26!

so i figure its about a week or so since my birthday and so that means i should probably post about my b day again... i feel like i just wrote about my last b day, which is probably true because once a year is about the amount of times i get around to putting my thoughts on the interweb for all to read. :) so first quick recap on the bday, it was awesome! and ill tell you why, it only felt like my birthday for about 20 minutes when i was blowing out the candles... but other than that we did so many adventures and i was surrounded by all the people i love out here in hawaii. we woke up at 530 in the morning so that we could get the best wall to climb on kaena point. this was super super fun! there was only a small group of us at that time and it was so much fun! then we went and ate delicious food at Haleiwa eats! the we came home took a power nap, then we had a bbq at our house.. all of this was in memory of me getting older, which was a good way to celebrate cause it kept me from realizing that i am getting older, so instead of telling everyone about it i am just going to post pictures... most of them are on my birthday but some are just great memories... the beach ones are great memories... the others are celebrating my epic day of birth

The Bus

so Katrina is not in working order and i have a nanny job at turtle bay. which is only about a 10 minute drive away when you have a car. but considering Katrina can function i have to submit myself to The Bus. Now this is not a catastrophe in an of itself, because i am completely ok with public transportation, its always interesting and fun and you get to meet interesting people. and in different countries it is the only mode of transportation. so can anyone tell me why it is causing me so much ANXIETY!!!!! i live right next to the bus stop, my house is even named the Bus stop house. which is probably one of the reasons it causes me so much anxiety. because i have been home since 2. and i don't have to work till 7 but i could tell you that the bus came at 2:56, 3:30, and 4:35, and the last one just passes at 5:40. The buses are really inconsistent and so i am terrified that i wont get there on time so its almost 6 and i am going to head out to the bus stop ( which is across from my house) and wait with anxiety for the bus to come. and i will either be incredibly early for the nanny job. or late. i hope its the first one. and can someone tell me when i got so anxious about being on time? I'm usually completely ok with being late, and yet i am sitting here watching each bus go by waiting for the one that i need to take. where has my mind gone?



The little roof on the top right, is the bus stop.... i have been staring at it for way too long!!!!!

Rain.....

When it rains it pours, i wish it would just stop.

one life long dream accomplished

so you know when you talk to someone and you tell them that you have alway wanted to do something that it seems like everyone else has done before and they say, are you serious? ill have to take you some time and your like. ok! thats awesome! and then it NEVER happens? well for me its horseback riding. all my life i have told anyone and everyone, when appropriate, that i have never ridden a horse before and they all have the same expression. are you serious? i know someone/ or i own a ranch ill have to take you sometime. they are usually serious or have the greatest intention of doing it but here i am 25 years old and up until april 1st, 2011 i had NEVER ridden a horse. until Jerilynn Loose came along. she asked me to go with her yesterday and i was so giddy and distracted the entire day until we went. and can i tell you, it was the best thing in the entire world! i absolutely LOVED it! my horses name was Prince, and i don't know if i imagined it or what but he had the same quirks as me. he kept tripping and he always seems to veer to the right... sound like anyone that you know :) it was everything that i could have ever imagined!!! so i asked jeri to take a pic and i was so excited that she accidently had it on video so i have a video of me on my horse so you can see just how giddy i was. and to end it i will let you know, i hope and plan to do it alot more often i can't believe i survived this long without riding. never again.

Katrina , how great thou art!

katrina, the truck of my heart, i have had her for 2 weeks and we have already had many adventures. Her first trip was to kahuku grilll where we got the best burgers i think on the island. she has faithfully brought me to and from school usually on time, depending on when i leave the house. the greatest of the adventures is when i have the wonderful privilage of getting in and out of Katrina, cause you see, katrina's driver side door is a little rusted, ok i mean very rusted, she doesn't open. that doesn't mean she can't however, i fear that if i did the door would fall off and i would have to drive without a door.


so to be able to get into my beloved truck, i climb in the passenger side door. which works pretty good as long as im not in a dress. but never the less she is my greatest adventure that i am looking forward to having her bring me many many happy moments. and laughs and giggles.

friendships

so i am back living in the blessed island of oahu, loving the sun, and enjoying the amazing education that i am so privilaged to get here. so why do i feel sad.... ill tell you why. because i came to byuh in 2006 not knowing anyone, just being a soccer girl that was excited to be in hawaii playing soccer and living the dream. i had a roommate names Emily Mearns. and a best friend named Ashley Hunter. they have been on this road with me from the beginning, we each have learned, grown, time tested, cried, screamed, and cheered together and when i think about hawaii they are always a part of it. so now im sitting in hawaii, and the last two that started this journey with me are no longer here. how do i feel about that... i dont' like it one bit i want them back here with me. i want the drama of the house that i lived/couch crashed. i want the same personalities to be able to greet me when i walk in the door drenched from a tropical downpour! but alas, that will not be because change is a part of life and right now that change doesn't involve us being together. but that doesn't mean that i miss them any less.