Life on the Island

Bonjour amigos! I hope you enjoyed the September Music Sizzle. I'll try to keep posting some musical treats for you. In the meantime, let's pick up where we left off. HAWAII. 

We've been having an absolute blast down here. The picture above was taken at Lanikai beach in Kailua, which is absolutely beautiful. You may know it as "Obama's Beach" but we got to know it as , "Um heaven is that you?" 

Adventure #1. 

Fact: I have a little problem with heights. I never used to be afraid of heights, but one fateful day, I was high up and suddenly felt the overwhelming urge to lay flat and hold onto the ground for dear life. Basically, I get a mean case of vertigo. So now you know. 

MainSqueeze and I decided to hike up Koko Head. It's a very steep "mountain" where the "trail" is made up of a railroad track. Sounds easy enough, right? 

We decided to go at 1:30 pm (also known as the hottest part of the day) and I decided that I should wear a black top and black shorts, because obviously. 

Looks harmless. 

We started up the trail and it seemed easy enough. The steps are pretty huge, so my short legs were werrrrkin hard. Then there's a terrifying part. Where you literally have to get on all fours to climb up the railroad tracks because if you don't, you can fall through the middle and....die? break all appendages? Needless to say, I forgot to breathe during that part and had to stop a little ways up and take a breather. 

Once we made it to the top, the huffing and puffing was WORTH the view. You feel like you're on top of the island. Both of our phones were dead so we can't really prove we were there, but if you ever make it up, you'll see that we wrote our names on the concrete block at the top. So there IS proof. 

Now, I have to get to gettin', but tomorrow I promise to wow you with SWINE. Yes. I will be telling you about a hot restaurant here in Honolulu that was recently voted top 50 in the USA and was nominated for a James Bear award. EXCITING. 

Peace out for now amigos, 

First is the worst...

You know the feeling. It grips your lungs, your muscles tense, and usually (on my end at least) you emit a high pitched squeal as you anticipate jumping into a pool for the first time. And it's not heated. That's how I feel writing the first post on TheSizzle. 

Inner Monologue:

"Just write the darn thing, it won't write itself, and you look silly just having an "about" and "contact" section. WHO is going to want to know about you or contact you if there's nothing to read?" 

Sigh. Get up from computer and maybe stretch, maybe walk around my huge (read:tiny) apartment and contemplate the weather. 

"Fine. I'll start writing, but....what if no one reads it?"

And there you have it. My hot pink elephant in the room. The fear. But you know what? I'm over it. Bring on the hot pink elephant. TheSizzle is ready to rock n' roll and in the next few weeks there will be an onslaught of posts and fun things for you to feast your eyes on. So get ready. And in the meantime tackle your own pink elephant. I promise it's not that scary. Swears.