Day 29: Your Favorite Restuarant

Really? I have to pick just one??!! 
I love food. Tim and I make a point of finding delicious food at delicious sounding restaurants [especially breakfast places] and consuming more than the average person would ever need. So rather than giving you a never-ending list, I'll narrow it down to my favorites in Hawaii:

Best All-Around/Can-Eat-Whenever-No-Matter-What-"Food-Mood"-I'm-In

Yardhouse

Best Dinner/Date-Atmosphere-With-The-Prettiest-Pond/Garden-View-From-Your-Table

 Haleiwa Joe's [Kaneohe]

Best Breakfast-In-Which-You-Can-Stuff-Yourself-And-Not-Feel-Even-Remotely-Guilty- Because-It-Tastes-So-Good

The Original Pancake House

Granted, the one pictured above is in Portland- the original Original Pancake House.
But it tastes the same in Honolulu! 

Day 28: A Picture Of You And Your Best Friends

My girls! Monica, Me, Cassie, Lindsey
Parma, ID 2008

Spedettes!
Bryan, Lindsey, Monica, Lindsey, Me, Cassie, Tim, Nick
Flag-Football Intramural Champions 2008

Day 27: A Picture of Your Favorite Shoes

no shoes- just my barefeet :)

Day 26: A Picture of Someone You Miss

♥ my nieces ♥

Day 25: A Picture Of You Dancing

Tim Mcgraw concert in San Diego 7/2010

Back when a hole was a hole...and when you said "I'm down with that" it meant you had the flu...

Sweet Charity 2005

The "Frug"

Day 24: A Picture From Your Favorite Day

"Park Hopping"

The term was coined back in 2005 with the original hopping team of Amy, Monica, Lindsey, Eric, Kelsay, Bryan, Brock and myself. We took advantage of a sunny day by driving around to all the parks in Pullman and playing like kids!

Amy, Sonja, Lindsey, Monica

Sonja, Eric, Kelsay, Bryan

Day 23: A Habit You Wish You Didn't Have

Getting ~sunburned~

Yes, I know. It's not only a bad habit, but a painful one. Even a deathly one. And one that is easily remedied by simply applying that 45 SPF that all the magazines and doctors seem to be talking about. [I can also hear my dad in my head..."SONjaaa...(tsk, tsk, shaking of the head)..."] I just get sucked into the innocent thought that for "just a little while" I'll go SPF-less so I can get a little sun, a little tan...that seemingly rosy thought quickly spirals downward and turns, well, rosy. Quite literally. 

Oops. 

-Although-

I WILL say that the sunburn pictured above was a particularly harrowing experience that lasted weeks-the kind where you just want to walk around clothes-less because anything touching your skin feels like a million little burrs scraping off what little of it you have left. And it has actually inspired me to wear my sunscreen! Only 30 SPF, but it blocks the sun nonetheless...most of the time...
I mean, I still have to make all my mainland friends and family jealous that I live where I can get a tan burn on a daily basis ;)

Day 22: A Picture of Something You're Afraid Of

The list includes the dark [especially if I'm alone after a scary movie], the man behind the shower curtain [true story], and cockroaches.
It also includes...


FERRIS WHEELS!

 Yes...they are beautiful. And even look sort of fun in an old-time, country sense.

But they deceive! 

Why are they so rickety? 

Why are they held up by one little measly hook? 

And WHY do people insist on rocking the chair when the sign specifically says not to??!!

Day 21: Your Dream Job

Preschool Counselor

I got to work my dream job from 11/09-7/10 as a temporary counselor for Kamehameha Schools. Preschool is my favorite age group, and I want to work in a school setting as a counselor. They don't really have preschool counselors- the only one I've found was at Kamehameha Schools. So I would be happy to work with any grade level, preferably elementary.

Day 20: A Funny Face

RAWR. [or sniff, sniff?] I'm a bunny.

QUITE the attractive couple, wouldn't you say?

Day 19: A Time You Felt Completely Helpless

Yes, this is what you think:

Back in my senior year of college, I was unprovokedly [of course] hog-tied with duct tape, fireman carried down 2 flights of stairs, unceremoniously thrown into the back of a 4x4 truck [that had puddles of water in it, BY THE WAY...], and driven jerkily around the parking lot and over speed bumps. 

I just ♥ my friends.

                                                                                                                        :)    

Day 18: A Picture That Shows Your True Self

By DAY...

...and by NIGHT

never wake a sleeping Sonja...

Day 17: Playing An Instrument

This is me playing carols at Christmas...from like a level 3 book :) I took lessons from age 7-14, so I should be way better than I am. But, sadly, I didn't keep up on practicing and now I can only sight read hymns and easy level books.  BUT I can still pull out my old songs and bust them out!

Day 16: Somewhere You Would Love To Travel

Day 15: Picture of the Cast From Your Favorite TV Show

Friends :)

Chandler, Rachel, Ross, Monica, Joey, Phoebe...who doesn't love them? I own all 10 seasons of this beloved goodness. Tim and I just finished watching them...1.5 years later! 

Favorite lines:

"Joey doesn't share FOOD!" [Joey]

"Lips moving, still talking!" [Monica]

"Do you think I'm someone else?" [Rachel, in response to a lewd comment.]

"We were on a break!" [Ross]

"Yea, it's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo." [Joey]

"Do you know the only person who'd wanna listen to this? A mental health professional. And that's only because they get paid a hundred dollars an hour!" [Rachel]