Coming Home

I am so excited to get to come home for 2 weeks the first part of Nov.  I know that as usual it will be filled with lots of driving to see friends, and I hope some great time with my parents.  I am ready to see familiar faces.  Dominic will stay here, well he will probably go on a mission to South America, to be the translator for the trip.  Yes my honey is latino!  I know!  So cute!!  

I am really boring so I thought I would put together a list of differences between OK and HI:

At home I don't:

Pay for parking to go to Chilies', or really any other restaurant.

Pay over $4 for gas

Get to wear my bathing suit to dinner out

Have to sit in traffic at any hour of the day, not just at rush hour

Don't have to show an ID to get to work

Feel like my height is average...there are so many asians here that I feel like I just fit right in being short, now if I could just have brown skin and straight brown hair.....

Wait to go food shopping with Dom because cereal is $6, and milk is $9 off base!!!!  It is unreal!!!

Get to go to the beach with some good friends on our days off.

Have to find street parking to go visit friends, or pay to park in their parking garage

Get great plate lunches for lunch (a full lunch :chicken or seafood, rice and salad all crammed on a to go styrofome plate).  But oh so yummy!!

These are just a few things I can think of to show you the difference.  Most days I feel like i am in a different country.  But I have really come to love where I live.  The culture is fascinating, the food is wonderful, and it is definitely all in who you know.  Relationships are huge here.  

I hope that you guys are having a great night!!

Newbie

I am new to the blog world.  Yes I jumped on the bandwagon!!!!  I will be the first to tell you that I love reading everyone's blog to find out what they are doing and where.  I hope that mine will be interesting as well.  I have been living in Hawaii for a year now...wow a whole year...and working at the Army hospital in town.  It has been a great year of many adventures to neighbor islands, swimming with dolphins and sharks, and getting great hang out time with friends here and Dominic.  The Lord has been so faithful to give me great Godly girls to spend great time with.  

But now that is all changing.  My friends are all moving on to wonderful jobs on the mainland, and I will be here in Hawaii with Dom.  Don't get me wrong, he is wonderful, caring, so sensitive and sweet.  But he is not a girl.  I am praying for good girl or group of girls to play and explore with.  So be in prayer about that.

Also I just found out today that I can't extend my contract here to cover the time that I am coming home.  Let me back up.  I am in a contract with my company.  I was going to go home for 2 weeks to see my family and friends, then come back, work under an extended contract, until I can start as staff at the beginning of the pay period in Nov.  My manager told me that was fine to extend as long as I need to, then start as staff.  I talked to my recruiter and the hospital liason today and that is not an option.  So there will be a break in me working, even though I am on the schedule to work. AHHHHHH!!!  What do I do????!!!!  So they are telling me that I won't be working for a couple of weeks.  What do I do, how do I pay for things???  Please be in prayer that the Lord will be faithful, as he always is, and this will all work out. 

Well I am off to get ready to go up to the hospital to tackle all this.  Have a great day!!!  Talk to you soon friends!!