Happy Thanksgiving

The couple who own the house I am staying in invited me and my other housemates to their house for Thanksgiving dinner.  Only two of us went - me and Kenny - and we had a marvelous time.

The menu was what I am used to from the mainland - turkey, stuffing, ham, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce.  The only thing especially Hawaiian was some roasted taro and a lilikoi cheesecake.

I am not eating meat anymore so I ate nothing but sides and dessert - yummay!

I met a lot of new people.  The people of Hilo are pretty awesome.

Good food, good company - I'm thankful.

Long day

I woke at 4:00am today and couldn't go back to sleep.  By 4:00pm I couldn't function anymore.  After several mistakes at work I just started crying at the register.

The other cashiers empathized with me.  One of my co-workers talked about how stressed she used to get at a job she had at a pineapple factory.  She said she used to dream about being smothered by an avalanche of pineapples.