the reason

Home again...
well this trip deserves a good blogging. I arrived back in maui yesterday afternoon, stayed awake for about two hours before crashing for the next 16 hours uninterrupted. I awoke today to lock my keys in my running car (which was rapidly running out of gas) After about an hour and a half of extremely frustrated attempts to break in with three different coat hangers... i got a neighbor to call the fire dept. down the street (why? because they are good citizens who wont charge you 70 bucks for 30 sec. of labor) Within 5 min. they came, all friendly and fire-fightery, & had me back in my car. Although, when i asked if they did this sort of thing quite often... they reminded me that yes they do... however usually its for emergency situations like when a small child is locked inside. I felt cheap. and like i maybe should have thrown a cat into a tree to make them feel like they had used their time wisely.

lesson learned... fire-fighters are much more useful than just being in calendars.. (teehee)

Well... here is a sampling of photos to tell the tale of my visit home and beyond!

(click on picture if you wish to enlarge)

KARAOKE NIGHT!

































AT THE 'RENTS HOUSE... (mia gets to know the outdoors... while pa mows it down)

































TRIP TO OLYMPIA... (stuff, german girl, fam, middle of old ship battle)





































































































































MONTANA!!!! BIG SKY HOOT'NANY...
















































































































































































... viking/cowboy caranial fusion experiment.

Well, there's a quick overview...
admittedly, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to leave every time.
Until the next adventure....
it was a blast. thank you guys for the good times.

(ps: i decided not to post the tragic good-bye pictures at this time.. as i decided they are too gruesome for the public. hehe)

grizzly

I finally got my computer back!!!
So this weeks highlights/lowlights/mid-tones:
been gettin a healthy dose of golden girls ever since the battle with my intestines at colitis bog... two weeks ago.
um.. we have a rather big swirly hurricane heading this way. hopefully we wont get the brunt of it... but im preparing anyway.
*rubber boots.... check
*swim goggles for eye protection.... check
*costco pack of canned tuna... check
*hatches battened... check
and i think if it gets REAL windy... i will finally get a chance to become like mario. (you know when he gets the feather and can fly.. and you can make him glide downward while he uses his cape as a parachute) i've got this big black sheet i think i can tie to my wrists and ankles and i figure if i get one big jump i might be able to take off... i bet the natives will think im some sort of giant bat... they might try to spear me down because of the superstitions- wish me luck.
(i struggle with run-on sentences)
Also.. i think my identity has been kid-napped. odd things have been happening- for example: a random phone call to a person whom i havent seen or spoken to in YEARS bears the news that 'katy left her phone on our boat, we're in seafair... you were on her contact list". I hear this news through distant acquaintance to sister to me. hmm. i have my phone... and ive NEVER lost one.
Also, i found out that my car was not in fact legally mine. or registered. that was a fun one.
well, i guess whoever is trying to take my identity can have it.... as long as they pay my bills.

And yes, the tabloids are true.... i was forced to commandeer gavin rossdale's phone number. yes.. the gavin from the band BUSH, gwen stephani's husband... its a long story.. it wasnt my idea. started with a sandwich, small-talk, my nosey boss, and badda bing badda boom. (if this were middle school i might have puked in delight... well i still might...)

oooh! and i've been asked to round up wild beast-like chickens for an old lady!! of course i said yes! i have to find a net on the end of a stick and some good sturdy chicken-grippin-gloves. this task will require stealth, fortitude, and a cat-like instinct....
i dont have any of those... but i got my rubber boots! no chicken crap between these toes! no sir. My first thought was... what the heck am i supposed to do with em once i've caught them??? Of course my instinct was to put them in a milk crate and toss them into the bay... i mean thats how grandpa Paquet taught us to dispose of pesky birds. Somehow, i think the hippies would catch wind and there would be a lynching in the town square. (thats so ridiculous.... we dont even have a town square) Maybe i'll domesticate them and train them to ride my bike to the store and bring back sushi.
This is like my dream job.

well thats the latest instalment. for now!

Still here.

I have just been suckered into a continuum of suspense. I"ve been getting a lot of missed calls lately from phone numbers that I dont recognize. From ALL over. Usually if i cant figure out who it might be in the first 5 min. of discovering the missed call, I forget about it. But after receiving one this afternoon, i decided to go online and attempt to do a reverse directory to satisfy my curiosity. Well, I looked up 5 or 6 numbers I didnt recognize only to discover that every website will provide the location & whether or not its a land line or cell... but no name/address/etc. Unless you want to pay them up to $15 for that info. PER PHONE NUMBER!
I feel tricked.
So now i know the location of the callers.. but of the thousands of residents in those areas.... it could be anyone. It wouldnt bother me so much, but almost all of them are cell phone numbers. And it makes me wonder.... who knows me that i dont know knows me?? Or perhaps a casual exchange of numbers led to my losing theirs and therefore never recording it in my phone. Have i forgotten completely about an encounter with someone? Or do i owe someone money?? What if there is a contract out on my head!? What if its Ed McMahon's family trying to get a hold of me to inform me that I've inherited his old-man glasses collection?!
THIS is why they invented message machines. So people like myself dont drive themselves to insanity with curiosity.

thats all.... i guess i feel better
LOVE

Sitting duck....

Well, I'd just like to say- that in the event that North Korea pulls the trigger on 4th of July and indeed hits Hawaii... its been a pleasure knowing you all. Really.

that should just be said anyway.

the rents....

Ma and Pa are a'commin'!! cheeehuu!! let the insanity begin!

evil saturday

Today was the first part of our circuit assembly about good vs. evil. It was very entertaining. And very upbuilding.... looking forward to part two tomorrow: Good sunday.
Anyway, i ran into a friend today that i hadnt seen in a long time, and she gave me a disc of pictures from a camping trip we went on a long time ago. Some of these pictures tickle my funny bone so... here we go.

The tannest i have EVER seen natalie. Is she showing me a booger??

The clam-digger-shuffle

Two-headed Katiey... beast of wonder

Brooke wins the 'pucker your lips as far as you can' contest.

syncronized floating

if you fart in the woods, and there's no one to hear you.... does it make a sound?

Brooke-squatch sighting

this weeks equation....

is... sick +(plus) work +(plus) exploding water main +(plus) hanging out with lumpy -(minus) brooke +(plus) sleeping on couch -(minus) groceries +(plus) new favs playlist to listen to.

.. someone wished me 'happy resurrection day' today. my reply was.... 'oh you're back from the dead?'............ she didnt find that amusing. ........ i just dont get it.

i've been thinking about robots a lot lately. and whales. and giant insects. and playing drums.

its all making for a lot of interesting dreams... especially when fueled by medicine head.

things feel like they're changing just lately. like one of those dynamic shifts is going to occur in 80% of the people i surround myself with. i guess we'll see where it goes.

manuel says hello....