the weather today was awesome, right?
after furlough friday yesterday, today was completely free. absolutely nothing to do. i mean, usually i play tennis on saturdays but our tennis team had a bye this week. if no tennis i go to the beach, but since i didn't work yesterday i went surfing instead (man, it was crowded... you'd think if all these parents are so concerned about their kids missing one day of school they'd do something school-related with them instead of just shove them all off to the beach... not that i think there's something wrong with sending kids to the beach, who needs more school? let them be kids). plus there was a surf contest going on at ali'i today so i didn't want to join the crowd. i went to the gym yesterday too so today was my off day as well. so what is there to do, i asked myself. well, first of all i woke up at 11:15 so it wasn't like i had an ENTIRE day to fill... so i decided to go to pearlridge. here's some things i learned:
1. i'm in a weird age gap were i'm too old for the trendy clothes (skinny jeans, deep v-neck shirts), still too young for the old-man clothes (macy's, sears), but still not ready to succumb to the generic stuff (gap). i can't wear funny t-shirts to work, and it's too hot to wear nice clothes to work either. conclusion = i bought nothing. and i will continue to wear clothes over 3 years old until fashion catches up to me, or me to it. ha.
2. filipinos are taking over the planet... or at least that mall.
3. stink people hang out in that "book-off" bookstore.
4. stink people hang out in borders.
5. mall food fails me. i used to be uber-excited about going to pearlridge to get arby's... and i actually do like the roastburger, but i don't like curly fries (they got rid of regular fries and only have curly ones now) and fast-food is still fast-food = nausea and possible stroke.
6. i'm a loner. well, i mean, usually when i go to the mall (or anywhere for that matter) i'm all business. go in, get whatever you need, get out, as efficently as possible. i prize efficiency much-ly. but today, since it was a free day and i really had nothing else to be doing, i decided to take it easy, stroll around intentionally "hang" at the mall. it didn't work out so well. first of all, i don't like crowds, and no matter how much i try to convince myself that tolerating crowded places and even enjoying going places where there are lots of people makes me a better person socially... i don't like crowds. secondly, i can't dwaddle. it's that efficiency thing again, if i have something to do, i do it as efficiently as possible, if i have nothing to do, i stand and do nothing. i tried to browse through books at the two above mentioned bookstores, but i just couldn't do it. i make quick decisions about what books i do and do not want to read and pretty much stick by them, i have no interest in what does not interest me. so me trying to browse around the mall to kill time just wasn't working out at all. however, i did have a great time by myself buying some birthday gifts, grabbing lunch, almost being interested in a couple stores, i even contemplated going to see a movie by MYSELF! i would have been the first time ever, but it turned out that all i really wanted was the popcorn and then i probably wouldn't have felt so great after fast-food AND movie popcorn so i decided to go home instead.
on the way home, i decided to take an extended ride through mauka. a few days ago i decided that i wasn't going to take the short (and most efficient) way to and from my place anymore. along that way there's just too much stuff... people, cars, buildings, parking lots, ugh. i decided i needed a more pleasant ride leaving my place and coming back home. a greener ride. people need greenery, don't let anyone tell you different. psychologically, people get to be in better moods when they see greenery, plants, trees, y'know? makes sense right? and everyone's experienced it first hand too. and mauka is the perfect place for that... well, upper mauka at least. so i drove all the way up to the top and man there are some huge houses up there, but even more impressive were the trees and folliage on the side of the roads. nice job mililani. and at the very top, at the end of some of the last roads is the prettiest looking dirt road entrance to somewhere. it's fenced off, but there's a mailbox and address so i'm thinking taking that dirt road through a beautiful looking canopy of tress might lead to a house. i want to live in that house. maybe it's like a totoro house. maybe it's got huge windows looking out onto the mountain-side. that would be awesome.
as much as i love the beach, i want to live in the mountains. always have wanted to. i was so happy when i first moved into this place and saw mushrooms growing in my yard, how awesome is that? remember that movie "mononke hime?" that's where i want to live (except, without that disgusting shishigami, gross). like that picture up there that brandi took in mexico. sweetness. that's why i loved the weather today (okay, took me awhile to get back to the original point of this post, but i'm there). maybe not so much the humidity, but the misty-ness, and the big-fat raindrops and the cold wind. it's that almost-halloween type weather and i love it.
of course, i wouldn't love it so much if this weather stuck around when i want to go surfing, or play tennis or something, but this is probably as much seasonal change as we'd get in hawaii so i like it. i'd imagine i could probably move somewhere like on the mainland where it's this kinda weather all the time, but then i probably wouldn't like it so much. we need change right? we fear change. (remember wayne's world? garth said "we fear change" and then he smashed a robotic hand with a hammer. for some reason i remember that a lot).
one more week 'til halloween, i haven't decorated this year, haven't even planned what i'm gonna do on halloween night. but i have been watching a lot of ghost adventures (they're gonna do a live televized 7-hour lock-down, that should be good). i haven't really gotten excited about it like i usually do, maybe because the weather hasn't been very cooperative until now. gotta go watch me some halloween tv...
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furlough friday, i still had school. so junk, but ended up skipping my last class because i wasn't prepared for it AT ALL. Did you get a jamba after your workout? hahaha, but yeah, pearl ridge IS getting taken over by filipinos. If they're not cleaning, they're working the line. I'm not saying i have a problem with seeing my own peoples working everywhere, but i mean, how much filipinos can you find working in one mall right?
i think i know what dirt road you're talking about. It used to not be fenced off. A few friends and I tried walking up there one night, hella scary, sooo we never went all the way in. But i remember when i was younger there were tall trees on both sides of the path, and you can see grass at the other end. Not a place i would walk through in the day or at night though. But that's just me.
i was very confused at first because i saw that picture and i coulda sworn i had taken it but it was your blog. then i read on. haha! sometimes it is not about the fastest or most efficient way, but the way that will give you the most pleasure or happiness. plus sometimes you want to travel the road less taken. and yes, greenery is important. i try to take at least one walk everyday. right now it is perfect because it is fall. the leaves are all pretty and it's cold. it's been raining every other day but today is gorgeous! there is just something about seeing plants. maybe it is life-giving. energy. ever read "celestine prophecy"? good stuff there.
oh and also, thank you for not buying into the whole skinny jeans phenomenon. it's stupid. it looks stupid and gross. just wear your old stuff, i am sure it is fashionable enough. :)
haha, yeah, i swiped you picture! it was my desktop background for like all last winter, good job! it must be so nice in oregon right now... this morning when i was driving to work it was all hazy (probably hazy with vog... so, not so cool), but everything looked neat. one of these days i gotta get myself up to the northwest and check it out for myself, i have a feeling i'd love the weather and the trees up there. oh and i took a peek at that book... looks kinda trippy, right now i'm finishing up "the last don" by mario puzo so maybe after that it'll be good contrast, ha.
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