New chapter....

So Im chillin in my new house in Kaimuki! Have all my important stuff all here now,& have a few more things to move mainly the big furniture and I should be all ready by the time my sisters/nieces/& their significant others come to visit. I am SOOOO exciiited!!!!!!!!


So far things have been great. After I came back from a lovely two week trip to SD & VA to see Inang, things have been pretty fast forward. We got the keys to this place on April 1, so since then I was between moving things back and forth and studying for my CCRN (which i passed, yay!). It came to the point where I was tired of having my things in two different places so I decided to just move mostly everything here! The location is awesome..right near diamond head, restaurants, the beach, waikiki. I love Koko Isle always, but being by the freeway has by far made the biggest difference. I can leave 20 mins later to work and I no longer struggle to stay awake on my commutes home! haha. & I dunno, I guess it's just kind of a fun place for me to be in general at this point in my life....


the CONS. The house is older, but still cozy cute. I like it. Cozy little bungalow, haha (forreal a bungalow tho!). BUT around 12p-3pm the house gets pretty HOT..like circulating warm air! I guess thats why I'm like 5 shades darker now...cuz when it gets hot I jus ride my bike to waikiki or get my ass to any beach! Been getting suuuper extra doses of sunshine lately, might need to buy me papaya soap pretty soon! That would be my biggest peeve, but other than that..I would say it's definitely not as quiet either cuz its close to town...but not too bad either.


Living with Mike has actually been pretty good. I would say we have only fought once so far since moving in....and it was over couches. LOL. We pretty much compromised that one out. But other than that, he is busy doing his own thing-- Always surfing, trying to graduate, or whatever....so I'm not like around him 24/7. I have actually found more time for myself..not having to leave my stuff at home to "come over" to his place or anything. I hated that! lol. He is a pretty chill guy when it comes to most things and I feel like we balance each other out pretty well.so yeah..I hope it stays that way! haha. Went to his Graduation luau today (although he's presenting his thesis in july), and I am pretty proud of him!! Super knowledgable/passionate in what he does...he had plenty of potential employers already seeking him out and giving him #s after his speech at the luau..so I know he'll be fine post graduation!


Other than thaaaaat! thats mainly it. Jus the whole moving thing! Wanted to share my experience with you guys. Picked up my dress for Dianne's wedding!! Time to lose weight!! hahah. Until next time!

Life..

it's only the 13th of the month, &the #of patient expirations in our little ICU for the month is already 14. Death&dying. Mourning& grieving. Blah, I thought I was almost numb to the emotions of it, being exposed to it all the time at work. But last night was different.

She was only 26. Young, healthy, no drugs--normal girl like you or I. Went to bible study all the time. Came home from church with a headache, telling her aunty she didn't feel good. & that was it. She collapsed, had a huge irreparable bleed in her head. 

Life is short. She is the second 20-something y/o who died in our unit this month. Really put life in perspective for me. Thinking how that could be me or anyone I knew. & I guess all the emotions and stories of her friends/family got to me...and my coworkers too. Was a pretty sad night at work. I guess because it was all too relative to all of us. Some of us looking at the situation from different standpoints: as a parent, sibling, or friend. Her sister was named Maricel too. She was rushing to fly from Australia where she moved, too say goodbye to her sister if it wasn't going to be too late. 

&so I was reminded that tomorrow is never promised. That if you love someone, tell them. If you miss someone, call them. If you want to say something, say it. If you want to go somewhere, make it happen. If something makes you happy, embrace it. If you're worried about something, let tomorrow take care of it...

Life is truly precious! So make the best of every moment &appreciate every day we are blessed to live.. Life is really too short to be anything but happy:)

soo yeah, I LOVE YOU GUYS! (haha)

ps.  my 2012 has been so far amazing:)

Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!

haha, new hawaiian phrase I learned for Happy New Year.

New year...alreaaady?! Seriously, what happened? I feel like I blinked and the year flew right before my eyes! How was everybody's Christmas???

With the Cummings Ohana, and my sleepy ass looking all tired!!

This would mark my first Christmas away from family. Kinda sad, but work has been keeping me busy.  With two of the major hospitals on Oahu closing, our little itty bitty hospital is now one of the major hospitals for the entire Leeward side of the island= NUTS!!! Our little 8 bed ICU is not cutting it--we are constantly understaffed..and slamming with admissions. The hospital is bursting out of its seams...I really hope something happens about it....Haha but back to my Christmas!! So Mike's family kindly flew me in to spend Christmas in Kauai with them. Straight off a crazy 12-hr shift, jumped on a plane to Kauai and stayed up til like 3pm. It was a simple Christmas with the Cummings family--ate breakfast, opened gifts, watched ball, ate.....was nice, but definitely still missed the comforts of home and my own family--nothing will ever compare. Afterwards, we headed over to his Grandma's party where I had fun laughing at/with his crazy, yet funny family. & that was about it...flew back home early the next morning and went back to work!

My last new years in SD, 2010:) :) good times!

Now New Years is coming up..and wow, I can't believe it. I remember saying living a year out here in Hawaii was good enough, but daaang--that went by super fast. I can't really remember anything suuper spectacular from 2011, but I do recognize my own personal growth which is good enough=). Living out here has made me realize who and what really matters to me. What makes ME happy, not everyone else--learning to live my life according to only me(w/ a little or a lot of influence fr God:) )  I have learned how to keep my sanity (lol), how to be alone, &how to Love somebody like that (lol, ew).  I have also learned stupid things like what makes me yak when I drink hard, the perfect combination to cure my hangovers, how to fuh-reeeeeakin do my own damn laundry! (lol), how to paddleboard and hit a golf ball (still practicing that one), and how to sit back, cruise, and enjoy the scenery.  Life is simple and doesnt have to be complicated, and I must say I have learned to live simply...sometimes a little tooooo simply! But as simple as life gets, life can still get hard but i have grown tougher skin for those moments...maybe not super tough but definitely not fragile!  I have also learned how to forgive, that nobody is perfect.  I've learned to endure when I feel like I am being tested, and know now more than before that sometimes it's okay to cry---that it actually feels really good to let one out once in a while!! & most of all, I have learned to put my Trust in God--completely&unquestionably, knowing that everything happens according to His will.........which comes to my first resolution of the New Year!

1) go to CHURCH  So yeah, the entire time I have been here..I have not been to church. Not once! Haha. The only times I have been is when I go home. But I do pray often, a lot has been done in my car on my long commutes to work--really therapeutic tho!:)

2) SAVE$$$  I am officially credit card DEBT FREEEE for the new year. After years of suppression from those damn credit cards, i am FREEEE!! now is a great time to save...like forreals!!

3)  ACTIVE LIFESTYLE  do more. No better place to than Hawaii! Try new things if I need to, but just stop being a lazy piggy sometimes.  Consistency is my problem:/

4)  TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL  Somewhere, anywhere...not SD, haha. Went home like 5 or more times last year it feels like?!

5) pass my CCRN.  actually this is not reallly a resolution, but my boss is making me take this damn test by march...so I have to get in the mindset to study for it.

6) BE HAPPY. whatever it is.....just be content.



HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! LOVE YOU GUYS...seeeee you in January!!!=)