The Daily Adventures of Mercat

so hot topic sells Indiana Jones stuff now... Also yay new phone!

[EDIT] Yay spring break! I posted this to make sure my phone set up was working, which it seems to be but might not be... stupid LJ. Anyway, I was done at noon today (may have skipped group uke, but I don't care), packed up my bags and adventured out with the fam! We went to the Fat Greek for lunch (OMG sparkling lemonade is actually delish) and then out to Kahala so mom and I could do the Verizon thing (I didn't know there was a Verizon store out by Ala Moana, oh well). Anyway, mom and I got our phones at the price I was looking for ($130 phone with $50 rebate and buy-one-get-one-free, so two $40 phones, yay!) and mom was okay with. Hooray! It's that Samsung one that flips both ways, and I LOVE it. There's a little learning curve for the menus and flipping back and forth, but having a qwerty pad is worth it, definitely. Plus there are no annoying buttons on the side that will cause your phone to take pictures of the depths of your pocket/purse, and though I haven't figured out a silence shortcut or clock shortcut yet, I'm sure I'll get it eventually. Plus I can take videos now! Ridic. I love it sooo much. *geekery*

I'm really sad though, I always make fun of everyone else because I take such good care of my electronics, and then I dropped it getting out of the car at the apartment and scuffed it. Damnit.

Oh, and dad bought me a bike, woo! So now gotta plan a ride around the island or something. <3 At least around Diamond Head, get some miles on my but for TOSRV.

I think I'm going to make a pink flamingo in ceramics for my mom and dad, too, but I need to figure out a way to arts it up.

We had dinner out by Ala Moana beach park and the Hilton at Cheeseburger Waikiki, which is this totally awesome tiki bar full of 40's kitsch. I LOVE IT. There was a cute tin that said "Koko-roons" and ukes with the bodies made out of two coconuts (I WANT ONE) and a kid's plastic uke, which has to be like a sopranino or something, lol.)

Dad wants to buy me a "real" Hawaiian uke, too, which means dropping like $300 for a koa wood uke. (It's always nice to have parents who enjoy the same things you do because they will spoil you. Just last week he bought a concert tuba, and now he's going to buy me a hard core uke! Sooo excited)

62 days until Indy IV! OMG SOOOO EXCITED! So, Hot Topic at Ala Moana had Indy IV shirts for $20. That is actually not bad at all, for Lucasfilm OR for Hot Topic. But seriously, I would not think Hot Topic would be the place that sold it. I mean when I first started shopping there at Fairfield Commons is was still really gothy/punky. Now there's goth and punk but they picked up the 80's tweenybopper hype and they have Pokemon and shit. GAAAAH. All the 90's stuff coming back scares the shit out of me, because I LIVED THROUGH IT AND IT IS A BRAINBLAST TO THINK THERE ARE KIDS ALMOST TEN YEARS OLD WHO HAVEN'T. I DO NOT LIKE THAT.

I also can't believe I'm almost 20. WUT. That's crazy.

Ok, excursions with the fam tomorrow. Peace out! =)

Yay! I got to the airport fine, pretty much a whole hour early. I called a cab and the guy was really nice, he knew who the Flyers were and talked to me the whole way. =) Nice cabbies are a blessing on the earth, lol. So I wandered around the airport a little trying to figure out where I could meet my parents (had to aska security guard how to get downstairs to baggage claim--the escalator was closed off), and then sat around trying to figure out where they were coming in from. Around twelve I figured my best guess was O'Hare so I went and sat by the baggage claim and read some Douglas Adams. That man is a genius. Anyway, they showed up around two (they landed at 1:35) and we got the luggage and the rental car and found the condo-thingy and walked up and down Waikiki a little and then got dinner at Lulu's. They got rid of the Elviki! I'm kind of sad. I'm hoping they just moved them upstairs to the club or something. But still, Elviki is like perfect 50's kitsch. I got a Magnum PI burger, which is a bacon cheeseburger with guac. Not only is that sort of thing delicious I just kind of went "hee Indiana Jones" like you would expect me to, lol. I had a virgin pina colada (pretend there's a tilde on my "n"), actually the first since I've been here. I don't go out to eat that often but I just found out that there's a really good, pretty inexpensive greek place a block away! That is so taking over for Subway. Hummus/pita/kalamata olives? Oh hells yes. Anyway, I think I can tolerate pineapple more, but I still think straight up pineapple would be too strong for me. But the apple-pineapple juice they have at the caf that they soak the apples in isn't too bad. For desert we had something called the Foster's (or Frosters?), which was vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, and caramel topping with banana slices. Pretty good, though I'm not a huge fan of bananas in my ice cream. All in all a very Elvis meal.

Speaking of apples, the last few days when I've snacked on apples, it's aggravated this pain in my jaw. The pain is kind of throughought my jaw, but my ears feel tight, too (like they're on the verge of popping), and the other day my neck started hurting. Yesterday I kind of freaked for a moment because I thought it might be mono (there was an outbreak on campus), but I thought maybe just TMJ. But it definitely is painful and gives me little headaches and makes it difficult to sleep. I talked to mom and dad today though and they think I've either started grinding my teeth in my sleep (that would be a weird trigger, since I'm less stressed for once in my life) or that sleeping on the couch is too awkward for my neck, which is actually plausible but makes me kind of sad. So we'll have to see.

Oh, I forgot to post on Sunday that one of the guys living at IT (Timmen or Timmeh or something?) said that my skull ring was BA when I put it on. Lol. It's kind of funny but also awesome when guys comment on jewelry. =P

Let's see, otherwise... just two classes tomorrow and maybe uke lessons and I am done! Plus these classes are all fun... I love it here. Really.

63 days until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Woo! Today's trivia: Apparently Lucasfilm sort-of released a statement the other day that the diamond Indy goes after in ToD is the Peacock's Eye, a diamond he was after he was younger (which you can see in the YIJC). Everyone kind of guessed/suspected this because they looked the same, but it's a good chance that it's sort of a fanservice-afterthought. ;)


Ugh... I don't want to do lauuuundryyyy...

I haven't decided about the LJ strike tomorrow. I really don't think it will do much good, and since LJ seems to have posted an apology (though not very well), I will stick through to see what happens. I'm not really against the ads, I can see why they would have to add them, it's a business. I'm just very ticked off they didn't say anything, tried to hide it, and didn't use the resources in front of their faces. So... anyway. =/ If I do get internet in the condo (which will probably be better than wireless here?!), I will probably be posting. A strike seems kind of futile, though I could support some sort of movement for the cause.

Plus I have my dedication to my 100 days 100 posts... ;D Oh, silly, silly.

In the meantime, I have a brief assignment and some email inbox-clearing to attend to...

Just watched Legally Blonde again, too. It's actually pretty decent. I think a lot of stuff in movies went over my head when I was a kid, so I liked it but I didn't really get it or remember it all. But that could be a lie, even movies I love, if I give them some breathing space, I forget things about that I enjoy rediscovering. =)

[EDIT] Note to self: "strike" tags do not work in titles.

I'm cutting this one close. My bad...

82 days until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Today's trivia: The next movie is taking place in the year 1957... I'm hella excited. Why? Well, I was pretty much raised to be a '57 Chevy lover. Also, I love the kitsch of the 50's. That was the year pink flamingos were invented! <3

...I think I need a pink flamingo dressed up as Indiana Jones now.