midweek confessions

1) I roll my eyes and bitch with the rest of you when the mall Christmas decorations go up two seconds after Halloween's passing ... but secretly? I have started to love the holidays again. And so, for me, the sooner the blinky lights come on, the better.

For the first time ever, my parents will be away on Thanksgiving. This means two things: I can have my own little Thanksgiving thing the day before or after with friends and Mart (pressed turkey sammiches for us, canned turducken for the dogs!), and on the actual turkey day, I don't have to leave hunny's Kaneohe thing early. Novel concept - staying till the very hairy end! So looking forward to it.

2) I've been eating a lot of leftover Halloween candy. I cannot specify exactly how much, but I can say it ain't pretty. Particularly because all my favorites contain peanut butter.

3) I voted yes for rail even though it breaks my heart to imagine a rail system running through Oahu. I've been blessed all my life - have never had to deal with the traffic-related headaches that the Ewa folks have had to endure, and have never lived more than a 10-minute drive from work or school. (Kinder through sixth, school was in my backyard.) But even if I'm fortunate enough to keep this location situation throughout the years, I can see the growing, pressing need for a solution in other parts of the island.

4) ... and no on Con-Con because if I even considered it, I would have been clobbered by my union. There is the whole "A bajillion nonexistent dollars to fix what isn't broken" thing, but being clobbered by teachers is even worse.

5) I misbuttoned my cardigan this morning and looked like a special-needs teacher all day long. Was it a kindness or blindness that NO ONE told me this all day?! Anyway, this is the "Proud To Be An American" getup that had to be topped off with a cardigan in the first place. I love Old Navy, but the thickness of their basic tanks is comparable to a sheet of Kleenex.

6) I am supposed to be running errands and making dinner right now. Instead I am taking bad self-portraits and giggling over the daily blogroll. Some great wife I'm gonna be.

7) I know I am paying too much for wedding flowers. This does not mean I am paying for quality or service I'm not receiving. It means I'm paying for and receiving top quality and excellent service that I do not exactly need, if you catch my snowdrift. Becoming a bratty bride, stimulating the economy, enjoying the finer things in life, making the most of a special day ... however you look at it, I just put down a lot of money in a category I claimed, not a month ago, to have very little interest in.

Okay, gotta go run those errands for real now.