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So tired, Kali and I are watching Pride and Prejudice, AGAIN. I'm going hiking to the Lanikai pillbox tomorrow morning, than a hectic night at work (90 people...yuck!). Spent all day on the phone with people like SallieMae, Motion Picture and ABC. Yuck I wish money grew on trees...

I tried finishing my "List of things I want to do before I die"...so far I'm at 27! Not too shabby :)

We'll Grady got an underwater digital FLIP camera!! So we will take some video at Lanikai beach and I got batteries for my camera so I'll take lots of photos too.



the sunset from my balcony last night



sunset towards diamond head



fireworks about five minutes ago from my balcony :)

Hope everyone has a good night, hope everyone has a splendid weekend!

Namaste!
Bree

ps...gotta write my brother another letter...memo to self.... :)

The Law of Attraction

Second post of the day.

I told you the Law of Attraction worked.

Literally less than a half hour after I posted that something amazing happened.

Ticket prices dropped and my mom called me to tell me that I can afford to fly from Honolulu to see my brother graduate from the USCG. One thing crossed off my list.

I'm going to Jersey!! :D

What do you want to do before you die?

I watched that show "The Buried Life" and it started me wondering about my own life. If you haven't watched it, it's about 4 guys who asked themselves, "What do I want to do before I die?" and than they made a list of 100 things they wanted to do before they died. As they go around doing their list, they help someone they meet along the way do something they want to do before they die. Last night they made a toast a stranger's wedding, and helped and artist find his son he hadn't talked to in 17 years.

I figured if someone came up to me right now and asked me, "What do you want to do before you die?" I wouldn't know where to begin. Right this very moment there are a few things I want to be able to do. I think I'd tell them 4 things that come to my mind right away:

1. See my brother graduate from the USCG


2. See my youngest brother grow up to be happy and successful


3. Send my parents to Tahiti (because they were going to go until I was born...)


4. Adopt an animal from a shelter



Of course there are others, and I think I may sit down today and actually write some of them down. It's crazy because a lot of the stuff I said 5 years ago I wanted to do before I died, I've gotten the opportunity to do. I guess it comes down to the Law of Attraction, and whatever you put out into the world will come back to you. So I guess I'll write down my list and put it out there into the world. I'll see if the Law of Attraction will bring it back to me and I'll get the chance to do some of the amazing things that I would love to do before I die. I guess if they are written down, I may realize I've done a lot of them or they are things that aren't actually all that hard to obtain after all.

So I guess my question to you is...

What do YOU want to do before you die??

Peectures

I saw a Japanese guy that had a shirt that said "Haole" on it.

...??

Weird.


The vog has yet to go away. I'm sitting here watching the surf movie Sprout...GREAT movie if anyone wants a decent movie to watch. It's making me itch to go surfing. But I gotta take Grady to school,get some fancy white gloves for work, take some pictures with Kali and than actually apply those fancy dinner gloves in 5 star tonight. Surfing tomorrow...fooo shooooooooo.

My mom has started a painting studio in our house and I'm trying to find some inspiration to take some nice photos for her to paint here in Hawaii. Mom! Maybe I'll send you some pictures that Kali has taken. I bought batteries for my camera so that way I can go sit at Spitting Caves and maybe find some more whales to take pictures of :)

I shall bid you adieu...but leave you with a photo (that I did not take) of the beautiful Lanikai beach that I went to yesterday.





ADIEU!

Its so VOGGY

I can't even see Diamond Head clearly!! I'm sitting on my couch looking out at Waikiki and if I didn't know it was volcano fog, I'd assume we were in LA and it was a really smoggy or even smoky day. Yuck, even the sun has a red tinge to it...

Yesterday was crazy. It is whale season here in Hawaii and the humpback whales have made their long journey from Alaska to Hawaii to have their babies. I've been counting down the days until the whales came back and yesterday we went to Diamond Head to find some. We saw some spouts from outside the reef and I practically keeled over from excitement. So we decided to keep cruising along the coast of the island to the eastern side where (on a clear day) you can Moloka'i, Lana'i and Maui. There is a place called Spitting Caves of Portlock, a place where the boys jumped off the rolling dried lava rock into a cave that spits you out... and we sat on the cliff to wait for whales. Than, out of no where, to the right of us, coming along the side of the drop off, was 2 whales.

Than RIGHT in front of us, about 100 yards in front of us...like I could have jumped off and rode their backs...a mom and calf came up and breathed right in front of us. It was INCREDIBLE. The baby made a high-pitched SQUEEEEEEEK as it blew out the air and went for a deep dive and his little tail slapped the water. It was like they were their just for us and the two other people that saw it on the cliff. So amazingly humbling and beautiful :)

Alright, off to run errands and work at 2:30..yuck. Hope everyone has a good day.

Breeeeeeeeeeeee

learning to say goodbye...

...to 80 dollars.


So last night, under an honest mistake, I was jipped out of an 80 dollar tip. It really was an honest mistake, the girl had sold the 240 dollar Dom Perignon to the guests in my section, so she was going to get the commission. Sucks, but that is how it works. Than, when the end of the night came around, we were all running around like chickens with our head's cut off (the owner of the company was riding 5 star...) the guest's signed their credit card receipt for their Dom and added an 80 dollar tip to it. They handed it to me while I was holding a tray of wine glasses and the bar tender grabbed it so he could close the bar. I forgot to write my name on the top of the slip because I was in such a rush.

At the end of the night when I had realized what I had done and went running to the bartenders to try to get the receipt, it had already been filed. So, they told me, the horrifying news that it will either go to the company...F THAT...or to the girl who sold the Dom because her name was on the commission and the credit card was paying for the Dom.

I was pissed.

Granted it was an honest mistake and she does deserve it, she works really hard and is putting her money away so she can go to a Military school and pay for her mom and brother to survive here in Hawaii...but *sigh* ugggggh! It still sucks. I'd rather have the money go to her than to the company...like they need anymore money...but wow what a bummer. They tipped me 10 dollars cash at least. But still.

Anyway working 5 Star on a ship means that I get an awesome *rolls eyes* tuxedo jacket with gold cuff links, a bow tie and white gloves. It's not that hard but oh boy do you feel like an idiot when people first walk on the ship and look at you like....WTF? ahahaha. All I did yesterday was look for whales, to no avail.

But speaking of whales, Grady and I are going to take advantage of the nice...kinda voggy...weather and go to the Windward side and try to find some whales of our own.

Hope everyone has a good day!

Bree
stuck somewhere on my little rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

You beautiful B!@&#

That's the night view from my balcony.

Oh Oahu.


You beautiful bitch.

This island is gorgeous and the weather is always lovely. I ended up surfing in the rain today and it wasn't like the rain that is tormenting California right now. It was warm and created a very lovely rainbow above the green mountains. I sat in the crystal blue water, floating over a tropical coral reef, waiting for the waves to come in, watching the sunset in Waikiki beach. *sigh* hard I know...

But everyone is so far away!! Oahu is gorgeous but I want all my friends and family here!! I want them to see this! I want them to drive up Tantalus with me like I did today. I want them to take in the view of the entire south shore of the island. I want them to surf with me, watch the sunset with me and look at the view of the city lights from the 33rd floor. :(

Oahu you tropical conniving deceiver!

Anyway....

Today was relatively productive. Got my car jumped this morning...my battery had died with I got home from California..haha. Went to Costco and got a ton of healthy food (the idea was to stay healthy for a while so that I wasn't a total qgjklqgqklgjkql). Drove up Tantalus, went for a surf and came home and had a nice workout. Grady and I were going to have dinner of just some portabella mushrooms and salad ( we had Costco pizza for lunch/breakfast...). That quickly turned into a healthy FAIL. My mushrooms became smothered with garlic salt and teri sauce and bbqed to be put on top of a cheese bagel (I ran out of buns OK!?!) and topped with some mayo that was smothered in garlic salt and lawrys seasoned salt. It was surprisingly good! My salad was smothered in blue cheese and I topped it off with a beer and cookies... >o
Hahaha. Start work on the 5 star Nova deck tomorrow...oo lala..not. Kali starts on the ship on Friday and maybe even Travis will get a job on the boat. My apartment will soon run the company Paradise Cruises! MWHAHAHAH my plot to take over the world one cheesy dinner-cruise at a time is coming true!!!!!!!!!!

Good night, I have to shower and get the salt out of my hair :)

Bree

cal-if-for-ni-a

This is the beginning. This is something simple and something to just say "I am here". I am still in California and as of now I am sitting on the floor of my room procrastinating the packing that I need to finish. I still have technically a day and half to finish this, but I know myself and if I continue to put it off, I will probably end up not doing it at all. Come midnight tomorrow night and I'm scrambling to find my toothbrush to fit into my already too-full suitcase.

It's strange to sit here and think of all the things that have happened in this month that has gone by too quickly.

I remember on Christmas Eve sitting in my room and thinking that it would probably never be like this again. I wasn't being pessimistic, it was just a strange truth. Never in my life had I grown-up knowing nothing but all my family around me at all times. I realized Jonathan, for the next few years, it essentially going to be growing up as an only child. I'll be in and out, but Michael will probably never live at home again. What would happen Christmas 2010? Who knows where any of us will be? Will Michael even be home for Christmas or be anywhere in port? Where will I be? California, Hawaii, somewhere far away? Will Jonathan have to spend Christmas alone? I doubt it. But these are the things I was thinking of that made me feel not only extremely grown-up, but sad. I ended up crying. But I guess that's what I do, I cry. Haha.

And now I sit here with a half-packed suitcase in front of me and think that I have to go back to Hawaii. Strange...I make it sound like someone is forcing me back to paradise. It's just, I wish I could take everyone here and ship them there. Fold them up and put them in my suitcase and take them with me wherever I go. Than I wouldn't feel so bad about leaving. I know that my lease is up in July and we may as well be back before August 1st, but August seems far away now. I mean, it's only January. Oh well, time will fly I know it.

I hope that his "blog" will be a new thing for me. A new way to keep in-touch with those that are far away in that mysterious place that islanders like to call "the mainland". Sorry to have filled this blog with a "woe is me" tone, but hey look! Now I feel better :)

Back to the last few days here in Cal-if-for-ni-a.

To you, with aloha,
Bree