If ignorance is bliss, then what is marital bliss? Yep, we just celebrated our 28th anniversary on Saturday. We can’t believe how quickly time has flown by. Isn’t it always the case when you’re having fun, though? Ok, not all of the past 28 years of marriage was fun, in fact, most of it was hard work on both our behalfs. But that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? Compromise and always keep wifey happy.

Oh yeah, before I forget. I picked up Chito and my brother, Lopaka this morning for our water aerobics class and we had a different instructor. I believe she does these classes when she’s not doing basic training for the US Marines … or something. Ok, so maybe she’s not a drill sargeant but dang she worked us out hard today. Even Chito who is skinny and doesn’t smoke said she felt the burn. It’s a good thing we can dunk ourselves under water when we start feeling the burn. After each session we reward ourselves by sitting in the sauna and jacuzzi and just relaxing.

I went to the Physical Therapy Clinic last week and the therapist said that I need to stay out of the gym for now and just attend the water aerobics class because my joints are so out of whack and I need the fluidity of the water to loosen my joints without causing damage or more pain. I can live with that.

Hubby is every telemarketers’ nightmare call.  Seriously.  Take for instance today.  He got a call this morning from someone selling websites.  I’m not sure of the details but I know for sure that person was wondering what she got herself into.  After her sales pitch, hubby started drilling her with questions about “free gifts”.  He put her on speaker phone so I could hear the frustration in her voice.  She kept explaining that there was no gift then proceeded to tell him the offer again.  He continued asking her questions about the offer then said he wanted to be sure he understood so he asked her to repeat it again.  By this time, I’m in the other room cracking up because it reminded me of this CD I heard where a guy calls a Filipino restaurant and orders Hawaiian food then the person on the other line starts getting frustrated and eventually hangs up.  Well, she must have been very desperate for a sale because after an hour, she was still explaining the offer to him.

Finally, he tells her he’ll pass on the offer and she starts laughing.  By then he can’t keep his laughter in so she asks him how old he was.  Then he makes her guess his age, she guessed mid-thirties but she has an accent so it sounds like “THIRTEEN”.  Then she tells him that he’s kept her on the phone for an hour and he passes??? So he tells her he was interested in the offer until she laughed at him.  That was it, I was laughing so hard my stomach ached.  So in the end, she didn’t make her sale and she ended up wasting 1 1/2 hours on the phone with him. (more…)

Kamalani survived her first three full-days at school.  On her first day of school, she was excited to be back.  She got to see all her kindergarten friends again and she’s already planning play-dates with classmates.  She said she hasn’t been doing anything “special” in class; just the usual - reading, writing and math.

I told my friend, Chito, that once Kamalani is back at school, I’d be able to go with her to the gym.  In the past we haven’t been able to make it because I didn’t have anyone to watch Kamalani in the mornings.  Now, there’s no excuse so this morning I picked her up and we drove to the base gym.  It’s been close to two years since I’ve stepped foot in anything that resembled a gym so I needed some refreshers on the equipment.  After 20 minutes on the treadmill, I wanted to die.  Chito on the other hand was like Kamalani, asking what we were going to do next.  So we headed off to the weight room and did some lower body workout on the machines.

Nearly two hours after we arrived at the gym and after doing a few sets on several machines, I was ready to go home and take a nice long shower.  Chito on the other hand was still asking what we were going to do next.  I told her to take a really close look at me and then try to remember I’m not skinny (like her), I smoke more than half a pack per day, and it’s my first day in the gym.  Sheesh, she wanted to kill me on my first day.  Truthfully though, it felt really good after the workout.  I didn’t feel sluggish like I usually do - - until I ate.  *groans*

Tomorrow, we go to water aerobics.  Now, that I’m looking forward to.  My brother is also going to join us and he’s really excited about that.  Right now, I just want to slip into my bed and SLEEEEEEEEEP.  nighty night.

I should call my mom since it’s a holiday. She’s probably expecting it.

Gonna barbecue some kalbi and make potato salad for hubby and myself. We’re just going to have another quiet night alone. We miss Kamalani when she’s with her mom but we should take advantage of this time because school starts this week and she’ll be here most of the time.

Lastnight I went to the casino with Bernie and we both lost money.  ‘Nuff said.  I’m good til another month or so before I get itchy feet again.

If you are what you eat, then just call me “Tuna”. Holy crap, we busted out two more tunas on Friday and our friend, Bernie came over to clean and fillet the fishes for us. I gave her one of the tunas because she has always been so giving to our family and I wanted to show our appreciation. She said a whole tuna was too much for her and her family so she took half of the tuna instead.

I vacuum-packed the filets that we weren’t going to eat right away with my nifty FoodSaver vacuum sealer and the rest were used for sashimi and for frying. Since I’m deathly afraid of splattering oil I called another friend, Chito, to come over and fry the pieces for me. But before she came over, she had to do a quick run to the store. While there, she phoned and asked if I wanted to drink, I said sure, so she brought us stuff to make our drinks. Then she went home to drop off her grocery. When she came over, she told me that our other friends, Kim and her husband Chris (the Expert Pest, Pest Expert, the Pest Control Expert) was coming over because their daughters were little instigators and told Kim that Chito stood her up for the night because Chito was coming over to my house. I told her that it was cool for them to come because there was plenty to eat and I know that Chris misses me even if he’s in denial. Plus, we needed ice for our drinks and since they were on the way, we needed THEM to bring it to us. ~L~ I’m joking (in case they read this).

Anyway, earlier in the day my mom called just to talk and she asked if I ate the opihi she sent. I told her that I didn’t eat it yet, in fact, I had forgotten all about it because I hadn’t planned on eating Hawaiian food since my kids left. So, I thawed out some opihi, cooked two bags of poi, sliced the slab of tuna for sashimi, cut up chunks of Ahi for poke while Chito was frying up the tuna. By the time Kim and Chris arrived, everything was ready to grind.

I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. If I closed my eyes, I’d think I was back home in Grandma’s kitchen. Certain foods do that to me, you know, take me back home to Grandma’s kitchen. So we ate and drank and had a nice time just talking story with each other. What’s better than eating Hawaiian food? Eating it with friends who share the same appreciation for it.

And guess what me and Kamalani had for breakfast? Fish and poi - - - ONO.