New Year post one
Woohoo. Happy New Year!
The last day of last year (earlier today) was very busy and yet not. Took Cutie Pie's 4-year pictures. I know, I'm a few months late, but give me some credit for at least doing it in 2008! Afterwards he asked to go someplace fun, so we ended up at the bounce houses. Not bad, $7 for an all-day bracelet. Who's gonna stay all day anyway? Picked up some lunch and sat around talking story w/Trini for a few hours while the kiddies bounced merrily away the remainder of the year. Left the mall and stopped by Longs & Foodland for some new year's day necessities. Big mistake because half of Kaneohe was in that shopping center and in line at Foodland. Good thing I didn't need any fresh fish! Of course, they didn't have what I needed anyway so now I have to go to Daiei tomorrow morning. Great. Since we ended up staying at the mall way later than intended, I didn't have time to go back home. So we went straight to Trini's house for some New Year's fun and fireworks. Her neighbor's brother just got out of prison and bought $1500 worth of fireworks (illegal ones) and they sure got their money's worth. We only had a few fountains, pop-pops, and sparklers. That's prettty much all we needed because between her 2 neighbors it was like our own personal professional show. Cool. Left after 10 p.m. to ensure that we could make it home (the smoke isn't as thick so I can still see the road...). Calmed 3 freaked out puppies, bathed one tired child and waited for the new year.
I am just amazed at how easy it must be to buy illegal fireworks. The sky was choke full of professional looking displays. It was pretty cool, but loud. Right now it's thunder and lightning and major rain, which is good I guess. It will help get rid of the smoke (don't ask me how) and put out any live flames or burning embers of fireworks. Even though the fireworks were pretty loud and impressive, Mother Nature still kicked it's a**. Wow, that was a really quick thunderstorm. It's stopped raining and it's quiet. Strange. Oh, wait... the fireworks are starting up again.
Happy New Year...
My mood: tired and wanting total silence