March 2008

Random facts about me:

I have the capacity (or the desire) to clap… 10x louder than everyone during presentations..  I guess I cup my hand differently, but people sometimes stare at me based on the volume of my clap.

 I feel that I can whistle… really well.  I can’t do that (hi i’m at a basketball game) whistle.. but I can do pretty good pitch while whistling.. and I’ve noticed that some people are not very good at this.  

I enjoy attention,  and I hate this about myself.

I can contact juggle.. if you haven’t ever seen this done.. search for it on youtube.  I’m not nearly as impressive as the people you see on there.. but I’m okay.  Another example.. what the main villain does with the crystal balls in “The Labrynth”

I remember crying.. watching Bambi.

I sing in my car… I’m the guy that you are driving next to on the highway with this mouth open that looks like he’s in the opera, or talking to himself. 

 I can open the book of “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card.. read only one line and know exactly what is going on.

 I can sing nearly every word of every song of every musical.. I’ve ever seen.. even if I’ve only seen it once or twice. 

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered,
considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I’m handsome?   

I love musicals.

I make up crazy titles to every single entry I put here.. this is me thinking I’m inventive..  but I have to ask.. do you like them?

 I still think that tattoes are dirty

I still think motorcycles are unsafe.

I don’t think I’m very good looking.

I still call Sarah my Girlfriend even though we are engaged.   I just don’t like the word Fiance.  (probably because of the Marine Corps)

I am obsessed with Christian Music… but not as much as I used to be.

I am known to do “The Lawnmower”  randomly, while bored, throughout the day.

I sometimes quote 70’s or 80’s pop songs in everyday life.. when it makes absolutely no sense to do so.

  Every answer to the question “do you know why?”  Is  “because Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A”  and I definitely get wierd looks about that.

I approach people randomly with my fists raised to challenge them to mock battle.

As a child, we would have sock wars, and this still sounds fun to me now.

   I think this list started cool, and just got dumb :-(..  Sorry to waste your time.

FELICITY WOKE UP ONE TIME LAST NIGHT! I GOT SLEEP! EVERYBODY
DO A LITTLE DANCE!
MAKE A LITTLE LOVE!
GET DOWN TONIGHT-WOO!
GET DOWN TONIGHT-WOO!

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Yeah, so we lost the Flip video for a long long time, and now that we have found it, we wanted to use it. But um, it was full! How did we possibly fill it up? Pretty simply really. The last time I used it, I put it down while it was recording. OOPs! Well, It is empty now, and here are the videos!

A Christmas Video

Felicity Smiling and Talking

Seporah kissing Felicity with Grandparents and Josh

Seporah and Felicity swinging

Seporah Wearing Funny Shades

Seporah at Christmas, opening a recorder

Seporah Vacuuming (she is normally deathly afraid of vacuums)

NO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!

1 lb Walnuts
1 lb Pecans
1 lb Macadamia Nuts
1/2 bag White Chocolate Chips
1 bag Craisins
3 small boxes of Raisins

Mix all together and place in sealed tupperware. Eat whenever, wherever. Mmmmm.

Things I Really Miss here in Hawaii:
H&L Produce
Family
Target
The Olive Garden
Walking into a store and listening to non-Hawaiian music
Non-pigeon talk
Going on vacation and not having to buy $500 plane tickets each every time
Being able to drive more than 35 miles
Having a yard
Being able to order things online and not having to worry about shipping costs or how long it’s going to take to get here
No Bugs
Being in roughly the same time zones as everyone else

Things I Will Really Miss When We Leave Hawaii:
Having to only dress my daughters in shorts and a t-shirt
If my toddler refuses a shirt or shoes, it’s ok
Spring year round, not too hot and not too cool
Amazingly green all year round
Being called auntie by everyone under 8 years old
“Aloha!”
Walking outside whenever I want to and not worrying about the weather
Openness and usual friendliness of people
Watching Japanese tourists (this is so much funnier than it sounds)
Rice and oh, the potlucks
Kaluha pig with cabbage (this is so much yummier than it sounds)

Seporah now says “Lissy” for “Felicity,” I’ve now come to call my littlest girl “Little Lissy” (to the tune of Little Lulu of course).

If Seporah wants Omelets or Oatmeal in the morning and you don’t have time at that moment to cook (because you have to feed the other one) and she won’t take cereal, just pretend the cereal is for yourself-works every time.

It’s really cool on the morning that someone is coming to fix your oven (and charge you $50 just to look at it, not counting whatever to fix it), you happen to turn on the oven and it magically works!

Felicity hates the bottle, she prefers her milk straight from the tap, so on days that I come home from work, I get so many smiles and little hugs and loves. It’s awesome.

And Seporah she runs up to me and hugs and kisses me too on days I come home from work.

I’ve come to really like Tyrone, Pablo, Tasha, Uniqua, and Austin. Even the episode that’s based on James Bond.

The VCR (unlike the oven) really is broke this time, one too many objects were shoved in it (and I don’t mean the VCR tapes).

After bath time, babies smell like heaven.

Individual containers of milk or juice or yogurt smoothies with straws are so much cooler than a sippy cup with the same stuff in it.

Anything with wings can be called a fly.

If you go to The California Pizza Kitchen, I recommend the field green salad with gorgonzola cheese, portobello mushroom ravioli with sauteed mushrooms, the thai chicken pizza and the banana chocolate royale cake, all in one sitting. You may gain 5 pounds, but it’ll be 5 happy pounds.