Saturday, April 24, 2004

I'll Follow The Sun......

If it gets cloudy and starts to rain at the first beach you go to, then find another beach where it's sunny.

And that's just what we did. We started out at Salt Pond. It was a little cloudy but got sunny for about a hour. Then a huge black cloud drifted over from Kekaha and it started to rain.

So we bailed and headed for the south shore. I wasn't sure where we were going but it looked sunny there.

And it was. We ended up at Maha'ulepu. We couldn't use the normal path we take to the beach because "Kevin & Janine" had it roped off along with half the parking lot. So we took the other path. The one that goes uphill over the sand dune and through the bushes then downhill to the beach.

You try carrying a beach bag, a beach chair and a cooler loaded with beverages through the bushes up a sand dune and then down the other side of the sand dune without getting winded. So we ended up sitting a little closer than we usually do to some other beachgoers. Usually I like to give people their space (and I like for them to give me mine).

Because I was exhausted from the hike nobody got their space today. But everybody got some sun.

Are All Property Managers This Lame?????

While backing out of the driveway this afternoon a friend of the couple who live in the studio at the back of my house knocked over the post with the mailboxes on it. I heard a strange sound and looked out the window. I couldn't see what was hit because his car was parallel to the road. So I walked to another window and saw him putting the post with the mailboxes on it back up. He looked around (like did anybody see me?) and got in his car and drove off. But not before I got his license plate number.

So I debated with myself for about 5 minutes and called the property manager and left him a message about what happened.

What a slimeball.

He called me back a few minutes ago and said the mailboxes are not something provided by the landlord. I told him they were here when I moved in and shouldn't the persons car insurance cover it? He said that would probably take a police report. He asked me if we got mail here. I told him I have a PO box but ocassionally get mail here. And that the family in the back house get their mail here. He said he was going out of town until Tuesday and could I call him Tuesday morning to remind him to call the couple in the studio so they can talk to their friend.

I should have just called the police to report it.

Or, just shrugged it off.

But, I firmly believe people should take responsibility for their actions. The guy who knocked it over should have told his friends what happened. He should have apologized and offered to repair it at his expense.

I'm so tired of people getting away with shit like this. I'm going to talk to the people in the back house and I believe I'll talk to the couple in the studio (whose friend did the damage).

I don't want this situation to get ugly. But I also don't want someone to get away with damaging someones property.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....now I'm stuck in the middle.

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Nothing Lasts Forever.....

I'm bummed that some of my favorite blogs have bitten the dust lately. Sweet Jezebel, Fragrant Lotus and Styrofoam Kitty to be exact.

I miss you guys........

How Much Do You Pay For Gas?????

I paid $2.299 yesterday for regular pump-your-own.

I hear it's even higher on Maui but Lanai wins for the most expensive.



Monday, April 19, 2004

Things That Make Me Go Hmmmmmm....

Why the overhead fluorescent lights in my kitchen take about 1 1/2 hours to come on in the morning, but at night they come on immediately.....

Why my neighbor has gotten in the habit of using my water hose to water his plants when his hose is just around the corner.....

Why someone opened all the mailboxes on my street and put up all the red flags either last night or early this morning.....

My So Exciting, Ultra Enviable Life.....

Last Weeks Monday to Friday Happenings:
Worked All Week
Special Event: Reluctantly wrote check to Uncle Sam and mailed in with federal tax return. Bah!
Reality: Am broke until next payday.

Saturday Happening:
Beach - Salt Pond
Spotted - one Hawaiian Monk Seal w/ radio tracking device attached to it's back.

Sunday Happening:
Beach - Polihale
Drive - unpaved, rutted road
Observation - my car needs new shocks (why is this? i just got new shocks 11 months ago. or is it my ball joints? i need to have that done. any mechanic reading this please feel free to enlighten me....)
2nd Observation - wow, the sand is hot out there.
3rd Observation - next time don't leave the beach umbrella in the car
4th Observation - the dirt doesn't get any redder than on Kauai.
5th Observation - Pakala's must have had good surf judging by the number of cars parked along both sides of the road.

Stay tuned for this week's events.......

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Here's Something I Just Don't Understand.....

....my neighbors smoke. Lately one of them has been smoking outside in the driveway and the smoke drifts into my house. So I have to turn the fans on full blast to get rid of the smoke. This bothers me and I need to ask them to not smoke outside.

Every morning I hear the male unit of this couple hacking his guts out in the bathroom. Does he not realize that the reason he hacks his guts out every morning is because he smokes cigarettes?

And he's always spitting in the driveway. It's totally disgusting.

What's really sad is that he looks like he's only in his 20's.

He's doomed to die. Young.

Monday, April 05, 2004

Why Is It....

...that almost everytime I clean out my cat's litterbox, in less than three minutes he's in there stinking it up again?

Excume me now, gotta take the trash out.

Sunday, April 04, 2004

Still Raining.....

...I think we're going into the fourth week of rain here on Kaua'i. If we weren't already an island I'd say we had become one with all the precipitation we've had. It's really the pits. I don't find it very appealing to do things while it's raining. So consequently we haven't been doing much of anything.

Yesterday my son had Special Olympics. Check in was 7 am. On a Saturday. It was cloudy the whole time with occasional sprinkles and kinda windy. He got one first place, one second place and one third place in his age bracket for his events. Not bad. He had fun.

So now he's qualified for the statewide competition on Memorial Day weekend.

If I had something exciting to write about I'd write about it. But I don't. So I'm gonna make some guacamole, park my butt on the couch, watch the early news and chow down on chips, guacamole and the last Heineken I have in the frig.

Adios...........