Diary Day One

Alright, so I thought i'd blog about where I am, what i'm doing, blah blah blah, so I can remember more detail when I get back home.

I understand I haven't blogged in the longest time - kept putting it off. Kept putting other things first.

Alright, so first off, i'm currently in Hawaii. Island of Oahu. I flew in last night from LAX. I've had the ticket for two months already and I kept dreading the day of my departure. Anywho, i'll just start from Monday morning.

Monday, May 24, 2010.
Mom asked me to go in to work and sub for her a bit till she finished some stuff up at home. Since i'll be gone for the next two weeks I say sure. I head to work, and I was ok'd to leave by 12. However, I didn't leave till 2:30, completely ruining my plans of getting ready for my flight. After arriving at home and running around packing some last minute items, I took a shower, and headed to the airport with Bryan. He dropped me off at the curb and we had (well, I had) a tearful goodbye. He's shipping out the day I return so I don't know when i'll see him again. He stood there and hugged me for a bit and promised he'd come back to California when he could. I sent him home because I didn't want to get even MORE emotional, grabbed my bags and went through the Check-In and what not. I got to the security checkpoint, where the TSA man checking my ID and boarding pass couldn't stop looking between me and my license. Then he tried to flirt with me, which I found really creepy. He was TOTALLY like WAYY older. People kept staring at me walking around so I just found a corner near my gate and sat down and waited. Boarded the plane a bit late, and the man I was sitting next to turned out to be really friendly(: As I struggled to load one of my carry ons in the top bin a few people offered to help me. I thanked them, but denied their help. With one last push, I got it in and closed the door, cautioning to the others to be careful when they opened it because I wasn't sure how well it fit. I sat down, and the long flight begin.

In the Plane.
I admit I was terribly nervous. I hadn't eaten anything all day because of my nerves. The plane took off and we hit a bit of turbulence, where... I admit I freaked out JUST A LITTLE. The guy beside me just chuckled. They served us dinner, some crappy enchilada stuff and a brownie cake thing with frosting WAY too sweet. I figured I had to eat something so I snacked on that. My dvd player died like 2 and a half hours into the flight so I started dozing and took a half hour nap. I was pretty comfortable surprisingly. but once i woke up, i couldn't get comfortable again. Anyway, they had us fill out some paperwork an hour before we were scheduled to land. Some contract thing saying we weren't bring anything to the islands we shouldn't be bringing. We started descending after. The city lights were SO beautiful! The landing was a bit rough, but nothing I couldn't handle. I held a conversation with the man next to me to keep myself occupied. He laughed every time the plane lurched and I'd make some sort of "Oh my god" comment to myself. He asked me why I was visiting, why I was alone, blah blah blah. So I told him some stuff about me, and he told me some stuff about him. Pretty interesting and hilarious man. xD Anyway, they towed us into the gate, but we had another long wait because two people on the plane got real sick so they had EMTs board and get them off first. Finally, we were given the ok to get off the plane and Mr. Man sitting next to me got my carry on for me. I got off the plane and headed to baggage claim and was being attacked by a flood of text messages. I was also sending them out to closer friends and family saying I just landed and everything was dandy.

Honolulu Airport.
So I walked over to baggage claim and still had NO idea where Nick was. I said screw him, i'll get my own luggage and stood over by the belt to look for my (actually his, but my stuff was in it) bag. After a few minutes of glancing around at the crowd and looking for my bag, i heard running footsteps behind me. I knew who it was, I didn't have to turn around. He tackled me in a hug from behind and all I replied with was, "You're late." He said he wasn't late because I hadn't gotten my bag yet and waiting for him. Anyway, my bag came out soon after and he grabbed it for me, along with my backpack carry-on while I held the pastries. We headed out to the parking garage and it was decided I would go with him back to work.

After the airport.
His Sergent had called a few minutes after I had called and texted him saying I had landed. So I went to work with him to two different locations. Met the Sergent and some other poolie who seemed... eh, I guess kinda normal? We finished up cleaning some other office (more or less the Poolie. I sat helped a bit.), and headed back to the other recruiting office. After waiting for half an hour or so, we finally headed out to get something to eat.

Zippy's.
He decided to take me out to Zippy's to try their one-of-a-kind chili. There was like, a Zippy's on every corner! Lol. I guess it's REAL popular here in Hawaii. We sat down, and when the waitress didn't understand why we were taking so long to order, Nick said it was my first time here. She nods and walks away only to make a sharp turn and dash back to our table and say, "Wait! How have you NEVER been to Zippy's before?!" She seemed completely astonished and forward that I was stunned and confused. As I was trying to stumble out that I'm not from here, Nick explained that he had just picked me up from the airport and that I was from Cali. It all clicked then and she encouraged me to try one of the chili containing plates because that's what they were most popular for. Nick ordered me some like.. fried chicken, white rice, veggies, with chili and got himself some samin noodles. I admit, the chili was pretty good. But maybe that's because I was starving. Soon after I started feeling reallyy nauseous. Nick paid our bill, and our waitress gave me some encouragement on meeting his parents. She said, "You look like something parents would want. You'll be fine." Hahaha. Nick and I both found it funny. Anyway, we headed to Long's Drugs right next door to look for some Nauzene. Unsuccessful after walking down three rows three times, I was too tired to care and requested we head home. So we did.

Temporary Home.
So we got home, parked the car in the garage and walked in. We left the pastries on the stove for his mom and I was ready to head downstairs when Nick started making a whole lotta noise to wake his dad up. He was asleep on the couch, and the tv was still on and Nick just HAD to wake him up to tell him we'd come home. His dad like, jumped off the couch and had a huge smile on his face and shook my hand. I guess he was really eager to meet me? He seemed really nice(: I apologized for waking him up, which he said was perfectly fine (it was only 12:30 local time. 3:30AM Cali time) because it wasn't too late. I'm still running on Cali time ya know? So i'm exhausted as hell. We went downstairs to the bedrooms (which are still above ground, mind you!) and he led me to his room where he made me wait outside. I figured some last minute cleaning, okay, sure. He opened the door and there were candles lit up, like everywhere! I said, "Aww, you're so lame..." and he was like, "Heyy! ): " hahaha. We moved my stuff into the room and he told me how happy he was that I'd decided to come and blah blah blah. I stressed how exhausted I was and he showed me the bathrooms and gave me a short tour of the downstairs. I washed up while he showered, and I retired onto his bed and knockkked out.

Night One.
So, funny story, right? The night was humid, but cool, Nick turned on the AC in the room so I'd feel more comfortable. Sometime during the night I rolled over onto my right side, and felt my cheek touch something wet. I twitched and just thought I was imagining it. But I wanted to check so I extended my hand and touched the area again. Yeah, it was wet all right. With my exhaustion preventing me from thinking straight I followed the trail toward Nick's side of the bed where there was a pool of drool near his mouth. I exclaimed, "Eww!" which woke Nick up and made him ask what was wrong. When I explained he was drooling, he just laughed, wiped his mouth, and apologized. I rolled back over to my side of the bed and told him I wasn't going near him again. Hahaha.

So it's the morning now, sorta. It's almost 1PM here. Nick had to go back to work in the morning so I decided to sleep in till about 12pm. I'm pretty exhausted from last night and the flight.

JUST met Nick's brother, Kevin. He called Kevin to look for these white shirts for his uniform and asked him to pass the phone onto me. Hahaha. I went rummaging his whole room for those shirts, I found them though! Now Kevin's off to drop them off along with his uniform to the recruiting office place.

So yeah... I guess I should wash up, put some jeans on and clean Nick's room. I'll be moving into the guest room today. We thought it wasn't cleaned last night but apparently his mom went in and did some last minute cleaning before I arrived.

Hopefully, Nick'll be off work soon (although it doesn't look it, why would he need his uniform if he was.) and we'll be able to go grab a bite to eat and tour the island a bit.

So that's up until now... I'll probably do some more lounging about and chatting online before I wash up and explore the house a bit. Yepp yepp.

Wish me luck on meeting his mum when she gets home later. Hahaha.

Until then, toodles!