Only Wednesday?
I can’t believe this week has gone by so slowly. It feels like it should be 5pm on Friday, my favorite time, when the weekend is ahead of me and full of opportunity!
This weekend I actually have preset plans. Which is weird since I’m not much of a social butterfly. The kids are going to a birthday party on Friday, we’re meeting some friends for a little while on Saturday and going to a beachy birthday party on Sunday for most of the day. In between I’d like to fit in seeing a movie at Restaurant Row and cleaning my apartment, doing some laundry.
Oh, oh, the movie theatre at Restaurant Row (1.00 admission and free, validated parking) reminds me of something to write about. Favorite cheap things to do in Hawaii. Although with this price of gas over $3.00 a gallon, I’ll have to change that to: Favorite cheap things to do within walking distance of home.
I’m dying for dessert and all I have is a pineapple. Actually, I love pineapple, probably more than I love candy. I’m just really lazy and cannot muster the energy to walk into the kitchen and cut the pineapple. Even though I invested in this neato gadget that cores, peels and slices the pineapple all in one easy step. You just slice of the top of the pineapple, position the gadget’s tube thingy over the core, twist the handle on the top until you hit the bottom of the fruit and then pull! Voila, Perfect Pineapple! I sound like Lyle Galdeira from News 8 on “Does It Work?” I love that news segment where he tests those gadgets and other products usually shown on infomercials. I bought a Q Grill after Lyle proclaimed it was a winner. Thanks Lyle!
Which reminds me that we considered naming our son “Lyle” because the meaning is “Island”. But I didn’t care that much for the actual name so we chose another name. Sorry Lyle!
What a rambling post.. my apologies..
Loren
September 29th, 2005 at 7:58 am
Hey! I have that fruit problem too. I am always saying to my sister, “I hate fruit” and she says “really?” and hands me a piece of fruit which I gobble up in an instant while replying “yes, definitely hate it!” Problem is I am too f(&%ing lazy, that’s my problem. I’ll haul my butt all over berkeley, running around all day like a chickenless head, but I just can’t bring myself to wash an apple before it starts getting all wrinkled… and then the guilt gets to me. Which reminds me, I am such a slave to guilt. Why is that? Like I won’t take care of basic stuff, but then sombody will guilt me about not calling them back and I’ll find myself doing some inane thing for them and meanwhile rome burns and I end up staying up till 1am later on taking care of shit I should have been doing earlier. Sombody tell me how to grow a backbone, please… or maybe just walk to the kitchen and peel an orange, think it’d help?
September 29th, 2005 at 8:27 am
FYI ~ Free
Come to the 31st Annual American Indian Pow Wow this weekend, October 1st & 2nd, 2005, at Thomas Square (across from the Honolulu Academy of Arts), 10 am to 5 pm, both days. And remember, it’s never too late to volunteer in the frybread booth. Even if you decide you want to help on the day of the event, just go to the frybread booth and see what job is available.
Malama pono.
September 29th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
A frybread booth? Yum, I haven’t had frybread in a few years. Sounds fun!
September 29th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
Sad to hear that Lyle will not be with the News Team anymore…check out HT for more details. As for the POW WOW, I’ll take MAMA if the weather is good. Always wanted to know a bit about my Cherokee heritage. Sounds interesting and fun. Hmmm…Frybread? I definitely want to go taste that!
Lynn