I am working towards a launch tomorrow of Katy Johnson Resort Wear. I currently just have a few additional things to do - setting up the payment information and also finishing up pictures and some inventory related things (like sorting through the hundreds of flip flops I have). I am excited. Things are moving along nicely… Now, I only have to get my advertising campaign ready to go ASAP.

I actually helped my Dad work through his internet related woes this evening and the venture was successful. We did not even butt heads in the 1.5 hour long phone call. Hooray. The ENTJ and INTJ can get along, it would seem.

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…That’s all I ever do.  At least I enjoy it!  I have been working with a new PR & Marketing firm in Atlanta instead of the terrible PR/Marketing people I had spoken with in LA.  I was unable to find a Hawaii based PR firm that worked with people in fashion.  I have promised to drag Brian to fabric buying shows open only to the trade.  I think he is just happier about the location of these shows as opposed to actually going with me.  I have a lot of bags being sewn right now and a ton more in development.  I need an assistant desperately.  It will be rather hard to find one here on the Big Island but we will see…  My migraines are picking up - it is probably directly correlated with my workload.

Brian and I have been spending more time in the ocean.  He has actually been having fun snorkeling but he has yet to try bodyboarding.  Maybe next time around he will give it a try…  Brian’s parents are coming in July for his birthday - hopefully we should be able to all go snorkeling and maybe I can catch a few waves at some point.

Too many thoughts are currently going through my head - more later!

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I have been incredibly busy for a number of reasons.  I am launching my handbag line literally *right now* and have been extremely busy hiring people and working with fabric and designing bags.  Also, I visited my family in Georgia and attended to a few business related things while there.  Brian and I have also been doing more outdoor activities.  He’s been doing water activities with me lately and we are having a lot of fun.  I body boarded some treacherous shore break two weeks ago and that was fun.  Brian and I went snorkeling at Kahalu’u Beach Park in Kona and we both had a blast.  I prefer the reef when the water is deeper but I think it was better for him - he prefers it when it is more shallow.  Everything fun on this island is pretty much free or dirt cheap - it’s great.

I have been reading Sherlock Holmes lately so Brian and I also started watching the Sherlock Holmes series from the 1980’s - what a fabulous series.  I highly recommend it (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).  Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be a textbook INTJ - it is interesting.  Brian thinks Holmes is great and he would be friends with him.  This makes sense since Brian is attracted to INTJs.  I, however, dislike every INTJ I’ve come in contact with and prefer to read things written by them or see/read things that star an INTJ.  While I like watching Holmes and reading about him I know that I would dislike him profusely if I knew him in person.  INTJs do seem to dislike one another as a rule…

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It has been a very long time since I updated.  My handbag line is about to debut and my bags are soon going to be plastered all over the internet and in stores!  I am thrilled…

I am going to GA on Sunday for business and to visit family - should be fun…

More later…

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So, I got my sewing table yesterday and I also got my dresser as well.  Brian said he would actually help me stain the dresser this weekend, yay!  He’s slightly less anti-dresser but that’s not saying much.  He told me I should keep the dresser in the basement or just store my clothes in the rec room in the basement - yeah right.  I got the dresser from our local unfinished furniture store.  I wanted something that was solid wood and high quality but I was not going to pay one of the furniture stores around here for some hideous piece of furniture made out of 10% wood and 90% crap approximately $800 for just a chest of drawers - no thank you.

Brian has had a sore throat for about a week so we’re going to take him to the doctor today to make sure he is okay.  Hopefully, they will give him something that will help him feel better…

More later…

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A myriad of things are going on right now and all of them are fun and exciting!  Some interesting things are occuring business-wise and I could not be more excited.

We spent Valentine’s Day watching two really bad and gruesome X-Files episodes while eating Chinese takeout - it was interesting.  The episodes were these two:  the weird man with mother issues who kills people and takes hair and nails from them and the other episode was some satanic cult that sacrifices the kids living in the town.  We could not even finish watching the second episode, it was just too stupid and absurd.
Today, I am going to find a dresser and a new sewing table.  I also have a doctor’s appointment to find out what is going on with my body…

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I will be going to the mainland next week to visit my parents and grandmother.  It should be a fun time with them, I think.  I am only dreading the 12 hour day of travel over to visit them but it really should not be so bad…  It is only a little over 5 hours to LAX from HNL and then 4 hours to ATL plus the additional 45 minutes to fly to HNL from ITO…

Brian and I are also trying to figure out what to do with our summer vacation since he will not be teaching the summer session (thank goodness) - so we shall see.  Our ideas so far are: visit family on the mainland, Alaska, Australia, Japan, Tibet, India, Nepal, China, and Vietnam.  So, who knows…

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I was exhausted last night when I went to sleep and I did not wake up until 11 AM or so…  I had to get up very early the day before so that I could proctor the exam for Brian’s class very early in the morning.

I also have watched a few movies too:  The Devil Wears Prada, The DaVinci Code, etc.  I really liked The Devil Wears Prada and The DaVinci Code was okay but not great…

Brian is still in LA and apparently he is going to the Lakers game with his Dad.  Brian says he is going to bring me a Kobe ball for our anniversary.  I’m not entirely sure what that is but I am pretty sure I do not want it.  :P  I did purchase Brian’s anniversary presents but none of them have arrived yet (yikes!) and our anniversary is coming up soon on the Winter Solstice.

My fast/diet thing is going OK.  I was sick to my stomach and did not feel well but now I am taking some probiotics and I seem to feel okay.  However, I am getting sick of eating only steamed broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and zucchini with lemon and drinking only water and green tea. The worst part is the shakes - the green shake that tastes faintly like blueberries is okay but I only have to drink that once a day.  The really nasty shake - the one that is chalky and gritty with a horrid smell really tastes quite disgusting.  Oddly enough, adding berries just makes it worse…

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I finally got my sound to work by some small miracle.  Alsa is cracked out and I had to do a whole bunch of crap to get it to work. YaST was of no help…  I nearly peed in my pants when it finally *did* work it was so incredibly loud.  I ended up using gamix (GTK alsa mixer) and it finally got the settings just right.  The sound is decent enough and I am just happy to have it now.

Earlier, my mouse was going insane.  Ahh, the trials and tribulations of a GUI.  My SuSE machine is now great…

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So, I am annoyed but also really happy.  Go figure.

The Good
We went to ‘Imiloa today - that is the astronomy center here on the island.  Of course, the Big Island has the best telescopes on the planet and the best place to view them and in conjunction with the university they have set up a multi-million dollar planetarium and cultural and astronomy center.  It is amazing - we are shocked.  We spent four hours there and only left because we were starving to death.  They had a restaurant but we did not know it until we left.  That place is unbelievable - it really belongs in a huge city not in Hilo… We are going to get a membership there.  Since Brian is faculty at the sponsoring university it works out to be very cheap - so that is a plus.

Brian got me three servers and also a monitor for free (from his workplace) so now I can have more development environments - yay!  I have 2 dell servers and one custom server.  I am installing Debian 3.1, OpenBSD 4.0, and Mandriva “Mandrake” - so that will be great.  My office is a wreck but it does make me glad that I have all this free hardware which is in great shape.  I only had to replace a power supply, floppy drive, and a hard drive…

My father and I are talking about doing some business together and I’ve got some open source projects I am interested in working on and creating…  More on that later.

The Bad 

Brian is now a “high-powered” executive with peripheral involvement in local politics and he is faculty at the university.  This is great and this should have nothing to do with me, right?  Wrong.  I am doing web development for Brian’s company and issues are arising related to that which are annoying me to death.  I will just be glad to cut ties with these people.  I am still trying to figure out how to do that without hurting Brian - I may just have to suck it up in the long run.  His boss referred to me sarcastically as the “contract expert” and at home he probably calls me a contract nazi.  I work based on the contract, this is a bad thing?  I guess so in “dakine whatevers” Hawaii… Whatever.
I have a horrible rash - probably from weird hormones and blood sugar issues that are still being taken care of…

We had vog here today - it was awful and oppressive.

I feel tired but can’t sleep.

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I’m redesigning the website, should have it done this evening.

I’m also trying to figure out how the lowest point in my life is also one of the happiest times of my life.

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