After what was a somewhat short move in, we went to Panera Bread for some chow then hit up Big Lots for some extra drawers, my closet curtain, and some other little organizational baskets. I've heard more police sirens tonight than I do in a given month in Murray.
My window opens up enough for Daddy to almost fall out, which is a plus if I get mad a Ashley...just kidding.
There are 4 other people on my floor, I think. The rest move in tomorrow, oh joy. I need to go to bed, my goal is to make it to church in the morning.

Kbye.

Hi,
I move in tomorrow.
Tonight has been a happy combination of dance partying and packing =D
As soon as mom and dad get home from the laser light show in LBL, I shall load the remaining stuff into the van, and then go to Mary's Kitchen for some late night pancakes with the crew =)
In case you haven't noticed. I'm excited.
...and hungry.

Oh, yeah! I went to MHS volleyball practice today to help them get ready for All-A tomorrow. My body's going to fall apart tonight. Yay for living on the 6th floor?

Peaceeee outttttttttt

Not too much has happened in the past couple of days, other than Lauren took me to Applebee's last night for supper before a little get together we had so I could hang out with everyone as much as possible before I MOVE IN SATURDAY =D
Yes, I'm excited.
I went to Quizno's on Friday with Katie and got one of the toasty torpedoes. It was actually REALLY good for four bucks. Then we went to RSEC with all the incoming freshmen and got all sorts of free stuff. I got a huge bag from the Book & Bean coffee shop; it's made of recycled material and what not. It's the bomb. I think I'm in love with it.
As for today? NOTHING. And I like the idea of that.

I'm blue ba ba di da ba die....

or however it goes. Feel free to take your own interpretation and sing it a loud.

"Are you seriously posting two blogs in two days?!"

Yes, I am. I'm trying to get in the habit so as to prevent worrisome parents.

TODAY: I finished the Time Traveler's Wife which was an amazing read. I was incredibly angry and upset and frustrated and in love with it the whole time. However, I'm not sure that I'm going to see the movie after all...I spent the last 45 minutes of the book crying as I read. It was so sweet, and, ugh....unreal. Can I have my Henry please? Kthnx.
In other news, I packed another rubbermaid tote full of bedding and towels today. Woot! I also managed to mow the back yard, kill the lawnmower by running over what *used* to be a pine tree, and then earned my supper push mowing the rest. When I finished, my presented me with a dead hummingbird that she found on the porch, and as intrigued by it as I may have been, I was too disturbed by it to take pictures. Rare, for me, I know. It was just so tiny and helpless, hopeless and gone that it had lost all of its beauty and splendor. Maybe that book just set my mood to "morbidly depressed" all day. It worked.

Tomorrow's agenda consists of putting up more clothes that were just washed, and by putting up, I mean most likely packing them =) Mom mentioned something about the lake, which would be great considering my sunburn from last weekend is just now beginning to peel. In 10 minutes, I will be exactly one week away from moving.
TEN MINUTES?!
Holy Saint Francis, it's a good two hours past my bedtime.

Flightless Bird

So I'm officially two days closer to "leaving the nest," as my momma calls it.

"Two days, Caitlin? You can only move forward one day at a time, silly freshman!"

This is not so, friends. I received a letter in the mail today that says I am "eligible for early move-in." I am "strongly encouraged, but not required" to take advantage of this opportunity. I think we all know how I am about taking advantage of things...
ANYWAY: I now move to Bowling Green on Saturday, August 22, 2009. I will then be, as Webbie so quaintly puts it "I N D E P E N D E N T" (For those of you that missed that reference *coughmom&dadcough* click this, and make sure you speakers are appropriately tuned for that "rap garabge.")

"Caitlin, I noticed your blogspot looks REALLY different! What did you do to make it so beautiful?"

Well, after arriving home at 2 this morning from picking up a friend at the airport, I planned on sleeping until 10, reading The Time Traveler's Wife, and then cleaning my room. (The latter was a joke meant to appease my mother.) However, my roomie-to-be felt it necessary to call me at 8:30 this morning. Since then, I have been arguing my way into various HTML coding and picture uploading, and voila, this masterpiece. The background is Olympic Square, Atlanta, Georgia, taken in November of 2007 during an FCCLA "Cluster" meeting. That was before red polyester ate my life...*sigh* I'm easily sidetracked, who knew?

All the way home

So we're home now.
I miss Hawaii, but more so I miss Chris.
I'm going to sleep now, I'll do that whole "update" and "post pictures" thing later...

Oops...

FRIDAY:
We attempted to go pick Chris up from base = epic fail. Security was tight for some reason...whatever. He came over later, met the next door neighbor who is his new best friend, and then made his way up the spiral staircase to our humble abode. Mom and Dad his up a local Italian restaurant for their anniversary, and Chris and I headed to Waikiki to eat at Hy's steakhouse, which was RIDICULOUSLY expensive, yet delicious. We roamed around for a while, went shopping, exploring, and walked on the beach and made it home at a VERY reasonable hour. Sort of.

SATURDAY:
After a lovely breakfast of toasted waffles, we headed to the beach to "get our tan on" and swim for a while. We eventually came back in and went parasailing in Waikiki. Well, mom and dad watched, Chris and I actually went up in the air. It was awesome. When we got done with that, we explored Ward Center (I think) to find coffee and a restroom. But Hawaii doesn't pee enough, according to Chris. There aren't a whole lot of public restrooms. Anywhere. That night we ate at Buca di Beppo's Italian restaurant and it was almost better than Hy's. But not really, that steak was like butta. After attempting to do the cool kid thing and go to a dance club, we discovered that, in fact, we are NOT cool, and just went home.

SUNDAY/TODAY:
Breakfast was a local crepery...they make awesome crepes. And yes, crepery is a word. I got a nice combination of strawberry, bananas, and nutella with ice cream, and Chris got cinnamon apples something...with ice cream. We walked around downtown Kailua, found a cool pair of sunglasses at Macy's that I wouldn't let Chris buy me, and then hopped in Marylan's Cab Van to go to the base. That was exciting...lots of guys yelling at each other. It pretty much looks like what the picture shows on google maps. Yes, I look at it all the time.
As of now, we're getting directions to the luau and gonna have us a good ole time, Hawaii style.

Semi-daily recap

The wind is blowing everything around in our apartment right now; it's significantly cooler tonight than it has been so far. Granted, it rained for a bit while we ate supper at Pinky's Pupu Bar and Grill. Yeah, pupu, go ahead and laugh.
Dad had a "Pittsburgher," mom had some kind of salmon thing, and I opted for a chicken quesedilla. Chris was supposed to get off work somewhere between 12 and 4, but lo and behold, at almost 5, I get a call from a strange number--Chris broke his phone (this is number 4...or 5. I forget) and they're working until, well, at least right now. It's 9:40.
Snorkeling was a blast this morning. We all got a little scraped up from the coral, but it was beautiful. The fish aren't really afraid to swim with the people anymore, so we got a see a huge variety. I had an underwater camera with me, so I took a few shots with that, then bought another one from the gift shop (for twice what it's worth haha.) We found a Walgreens and had those developed while we ate supper. Let me just say that taking pictures through goggles while dodging fish and sharp coral is harder than you may think. We got those on CD though, so maybe I'll get around to uploading them sometime.
That's really all we did today. Wake up, snorkel, go eat (Panda Express!) go back to Hunauma, leave, get ready, eat. Oh, when we went back to pick up the pictures we got Ben and Jerry's half baked ice cream to celebrate Momma's birthday. Now THAT'S a good way to end the night.

Upon mi madre's birthday

Yesterday we ended up scaling Diamond Head Crater. It used to be some kind of military post, so we got to climb up this joker using trails carved by donkeys. Yours truly was wearing flip flops...yay. It took us 40 minutes to climb up, and maybe 25 minutes down. The view of the southern coast was awesome from the top. We then enjoyed some nice shave ice. Yes, shave ice, not shaveD ice. It was amazinggg. We navigated our way around the coast and found "The Shrimp Express" close to the north shore and ate a pretty good meal before trying to hunt down a Pacific sunset. We missed most of it, but managed to get a few shots in before returning back to the apartment. All in all, not too bad for a first full dy in Hawaii.
We're now getting ready to go snorkel, as this is what Momma wanted to do on her birthday. The fish are supposedly more active in the morning, so we're up and ready to go--it's almost 7 here.
Hopefully, I'll get to go on base and see Chris tonight, which is a big plus for the day =)
I'm off to go swim with the fishes!

Top of the mornin' to ya!

It's a whopping 9:00 as I begin typing this, which means it's 2:00 back home.
We couldn't sleep in this morning, so we got up around 4:15 and headed down to the beach to capture the sunrise.

This is from our balcony before we actually left.
We spent a good hour and a half down on the sand, taking pictures of anything and everything. Since I have two cameras, I gave one to Momma, and between the three of us, I think we got everything. Here's a couple of my favorite shots from the beach. (Naturally, they're all mine haha)







The lonely coconut =(


And I'll end with this. I absolutely love playing with reflections =)


Mom's asleep on the couch, dad's standing on the ladder playing on his laptop, and I think I'm gonna grab a snack. No clue what's in store for the day yet, but I promise to let you know tonight.