Day 3

1:05pm
went to the beach this morning! so relaxing and so pretty! you know those recordings of waves to help you sleep? well this was live and much much better! i nearly did fall asleep!


next i'm going with my aunt to listen to people try to sell her another time share. she's not going to buy it. but it means snorkeling and the luau cost $200 less. so...

also, i posted my video for 7NAP and my 7NAP Extra. yay me of planning ahead! :)

8:23pm
so we went to the time share place. the tour took up most of the first hour and the mumbo-jumbo about points and such took up the SECOND HOUR! we were tired and hungry when it was done.

then we went to Front St. (kinda the main boulevard of Maui). we ate at this place called The Fish Co. and it was REALLY good! Macadamia nut crusted mahi mahi at a table overseeing the ocean. got to watch the sunset. so awesome!


so, i don't know how, but i lost my spare camera battery. i charged it last night. put away the charger, and put the battery... in an undisclosed location. i really don't know how i lost it while writing yesterday's blog! me and my aunt have pretty much turned the place up-side down and it is NOWHERE! i unpacked and repacked my purse, camera bag and suitcase, looked... everywhere. either someone snuck in and stole it (but left my laptop) or a wizard snuck in and placed a shrinking charm on it. my money's on the wizard theory.

snorkeling tomorrow. wake-up time at 5am. g'night interwebs!

**ps. my coconut shall be named Winston the Happy Coconut! :)**

Day 2

6am - Hawaii Time
Thanksgiving
oh my God! i just woke up to go to the bathroom, and i hear a rooster crow, and i just think, "hmm. interesting alarm clock." and then i realize it's coming through the window and i think, "someone has a loud alarm clock." it's not until the third time that i realize that it's actually a fucking rooster! it's still crowing. i'm excited by this. it's still dark by the way. Auntie's not up yet and i'm typing this in a txt file that i can copy & paste when i find an internet connection.
the rooster seems to be riling things up. now some of the other birds outside are like, "holy crap, i think it's morning! *sing*" :)

6:20am
omg! there are MULTIPLE roosters! 3 or 4. i just heard a sycnchronized rooster crow! and it's starting to get light out! yay! <-- a lot of exclamation marks. i'm sorry. :D

1:38pm
went to the grocery store to pick up essentials. you know, water, eggs, strange flavored Hawaiian hot dogs. the usual. then we went to have breakfast at a Mexican restaurant. (weird, i know) it was good though! and finally we went to an internet cafe and i was able to download the drivers i needed for my ethernet connection. (who uses wire anymore???)

10:51pm.
so now i have internet in the condo, which is AWESOME! i won't have to schedule time at the internet cafe! AND i get to talk to everyone on Skype! not to mention the blog and picture posts! :)

so it's Thanksgiving and i'm in Hawaii. which means we went to a luau (loo-ow). i always hear the word said but i never have to spell it.

so now my lei is in a plastic bag in the fridge as the lady who sold it to me told me to with it. but here's what it looks like when it's not being preserved.

free lei vs. upgrade!

the buffet:





after dinner, there was the entertainment! it ended with a fire show. and the guys were hot. which was a definite plus! :)




that last picture is the one i didn't get to take since my camera battery died. and i didn't have my camera bag. which means i didn't have my fully charged battery with me. yeah. i'm still a little pissed about that one. needless to say, i'm gonna have my replacement battery in my pocket for the rest of the trip!

but i DID get a happy coconut!


he is my new friend. i've still gotta name him! i'm taking suggestions.

and that's the play by play boys and girls! to be continued tomorrow! :D

"running with scissors wasn't smart,
i tripped and cut open your heart"
Shame On You by Hot Hot Heat

              ↑ no, there is no reason for that other than i'm listening to that right now.

day 1

So far, it's dark, there is no internet, and the Village People are playing on Sat. Can't wait to see what day 2 looks like!

i talk too much

i get this notice more than i'd like to admit.

letters out today!

finally, my letters to John and Hank are being mailed today! :)




yay!

update... tl;dr

so i've been posting a lot lately, but i haven't really been talking about what's going on with me. which is rather strange considering that this is my blog. in fact, i don't even think i've mentioned The Guide to Nerdfighting ...in your pants. which is weird since i'm absolutely obsessed with it. (my mother wants to strangle me every time she hears the word Nerdfighter now.)

so, i should probably go in chronological order, but since time in my universe doesn't flow in a manner compatible with the rest of existence, that probably won't end up working too well. so i'll just have to write it the way it makes sense in my head!

so this morning i was driven to work by my mechanic. whom i'd never met before. because my mom always dealt with him. it. was. SURREAL. he has a beige Mercedes circa 1987 which looks much like this:
so old car, old guy, playing old music. i mean old like "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland. literally.

i saw Hank Green last Saturday, and i posted pictures of that, but i didn't write about it. as you would expect it. was. EPIC. in the middle of playing songs, he took questions for about half an hour. he answered everything from "what did you do before vlogbrothers?" to "pirates or ninjas?" to "Star Wars or Star Trek?" at which point he answered Star Trek. at which point 50% of the room's hearts, including my own, broke. it was quite a strange experience to hear almost exactly half of a room cheering while the other half gaped in shocked silence. and near the end of the blissfully long Q&A, people were casually asking questions and he was talking as if it were just an abnormally large conversation. oh, and just a fun little point: when Hank got to the line "I'd be wearing wizard robes with gold and red" in This Isn't Hogwarts, all the Gryffindors in the room started cheering. <3
Dr Noise opened for him, and i feel really bad that since i was so centered on telling Hank about The Guide i didn't get a signed copy of his CD. :( my one regret of the night.

but speaking of The Guide it's the most wonderful thing that could possibly happen. that is, it will be if we ever succeed in getting the word out about it! and for the record, i WILL be committing my letters to Hank and John to paper TODAY. i've written a message to Alex Day (aka Nerimon) and i'll be writing to other hi-profile Nerdfighters soon! so we'll see how this pans out. and on a side note, i'm no longer an Alan fan (for reasons related to The Guide). :(

oh! and i am going to Hawaii on Wednesday! and i am EXTREMELY excited about this! there are only two things that concern me. 1) i can't go to The Guide meeting that following Sunday 2) i may not be able to make/post a video that Friday for 7NAP. there's no way for me to remedy not being able to go to The Guide meeting, but i am going to make a video on Tuesday and ask one of the other girls to switch it to "public" on Friday. hopefully though, i'll just be able to make a video from Hawaii.

and that brings up 7NAP, which is 7 Nerds-a-Plenty, the new video project i'm involved in which is in its second week. i'm Friday, so i'll be posting a video later today. i will also be posting a video on my channel later, because i've been meaning to all week, but just haven't gotten around to it.

and i think that gets me all caught up for now!

oh yeah, and i like Hank's song "The Vegetables" more than i probably should. :/

on the radio...

oh yeah! my radio knows what's the what!

re-posting awesome

i'm re-posting this because i still think it's one of the most awesome things i've ever seen. enjoy.



**originally posted Aug. 14th**

music collection

the best music collection ever, right?