Walk for cancer!

This morning I had a 5K walk for cancer. It was 6 of my boss', 2 other ladies from my company in different departments and myself. We were team Princess Tours and the speaker at the end of the marathon said the top three fundraisers for individuals and teams. We were in 3rd place for teams. The first place for individuals raised over $8,000 and for the team it was over $14,000. It was amazing.

There was something that you could buy called a tribute patch. You buy one (a donation) and put a name on it of someone your walking for. Then you wear it throughout your walk/run and at the end you place it on the wall. I got one for my Auntie Lei. She died of Leukemia years ago. My very good friend (who also happens to be my boss) Carla made one for her mom Pilar and my other supervisor Shannon made one for her husband Greg.

Here's one more step towards a cure...

Life...or something reflecting it!?!?!

It's interesting how life is. I have worked a lot lately and have been BEAT by the time I get home from work. I've taken almost 100 calls today and some of those calls were long and complex problems that travel agents think that I'm some kind of miracle worker. Good thing I have lots of good friends in many different departments. I can most times make things happen. What a job I have...

God is good and put me in a job that I'm great at. Who knows, one day I might get into another department that will be better for me. Whatever God has in store for me is the path that I will take gladly.

Everthing happens for a reason and I don't look back. No regrets. God is with me every step of the way. I pray that everyone in my life is happy, heathly, and has God in their heart like me. I don't know where I'd be without him.

The Boys in my life...

Here are my nephews, Maika who will be 8 next month and Mika who was born the end of April. I can't wait for my trip home to see them again. I can't believe how many nieces and nephews I now have.

Unfortunately my nephew Mika has had a long road so far. He's not yet out of the hospital. He has a hole in his heart/heart murmur, hole in his intestines (that needed surgery with a follow-up surgery later) and now they found that he has a broken collarbone.

I'm sad for him because my poor nephew can't seem to get a break but he's strong. He can handle whatever life an throw at him.

Birthday Wishes!

I had a friend who's birthday was on June 1st. Here's a happy birthday to him... (Erik) and my niece Ki'i became 18 years old on June 2nd. She also graduated high school. A lot happened for her this weekend.

As everyone knows, my birthday was just 2 weeks ago. Gemini's all around. Another friends birthday is coming up (Molly...pic below) is on June 13.

Happy Birthday to all!

My birthday weekend!

Molly, Erin and I

This weekend I spent it with my friends. I got a hotel room at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront. It was a beautiful room and on the balcony you could see the pier. The hotel gave me a bottle of wine, ice cream, flowers, and a mini box of chocolates. All for my birthday. It was very nice.

Then my friend Erin took me out to dinner at Metropolitan Grill. Very nice downtown restaurant and worth the money that is spent there. My night in Seattle was great. We met a bunch of friends and spent the night out. Didn't get back to the hotel until 3:30am. A long night out but fun. A friends Molly and her teenage daughter hung out with us at the hotel and we walked around the pier, had lunch then home sweet home.

This was a good, fun birthday. I wish that few more people could have spent it with me but that's ok. Another day.

My day!

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned 25 YEARS OLD!!! OH MY GOODNESS....

A co-worker of mine sang a "singing telegram" to me. It was hilarious. And someone bought me lunch. My job always give birthday cards too so I got one of those. This weekend I'm spending a night at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront. It was something I won from my company Christmas party and what a perfect occasion to use it.

For some reason I do feel that year older though. Before it didn't make a difference. A birthday was just another birthday. I can now rent a car on my own... HAHAHA! That's the last thing that anyone has to look forward to (and maybe cheaper car insurance); but after that everyone says it's only down hill. I don't see it as down hill.

I'm looking forward to what the rest of my life has to offer. Where will I be at 30, 40, of even 50? Married? Kids? None of the above? Who knows.... Here's the next phase of life....

What's new?

Well, this week I've moved into my very own first apartment. It's been an adjustment but I'm sure it'll be cool to be in my own place with my own rules. I'll tell you how things go...

Until next time...

I'm an Auntie AGAIN!!!

My sister Misty gave birth early Friday morning to a baby boy. That was April 20th. My cell phone started ringing at about 8:45am and I was thinking...HOLY CRAP!!! WHAT'S WRONG?!? It's only about 5:45am in Hawai'i. I was at work so I couldn't get to it until a little later and heard the message to get the news.

I am in charge of giving the baby a Hawaiian middle name. The clincher was that by the earlier ultrasounds we were all under the impression that is was a girl so I have been looking for a girl name this whole time. Now I had a couple of days for the birth certificate to be finalized. I have been looking for the past 2 days and came up with it. Here is the finalized name for my newest nephew and a part of the family:

Mika Na'auao Manaia Tausaga (and my last name)

He's just like my nephew Maika (his older brother) with the 5 names... Poor guys!

Oh well, welcome to the family little one.

FYI: Na'auao in Hawaiian means intelligent/knowledge and Manaia in Samoan means Handsome. (I don't know if I spelled Manaia write...I'll get back on that!)

Happy Easter!!!

It's been quite a long time since I've wrote a blog. I've been busy, lot's of changes so I'm taking a chance to stop and take a breath.

Today I'm teaching my friends 14 year old daughter how to bake my strawberry cupcakes. It's my day to rest. Everyone needs one. They of course came out good. It's a good relaxing day.

Thank God for everything that He's done for us. I think that I'd be lost.

What a weekend....

What a weekend this has started out to be. Well, let's start out to the beginning of this week. My office has moved buildings. I'm now on the 27th floor of a building that if I go to my window I can see our pier. Our first day there was monday. It's a beautiful place to work. Much nicer and bigger than the previous digs that we occupied. Anyway, with all the business and that nasty flu bug that's been going around...(my house not excluded) I FINALLY got it. I had no choice but to stay home from work yesterday and I literally couldn't get out of bed. YUCK! I hate being sick but the flu bites even more. Hope you all stay happy and HEALTHY!!!

Until the next one...

Another Year...

My oldest nephew Cody turns 14 years old today. Man I feel old. They are all getting so big. My first niece is graduating high school and is already a mom this year. Before you know it the next 2 will be right there. They graduate one year apart so that's 2 visit's back home...one after the other. God, where does the time go?!?

My weekend

This weekend was the first time that I saw my friend Abbey's baby. His name is Kamea and I named him. He's already 6 months old but he's SSSOOOOO cute and so adorable. Kamea is a very happy baby and took to everyone. He loved playing with Cori. That's Edith's 14 year old daughter. He kept laughing at her. He thought she was funny. And she is...

I'll post pictures soon. I just have to download them from my camera. Until next time...

The outside world!

Well, the white stuff has finally melted. I couldn't go to work if I stayed at home because my street was solid ice for many days so I stayed at a friends house for about 4 nights. I finally attempted and was successful in coming home and making it to the Transit Center the next day to catch the bus. I'm so glad that this season will be over soon.

I'm going home for a visit this summer. The ticket is purchased, some more clothes will have to be bought to accommodate the warmer climate and my much smaller body for my my 10 DAY VACATION! All I have are winter type clothes and a lot of jeans. You can wear that stuff all year here. It'll be a shock for a lot of people. They might not recognize me, like my mom barely did when she came here for her visit. I can't wait. :-)

I'll be home for my nephew Maika's 8th birthday. He doesn't know that yet. It's a secret from him. He'll be very surprised when he sees me. I can't believe how old they're getting. By the time I get there I'll be an Auntie 6 times. My niece will be giving birth any day now and my sister is due in mid-May sometime. I can't wait to see the new addition.

I better get going. I think I've said before that I get to name this baby. My sisters that is. I'm giving her one of her middle names. When it's a completed name I'll let you all know. Until then...

Another bunch O' Snow!

Well, we have another dump of snow. About 6 inches as a matter of fact. When it snows like that I can't get out of the house because the street we live on is a complete sheet of ice and we live on a hill. It's been like this for about 3 days. It snowed with big flakes for hours. It was supposed to stop snowing at around 8pm...it actually stopped at around 3am. The snow was so thick you could barely see the color of my car anymore. The snow was almost 1/2 way up my tires and I saw car after car slide back down the start of the hill after a few failed attempts to get up it.

God gave us another bunch of snow days. But I need to get out of this house. I was first sick, and now snow days. I haven't left the house other than my doctors appt since saturday so I've been cooped up for 1 solid week. I'm actually ready to go back to work. LET THE SNOW MELT!!!

Sick!

Well, this weekend totally blows! I'm sick!! I've been sick for the past few days. I have every weekend off and I've had absolutely NO ENERGY what-so-ever to do anything this weekend. I've literally been in bed ALL WEEKEND!!! Well, between the bed and the couch watching movies. I can't count how many I've gone through already.

Oh well, I hope that everyone is well. This will soon pass. I've been taking med's and I know that it'll be gone in a matter of days.

Until next time...

Happy New Years!

Well, it's official....IT'S 2007! What a quick year this has been. A lot of good and bad, up's and down's.... and oh the changes that have happened throughout 2006. Friendship that have been made and those that fell apart, people who have been diagnosed with illnesses and those have died, a friends pending divorce is no longer going to happen (yah!). I have made my 2nd full year here on the 13th of December and I don't regret any part of my decision still. I am teaching someone lessons that I've learned in life. Both lesson's about people and also how to bake. It's nice to do these things together. We have a lot of girls nights. Those are the most fun. I haven't lived as much as I have since I've been here. It's been a great 2006. Let's see what 2007 has to hold!

Christmas this year!

Cori and I taking one of many shot's this evening. This is one of the best I think...

Lindsey and Cori posing for me...memories!

Edith and I taking a break from cooking for Cori to snap one!

Well this year's christmas is over... the present part anyway. I got a card from my parents which is always appreciated and the family that I live with unexpectedly bought me things from American Eagle, Victoria Secret, and Bath and Body Works among a couple of other things that I'm not sure where they bought them from.

I helped my friend Lindsey make these kick ass cookies called hockey pucks so I suppose that means I technically had a hand in my own christmas present.

Edith made a very nice Italian spread with an appetizer and main dish for dinner and I made the dessert. Actually I supervised her daughter Cori in making the dessert. She's 14 and I'm teaching her how to bake. She did amazing at Thanksgiving which was much harder than this holiday.

I hope you enjoy the few pictures from this holiday. I wish that I was home with my family but being here with my friends was the next best thing. Enjoy!

Princess Christmas Party!

My boss Carla and I!

My really good friend Lindsey. We share a pod at work.

The only 2 person pod on the floor!

Princess Tours has a Christmas Party every year and this year it was at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel. (Very nice if I do say so). The food was excellent and the atmosphere was beautiful. But honestly, a lot of my co-workers go for 3 reason's...free food, pretty good prizes are given, and to see what the newbies consider FORMAL WEAR! Trust me, that was reason in itself to go. As far as the food went, I already commented on that. There are a limited amounts of prizes and if I remember correctly I think there were only about 7 or something around that. My name happened to be the first one called and I get one night free at the Waterfront. I'll probably extend the stay and we'll have a girls night out...weekend! That'll be fun sometime this summer.

Here are a couple of picture on my FORMAL WEAR! Enjoy family... This is the first dress like this that you've seen on me in a very long time...

The latest on our FAB weather!

The weather here has been so sucky! But I still would rather live here than back home. 3 weeks ago we had snow, then 2 weeks ago there was some flooding and just last week we had a 100 mph windstorm. The snow was so bad that we were stuck in the house for 2 days. The flood didn't affect me (thank God) but the wind did. We had no electricity for about 5 days. Luckily I had pre-arranged to not be home for a few of those days before the news of the storm and the people that I stayed with never lost power.

Say hello to mother nature!

Guess what!?!?

My sister called me at work today and gave me some news that I've been waiting for...

She's having a BABY GIRL!!!!

Her first name will be Makena and I have the honor of giving her a middle name in hawaiian.

Let's see what I come up with....