I'm still alive and so is Project 365

I've been spending the weekend at my parents' house, which means no program to process my RAW image files so no pictures until either late Monday night or Tuesday afternoon. =)

In desperate need of a haircut...

I should be ashamed of how long it's been since my last haircut. I went two years without a haircut because I was living in Japan and was afraid the stylist would give me a Japanese mullet. Too many of my students were sporting these looks and I knew that I'd somehow end up with one too. Oh, you don't know what a Japanese mullet is? Here you go:


*shudder* Full on top and pathetically stringy and spider leggy on the bottom. Japan may be the only country where you can find more females with mullets than males... So I waited until I moved back to Hawaii and finally cut my hair after our November 2007 wedding.

Well, I got my hair cut once more after that but it was close to a year later. That puts my last haircut at around November 2008. It's now January 2011. Yes, it's been that long since my last haircut.

I'm thinking about something like this:

It's too bad a hairstyle can't also transform your entire body. =P

12/365: My new lenses...

No, not camera lenses, unfortunately. This is my new pair of glasses, or what I like to call my 'Coke bottle glasses v.2.0.' My eyesight is so bad that my eye doctor once told me, 'No, you don't qualify as legally blind but yeah, you pretty much are blind.' It's a little hard to tell with these frames how thick the lenses are but trust me, they're thick. The sad thing is, I think they're probably thicker than Coke bottle bottoms. =(

With my extreme near-sightedness and my husband's extreme far-sightedness, our hope is that our boy will be spared from a sad fate that involves his own pair of Coke bottle glasses. Fingers are crossed!

Nostalgia....

Gah, he used to be sooooo tiny! Can't believe he's already 4.5 months old!

I never thought this day would ever come.

I'm wearing CAMO.

In my defense, it's not because I want to.

Lord help me.

Saturday night snorkeling at Hanauma Bay

...was a total bust. Too many people, super high tide, way huge waves.

Man, I even put on my wetsuit for this. If you've never put on a full wetsuit, you have no idea what an ordeal this is. It's even worse when you're putting it on home, on a 90+ degree day with no air conditioning.

Although it didn't look hopeful for a good snorkel, John and I decided to give it a try. I got all the way to the water with my full wetsuit on, hair pulled back off my face, fins on my feet, and waterproof flashlight and mask in hand, when John asked me where my snorkel was. Oopsie. It was all the way on shore in my bag.

Learn from my absent-mindedness. You might want to double-check to see if you have your snorkel before getting into the water to snorkel. =P

Hanauma Bay is open until 10pm every other Saturday night. Maybe we'll see you there! Don't forget your snorkel!

Biore should be everyone's best friend.

On his last business trip to Japan, John picked up some Biore strips for me. Although I get grossed out everytime I use them, at the same time, I can't help but be fascinated by what these little strips of paper manage to pull out of my pores.

I actually took pictures of today's Biore strip but I'll spare you the horror. Let's just say that pics at 100% are scary, hella scary, and should never ever be looked at again.

And look, there's even a masculine manly man version for your husband or boyfriend. A black nose strip made by Gatsby. What makes me laugh is the name of the company that owns the brand Gatsby. Mandom. Could you get any manlier than that?

(Yes, John bought the Gatsby ones for himself. He's a vain creature, just like me.)