Joe and I have officially signed a lease! We are working on cleaning the place a bit more before we move all our stuff over. I will post pictures soon!
Other than that, I don’t have much going on. Still trying to find another/better job and going to roller derby practice when I don’t have to work.
Also, check out my instagram! I post several pictures with instagram, and you can click on the picture to the right of my posts to see them all!
Good news, everyone!
I officially went to my first practice and I am pretty certain roller derby is for me. It’s a nice combination of sports I’ve already done (fighting, soccer, skiing) and sports I’ve never really tried (Anything with more than 2 wheels). I will hopefully be getting more pictures of that soon!
In other news, work is pretty great. It’s a lot like the health food store I worked at in college. It’s locally owned and there’s a lot of very friendly regulars. I am hoping that they will move me up to full time since the full time cashier just quit, but they hired another part time girl. We’ll see, but right now I’m still looking for another position.
My bike is now mostly ride-able! It would be completely ride-able, except that I need my female specific seat from my packages, and my blinking lights for night riding. Other than that, here she is!
Joe and I went snorkeling at our favorite beach yesterday. He let me borrow his fins, but I ended up preferring no fins. I found a day octopus and a yellow and white striped eel! There were so many cool fish! The tide was really low so everything was really close to the surface. The following link is a video of the octopus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9R1MwXxx-8
In our apartment hunt, Joe and I have decided on renting a 3 bedroom house. It’s actually the first one we saw, but has since been renovated and thoroughly cleaned. More on that later! 🙂
Joe and I looked at our first rental together today! We found it on Craigslist. http://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/apa/3715689354.html
It’s a little house in a quiet neighborhood. The guy who showed us the place said that it was the home he grew up in. It’s a 3 bedroom house and very cute. The main room and kitchen is all wood (or wood laminant or something) and the rest is carpeted. The kitchen even had the most awesome little window box for a little potted herb garden! The whole thing comes partially furnished with two leather couches if we want them. There was a large flower growing out of the gutter that made the place a little more charming. We did however find out that the previous tennants, who had just moved out the day before, left a colony of fleas. We have several more places to look at, but this one wasn’t bad as long as the owner can evict the fleas.
I have found something delicious! For anyone who likes a margarita (or any mixed drink I imagine) should find a bag of this–>
There is a local brew house here that makes a lilikoi margarita and salts the rim with this plum, salt, sugar, and stuff powder. It’s really good!
This weekend Joe and I will be barbaqueing, sailing, and possibly beach volleyball with friends.
While I have arrived on the Big Island, it’s really hard for me to really absorb that I live here now. Not having a job yet and four boxes of my belongings on their way here have left me with a feeling of being somewhere between vacation and loitering.
Joe and I live in a tiny one bedroom apartment. It is great for one person, but Joe wanted to wait to pick out a new place with me when I got here. I am excited to expore with him. We have a small breakfast table in the kitchen, and a futon in the bedroom that currently holds all of the clothes I brought with me.
Our apartment is part of this larger house above. The first two windows on the left are the house owners’ garage, then the next window is ours, followed by the house owners door. We have the space between the garage and the door. I feel a little guilty because I have added so much clutter to Joe’s space! This apartment is not ideal for two people, at least when one of those people is me. It makes me want to be more efficient like Joe or my sister, Niki. In addition, we were woken up at some point in the middle of the night by the two dogs that live in the yard howling for a solid 5 minutes… One of our top priorities right now is trying to find a new living space.
So far, I woke up on a tropical island today, put on a bikini, took care of an abandoned bird egg, counted geckos, and now I’m on my way to a black sand beach in a jungley valley. Later tonight, I’ll be watching Into Darkness with my boyfriend and new roommate.
Paper Cranes in Hawaii 
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on June 27, 2013