Pickle making! :)

Chopping dill

 

The soon-to-be pickles!

 The other day, Justin came home from work and decided he wanted to make his own pickles.  I guess he had been listening to a podcast about these super delicious, but very expensive type of pickles, and wanted some.  After looking them up online, and finding out that a case was somewhere around 100 bucks, he decided to make his own instead!

Too bad pickles have to marinate for a minimum of 5 days.  The good recipes say to leave them in there for 2 weeks before eating them.  But I don't know if Justin will be able to wait that long.   Haha.

In attempt to pull the top off of the peppercorn, a large portion
of the bottle went flying all over the kitchen. :)

   Once we both realized how easy it is to make your own pickles, we decided to venture out into other food making experiences.  I made my own guacamole the past two nights, and Justin is looking into making his own mustard.  (Once he masters that, he can make honey mustard for me!  Yum!)  The only problem with the mustard making is we can't seem to find brown mustard seeds anywhere on the island!  There is only one more natural food store we haven't checked at, but its a bit of a drive away.  Justin can order them in super bulk from Amazon.com, but then I think it would make enough mustard for a year!  lol.

Grant.  His eye freaked Justin out,
but I thought it made him unique!

In other news, I went and visited the Hawaiian kitties at the humane society again yesterday.  The cross-eyed kitty that I loved from the first time we went was getting adopted while I was there--I was glad because he was such a sweetheart.  I bonded with this all black kitty named Hudson, who was 4.

The pet policy at our apartment changed again, so we can technically get a kitty.  I know its still completely up in the air, and it may not be the most financially responsible decision for us right now.  But I do want one.  I think its a cover up for the baby cravings I've been having again recently.  (Thanks Lena!  Haha.)

A day at Little Beach

 We spent last Sunday at Little Beach.  Little Beach is right next to Big Beach in Makena.  (Yeah, some high hippies named the beaches in the 60's...lol.)

Little Beach is known as the nude beach.  Though being on a beach nude in Hawaii is illegal, the folks on this beach are generally left alone.  You can't see the beach from the road, which makes it great for the clothing optional people!

To get there, you park at big beach and hike/climb up some rocky terrain that was caused by a lava flow a long time ago.  You go up one side, and when you come down the other side, you have arrived! 

On Sundays, all the hippies come to play, and the beach gets packed.  They sell special cookies, and the smell of pot fills the air.  Then, the drum circles begin!  It seems crazy, but its actually a lot of fun to go, and well...people watch.  Yes, some of them are naked, but its not awkward like you would think it would be.  Its just a bunch of chill (and sometimes high) people hanging out, boogie boarding, playing volleyball, and sun bathing.  I would say only half of the people are naked, and many of the women just go topless.  There's usually always a few little kids there, and they're freaking adorable running around naked in the surf.  :)

Here are some pictures (no, I'm not nude in any of them...lol)  Butttt, there are some other naked people, so beware...lol.  Nothing close up or distasteful though.  Just people hanging out the way God intended them too.  :)

Little Beach sun

My 7 dollar coconut that we bought from a local on the side of the road.

Justin's awesome tan lines

This guys white speedo cracked me up!  :)

More ocean, less nudity  :)

Naked people!

Big Beach from on top of the divide

Big beach

Walking across Big Beach to get back to the car

Anniversary at Warren and Annabelle's

Annabelle's piano

Socializing and having drinks before the show

I'm so sad these came out blurry....but Annabelle the ghost was playing the piano

Then she stopped to pose in the picture with us

Me, Annabelle the ghost, and Justin!  :)

Married for 3 years!  :)

They picked us to sit in the front row of the show!  Oh no!

The crowd behind us

Meet Warren the magician

Having Justin hold a 100 dollar bill he took from an audience member

I'm holding another lady's watch. 
Warren makes the time change while its in my hand!

Warren has me hold the 100 dollar bill. 
In about 10 seconds, he's going to set it on fire while I'm still holding it!

Warren dancing over the burning 100 dollar bill

The rabbit that came out of Warren's extra large hat. 
2 bowling balls followed that rabbit!

My hands that Warren labeled for me.  He tricked me by saying
"Let go with your left hand" but motioned with his right.  Tricky bastard!  :)

General whatevers :)

 Well, the car is officially a Hawaiian resident!  lol.  Now I don't have to worry about getting pulled over anymore, because the car has been checked for safety and has up to date tags!  Yay!  I do miss my Washington plates though.  I constantly had people asking me how I still had the plates, and where I was from.  Now I'm from Hawaii just like everyone else!  :)





Today is Valentine's Day (in case you forgot).  Justin picked me a beautiful hibiscus flower on his way home from work.  He also brought me 2 blackened fish tacos, which were delicious!  :)  V-day has never been my thing, even when in relationships, and then I just happened to get married the day after Valentine's Day, so it will continue to not really be my thing...lol.  Our anniversary is way cooler anyways.  :)

I'm not sure where Justin is taking me tomorrow night, but I'm excited nonetheless.  I have a handful of ideas, and of course I'll be stoked for whatever it is he decided.  :)  I get to dress up and go to dinner!  Pretty much my favorite thing.  Haha.

As for life in general, everything has been going well.  Justin got a job at our favorite $2 taco place down the street.  I think he figured out if he just rides his moped the half mile to and from work everyday, he'll only have to fill his gas tank up every two and a half months or something like that.  Cracks me up...lol.

Training for being a shift supervisor starts for me on Thursday!  Hopefully that means the pay bump!  And we got our first pay out for tips yesterday.  Getting an extra 100 bucks a week is a sweet treat.  Definitely never got anything awesome like that at Old Navy--the most they ever gave me was a coffee for ruining people's credit...lol.

I'll be turning in my paperwork for subbing soon!  Just need to get an 808 phone number.  We'll have phone and internet on the 29th of February.  I did figure out that if I sit on the corner of the bed in our room, we can pick up one bar of someone else's unsecured network....haha.  It'll be nice to finally have our own internet, so I can watching things on netflix again.  We finally got our TV in the mail last week, but all I can watch are the movies I brought.

We'll be heading back to Seattle on Tuesday, April 3rd and staying until Monday the 9th.  Andrew, Justin's brother, is getting married on the 7th.  I love weddings!  :)

Well, I redboxed the Glee movie, so I'm going to attempt to go watch it.  Glee is a guilty pleasure of mine, but a "concert movie" seems weird to me.  Justin is closing tonight, so I have nothing better to do anyways!  :)

Welcome to our new apartment!

View from the front door

Living Room

Kitchen

Kitchen

Table/catchall for everything.  :)

Bedroom

My closet!  I don't have a dresser, so I hung and ROYGBIV-ed everything...lol

View from our bedroom window...haha

Bathroom.  I love my shower curtain.  :)

No internet in our new apartment

Wow!  No updates for over a week!

Life has begun and I haven't had time to find a wifi hotspot and update! 

We've (mostly) made the move to Kihei!  I love our little apartment and our location and that we can walk to get $2 tacos, to the grocery store, or to the beach within 5 minutes.  :)

Some furniture, a TV, and internet would make it even better, but we'll get there eventually.  Haha.

I've been working pretty close to full time at the coffee shop, and I love it!  My boss is amazing and we hit it off almost immediately.  As long as I work more than 20 hours a week, I qualify for medical and dental here in Hawaii, and my boss said its something like 20-30 dollars a month.  Not bad!  AND, she asked me if I wanted to be a shift supervisor, which bumps me up a buck an hour and guarantees me hours!

The customers are great too (RICH!  lol), and I get to talk to people from all over the world, since most of them are on vacation.  One of the guys I work with lives on the same street as us, and I'm hitting it off with most of the girls too.  Friends?!  Yay!  lol.

My and Justin's 3rd wedding anniversary is coming up soon!  :)  If you had told me last year I would be spending it in Maui...haha, wow.  Sometimes I still don't believe that we actually moved here.  But we'll be back to visit soon!  My brother-in-law Andrew is getting married the first week of April, so we'll be heading back to the mainland then!  :)

I know I have a lot more to write, but the laptop is going to die, and Justin is probably awake back at the apartment.  I love opening at the coffee shop, but even on my days off, I'm awake at 6:30!  haha.