When I was in highschool I used to call very good days ‘love’ days in my journal. As in, ‘Today was a love day’. Today was not that for me but in the same spirit I would call today a Sun Day. K’s job isn’t a normal 9-5 job. Sometimes he has to leave very early in the morning. Sometimes not until mid-afternoon. In a way it’s nice because everyday can be different somehow. But the suburban in me longs for routines and schedules you can count on. This morning felt like a day that could be someone’s routine. K was driving into town and the timing worked out that he could drop me off at yoga class. We were even able to do some early morning grocery shopping before heading downtown. It was a very lite FM kind of morning.
I loved it.
After two weeks of dedicated attendance ( 11 of 14 days) Sarah and I came to the the end of our new student discount at Open Space Yoga. The sadness is that we’ve been able to go to an unlimited amount of classes for only $30. We saved over $100. We’ll definitely go back for classes with Murti and to try the Yin Yoga class which we didn’t get to do. But next week we’re moving on to a new place. More than likely Manoa Yoga Center.
Sarah and I were going to try lunch at Mix afterwards because neither of us had been. It was really crowded and I suggested we go back to Nuuanu and eat at Indigo. We’d passed it on the way and Sarah said it was a buffet style lunch that was rather good. And it smelled good! So we splurged and had a little bit of a fancier lunch.
Yum!
It was a very decadent day.
Sometimes talking to Sarah is like a Master Class on Hawaii for me. She drove me back home to Kailua and on the way she was telling me about Mu’u mu’u Heaven–a little shop in Kailua that carries dresses and apparel made out of vintage mu’u mu’u’s. The store is tucked in behind Foodland. Its’ so awesome that I’ve passed the turn countless times and never knew it was there.
So many lovely things– dresses, skirts, tops, jewelry, bags… When Obama was last here he donated his Toot’s mu’u mu’us to the store and the designer made a bow tie and cummerbund for him out of the material. I pulled a post-Holly Hobbie/ Laura Ingalls type skirt off the rack and told Sarah that I loved it so much that I could feel it in my stomach but that I would never wear it. Rather I’d sleep with it every night like a teddy bear forever.
Shortly after Sarah dropped me off I got a call on my cell from an unfamiliar Long Island telephone number. I tentatively answered assuming that it was a wrong number. Turned out to be a friend of someone that K and I both know back in NY. We got a message that this woman was going to be in town and didn’t know anyone aside from the friend she was staying with and that friend was going to be working much of the time she was here. I very off-handedly sent a message saying she could call me and I’d meet her if I could.
I answered and she said she was at the beach (which is right across the street) did I have time to come out. My instinct was to say I couldn’t because I was tired and had alot of writing I wanted to do. But I told her to come over and after I had some time to change we could go to the beach and swim.
It was unexpectedly a very relaxing and pleasant afternoon. Sunah was very nice. We ended up spending a long time bobbing in the water and talking about all types of things. I’m really glad that I behaved counter intuitively and met up with her. Maybe there’s hope for my Aloha spirit afterall!
These are the cookies she left behind:
Three One Nine 