Today I had one of those moments you know you are going to remember for a long time and tell at dinner parties and laugh about. I was starting to feel a little better and needed to run some errands, so I thought I would head west and say hello to Jeff, Juli and co. who are just starting all this fun with the flu. As I am getting over to merge onto another freeway my car kind of jerks, but I think it is because I was changing lanes or hit a pothole (which is common here). Then I notice a sound and start hoping that it is coming from someone else's car. I tried slowing down and sure enough the sound slowed down too, so as I am on this interchange I realize I need to pull over, which is anyone's worst nightmere. I get over and as cars are zooming past me I get out to look at the damage. Sure enough, I have blown a tire! I am standing on the side of the freeway, six months pregnant, fighting the flu and with a flat. I thought it was the funniest thing I had every heard. Being the stubborn person I am I decided that I can take care of this myself and lug the spare out of the trunk, set up the jack, hoist up the car and am just starting on the lugnuts when my angel, Sunny, shows up. He is a little foreign man, whos english is not very good, but he sees me and pulls over. He looks at what I have and announces he is getting the proper tools to change a tire and returns from his car with power tools to change a tire. He had it changes in minutes flat! As I get back into the car I call Jeff, who has since left his house in his sick state to come help me. He met me at the next exit, took the busted tire and fixed it while I ran my errands. Thank you Jeff and Sunny for making this day much better than it should have been!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Moments You Will Remember
Today I had one of those moments you know you are going to remember for a long time and tell at dinner parties and laugh about. I was starting to feel a little better and needed to run some errands, so I thought I would head west and say hello to Jeff, Juli and co. who are just starting all this fun with the flu. As I am getting over to merge onto another freeway my car kind of jerks, but I think it is because I was changing lanes or hit a pothole (which is common here). Then I notice a sound and start hoping that it is coming from someone else's car. I tried slowing down and sure enough the sound slowed down too, so as I am on this interchange I realize I need to pull over, which is anyone's worst nightmere. I get over and as cars are zooming past me I get out to look at the damage. Sure enough, I have blown a tire! I am standing on the side of the freeway, six months pregnant, fighting the flu and with a flat. I thought it was the funniest thing I had every heard. Being the stubborn person I am I decided that I can take care of this myself and lug the spare out of the trunk, set up the jack, hoist up the car and am just starting on the lugnuts when my angel, Sunny, shows up. He is a little foreign man, whos english is not very good, but he sees me and pulls over. He looks at what I have and announces he is getting the proper tools to change a tire and returns from his car with power tools to change a tire. He had it changes in minutes flat! As I get back into the car I call Jeff, who has since left his house in his sick state to come help me. He met me at the next exit, took the busted tire and fixed it while I ran my errands. Thank you Jeff and Sunny for making this day much better than it should have been!
Birthday's and Holiday's
Let me just tell you that Kevin is great! The poor guy has a birthday only two days before Valentine's Day, which is cutting it pretty close. It means that this time of year for us is really busy and Valentine's day just kind of gets forgotten about, but we usually do his birthday up right. The wrench to the plan this year was that I have the flu. Poor Kevin didn't say a word about the fact that for his birthday we stayed home while I lounged around and did the same thing for Valentine's day. He didn't even really get anything, but he was a great sport about it!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
25's
So, during my 25th week of pregnancy we celebrated my 25th birthday. We had a fun night of mexican food (the best you can get here which isn't that great, but you live with what you can get) and going to see Juno. Kevin was a good sport to sit through the movie. I guess it is official though, as Daniel told me, my life is officially one third of the way through!
Saturday, January 26, 2008
The Down Side of Up
So the other night Kevin and I were having the age old debate about what to have for dinner. Considering my aversion to chicken this is actually a hard
thing to come up with. We FINALLY settled on homemade nachos and got out the stuff to start making it, but we had one big problem, the ground beef was still frozen. Kevin started defrosting the meat while I pulled out a frying pan to cook it in. I put the pan on the stove and turned it on. Kevin brought over the meat and chipped off the first bit of meat that had defrosted on the outside of the ball before throwing the rest in the microwave. I started to cook the meat he had thrown in only to notice a roach walking across the meat in the pan. Kevin reached in there and got it out and was shocked when I told him I REFUSE to eat that meat now. So, the meat had to be thrown out and we started all over again. The wonderful thing about living in Hawaii is that no matter what time of year or how clean your house is there is always a roach to be found! I more than happy to send some to anyone who feels roaches are just what their house is lacking...just let me know.
thing to come up with. We FINALLY settled on homemade nachos and got out the stuff to start making it, but we had one big problem, the ground beef was still frozen. Kevin started defrosting the meat while I pulled out a frying pan to cook it in. I put the pan on the stove and turned it on. Kevin brought over the meat and chipped off the first bit of meat that had defrosted on the outside of the ball before throwing the rest in the microwave. I started to cook the meat he had thrown in only to notice a roach walking across the meat in the pan. Kevin reached in there and got it out and was shocked when I told him I REFUSE to eat that meat now. So, the meat had to be thrown out and we started all over again. The wonderful thing about living in Hawaii is that no matter what time of year or how clean your house is there is always a roach to be found! I more than happy to send some to anyone who feels roaches are just what their house is lacking...just let me know.
It Begins
It is official...the first of the baby stuff has arrived at our house, which will never be the same again. Kevin's sister-in-law's sister (Marje) had a baby in December and somehow ended up with two bouncers and two boppy's so, due to her kindness, we now have a boppy and a bouncer. Marje rocks! It is weird though to have something baby in our house cause it means that this is going to real here soon. There really will be a baby to put in the bouncer and those nice tan couches behind it are going to get grubby with dirty hands. I guess it has started!
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Hiking Diamond Head
On Friday we decided to go hike Diamond Head, an inactive volcanoe not far from our house. The hike isn't too bad but it was packed with tourists. We did the hike Hawaiian style, in flip-flops. It really was pretty from the top!
Here is the view from the top of the crater of the volcanoe. The only thing in the crater is the visitor's center and the people collecting money for you coming in. For walking into the park we had to pay $1 each. I figure that money goes to pay all the employees they had down there to insure they got their money. They even yelled after a couple that didn't realize they had to pay.
Here is a look at Waikiki and downtown Honolulu farther in the distance. It looks like quite the mass of buildings when you look at it from this angle.
Isn't Hawaii pretty?!? It almost looks like a painting because the water is so clear.
Proof that we really were up there and didn't just steal the pictures from someone else's website and post them as our own! The sun up there was so bright it hurt to look at the camera.
The worst of the staircases we had to climb. In my dislike of heights I was not excited about having to go up these, knowing that I would have to come back down them. As you can see people go up and down these at the same time when really there is only room for traffic going one way. Definately not my favorite part of this hike.
Here is the view from the top of the crater of the volcanoe. The only thing in the crater is the visitor's center and the people collecting money for you coming in. For walking into the park we had to pay $1 each. I figure that money goes to pay all the employees they had down there to insure they got their money. They even yelled after a couple that didn't realize they had to pay.
Here is a look at Waikiki and downtown Honolulu farther in the distance. It looks like quite the mass of buildings when you look at it from this angle.
Isn't Hawaii pretty?!? It almost looks like a painting because the water is so clear.
Proof that we really were up there and didn't just steal the pictures from someone else's website and post them as our own! The sun up there was so bright it hurt to look at the camera.
The worst of the staircases we had to climb. In my dislike of heights I was not excited about having to go up these, knowing that I would have to come back down them. As you can see people go up and down these at the same time when really there is only room for traffic going one way. Definately not my favorite part of this hike.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Christmas Came and Went
We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday. It always seems like Christmas takes forever to come and then is gone in a flash. We went to a holiday party for the firm Kevin will work for next summer. I definately felt too poor to be there. It was interesting to watch their gift exchange. Lawyers jumping up challenging the rules about how many times a gift can be stolen and whether or not a trade counts as a steal. Very interesting!
We had a wonderful holiday and hope that you did as well!
We had a wonderful holiday and hope that you did as well!
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