Drowning

Well, I don't think we need to see another add to "conserve water" anytime soon here in Hawaii. We've endured 42 straight days of rain. It started well before Florence's visit back in February.

I heard a statistic it's never rained this much here in 100 years. I thought that was bullshit. Everyone must have short-term memory I thought. Anyone who's lived in Hawaii for a few years must remember those periods where it may rain here for 2 weeks straight....remember those muddy days back in Punahou Carnival? How many rubber slippers did you lose there in the mud? How many days did you walk into a University classroom drenched head to toe?

We had a few years of drought for sure. All of a sudden it seemed like it just didn't rain here in February anymore. All of a sudden we didn't get water at restaurants unless we asked for it and commercials urged our residents to water our plants at night and avoid washing our cars.

So when I first saw this rain, I thought everything is back to "normal". But yesterday as I was driving to the gym I think I finally believed the news reporters when they said this wasn't quite what we were prepared for. Here I am dodging new potholes deep enough to drown little dogs, my windshield wipers are going full speed yet I can barely get enough water off my windows to see 10 feet in front of me, and I hear thunder loud enough to shake my car and set off all the car alarms around me. That's freaky.

I'm ready for sunlight now damnit. This ain't Seattle....

The stories of what's going on around the island are a little unbelievable. Kahala Mall got flooded with about a foot of water. I was just there 2 days ago! For once I'm thankful I'm not living in a house.

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=4711580
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/8409825/detail.html

I went to another ring-shopping adventure with my mother. I found out I DO have a limit on my shopping patience after all. Here's my mood chart while ring shopping:

Hour 1: Happy and excited. "Hey...this will be cool! I'll find something real special!"
Hour 2: Moderate. "OK, that's kind of nice. I'm a little hungry mom."
Hour 3: Tempermental. "That looks just like the last 100 rings we looked at. Where's Starbucks?"
Hour 4: Impatient. "............... They haven't vacuumed this floor in a while. "

I think mom was just getting warmed up.

Help me.