Distracting Myself While Waiting For His Race

Listen To The Universe When It Tells You To Stay Home

So my husband comes in this morning and announces he is taking off so we can go to the North Shore to see the big surf and Vans triple crown. This is the last day for two of my bonus kids before they have to head back to Cali. I'm bummed because I have to take my daughter and her friend to their charter school for the weekly face time.
Cue music.................
Go to Charter School and the weekly science class is cancelled. O.K. maybe this is God's way of saying " Go to the North Shore, see big waves , it is some of my best work."
Off we go, have a great lunch and notice on the way to the car my purse feels a little light, no keys. Keys in ignition.
Cue "don't worry" music.
This has happened before, I know how to McGyver it, got the tool for Jacking the car from husband, pry door open using fin as leverage, throw in a some awesome, kind North shore folks with metal that is just right to pop that automatic lock and we are on our way.
Not a lot of time to catch the contest before we have to get to town. We stop at Chun's about to head home but Waimea calls us...
Fast forward,...
Waimea, 20 feet, look at that ride...where did that car come from.....breaking, breaking, too late crash.
Tourist, rental car,paranoid,asshole,lives in Alaska must be deficient in Vitamin D.
Lovely female police officer, looking really hard to find damage on Alaska guys car, rolling eyes, taking report.
Female passenger in Alaska guys car , dizzy.
She was fine until the police officer got there.
Finally home after horrible day, pour glass of wine, check e-mail, spill wine on keyboard.
Tomorrow I am agoraphobic.

Pink Tu Tu

The ocean soothes me....

This tree reminds me of pink Tu Tus..

This Is Cute

OOHHH I want to have fun with photo booth like this, great song too.

What Now?

I don't know if it is the economic crisis, a recent health scare or the fact that my son, the 36 hour boy, is a sophomore in high school , but I have been thinking a lot lately what now?  I haven't worked full time in almost fourteen years.  I wouldn't, couldn't go back to being a buyer so what WILL I do when I have to grow up for the second time? I've got time to figure it out so maybe writing about what I find interesting, what my life is like now will help me figure that out.  I've been poking around looking on Craigslist, Hawaii Jobs on Demand etc.. and it is demoralizing to realize that I could do data  entry for $15  a hour.  Heck I pay my daughter, the 12 hour girl, that much to do laundry for me.  

I have always said that I am the retirement plan in our marriage.  My husband is older than me, and he was silly enough to agree all those years ago to my quiting my job to be home with the kids, cutting our income in half.  So when he is ready to retire , off I go to work while he gets to stay home, sleep late, read blogs, watch YouTube, and not do laundry like I have been doing all these years. Only kidding about that, I haven't been watching YouTube all these years. It's a scary prospect combined with the fact that our retirement accounts have tanked to who-knows-what because we can't even bear to look not  even with one eyeball.  The one thing I have going for me is I live in Hawaii a beautiful place where it is warm all year.  So my fall back plan is to buy another tent ( because we would need his and her tents for sure), and live on the beach, plenty of people do it. As they say here, we could live off the aina (land), fish, get fruit from the fruit trees in the mountains , hunt for boars, raise chickens and live in our bathing suits.  Plenty of people's situations are bleak compared to that right?  Off to YouTube I go, I hear Britney and Justin performed with Madonna last night.