super close when we were younger...kind of makes me sad that we're not as close...I get the feeling that being close to your sister is not the "cool" thing anymore...but nevermind about that. I think my earliest memory had to be when one of my tooth was loose...and my dad had this thing where he would put a string around it and then tie the strong on my finger. I was sitting on the couch with my brother and he was asking me if it hurt. I remember saying that it didn't hurt. He told me that he wanted to hold the string for me...so I let him. 

 

He fell off the couch.

 

My tooth came out. 

 

*laughs* 

 

 

The Basics of Me. [part 8]

 Growing up, the early years [Part 1]:

*Where did you grow up? Describe it.

I grew up in California--Northern California...to be a little more exact, I grew up in the Bay Area. I did move around a few times...but I mainly stayed in the Bay Area. I did not grow up where I was born though because I had moved from there when I was about one year old. But I loved where I grew up. Although I do not live there now, I will always look back at that place with a happy heart, and it is my childhood home. I hope to take my children there one day. That would be awesome. The house, my childhood home...the one that I consider my childhood home, although I moved from house to house, but always ended in this home is my favorite home. It may not be as big or grand as some of the houses that I lived in, but I knew this house from the inside out and every corner, wall, place in that house has a memory. I tear up when I think of it...if I ever have the chance, I would love to buy that house...just to keep that memory a little longer.

We lived right by the freeway. On the other side of the freeway was Walmart and Food4Less and other stores...Payless, Baskin' Robins, the Diamond Store...in our backyard there were a lot of fruit trees...I loved to climb them...my daddy built me a tree house where I loved spending time with my "baby", my best friend...my Baili. Sometimes my other best friend, Precious would join us. My babies. My dog and cat. I miss them so much. I loved reading up in the treehouse. We had a garden...and I had a love of tomatoes and cucumbers because of it.  I would play catch with my daddy...sometimes we would shoot hoops...and I remember sleeping to the sounds of cars driving on the freeway and waking up to the sound of basketballs dibbling on the ground and occasionally hitting my window from when my daddy and brother would play in the morning. I miss it.

I grew up playing outside...with the neighbors. We had a pretty sick neighborhood. We all didn't go to the same school, but we got a long together. We lived in a court and we would play together and have fun outside...none of this staying inside doing nothing but playing videogames. 

The town where I grew up was small, but big in its own way...not as safe as other places, but I felt safe there.  

The Basics of Me. [part 7]

Your birth and family [Part 7]:

*How did you help around the house?

Growing up my siblings and I always had our chores that we had to do. We would rotate from week to week...the chores included washing the dishes, cleaning up after dinner, vacuuming, sweeping the floor, taking out the trash, cleaning the bathrooms-including the shower/bathtub! Although I did all the chores when my time came up, I remember really hating to take out the trash! I would willing do all the chores...my favorite was vacuuming...but I would constantly beg my siblings if they can switch with me to take out the trash! *laughs*

I'm still like that. I hate touching, smelling, doing anything with trash. I don't know why...maybe this is where my germ phobia kicks in. I'm not as bad as I use to be...I mean, I can now take out the trash without having to take an hour shower afterwards to clean up...but I can feel myself holding my breath and holding myself away from the trash as much as possible. *laughs* 

In other ways that I would help around the house was I like to consider myself as the one who keeps everyone on their toes. Along with my dad, we liked to play harmless, but funny pranks on our family members. I liked to make my family laugh...I was always playing music or singing and dancing to whatever I was doing. I like to think that I helped keep the fun in the family, not that my family wasn't fun! Oh, they were, and I think that I had a bomb childhood because I love my family and I think that we were a lot of fun...but I think that helped to brighten up my families days when I would do random things to make them smile. 

This is Me Challenge

The Basics of Me. [part 6]

Your birth and family [Part 6]:

*What are some lesesons you learned from your parents? 

My mom was a nurse. She finished her nursing school while watching my siblings and I. I admire her because not only did she work full-time, go to school full-time but was also a full-time mother to three children ages two, three, and four. She taught me about determination and hard work not only by her words but by her actions. Although she is not a working nurse anymore, she is still using the skills that she made during those years as a nurse to work in the missionary field. She also taught me about faith. She gave up nearly everything to follow her heart and her belief in God.

My dad worked for a company called Alza. He was the person who would man the machines who would make the medicine/drugs for the company, who would then supply it to the stores. Growing up, my dad would be my rock. He taught me patience, loyalty, the importance of reliability and how to have fun.

This is Me Challenge

The Basics of Me. [part 5]

Your birth and family [Part 5]:

*How was your relationship with your siblings and parents?

  

Growing up I was really close to my brother...I would like to describe him as my lil shadow. Typically, I know that older siblings do no like their younger siblings to follow them around...but for me, I didn't mind. I had a huge imagination and my brother would be to help me act out what my imagination was telling me. We had a lot of fun making up "gymnastic routines", climbing up the "mountain" [our stairs] in an hour because it was the "worlds' largest mountain ever!", we loved playing with slinky down the stairs and seeing how far we can "bounce" the slinky to hit someone down stairs! We would have sleepovers in each other rooms...we had a lot of fun...

My sister on the other hand. She was the "tatter-tell"...I was always getting into "trouble" because of my imagination and she would "mother" my brother because he didn't know any better. *laughs* My sister and I fought like non-other! It was crazy! Keep in mind, this was all when we were younger! I would always try to get my brother to "gang-up" on her...because she was the "proper" one who did everything "all lady-like and proper" *laughs*...followed ALL THE RULES, and would tell on me all the time when I didn't. *laughs* Oh my sister...how I love her so! This was all when we were younger, because now, I love her and would do anything for her. But when I was younger...oh wow.

I consider myself a "daddy's girl." I am. I get a long better with my dad and I know that I can tell him anything. It would be my dad who I would always run too; my daddy who would chase away all the "bad monsters" in my room; my daddy who would scare all the unwanted boys away; my daddy who saw my tears, was first to hear the good news, who loved to play jokes with me on other family members...I love my Daddy and yes, I would say that we were...are...really close.

My mom, I love her with everything in me too, but growing up...we didn't really see eye to eye on a lot of things. I fought with her a lot, and yeah. I know her past now and why she acted the way that she did, but oh mandope! When I was younger...it was all bad! *laughs* Now, I know that I can talk to my mom and I miss her when she is gone.

This Is Me Challenge