workin' hard for the money

i worked from 11am to about 10pm... i had about 1 1/2 hours of break/rest and i'm exhausted!

i made over $100 in tips alone... PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT!

that's all

3 weddings

so i'm still reading soul cravings by ralph mcmanus. there are just so many good things that he has to say that i want to read through all of it so quickly so i can see all he has to say, but at the same time, read through it slowly so i can savor it. i highly recommend this book.

i went to lanikai today. on the way, leash called me and we talked for over half an hour about life and just... missing eu. it's hitting me harder than it did last year. this is going to be my last year at eu b/c i'm graduating in spring. i guess it's hitting me hard b/c of the sense of community that i've found there. there are ppl at eu that understand the idiosynchrosies that i have and either accept it or have the same ones too.

i saw three weddings at lanikai. three japanese couples. i guess it's the thing to do. fly to hawaii and get married. while at the beach, i ran into a friend who i haven't seen in years. she was my twin in elementary school. the teachers deliberately separated us b/c they mixed us up... she was japanese, i was chinese. it was nice to pick up where i left off with her.

after several hours of an attempt at tanning (turned burning), i got lost trying to get back to kaneohe b/c of the construction. i stopped at donquixote, a local store w/ a lot of asian foods. at the shopping center, i went to bale (which i thought was a french sandwich shop... turned out to be a vietnamese thing) and i got to order a bubble tea for 2.50, which is super cheap. i tried looking for it at windward mall the day before, but the place that used to make it closed down. but it was nice having a familiar treat. i went walking around donquixote after and bought a melona popsicle. it was glorious!

i got to chat it up w/ ppl from eu.

i miss them

but i'll see them soon

it's all gonna be alright

i'm listening to this song on pandora right now:

alright- tree63
I believe a change is going to come
That yesterday is over
I do yeah I do yeah

The clouds have silver linings after all
I’ve seen them with my own eyes
It’s true yeah – it’s true yeah

Though darkness overcomes you now
Morning will break through somehow

It’s all gonna be alright – it’s all gonna be alright
Even this will pass – tomorrow comes at last
It’s all gonna be alright – it’s all gonna be alright
It’s all gonna be alright

The grass is greener on the other side
No matter what they tell you
It’s beautiful – so beautiful

Sow in tears and reap with songs of joy
No sorrow lasts forever
It’s true yeah – it’s true yeah

There never was a darkest night
Without the promise of the morning light

It’s all gonna be…



the last time i heard this song, i was just... in a valley.

the thing about music is that it's always spoken to me in almost every moment in my life. i hear a song, and i can sometimes pinpoint the moment when that song had some significance to me. this was one of those times.

it's all gonna be alright. even this will pass-- tomorrow comes at last.

i can't say i'm brimming w/ joy right now.. but i'm not in that valley. it's because of the music. music has always been there.

it's funny to think that music was what brought me to the Lord (among other things and ppl). Sure, people have played a pivotal role, but music often said what people couldn't. the melodies. the harmonies.

play on.

getting married!

my friend got married today! i'll post up pictures at another time. it was just such a beautiful ceremony and reception. ppl kept asking me if i met someone at school. not yet. they said they'd pray about it. i don't want to put hope in the prophet.

hawaii's got vog for the last couple weeks, making a lot of people sick and miserable (i'm more so miserable). the air just feels dirty and things look hazy. it can't be paradise 365 days of the year

so i've been listening to country music on the radio on long drives. there was a song that cracked me up: "God must be busy".... that's totally something my dad would say.

parents and brother went to canada for the week. it's glorious having the house all to myself. what would make it even better would be if they stopped calling for nonsense things several times a day.

87 days til i leave. i decided to leave early.

bought grey's anatomy 3 the other day.... yay for summer when i actually have time to watch it. i'm finishing up season 2 right now. also bought three chick flicks. i've been in the mood for that lately.

i think i'm gonna go watch one right now.

God, I hope the vog goes away soon. Please bring the Kona winds.

slow night

i got called into work tonight. it was really slow, but i managed to make $40 in tips for about 3 hours of actually waiting on tables, which was nice.

when i say that i'm a social work major at zips, it seems that the green light floating above my head flashes "free counseling session" in bright green! one of the waitresses was set on telling me all of her dilemmas and asking me what i should do. oy vey.... i did remember my helping skills and used some of them on her before i got really tired and just wanted to go home.

i'm tired.

and i'm missing everyone in MO.. or at least everyone who was in MO and now scattered across the globe.

awkward sex talk

here's most of what i wrote a friend last night about my first night back at zippy's. i'm too lazy to write about it another time, so here goes:


my summer is going alright so far. tonight i started work. i was telling darrell whaley how strange it is that when i'm starting work, people in the continental US (we like to call it the "mainland") are sleeping, and when i'm sleeping, people are getting up and going about their days.

i'll tell you a story (cuz i ask you for so many... haha) tonight was a crazy first night back. i met a ton of new people. one of the new waitresses used to live in MO for several years of her life and just recently moved to HI.. so she and i had a lot to talk about MO (leaves changing color... weather). business started picking up rapidly as more and more people were coming in for dinner. being my first night back since christmas, i could barely keep up with the rotation and all of the complicated orders. what a way to be welcomed back in the throws of working. i kept thinking that i wanted to go home (or at least wanted people to go to their homes and have wonderful home-cooked meals... but then that bubble quickly faded when i realized the reason i was there.. not everyone can have wonderful home-cooked meals) so i worked through a rush that lasted almost three hours. by the time my break came, i was EXHAUSTED so i walked around the premises to get some fresh air from outside. i came across this local older lady who started cussing up a storm about not needing a man to one of the workers in the fast-food side of the restaurant and how it's better for a woman to be single for the rest of her life because there are way too many men who don't know how to treat women <-- this is the PG version that i'm giving you. not phased by her cursing, i asked her, "well, what if there is someone out there that would treat a woman right?" her response was that no man exists (except her dad). she went on with every other "four letter word" saying that such men are not found in hawaii and kept telling me to look elsewhere... i don't know if i agreed with her, but just nodded my head in being sympathetic. i kindly thanked her for her "words of wisdom" and finished my break as she ordered pastries from the bakery counter. when i came back from my break, there she was. in the dine-in restaurant... same lady who was cursing as if it were her native language... i said hi to her and she just kept goin' on telling me in front of her guests every time i passed the table how i need to keep my purity... in a not so "evangelistic" way. all i could do was nod my head and tell her, "okay, auntie... i will" (it's a local thing to call elders "aunty" and "uncle") now that i'm reflecting back on it.. yeah, all that to say that i got something along the lines of the sex talk (or at least quite graphic talk of sex) from a customer today.

awkward. that, and i got called a little girl too many times to count tonight. maybe that's why the lady started talking to me about sex

it's gonna be a very interesting summer working here again.

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