Two weekends ago me and Wayne went to the Newtown driving range. It was a nice sunny Sunday, and Wayne and I tried to put our one semester of golf to good use. It was nice to be hitting balls, I forgot how much I enjoyed going to the driving range. Also it was awesome that beers were $3 and you could take them to your hitting stall. I wanna go to batting cages next, I doubt they let you drink beer there though.
My posts have been pretty sporadic, sometimes I think it's because I don't really like turning on my computer these days. Too many old photos and memories. You know I always though how wonderful digital media was you could save it forever. Now as I am finding it hard and a long process to get rid of the files I want. Damn you technology, damn you for making this harder than it should be.

That's it I'm calling it... 2010 was the year of the breakup. Sure there have been some major get togethers, a handful of new relationships, engagements, and marriages (congrats to all). But this year more long term couples I knew (myself included), you know the ones that you would never think to break up, the ones headed on THAT path, broke up unexpectedly. Not too mention some of my favorite celeb couples - Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens (Zac call me), Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush, David Arquette and Courtney Cox, Finn Hudson and Rachel Berry (ok they are purely fictional but I rooted all season I for them to get together only to have them break up earlier this month), they all called it quits. What was it about 2010? Just an unlucky year for love. Maybe all this happened so that 2011 will be a year of finding yourself again, a year of new beginnings, maybe finding love again.

So far singledom has been fun, reconnecting with family and friends, getting back to me. There are times where I think why me? But I believe everything happens for a reason. And Mike just wasn't my lobster. The real scary thing is starting all over again. I had my life planned with him in mind, now I have a blank, clean slate. What to do with it, I just don't know at the moment.

I also keep having this reoccuring dream, well not the whole dream, just this one part seems to be repeating itself. I'm in UpCountry Maui and there is a fork in the road, I'm on Old Haleakala Hwy. to be exact, right where it meets King Kekaulike High School. If I go left I hit Haleakala Hwy. and head up to Haleakala. If I go right I hit Kula Hwy. and head for the lavender farm. Both places I love to visit. It's ridiculous how vivid it is, I can actually see the road. I never pick which way I want to go though, I just stand there looking at both. In the beginning I thought it was because I haven't been to Maui in awhile and prior to breaking up I kept asking Mike to take me to Haleakala, so I was just doing some wishful dreaming. But since this scene has been in different dreams I decided to look it up. Here's what I got:

-Fork in the road- I have a big decision to make.

-Mountains- well they didn't have Haleakala specifically so I looked up mountains. It signifies major obstacles and challenges that I have to overcome, higher realm of consciousness, knowledge, and spiritual truth.

-Lavender- indicates mysticism and spiritual cleansing.

I'm not sure what to make of all this. I guess I'll have to keep sleeping on it.

Birthday dinner at Morimoto's! 

This was a chocolate peanut butter dessert, it was so, so, so goooooood! 

Bday party time! Krazy Karaoke with the cool kids!

The best roomies I could ever ask for.

 Yes, yes it was my birthday last week. I turned the big 2-7, sigh... another year of getting older. For the past 2 years my birthdays have been quite typical, dinner with the family at one of my favorite restaurants (Kua Aina's, I-naba... nothing too fancy) and a night out at a bar or club with my friends.  This year I wanted to change it up. I asked my parents if we could go to Morimoto's. Amazingly they agreed, probably because in years past I haen't asked for much. Morimoto's was amazing! Much better than Nobu. The drinks were overpriced. Morimoto beer was like $18 for 22 oz. I found it at foodland for $7. I loved it though, not too much I love the Edition.
The next night I planned a karaoke night with my friends. I had a blast, I freaking love Karaoke. And I think everyone who came (except Ala and Anna) sang! Best songs of the night were My Chick Bad, Don't Stop Believin', Deuces, and all the boy band songs!!! I can't believe I made it to work the next day.
Thank you to all my friends and family for making this birthdays one of the most memorable ones I've had in awhile! I really needed it.

Watched Practical Magic last night with the roomies and Sandra Bullock mention planting lavender for luck. Which then reminded me of Alii Kula Lavender Farm. My dad knows the owner and I was able to chat with her at the Made in Hawaii festival a few months ago. What I found so inspiring was that she started this farm on a whim. She just felt that this was her calling. I'd like to find that.

I've been kind of in a blogging rut. No motivation. I don't know why. So here goes...

Glee. So it's official I'm a Gleek, it's my newfound love. Last season I watched it off and on, wasn't hooked. Anna got season 1, disc 1 from Netflix and now I'm hooked. I actually own the complete season 1 on dvd, and iTunes has been banking off of my Glee downloads. I should've known I was going to get hooked this bad, I do love a good song and dance with hot guys (ahem Finn Hudson and Noah Puckerman and Mike Chang). I make everyone listen to the soundtrack and secretly wish Krazy Karaoke would have Glee versions of songs. Dork, I know, please don't slushy me.

My photoging has been uninspired lately. Wayne and I did take a trip up to the heiau, but I couldn't find my photoging swag.

Actually I can't seem to find much of anything. Christmas is in full swing, and none of my usual holiday season loves has gotten me into the spirit. Shopping is tiresome, the music is way too cheerful and sappy (don't ask, I know you're thinking but she just downloaded like half of the Glee soundtrack, talk about sappy), the lights haven't entranced me, not even our house Christmas card. I'm just a total Scrooge this season. Bah humbug.

1.   Black Friday is       is my arena and boy do kick some major ass   .

2.  Christmas shopping this year will include   last minuteness, I'm usually SO on it, but after everything that's happened over the last 2 months I've been slackin on the shoppin (for others)  .

3.  Holiday shopping makes me       happy, I love shopping for other people, and getting that perfect gift. Well usually, this holiday season has been lackluster so far     .

4.  This year my Christmas list will include   an iPod Touch with Camera, glee season 1, The Office season 6, Gossip Girl season 3, and happiness   .

5.  Bargain hunter, or full price shopper?      I'm a bargain hunter, I do find ridiculously great deals on random crap .

6.  The best and worst things about shopping is        spending money I don't have.    .

7.  Online shopper or in-person shopper?       In person of course, nothing beats the thrill of the chase in person     .

I know, I know super slacking as this is Fill in the Blank Sunday NOT Friday. But unlike half of the world I had to work on Friday and missed just my 2nd black friday in the last 10 years probably. (The first one was when I was on Maui after my grammsy passed away, this one I just didn't have the energy to wake up early and go before work). Sad times, but at least I saved money... hopefully I did go shopping throughout the weekend. haha. How was your black friday? Fill In The Blank Friday

---------------------

Now that I think about it this holiday season has been lackluster, I just haven't gotten into the spirit. Usually I'm counting down the days 'til Christmas. This year the only thing I'm looking forward to is watching the glee Christmas episode. I have to work on Christmas night I believe, not fun. I really just want this year to be done with, so I can start the new year fresh. I have high hopes for 2011, I'm ready for it to start.

1.   My Thanksgiving plans this year will include       hopefully a delicious meal prepared by my sister, football, the parade, being thankful for all the blessings in my life, and watching ALL the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends   .

2.  My favorite Thanksgiving was   the Thanksgivings spent with the Kawachi side family, we haven't had one of those  .

3.  My signature Thanksgiving dish is       I don't think I have one, I never cook Thanksgiving food, hmmm maybe this year I will     .

4.  My favorite Thanksgiving food is    STUFFING, I LOVE me some stuffing and my Grammsy's yams.... I'm sure you've had candied yams, but it's nothing compared to my Grammsy's recipe   .

5.  Thanksgiving free association!      moistmaker (YOU ATE MY SANDWICH!), the boy who hates thanksgiving, more bandages!, football, the gellercup, the macy's day parade, preparing for black friday .

6.  Thansgiving is        not my most favorite holiday, but I do enjoy the eating    .

7.  I am thankful for       great family and friends, they've really been there for me over the last couple of months; I guess I'm just thankful for the things in my life that don't SUCK      .

Your turn: http://thelittlethingswedo.blogspot.com/

At the BART station in Pleasant Hills. Watch out San Francisco!

All my years visiting SF, I don't think I've ever taken a picture with the heart sculpture.

This Zoe, Priya's niece. The best quote of our trip came from her, "OH Sarah, you have Princess Jasmine pants." (in regards to my VS Pink sweats, that gather at the calves)

Ferry Building Marketplace in Embarcadero. MUST. VISIT. BOCCALONE. Meaty goodness.

Priya and I at the Irish Pub by our hotel. We got lucky... dueling pianos taking requests from the crowd + entire bar singing + semi decent hot guys + and magners OH magners.

San Francisco.... one my favoritest places. After my previously scheduled vacay to disneyland got cancelled, my roomie Priya suggest to reroute the trip to SF for some roomie fun. (How blessed I am to have friends like these). It was a super short trip and we crammed as much shopping and eating as we could. We started in Pleasant Hills and stayed with Priya's brother and his family for a couple of days. Priya's niece Zoe is ADORABLE! She asked me what my favorite color was EVERY 15 minutes. Too cute. Our last two days was spent in the city! We were able to go to the ferry building marketplace. I got to fulfill my dream of eating at Boccalone (a salami shop, the chef is on Food Network, his Salumi cone was featured on "The Best Thing I Ever Ate" recommended by Tyler Florence). FYI I'm a sucker for the Food Network. I finally got to go to the Marc by Marc Jacobs store, scored a great purse! We also found the time to meet with our cousins (both mine and Priya's) for drinks, as well as squeeze in time with our friend Michelle.  Our last night was spent in an Irish bar close to our hotel, singing along with the entire bar to "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Bad Romance," drinking Magners Irish Cider in 49ers glasses. It was the perfect ending to a great trip. I was so sad to come home.

Thank you to Priya and her entire family, my dad, and the great city of San Francisco. This was exactly what I needed.
--------------------------------------------------------
Random thoughts:

• Big things poppin..... check out what I've been doing on the side for Nonstop Honolulu: Outings. I'm looking forward to doing more of these, let the field trippin begin!
• Harry Potter. I've tried for years to get into the books. I've seen a couple of movies and liked it, I really want to go to Harry Potter world. Now that the last movie is coming out I'm going to attempt reading the books again. I could not for the life of me get into it, I've tried 4 times already.
• Dammit the Giants won the World Series. I love you SF, I loathe your Giants.
• The Beatles entire collection is NOW available on iTunes!!! I don't know why I'm excited, I have EVERY Beatles album. I guess I'm just happy to see two of my favoritest things together (The Beatles and Apple). 
• I also want to read Jay-Z's book.

"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Russell Simmons

Andy Irons 1978-2010

"I surf because of you."

(Well surfed, because I haven't surfed in awhile) Andy Irons is my favoritest surfer. Long before I worked at the Bong, long before he was even sponsored by Bong. I used to think it was fate that I worked for the same company my favorite surfer was sponsored by. I used to dream of one day Andy would visit and fall madly in love... oh those days of being 19. That didn't happen, but I did get to meet him twice. I can't imagine the surf world without him. A.I. you will be missed.

Back from my mini San Francisco vacay with Priya! I hate the fact that time just FLIES by when you are on vacation, but when you are at work or not on vacation the days and weeks go on FOREVER. I'll definitely blog more about my trip later... here are just some random thoughts on my mind.

-San Francisco, a city I could definitely move to...

-I thought Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway album was the BEST break-up album, but on my trip I found John Mayer's Continuum. I downloaded this album back when it was first released, I guess I never really listened to his words. John Mayer you're kind of an asshole, but your music is amazing.

-OK I'll admit I like watching the new Hawaii 5-0.

-Urban Outfitters definitely NEEDS TO OPEN A STORE IN HAWAII NOWWWW. Now I say!

-Priya has this game for her iPod Touch, where you beat levels by beating a timer. I'm not sure what it is called, but it is addicting.

-I'm growing out my bangs. I say that all the time, but I'd really like to switch up my hairstyle. I can't wait for long hair.

-OH also still obsessed with Fleetwood Mac "Landslide." I've never been a fan of Fleetwood Mac but, I love this song SO much.

1.   My last haircut was       I think about 3 weeks ago at RAIZ Salon  .

2.  My most daring hair moment was       I'm never daring with my hair, only recently have I been wearing it down more     . 

3.  A hairstyle I'd never be brave enough to try is       a really, really short hair style, like a pixie cut... it's cute but I don't think I'll ever match it     .

4.  I've always dreamt of being a (blonde, brunette or red-head)    blonde, NOT bleach blonde but like a dirty blonde   .


5.  My go-to hair do is       my signature: up in a ponytail!     .

6.  My biggest hair disaster was      it's a toss up between trying to highlight my own hair at home with Wayne's help (it turned blonde!!!) or the time I went with my ex-bf to Supercuts and while he was getting his haircut I decided to get my bangs trimmed (HORRIBLE idea) she trimmed it WAY too short, oh wait or when I was about 13 and my hair decided to get frizzy and thicker (damn puberty) .

7.  A hairstyle I am dying to try is        growing out my bangs! I want to so bad but I think it'll make my head look flat    .

8.  My best hair day was       any day I don't have to fuss over it, best hairstyle day would be when Malia's cousin braided the sides and I wore my hair half up, half down (I'd try to repeat this but I'm horrible at doing my own hair)      .

9.  The worst hairstyle I ever had was   again when I was 13 and my hair decided to go all crazy and turn frizzy and thick on me.  

10.  My hair is       a pain in my ass on some days, but when life is feeling out of control, I feel like it's only thing I can control (that and the color of my nail polish)      .

What about you? Fill In The Blank Fridays

Here are some of my favorite photos from me and Wayne's first photo sesh field trip. Over the past year we both got DSLR cameras and we're still learning to use it. We picked Aloha Tower Marketplace for our first photo sesh, because the weather was great, there was lots of people, places, and things around us, and I wanted to eat some wings at Hooters after. haha. Wayne invited 2 of his teacher friends who also are into photography. My favorite part was actually going up the tower. I've never actually been up there, amazing because I have taken many trips to Aloha Tower. We are planning to do more of these maybe once a month. I really want to take a photography class, I was thinking the Outreach College at UH. I've taken photojournalism when I was in school, but that was like over 5 years ago (geeeez that sounds like a long time). 

Places I'd like to go on Photog field trips to:

The Contemporary Museum

A contest from the upcoming Vans Triple Crown

Kailua Town

D-town

Honolulu Academy of Arts

Picnic at Kakaako Park

Kam Drive Inn Swap Meet

...hmmm Japan, Europe, back to NYC?

Anybody else have any suggestions?

1.   My Halloween plans this year will include       hopefully a Halloween party tomorrow night and walking Waikiki on Sunday    .

2.  My most memorable Halloween costume was   it's funny I don't even remember most of my childhood halloween costumes, one year in college tho I was a sandwich, last year I was Supergirl and Wayne was Superman (totally by coincidence)  .

3.  For Halloween this year I'm going to be       Hello Kitty!!!!     .

4.  I've always wanted to dress up as   a Star Wars character, either Pricess Leia or Padme   .

5.  Halloween free association!      ghost hunting, dressing up, free candy, Waikiki .

6.  The worst thing about Halloween is        this year that it is on a Sunday, and also how much it costs to freaking put a good costume together    .

7.  The best thing about Halloween is       Definitely having the guts to pull off the craziest funnest outfits, that on any other day you'd be like oh hell no, but on Halloween everything seems to acceptable      .

What about you?  Fill In The Blank Friday

Yesterday Priya and I checked out Makitti, a new Sanrio themed buffet in Waikiki. It's in the old Smorgy's on Kuhio. I saw it in the paper last week, and as soon as we heard that it was Sanrio themed we HAD to visit, if you couldn't tell we're big fans of Sanrio. So we decided to check out their breakfast buffet.

The food was all right, it was a Japanese breakfast so the only eggs that they had was omelettes. They did have lots of fish, arabiki sausage, a salad bar, crab, sushi, tofu bar, and natto. They had a full case of desserts, I enjoyed the coffee jelly and tiramisu, Priya had something with Matcha which she loved. On a scale of 5, I'd rate the food 2.5, it was ok, not super awesome, just ok. It was pretty empty when we went, and it seemed like the staff was still getting broken in. And as for the whole Sanrio theme, they need to step it up. COME ON, our bathroom has more Hello Kitty than this. It seemed like the decor from Smorgy's was still there, they just added lots of Hello Kitty stuff in the back area (where we were not seated). They are still pretty new so I hope when we visit next time for afternoon tea, there will be more things added.

All in all, it was fun and any Sanrio fan will definitely want to check it out.

1.   I am       a big dork, sarcastic, and in a quarterlife crisis    .

2.  I wish   I was more spontaneous and I wish 'N Sync would get back together for a reunion tour  .

3.  I like       weekends off, planning field trips and adventures with my friends, baseball in October, songs with great lyrics, laughing really, really hard, classic rock, hello kitty     .

4.  I can   really do anything I want to do, be whatever I want to be, I just need to take a leap of faith   .

5.  I hope      everyone has a great weekend, I know mine will be awesome .

6.  I think        sometimes I think too much    .

7.  I was       too lazy to blog yesterday, hence the fill in the blank Saturday      .

What about you? Fill In The Blank Friday

-----------------------

I thought I'd share some music I can't stop listening to right now....

Back to December-Taylor Swift (can't wait for her new album to drop on Tuesday!)

Hey Baby (Drop It On the Floor) - Pitbull ft. T-Pain

Never Told You - Colbie Caillat

Smile - Glee version

Gives You Hell - All-American Rejects

I Don't Wanna Be In Love - Good Charlotte

King of Anything - Sara Bareilles

Who Says - John Mayer

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac