A twenty-something thirty-year-old Hawaii transplant living it up on the East Coast for the past 10 years (Boston and Stamford, CT). This blog is to document my daily adventures and things that I find cool, uncool, hilarious, awe-inspiring, and annoying. Please feel free to email me at hawaiigurlinct@gmail.com.
May 1, 2012
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Sigh. The grass is always greener on the other side.
I’ve spent the last two weeks with the mother of all colds. And each second of it I spent wishing that I would get better. But it also meant that I’ve been treating myself to a 7:45 alarm everyday… you know, for the sake of healthiness! It’s the alarm setting usually reserved for stumbling-into-the-house-in-the-AM-crap-I’m-going-to-be-hungover-at-work-tomorrow mornings.
And then I finally turned the corner with this stupid cold. Yay for me.
And boo for the fact that there’s no reason for me not to re-start up my morning runs again.
Sigh.
April 24, 2012
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Red Sox Fans of the Day: Die-hard Red Sox fans in Oregon couldn’t be farther from Boston’s famed, 100-year-old Fenway Park. So one day in summer 2005, Ben Maciarello, the governor of the state’s Red Sox Nation fan club, asked his dad, Jim: “How cool would it be to have our family and friends trying to hit balls over the Green Monster?”
Dad was more than game for building a one-third Fenway replica on the family property in rural Oregon. And so the pair spent 12 hours a day — and $7,000 — in June 2006 building the Green Monster scoreboard, the odd-shaped “triangle” in the center-field wall, and “Pesky’s Pole” in right field. “We wanted it to look authentic,” Jim says.
No worry there — in giant letters, on the back of the Green Monster, you can’t miss it: “Fenway West.”
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Red Sox Fans of the Day: Die-hard Red Sox fans in Oregon couldn’t be farther from Boston’s famed, 100-year-old Fenway Park. So one day in summer 2005, Ben Maciarello, the governor of the state’s Red Sox Nation fan club, asked his dad, Jim: “How cool would it be to have our family and friends trying to hit balls over the Green Monster?”
Dad was more than game for building a one-third Fenway replica on the family property in rural Oregon. And so the pair spent 12 hours a day — and $7,000 — in June 2006 building the Green Monster scoreboard, the odd-shaped “triangle” in the center-field wall, and “Pesky’s Pole” in right field. “We wanted it to look authentic,” Jim says.
No worry there — in giant letters, on the back of the Green Monster, you can’t miss it: “Fenway West.”
Red Sox Nation Love.
April 22, 2012
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April 19, 2012
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So incredibly late to jump on the foursquare train, but now I’m obsessed.
Yet sometimes I feel it’s being a little judgy.
April 17, 2012
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How is it I’ve never heard of this before? Shredded bubblegum is amazing!
I was starving last night with no food options in sight and this was the only thing available. While not exactly what I had in mind for dinner, it didn’t detract from how amazing it was.
So today I’m polishing off the rest of the bag. I’m thinking of ordering them en bulk from whomever the wonderful makers of Big League Chew are.
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Proudest Moment of My Professional Career
Every month we have a “birthday celebration day” where they get enough cakes to feed 100 and we celebrate all the birthdays in the office. This month a mandatory meeting got scheduled at the same time. No!!!
A meeting that couldn’t be changed because it was based on the schedule of my Boss’s Boss’s Boss.
So I got the day of the office-wide birthday celebration changed.
I’m awesome. And yes, getting birthday cake was that important.
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The Big Cheesy
I meant to post this right after it took place in February… I’m not sure what happened. Here’s to more timely posts in the future!
February was for overindulging in food competitions. The eating part of food competitions that is. First there was ChowdaFest during the first weekend of February. And during one of the last weekends in February it was The Big Cheesy - a food competition for…. wait for it…. Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. Ah-may-zing.
For $25 you get a tall can of beer (or coconut water for the non-drinkers), and an hour time slot of eating grilled cheese from 7 different vendors. It wasn’t completely clear to me whether you were only supposed to have 1 helping from each vendor so I went back to my favorites for seconds… and err…. some thirds (it was all in the name of research after all).
I had this huge plan of reviewing each piece of cheesy goodness but 1) does anyone beside me really care… I’m going to go with no, and 2) again with the 2 months late issue. But don’t ever say I’m not service-y - so here are links to the 7 fantastic different vendors that were there: Melt Shop, Little Muenster, Lucy’s Whey’s Chelsea Market, Big Daddy’s, Casellula, Murray’s, and Tartinery.
The winner turned out to be the Melt Shop but let’s face it the real winner was me with all my munching on grilled cheese. And not just plain grilled cheese (though that is my all-time favorite option) but grilled cheese with pulled pork and homemade BBQ sauce, grilled macaroni with a parmesan crust and six different types of cheese, bacon, tomato, and truffle oil, grilled cheese with a fried egg on top, grilled cheese with short ribs, and grilled cheese with pepper relish. And those were just some of the options.
Not the winner but my personal fave (and the bronze winner) was Lucy’s Whey’s with their Prairie Breeze cheddar with fig jam, sea salt and Olive Oil on Amy’s Bread. AND tomato soup and wine.
Image by Alison Heller
Guess who will be there again next year? I cannot wait.
April 13, 2012
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One day more! Working for the weekend.
This ought to get me through till lunch.
April 9, 2012
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Portly Pets of the Day: The Pet Fit Club, a TV show in the U.K., is back for another season to help 18 lucky (unlucky?) pets and their owners battle the bulge. The lucky (unlucky?) participants include 11 dogs, 5 cats and 2 rabbits, and the biggest loser’s owner wins a year’s supply of pet food and a pet-friendly stay at a Four Seasons. This is one British show that would do even better stateside — more than half of adult dogs and cats in the U.S. are overweight or obese.
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I have finally found a reality show I want to apply to
starbe on. Though I think my cats may be too svelte to make it on. On one hand I’m proud that they slimmed down. On the other hand, how sad is it that they beat me to our respective goal weights.
March 30, 2012
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Spacial relation test everyone: How do I get all of this into 1 tiny ziplock bag? I’d be tempted to just check my luggage if I wasn’t flying on crappy US Airways.
And yes, I am packing while at work today. It was one of those, how can I make my plane this afternoon AND show up in time for my morning meeting - I know, throw everything into a couple bags and see what I can make of it all.
