April 7, 2006
Post of randomness…
Given that our hot water heater is fried, we are getting a new one, yay! The new one will definitely be more energy efficient so we will not have a $175 electric bill, thank goodness. Our old hot water heater is currently being drained and the guy who is installing the new one is off buying a new hot water heater.
I am sleepy - we only got 6.5 hours of sleep last night and I generally need 9 hours to function properly and build muscle. I must work on this!
We have books all over our apartment - they are thrown hither and thither and are definite trip hazards.
I am finally in contact with a good nutritionist to help me make the most of my diet - with 5000 or so calories per day I need help!
Brian found out this morning that you can get cheap almonds at Cost-U-Less and we don’t even have to pay a membership fee like at Costco.
We need to start scoping out potential places to buy a new house next year we are thinking of looking in Papa’ikou down to Hilo or somewhere in the vicinity - maybe even close to here on a little street with interesting and unique older plantation (sugar) homes. They are really funky…
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March 13, 2006
Brian has been training me yet again for Powerlifting and Strongwoman competitions since we moved to Hilo. It has been great and I have made a lot of progress. Hopefully, I will be ready for aPowerlifting meet or a Strongwoman competition by this summer… I am putting on a lot of muscle mass, yay! Who said putting on muscle mass for women is hard? I need protein powder, we ordered 11 lbs. of it and I just ran out of my other protein powder today…
I need to start keeping my food diary again but I eat about eight times per day and it makes it too difficult to record everything. I also eat a lot of food. Oh well, I will try to keep the food diary up…
It has been raining here off and on but that is to be expected in the rainiest city in the world. Plus, March is supposed to be one of the wettest months here in Hilo. We did drive over to the Kona side on Saturday to go to Costco - we are SO glad we do not live there - people are incredibly rude and mean on that side of the island. It also takes us two hours to drive over there and then another two hours back but it does mean that we only have to go shopping for groceries once a month, yay.
More later, when I am not so busy…
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December 20, 2005
We live in the most expensive part of the island of Hawai’i and thus the food and gas prices are absurd. Last week, when we arrived we went to Foodland in the Parker Ranch center to buy some groceries to keep us until we could go to Costco in Kona. We paid $5.99 for a half gallon of soymilk, yes, you heard me right. We also saw that a small box of Cheerios were $6 but we did not waste our money. We only spent $47 that day but that is mostly because we looked at what was on sale and only bought that. So, today we had to go to Kona to check on my TB results (I passed, of course) and so we went to Costco. The gas is 21 cents cheaper at Costco compared to the cheapest gas in Waimea. After that, we shopped around Costco and bought 25 lbs of bread flour for $4.99 total, which is less than what we paid for 2 lbs of flour at Foodland. We also bought 25 lbs of rice, 10 lbs of pancake batter, 3 half gallons of soymilk for $6 total, a giant box of 50 granola bars, a giant box of cheerios (at least 4 times bigger than the one at Foodland and cost less too!), giant box of Newman’s blueberry cereal, giant tins of tomato sauce (gallon size) for less than $2 each(!) and we bought a ton of pasta and other random things. I think we came out at about $90. If we bought it all at Foodland we would have spent a billion dollars, I bet.
On the way home, we saw this guy on a moped driving along the side of the road in Kona (coming from Costco) with a case of beer and chicken in his basket. It was funny…
We also got some books today, a juicer, and a random aloha shirt at Sal’s Boutique (Salvation Army). My juicer cost $8 and it is in perfect condition. It is just like my old juicer that cost about $75-80.
And who said living in Hawaii is expensive? I suppose it is if you are dumb enough to shop primarily at the grocery store in Waimea, love to buy gas at the most expensive place in town, must drive a $50K car, live right on the beach in a multi-million dollar home, and buy all new stuff all the time and only at the mall.
Oh yeah, in other news, I got a job. I will be working for Easter Seals helping developmentally disabled adults… Yay! 
Brian will be working at the University of Hawai’i and writing his book about Hawai’i.
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