A Different Perspective

 

 Sometimes you need to look at life from a different perspective.

 

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When Life Gets Too Busy..

...I need a couple of hours at the ocean..

... and then I'm ready to go again.

Teavana

On my way home from work I stopped by Teavana to pick up some tea. One is a white tea called Youthberry, and the other one is a herbal tea called Wild Orange Flower. They are both very soothing teas, separate or mixed together. The flavor of the teas are heavenly.

Family Bowling

Family Bowling on a Saturday Afternoon.

I Know For Sure..

It is healthy for mind, body and soul to spend time at a Peaceful Place every now and then.

Habitat for Humanity

A couple of co-workers and I were working at a Habitat for Humanity site for a day.

The site will offer 36 apartments for future home buyers.


Lunch


This will be second floor's ceiling and third floor's floor.


The view below me as I was hammering nails.

All You Need For A Great Day Is..

Lovely Blue Sky.


Comfortable Shoes.


Beautiful Nature.


Great Company.

2011 - A Year of Opportunities!

2011 - My Year of Opportunities!

Pineapple Mahi Mahi

I love tomatoes and avocado.

No ripe lemons at home made me use pineapple for yesterday's dinner to get the fish juicy enough. It turned out to be a new dish for me: Pineapple Mahi Mahi. :-)

Garlic Festival

Finding most garlic competition.

Garlic hats.. anyone?

Vanilla and garlic flavored ice-cream.
Not as bad as it sounds.

Apricot Season

Yummy apricots.

Fresh Cherries

We eat lots of fruits and berries. Love it, love it, love it. This time of the year we're eating plenty of Cherries, Strawberries and blueberries. Mmm..

12K Walk On A Sunday Morning

Yesterday morning we participated in the yearly 12K walk through the city. People dress out and have fun along the walk (or run if you want to do that). It's a nice yearly event. I've done it as single, married, and a mam. Hopefully I'll be able to do it many more years..

Ahi Sashimi

Ahi Sashimi. All time favorite.

Rhubarb

The other day I found rhubarb in the store. It made my day. I went home and made rhubarb soup. My grandma used to give me plenty of rhubarb from her garden when I lived near by her. I love rhubarb pie, rhubarb soup, anything rhubarb..

Food Ingredients

Are you the kind of person who reads the labels on the food items you buy? I do it quite often. I find it very disturbing when items I want to buy have labels filled with ingredients that I have no clue about what they are. Those items I leave on the shelf in the store. I work hard on eliminating ingredients like high fructose corn syrup among others.

There are days I'm tired of reading labels. Those days I make most of the food from scratch at home. The problem is that it takes more time than I've.

A couple of years ago I was well informed about the high amount of sugar juices have. The few times I buy a regular juice in the average food store, I dilute it with water. Guess if I was surprised the other day when I compared the daily values of a coke and an apple juice, and I found the values of sodium, carbohydrate and sugar were higher in the juice than the coke! Do you know if your choice of juice has higher values than a coke?

Ocean

This afternoon we took a stroll on the beach. I love the place we went to. It's a great place to recharge my batteries at. We had lunch, collected treasures, had coffee, enjoyed watching the ocean and relaxed.

A Walk In The Morning

A great way to start a new day is to get out and walk early in the morning. Fresh air, fresh start, and fresh thoughts. My morning walks in Kapiolani Park was always lovely. Walking next to the Pacific Ocean made me feel very much alive.

Love That Girl

I know, I know, I know it's a little bit too much of Raphael Saadiq's music on this blog. But I can't help sharing the great music he is making. Today I had "Love That Girl" on my mind. The song makes me dance @ home. A Happy song.