Happy Birthday...

To my beautiful MOM!! I am so lucky to have such an amazing, talented, hardworking, and selfless mother. You are such an amazing example to me and if I can be half the mom that you are some day I will have done something right. Love you forever.

Cant wait to party it up aloha style in 9 days!!!!!! :]

Happy Birthday

To my awesome, funny, cute, hard working DAD!

I love you soooo much! I hope the big 5-0 is magical. You don't look a day over 20!

Love you forever, like you for always
Forever and ever my daddy you'll be!

(ps I have lots of cute pictures I wanted to use for this post but alas, our Internet has been down all week, going on 2, and all photos are on my comp. I am currently typing this out on my wonderful husbands iPhone. Glad we pay a trillion dollars rent each month for no Internet and no washer...still! I digress...)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Letters to the Universe

Dear Washing Machine,

You stopped working mid cycle the night of the tsunami warning. I wanted to have clean unerwear in case we got evacuated. Now i have a pile of clothes sitting in a basket that are growing mustier as we speak because you stopped when they were soaking wet. (ps. yes i did let them air dry. still musty). I salvaged some clean underwear, but i'm still bothered you are not fixed.and sitting there full of water. almost 5 days later.

Dear Sears Man,

Come fix the washing machine already. With no public laundry facilites here in laie/kahuku, you are realllly starting to sress me out. who am i kidding. i'm getting pissed. hurry up!

Dear Hawaii,

Thank you for the sunshine. I love you for it. thanks for the sunburn this weekend (truly). you have made me feel tan all weekend. like mama always says "bacon looks better fried" :]

Dear Rhapsody,

Thanks for your 60 day free trial when you download the app. You are letting me listen to all the songs i really want to download on itunes but don't because they are expensive. Just so you know, i will discontinue you after the 60 day free trial because i don't really think you are worth 9.99 a month. at all. but i promise i am enjoying all the music right now.

Dear spring break children,

It's spring break. shouldn't you be sleeping in? not waking up earlier than usual to play basketball and scream outside?! oh it doesn't? crap. also this is saying something, because we are normally up early. SLEEP IN FOR HEAVENS SAKE!

Dear Messy apartment,

Clean yourself. I recognize that its mostly my fault for letting you get cluttered, but i would appreciate it if you would magically empty the trash, do the dishes in the sink, sweep the floor, mop, and maybe even pack some boxes for me to ship home.

Dear Self,

Why in the world do you have so much crap in hawaii?!?! have fun getting that all home :/

Dear Running,

I really want nothing to do with you this morning. But that would prove that i can't do what i set my mind to. so I will hang out with you for a little bit this morning. begrudgingly running. begrudgingly.

Dear Husband,

Thanks for being such a hard worker and getting up before the sun to go to work (i get some credit too because i get up to drive you there...right?). i love you.

also, thanks for speaking to me in justin bieber language. ie...whenever i call you babe or baby you reply with "baby baby baby ohhhhhhh" or when i say "love me" you sing "love me love me, say that you love me". its funny. i laugh. and you have bieber fever.

Dear Japan,

I keep seeing footgate on youtube/facebook and with each video i get more and more heartbroken. Know that the world is rallied behind you, for whatever thats worth.

so what...

if we like trash tv.

like bravo. and the housewives (oc. beverly hills. new jersey. ohhh new jersey!) and maybe even sometimes jersey shore. (chris will kill me for actually admitting that...)



Husband woke up on Friday morning feeling realllly dizzy (i was already all the way in town for a sub job on the military base). he informed me later that day that he missed work and had a dr's appointment...and didn't tell me until i was almost leaving school so i wouldn't freak out. probably good but caused me to totally freak out anyways.

turns out, husband has vertigo. some sort of inner ear probably that kinda throws of your equilibrium, makes you dizzy, and sick. i think. either way...not awesome.

his one request saturday morning. "please watch an episode of millionaire matchmaker with me. no distractions!"

so what if we like trash tv ok?

"Cuz Baby You're a Firework..."

No this post does not have anything to do with Katy Perry, or disneyland, although i do wish it had everything to do with disneyland....

You see, Chris can't sleep when there is ANY light in the room, something i didn't know until just recently.

Instance #1
Sometimes i forget to turn of my computer and the antivirus (which talks to you...loudly) wakes me up. I quickly get out of bed to turn if off so it doesn't wake chris up too. The other night, i started this process and out of nowhere, with a slightly sassy voice i hear "WHAT are you doing? It's like a freaking fireworks display in here!!!! Turn it OFF!" uhh really babe....a fireworks display?

Instance #2
Living where we live, houses really are piled on top of each other. We can hear our next door neighbor blow his nose (not kidding). That said, when they turn on lights, it illuminates our entire studio as well. The night after the fireworks display comment, the neighbors turned on their bathroom light. It happened to shine in the window right by our bed (again as we were falling asleep, like i was almost completely out of it, something that rarely happens quickly). Chris, again very sassily (is that a word?!) says "Jess! shut the curtain (it was shut ps) its bright in here. what are you even doing?!?"

Does Chris remember this the next morning? No. Do i get scolded in the middle of the night and take blame for any and all light that enters our apartment. Yes.

In other news, I have been subbing a couple days a week still.

So far this week:

-got asked by multiple students if i was going to prom in a few weeks. PROM PEOPLE! really? do i really look like a student still? i don't think so either.

-had two students leave my classroom, without permission, go around the corner, and smoke weed. REALLY?! REALLY?! i was BUGGED. they denied it. i called security. they didn't get in trouble. SERIOUSLY?! (hey guys, i'm not stupid, i went to high school too. i know what it smells like and what people look like when they do it.) ahh, i was so frustrated i wanted to scream. why do kids do dumb things?!

-I've started running every other day. My goal is to run in a 5K (starting small) on memorial day. So far so good. Still don't love running, but can actually make myself do it now (except for today, i really don't want to go right now. motivation, where are you!!)




And here is a little treasure picture for you all. I had just got home from a run, cleaned the kitchen, and was sitting down to eat some apple slices (yes i'm three, yes apples are better sliced), when i saw our good friend Gilbert. I read online that gecko's have quite the sweet tooth and really love fruit (probably why he is constantly in our trashcan). So i bit off some little pieces of apple, and yes, yes i did feed them to our gecko...and he LOVED them. isn't he cute?! and pretty with all that bright coloring? i like him. and will probably continue to feed him.


One more thing. I love costco. Is it weird that i get excited to go to costco so we can eat at the snackbar? oh it is? crap...
:] Happy Wednesday.

Home Sweet Home

Well here she is...our lovely little piece of paradise...the place we call "home" for about another month (so weird that we are going to be leaving! i'm getting sad to leave this place!)

Here is the overall view of the place. i had to step outside the front door to be able to show it all. nothing special...but its perfect for now!



Here is the kitchen. We are some of the lucky ones that actually get a stove AND oven AND a full fridge and freezer. normally you get a mini fridge, no freezer, no oven, and a hot plate.



Here is our "room" slash "couch". don't mind the comforter....it was chris's from when he first came out here and has been in his family since he was little. its actually the perfect weight to not roast us since its still fairly warm here at night (and also we didn't want to invest money into nice bedding when we are leaving so soon)



Here is the bathroom. this is only part of it. i figured you could do without seeing the toilet :] its actually pretty large minus the shower. the shower is not large and i hate it. shaving my legs takes FOREVER!



And lastly, what would our home be without our gecko friend. Meet Gilbert (who i'm pretty sure is a female at this point). He/She eats all the ants, hides behind our stove most days and occasionally likes to scare me as i don't expect to see her and suddenly, there she is. i think she is very cute and don't mind having her here one bit.



I was going through my camera and found some pictures from our honeymoon. We went to San Francisco for a few days and stayed down on Fisherman's Wharf. It was SO fun. i LOVE San Francisco, and i'm glad Chris does too.

It was a little foggy/rainy the first day or so we were there and because we aren't super familiar with the area, we ended up at the SF Zoo, which turned out to be a really fun activity. Neither of us had been to the zoo in forever, so it was fun to go and see all the animals (even though it was kinda miserable outside AND we didn't get to see the lions!!)



The next day, we decided to take a drive down to Monterey (I wanted to do the aquarium there since its huge and really awesome but plans changed). Once we were there we decided that we wanted to keep on driving and do the famous "17 Mile Drive". If you are ever in the central california, Monterey, or Carmel surroundings... DO 17 Mile drive! its BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Plus you end up at Pebble Beach Golf Course, which i know chris had NO problem with.


one of the look out points. crazy how different ocean scenes can be. this is so different from all the beaches in Hawaii, but still so beautiful.


just one of the HUGE mansion homes that lines 17 Mile Drive. We were in awe the whole time. Some of these houses are AMAZING.


A quick shot of us at the "Lone Cypress", the famous tree that has been there for hundreds of years, and is actually the symbol for Pebble Beach Golf Course.

Next stop was Pebble Beach. I know i'm not golf's biggest fan, but this course truly is beautiful (it also costs 500 to play...uhhh keep dreaming babe!)


and of course, in true pebble beach fashion, they have a huge rolex clock. i'm sure this was pretty inexpensive. ha. right.


The famouse 18th hole. You can actually go down and watch people play on it and get up close and personal. its pretty awesome. I don't know why its so famous, i just know it is. i think because its hard?





Happy Boy :]



This pictuer has nothing to do with the rest of the post BUT how adorable is my baby sister?! she is a doll. i found this when going through pictures and it made my heart melt. Miss home so much!! only 1 month and 19 days until we are back on the mainland.... CRAZY!!!

True Love

Is when your husband lets you remove the top sheet from the bed because you hate hate HATE sheets on the bed. Never have. Never will. Thanks husband.

(also, how to die for is this bedding?? i looove yellow!)