One Half Dozen

Six years! SIX. YEARS.

That's how long Bryan and I have known each other. And that is a very long time. But to us it feels pretty quick. Neither of us can quite figure out how we've stuffed six years into our short lives together. Not too long ago we were meeting each other's friends for the first time. And we were still being super nice to each other every chance we got. Now we're co-workers and see each other's evil side more than we want to.

But it's been good times. We were listing the highlights about the last six years the other day. The highlights range from pints of Ben and Jerry's shared together to 10 day vacations. It's been a really good time.

I tried to find a picture of us from our earliest days. But those were the days before I had a digital camera. I honestly can't think of the first picture of us taken together. There was definitely a few taken in 2003 but here's one from November 2004. Not much has changed.



Heehee.

Okay, maybe that was mean. Here's a nice one from December 2004.



Cheers to us!

Working for the Weekend

Everyone's watching to see what you will do

The few weeks have been very work-heavy for Bryan and I. Bryan tends to work in the evenings and I spend mine at the gym or aimlessly thinking about our wedding. Our days are completely filled with work and the office. Without paddling to keep me busy during the week, my fun has come on the weekends.

And we have had some great weekends.


Everybody's working for the weekend, everybody wants a little romance


Last weekend was gloriously three days long. We started the weekend with an early Valentine's Day dinner. On Saturday we celebrated real Valentine's Day at a friend's wedding in a beautiful location. It was great to dress up, go out, have dinner and have entertainment - all organized by someone else! I even had a new dress!



And there were fire dancers at the wedding!


On Sunday we motivated relatively early and spent the entire day on the North Shore. We sat on the beach, watched the surfers, marveled at the pretty scenery, ate at our favorite restaurant, and indulged in Shave Ice. We felt like we were on vacation for 24 hours.

Monday was about errands, which was fine because we'd already had so much fun, and an unsuccessful beach visit.


Everyone's watching, to see what you will do. Everyone's looking at you, oh


The weekend before last, my friends and I threw a bachelorette party for a friend of ours that eloped in January. FUN!


And the next day I sat in the sun and leisurely caught up with paddling friends.


Everybody's goin off the deep end


The weekend before that we had the awesome experience of karaoke IN A RESTAURANT. Ooh, it was painful for the other customers. But I have truly never laughed that hard. It was fantastic.




This weekend?

Well, Sunday is our 6th anniversary. And if you know us well, you know it's also the three year anniversary of our move to Hawaii. We're celebrating by taking engagement pictures with our wedding photographer. I am so excited and very nervous. I have been OBSESSING about what I should wear and have been very terrified that my makeup will look like I'm not wearing any. But we have really awesome photographers and I am confident we will have super gorgeous pictures. And when we do, I'll share at least one with you.

It will be perfect to have pictures of the weekend.


Everybody's working for the weekend, come on baby let's go

Famous Failures

Oh how I needed to see this...

Famous Failures

Oh right, we live in Hawaii

Not too long ago I would log on every week and post an update about our weekend. Where have those updates gone? Where have our weekends gone?!

I've mentioned this before, the longer we live here, the more normalized our lives here become. It's a combination of two things - we have more we have to do, and our 'Hawaii' activities are normal. The Hawaii-ness of our lives are progressively sprinkled around us, rather than in big chunks over the weekends.



Lately we have...
... decided to go out to dinner and ended up in Waikik eating amazingly yummy sushi overlooking palm trees
...taken up hula again
...sat in the sun with friends
...gone hiking
...used the word 'puka' without even realizing it
...witnessed a rainbow as we pay our monthly bills
...eaten a lot of papayas
...loaded my surfboard in the car
...gone to the Punahou carnival
...eaten malasadas

Next up? Get another one of those drinks.

"Please Don't Divorce Us"

Worth watching, reading, and signing your name in support of gay marriages in California (and everywhere I suppose).

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