This morning at the office, I was chatting with my co-worker Tina about the weather, and I happened to make a comment about how, while I was getting into the shower this morning, I heard a loud noise and then all of a sudden, it was as if the sky had opened up and dumped [...]

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Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve updated. I’m still alive. Work has been hectic. The responses to our recruitment ads in the newspapers have been good, so we’re getting a lot of calls . . . so by the end of the day, I’m pretty tired. Also, we fumigated our house for termites over [...]

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I saw a kid – like a five-year-old – wearing a certain T-shirt the other day, and at first, I thought it was really rude that his parents would let him run around looking like a little racist. But then I realized that the back (or was it the bottom – whatever) of his shirt [...]

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I thought I gave myself a hernia at the gym tonight, but I didn’t. Cha-ching. One thing went right today.

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So in the past week, I learned that . . . One of my friends (and her family) will no longer be moving (back) to Hawai‘i after all. Huge bummer. I have to find an ENT sooner rather than later because I had been counting on said friend’s husband to be my ENT when they [...]

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This is going to sound weird, but I’m super curious: Does anybody know what happened to the hen that used to wander around in the yard of that house on Pi‘ikoi? If you live in Honolulu, you know which house I mean – it’s the one on the right as you make the turn onto [...]

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Just took the 9-year-old niece to see “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” at Koko Marina. Guess how much it cost us for tickets alone. SEVENTEEN DOLLARS. If things had cost this much when I was that age, there’s no way our family of four could’ve gone to the movies every Sunday. We could’ve caught up [...]

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I hate monkeys. I hate monkeys about as much as I hate talking babies. That said, if we could fire all the stupid people and replace them with typing, filing monkeys, I would have NO problem with that.

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In case you’re not sure how to help the people of Haiti in the wake of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake: The American Red Cross has made it easy for people to donate by SMS: Text the word “HAITI” to 90999, and a $10 donation will automatically be made to the Red Cross, the charge for which [...]

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Danielle (age eight-and-three-quarters) ran a special last night: “free” portraits for 25 cents apiece. Yes, clearly, we have to work on that third grade math. Portraiture: Jarrett, by Danielle. Portraiture: My dad, by Danielle. Everybody even gets a free sun in the corner – that is, until the yellow construction paper runs out. Get yours [...]

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