A Random Friday
Posted By admin on January 27, 2012
It’s easy to write a random post today because I’ve been doing random things.
First–not so random. I set writing goals for the year. I never make resolutions, but I felt the need to decide where I want to be with writing at the end of 2012–as far as the things I can control.
Now, for the random…
Knitting an afghan for my daughter. (As usual, it started out as mine, but despite the fact that she’s owns another one I just finished, she’s adopted this one as well.) I don’t mind. I like thinking of my girl all wrapped up in my knitting!
It’s a beautiful afghan, but my, how it eats up the yarn. I bought ten skeins yesterday, and I’m already at the end of the fifth one.
Watching Hawaii 5-O. The original version. I thought it was from way back in the dark ages, but it only ended in 1980. Shocking. I’m dying to see what everyone looked like in 1980 (vs. 1968), but I started at the beginning. Oddly, I think I recognize outdoor locations from Magnum as well. We lived in Hawaii for several years so I really started watching 5-O because I had a hankering to see Hawaii again, and I’m fascinated with the 60s right now. Some of the dialogue can be a little hippie-over-the-top for me, and I love that crazy dancing! I’ve really enjoyed seeing the Ilikai, where we stayed when we first moved there (and where Steve McGarrett turns to face the camera in the opening credits) and Iolani Palace and the beaches and the lava rock walls. I’m a little homesick.
And–Hilo Hattie had a part in one of the early episodes. I don’t know if Hilo Hattie’s is still around, but any time we had a friend visit, we took them to Hilo Hattie’s to invest in a T-shirt, or a muumuu. Cause doesn’t everyone need a muumuu? (I felt kind of funny wearing one except when I was pregnant with my daughter, and that one is packed away somewhere around here.) The tradition, when we lived there, was for everyone to wear some sort of Aloha wear on Fridays, always called Aloha Friday. Women wore muumuus, and men wore Aloha shirts. A couple of years ago, the beloved bought a violently flowered polo shirt for golf, that the girl and I always called his Aloha shirt. (With this stream of conscious gabbing, I may be taking Random too far!)
My final bit of random–I’m reading five books right now, and I’m brushing up on French via iTunes Education. Sometimes, I think I have a focus problem!



