This weekend was a little frazzled and confused.  Thursday was the Saint Barbara’s Day ball, but since the Mister didn’t get tickets, he was on duty and today he was part of the honor guard at Pearl Harbor for Remembrance Day, so we only had Friday and Saturday to get out and about. We went window shopping Friday (the Mister wanted ideas for Christmas). Needless to say, it’s been a not-so-routine week. Luckily, leave starts at the end of the week until January! We have a bunch of stuff planned (or I should say I have a bunch planned). We managed a short trip just up the road on Saturday.

We took a walking tour of Hawaii’s Plantation Village.  It’s a replica village that showed the different types of housing used for sugar cane plantation workers (almost all were immigrants so there were significant differences).  It is rumored to be haunted, but I didn’t get that feeling while touring it. It’s possible though!

Next for us is the Jason Mraz concert on Friday night. We have 2nd row floor seats. I’m so excited! I have always loved Mr. A-Z and was stoked to find tickets so close. It was a hefty price, but so worth it. Definitely looking forward to it.  I doubt we’ll go out and do much else that weekend, but seeing as leave starts the following Monday officially, we have until January 4 to go exploring. We *should* have most of our Oahu bucket list checked off by the end of this break.

I start training for H&R Block on the 15th. Three mornings of training then the actual job starts January 5th. I got word that I will likely be in the office that’s right up the road from us, but it sounds like everyone wants to work the same shifts so I might be commuting for another office. Not ideal to commute as I only applied because this office is literally blocks from my house.  Story of my life with this company thus far. But, it’s only through April 15, so I can suck it up and get some work in for some extra funds for us.  I did have an interview with the county of Honolulu for a DMV job down the street, but it took 6 months for them to have an opening, so I’m not sure when I’ll hear back.  That would be ideal. No weekends and steady hours. Time will tell!

On the 22nd, we have UH basketball tickets for the Diamond Head Classic tournament.  They’re playing the University of Nebraska and I’m excited! Though I’m not a Husker basketball fan, it’ll be a good evening doing something I genuinely love to do.  Growing up with parents as coaches has conditioned me to love the competition and feel most comfortable in the gym.

Then it’s Christmas and New Years and 2014 is over!

Been a heck of a year so far and I’ll be sure to update with my end of the year reflections schpeal.

I’ll be posting before then (I hope), don’t you worry.

Until then,

Cheers!

-A. xoxo