01.06.2006
alo~ha! it's me again.
i've been sitting here for quite a while. wondering what i should write. wondering if it even truly really matters. i've been so out of touch that i'm probably the only one who still visits this site. i haven't realized how busy i've been. i've been working nights lately, so as soon as i come home, i go to bed and then get up really early to take jon to work, return home to get a few more hours of sleep (or at least try to since majority of the time i end up staying awake) and then it's my turn to go to work and start the cycle all over again. on my days off when i look forward to updating keri*lite or putting up an entry, i find myself sleeping in and then spending the day lounging or cleaning.
for the past year, keri*lite has been completely deprived of photos. i thought that i had lost my usb cable but during the recent move, i uncovered it. and now i can do what i most love to ... a year in review. with photos. or whatever photos i have since i didn't take as much photos this year since i didn't think i could upload any of them. in consolation, i added a link to a corresponding entry when possible.
january:
being away from any close relatives for the first time, the 2005 new year's marked my first attempt at making ozoni. though it was a poor substitute to my mom's or my aunt's, i was very proud of the outcome.
february:
my highlight of this month was attending my first punk show. at what better show to go to than to a nofx show. i also celebrated jon and sumi's birthday and of course valentine's which jon and i spent at the top of waikiki.
march:
above is a photo of my car after the accident. the damage was concentrated mostly on the passenger-side front fender, but did make its way all the way to the rear.
april:
after a short hiatus*, i returned with a fervor that i hadn't possessed for a long time. although i have to admit that my entries were rather ecclectic and ultimately lacked real substance. but it did feel good to be back online.
may:
not much happened in my life during the fifth month, but my interest in korea was sparked and has continued ever since.
june:
after three years of being in the ecu, my grandmother past away* this month.
july:
july was a slow month, but was marked with a huge shocker when the london* train stations were attacked.
august:
my obssession with kim sam soon started. as well as my crush on hyeon bin. *drools*
september:
i hit the big two-six* this month. that means four more years until the big three-oh. i got to spend it the morning of it working. how fun.
october:
october and november proved to be the most stressful months of the year. first, the passing of my family dog. and then, with about four weeks before jon was supposed to leave, he decided not to go back to kona. we may never take that break. instead of finding a new place, tiarie decided to move in with us and take the empty room.
november:
a little less than two weeks before the lease on the apartment expired, tiarie changed her mind and decided to stay in the apartment she was already in, leaving jon and i to find a new place on our own within one week. jon found a place for us in pearl city and that's where we've now made our home. near the end of the month asako came to visit from japan. friends that i haven't seen in almost a year met up and we had dinner at the cheesecake factory.
december:
we all got really functional yet splurgy things this christmas. jon got me a huge box filled with fresh products from sephora. i got him some shirts and a new pair of white vans shoes since his current pair was getting really dirty. i also stumbled upon some of jon's favorite pens. he's been out of them for over a year. so i picked up a few of them. we got sumi a new feeding dish. it's actually a lenox serving tray. the dishes are wide so that her whiskers don't get bent and crushed. i read somewhere that cats don't like that. and that great thing about it is that she can't move them, so there's no more tripping over little glass bowls!
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my first year and a half in o'ahu sped by in a blur although not a whole lot really happened. work has taken up a huge portion of my life. but isn't that what work and life is all about anyway? i thought i'd be making a whole lot moving to the "big city" but it's actually proven to be a lot more stressing and a lot less financially stable.
hope everyone had a wonderful 2005!
*note: internal links.