Home, sweet, giant, home

Our new home

Aloha!  We have finally moved into our new home.  This was our first weekend of chillin’ (aka cruisin’) at our new place.  It’s super huge and crazy, but we are getting used to it pretty quickly.  God help us when we ever do have to pay full-price rent; it will be hard to leave this palace and move into a shoebox one day.  But let’s not think about that now.  I posted a bunch of pictures on Facebook, so you can see them there if you are my FB friend.  I’ll add a few here, as well.  


In other news, this was my first week of school with kids.  It started out a little crazy, but was a great week in general.  My colleagues are mostly pretty fabulous and the kids are a lot of fun.  I have insane amounts of work to do tomorrow (Sunday) so that I can be prepared for the week, but such is life in the first weeks of school.  It will all start to calm down in a few weeks, I think.  I begin teaching from home on Tuesday, which is very exciting for Porter Brown.  He has been cooped up inside for long stretches while Dave and I were at work these past two weeks.  I’m looking forward to hanging out with him while I work, despite the insane tumbleweeds of dog hair that are rolling through this place.  

Off to a cookout!

We had two parties to go to this weekend, one for each of our jobs.  It’s kind of nice to get out and socialize with people, though we would have also loved lounging on the beach for a few hours.  There’s always tomorrow...  


That’s just about it for now.  If I haven’t called you, I’m thinking of you.  It’s really hard to juggle phone calls and down time and Dave & Porter time and alone time and errands and all the other things that have to happen on weekends.  Even though it’s Maui, we still have to wrestle with to-do lists and laundry and boring stuff like that.  Anyway, things are good and hopefully I can catch up with everyone soon.  


I learned a new saying today (at 8 p.m.):  “It’s Maui midnight!”  So true.  I wake up around 7:30 when I’m sleeping in and I am usually starting to think about bed time by 9 p.m.  Life is much more daytime focused around here, and the wind and sun and sand exhaust everyone enough that we don’t really care if Mos Def is playing right down the street in Lahaina tonight (which he is).  The tickets are $50+, anyway.  Crazy!


‘night y’all.  Aloha!