construct a life: #284 - weekly updates

thanks to my new and pretty awesome "having of a life" situation right now, i haven't had a lot of time to update the blog, which is pretty sweet because that means i'm out actually doing some cool stuff. like going hiking! these pics were not taken by me, but by a pretty awesome new photographer that i met, she's got a great eye for the pics right? and a pretty sweet camera as well, i gotta get myself a new camera so i can get back to taking some of my own pictures, everything i take with my current camera comes out blurry, grr..

anyway, these pics are from the judd/nu'uanu trail. i like that one, it's not too long, but still tough enough for a good workout. plus lots of variety, you go from bamboo forest to tall pine (or something) trees to the ridge up on top adn there's lots to see along the way. although i think the thing i like best about hiking is the workout part of it, i mean, i love the scenery and all, but i like that you can combine the scenery with the "getting a workout" part. mostly because i get so bored going running or working out on a treadmill or something. i can't do it. i get ultra bored. so if i can go on a hike and see all that and get a good hiking workout out of that, that's perfect!

anyway, in other updates this weekend:

- up open! whoa, what a year for the us open, upsets abound on the women's side, which makes for some pretty un-appealing match-ups in the second week of the tournament, but there are still some fun players around. maria's out, but she was taken out my melanie oudin, complete cinderella story for sure, she's pretty fun to watch though, so i'm gonna root for her to actually get to the final, she's only got one more seed to get through (she already took out three others). serena's still in of course, and she plays kim clijsters! yep, that's right, kim clijsters who is (thankfully) out of retirement and playing awesomely (she already took out venus). but that's a semifinal match so we can still hope that oudin gets to the final against either clijsters or serena and that'd be pretty awesome. on the men's side it's a little more straight-forward. unfortunately, roddick is out, but that just means that federer has a little nicer path to the finals (he's still got novak in the way... i hate it when those two guys are in the same half because i always want both of them to get to the final). i'm actually not that hating on nadal this year, and i'm pretty sure it's because he got rid of those damn sleeveless shirts (but not the pre-serve wedgie pull, which is still annoying). but andy murray's out so i'm gonna have to pull for to get to the finals in the bottom half of the draw

- wahine volleyball! DOH! two loses this week, one was okay, texas (and their 6'4" setter) is national championship material (along with penn state), but the loss to california was awful! oh man, so depressing! hopefully they can pull it back together after such a great (4-0) start to the year to win the next two matches against a couple of weaker opponents and get ready for no. 10 stanford next weekend

- good food. oh man, i ate so good this week. dim sum. korean country bbq. sushi. so yummy. on top of that i skipped my weekend workouts 'cause i was out so much so i'm gonna have to get back to it, start up those workouts again.

- tennis. hey, that's a great way to get my workouts in. this ekolu league that just started last week is pretty fun, i mean, my teammates are fun of course (and going drinking after matches is always fun of course), but beyond that the actual playing of tennis is pretty fun too. one, because so far no one we've played have been complete jerks (which is actually a rarity i've noticed from playing league tennis for the past year or two), and two, because perhaps i'm actually playing well amazing! that is, well enough to not make a ga-zillion errors and more often make pretty solid contact on my strokes, so that's pretty cool.

- beach! man, i haven't been to the beach or surfing in about a month, yikes! i gotta get back out there, i've been waiting for better weather or some surf, but man my weekends have been packed (which is great! so NOT complaining about that), so i gotta find some time to get out there for sure.