giving up

so in case you couldn’t tell, i kind of gave up on documenting all the food I ate for the day.  I kept forgetting to take pictures of everything and by the time i remembered it was all gone.  kinda sucks, but oh well.

today I had my first post-half marathon run, at 14 miles.  it felt okay until i hit the 11th mile or so and then i kind of died.  my time was slow, but as long as i made it, that’s the only thing that matters, right?  i think that i’ll make it through the marathon.  i just hope in under 6 miles…

First Day At Work After the New Year

special k with berries

what remained of a full turkey & avocado sandwich

snack time

spicy honey chicken thighs, parsley potatoes, and garlic spinach

chocolate pudding

milk

portions: i ate all of everything today – yum

activities for the day: worked at PV, watched the holiday

2010 New Year’s Resolutions

I want to say that I don’t believe in making new year’s resolutions because you should be making changes in yourself all year long and blah blah blah, but even though I say I don’t make them, everyone knows I do.  I try not to make them too cliche or difficult to attain, but usually the things that need to be changed are a challenge – otherwise one would’ve changed them already, so i suppose that explains why every year many resolutions are the same.  but anyways, here are a few of mine:

• eat heathlier.  Cookies and cakes are not a major food group and should not account for 50% of my daily caloric intake
• be more positive.  sarcasm is my trademark character trait, but that doesn’t mean i need to be a negative nancy.  and complaining should not be a hobby.  it should be an occasional past time.  and there are some good people out there.  everyone should be given a few chances and a fresh start this year.  who am i to judge?

so far those are really the only two that i’ve thought of.  I started working on the positive thing yesterday, which is why I posted my Top 10 great things that happened to me in 2009, which was a difficult list to come up with.  However, i easily could’ve come up with a top 20 terrible things that happened to me in 2009, but i didn’t because we need to focus on the good things that have happened which make life liveable and anjoyable.

additionally, this blog is going to become mostly a food blog.  in order to help me eat more healthy, I’m going to be taking pictures of everything I eat everyday – a before picture and after – in order to show me what i’m eating and how much.  i want to do 365 days of it, but who knows.  i thought of creating a whole new blog for it, but i decided that I have enough blogs under my name and really don’t need another when I barely use the ones i have!

welcome, 2010.  I have high hopes for this year and this decade.  There will be many great things to come.

Top 10 Things that Happened to Me in 2009

because 2009 seemed like such a bad year, let’s focus on the positives in no particular order…

1. was asked to be Leila’s godmother
2. visited da ‘aina twice
3. graduated from UCLA -again
4. danced in ho’ike & competed in e hula mau
5. made new friends with my hula sisters
6. got my first professional title
7. ran 9 miles
8. got an iPhone
9. sewed a dress
10. lost 10 PBS.

edit: some additional things…
•I made a full thanksgiving from scratch
•Keoni spent Xmas with me
•papa surprised us at thanksgiving
•I got to spend more time with Alyse

Bars

So I rarely go to bars except to see a band or when forced such as for a special occassion but lately I’ve been finding some that I seem to enjoy. My pimary problem with bars aside from the annoying drunken assholes is the loud music. How can I expect to get to know you better when I can’t hear a freaking word you’re saying?

I must admit though that I enjoy the long beach dive bar the Reno room on Broadway and Redondo. And it’s not just because I got a ton of free jäger gear without spending that much money (it was a special occasion and I was the guest of honor). It’s because it was a friendly environment high seemed to welcome conversation instead of hindering it.

Right now I’m at a concert in Costa Mesa at the Detroit Bar on 19th street and although it’s loud right now due to the band playing in the background it seems to have a good vibe and kept the music level at a decent volume.

Alas, the intermediate act has taken the stage and I don’t wish to be rude so I must continue this analysis of me and bars at a later time. Because it was so interesting to begin with…

Addition: shawn wanted me to post just how much this intermediate band, telekenesis sucks.

iPhone mania

I jus got the wordpress iPhone app so hopefully this will inspire me to update more!

Currently I am enjoying 30 Rock. I really liked season 1 but season 2 is kind of lame. the season of the writer’s strike kind of sucks for all the shows….I guess that was the first line of protest!

googling in vain

so i’ll admit, i google myself regularly. i like to see what’s out there about me and what kind of information people can find. i also like to make sure only things i’m proud of and approve are out there when people google my name… u just never know. i didn’t do it as often until i found out other people googled my name to find out information about me, much like i did them. Except that one of these people was a Caldecott-Award winning illustrator and he saw my wedding pictures.  Luckily I really liked my wedding pictures. lol.  but it got me to thinking, if people can see my wedding photos what else can they see?  so i googled myself and found out that people could see my livejournal from my high school years, which I decided was definitely NOT okay.  although it could show people the personal progression i’ve experienced over the last ten years or so, I’d rather they just know me as who I am now and not the angsty teenager i was back then.

but anyways, i have to admit i am kind of proud at what comes up when my name is googled. there are like 5 pages, and at least 2 of them are filled with relevant links that actually deal with me and aren’t just someone else who happens to have pieces of my name.  those are reserved for pages 3-5 or so… but anyways, i think its pretty cool thinking about how one can manipulate the seemingly open information that is out there about them.  i’ve figured out how to move some links closer up and how to get rid of some and i even learned how to make my livejournal invisible to the public eye without deleting it or making all of the entries private.  although i must admit it was kind of a hassle and took quite a few months to do so…

although there is a word of caution – if you go to images, eventually you’ll come upon pictures of a very naked gentleman wrestling with another naked gentleman. that is NOT me. lol. and i have no idea who he is… i think i eventually deduced he was a male model with the last name Lessa which is common in Spain… lol.

oh the dangers of googling!

the melting point

in the last two weeks, my brother in-law was involved in a fatal car accident (thankfully he is alive with miraculously moderate to sever injuries), my aunt died – going into the hospital originally for an inner ear infection during which she developed a staph infection, and then her organs failed, i finished classes for graduate school (aka i need to finish my thesis/find a job in the midst of a hiring freeze) – on the same day my aunt died, and i have been involuntarily transferred to a new library branch for at least the next three weeks.  and, on top of it all, in three weeks i have to get on stage and perform numerous hulas, some that i really know some not so much.

the emotional taxes that the last few weeks have taken on me is slowly mounting to the point where i don’t know what to do.  i am constantly anxious and worried about one thing or another, i blew up on several people today, and my poor husband is ready to go stay at his parents until mid-April when hopefully things will begin to settle down.  he says that upon finishing school, especially for those who great straight through and have a large time lapse, much like myself, people often fall into a depression.  as much as i am trying to avoid it, i don’t know that i can repress my emotions anymore.  i feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done and i really don’t need people trying to play mind games with me or yelling at me right now.

i thought blogging might help, but i’m not so sure now…

the death of newspapers?

an editorial from my public libraries professor:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-letters7-2009mar07,0,3828811.story

i keep subscribing to the LA Times cuz i figure they need all the help they can get even if i don’t read it everyday i get it.

‘olelo hawai’i

a site i created for class.. its basically a pathfinder (resource guide) for learning to speak Hawaiian!

http://mahele.wordpress.com/