15,000 is the magic number that I want you all to think. Collectively. Positively. Staunchly.

You can think more, bigger, grander, higher.

This 15,000 is a numerical thought experiment that I am putting out to the universe and I would like your assistance.

If we all want to put a dollar sign $ in front of that 15,000-all the better. It would look like this…$15,000.00

If this is successful, I’ll let you folks know.

Think…15,000

Mahalo~

Voting for the BOOKS FOR HAWAII contest is winding to a close at the end of this month. There are only 3 more days to cast your ballot for Hawaii. If our state wins, we will receive 50,000 children’s books from a national organization called First Book.  Voting is super easy! We are currently in 1st place so let’s all do our best to keep Hawaii on top. Gosh knows that our keiki need these books. Maybe we can mitigate the impact of fewer school days that will be affecting our kids due to the teacher furloughs.

Here is the link: http://booksforkids.firstbook.org/whatbook/about.php

All you have to do is visit the website once a day (3 days left) and choose Hawaii. Click to vote. Click Submit. You don’t have to fill in the other spots. Just go to the box that asks where you want 50,000 books to be sent, find Hawaii and click.  YOU ONLY HAVE TO PRESS ON  *WHERE DO YOU WANT THE BOOKS TO GO….ITS THE ONLY REQUIRED FIELD. That’s it. Like I said…easy peasy.

Here is the link again: http://booksforkids.firstbook.org/whatbook/about.php

Send the link to all your family and friends who will vote for Hawaii.  Our Hawaiian kids could surely benefit. One wee little act will make a huge difference.

There is a book contest that awards 50,000 books to the state with the most votes.  As of today, Hawaii is in 3rd place.  If you want Hawaii to make the leap to number one, or at least be competitive, please take a little minute to vote. 

It is easy peasy to vote.  All you have to do is visit the website once a day (14 days left) and choose Hawaii, and click to vote.  You don’t have to fill in the other spots. Just go to the box that asks where you want 50,000 books to be sent, find Hawaii and click.  AND YES, YOU ONLY HAVE TO PRESS ON  *WHERE DO YOU WANT THE BOOKS TO GO….IT IS THE ONLY REQUIRED FIELD

 Here is the link:  http://booksforkids.firstbook.org/whatbook/about.php

 If you will, please send the link to all your family and friends who will vote for Hawaii.  Our Hawaii kids could benefit.

Aloha and much Mahalo

It is 9am on 09/09/09. Because of our Hawaiian Standard Time Zone, I believe  it is one of the last places in the world to hit 09/09/09. The day is still young and plenty of time to make some good memories whether private or public. Do Good!!

non klutter kitty

Office romance. Nooooo, not that kind. I need to love my office again. It may not be  love per se, but I need to enjoy spending time and working in there again. How about just moving around in there again. Boxes-some with my giveaway items I may add-haphazzardly tilted, papers untidily grouped-ok I just completed my taxes(I am sooo proud of myself pat-pat), shelves with stuff, desktop with stuff, drawers filled with more stuff for office stuff, booksbooksbooks, all sorts of ephemera perilously growing with a life of its own I can only surmise since I don’t know who or why anyone would put THAT in my office…and then just leave it there! Walk over it, squeeze past it, pile it higher. No more.

The attack on the office dis-organization has begun. For the month of February, and I believe it will take all month, I am going to clean my office one drawer or shelf  or tray a day. My office courtship commences.

02/02

Heading into the final days of my January Resolution to recycle or toss 3 items every day proved slightly more difficult. I had already relieved myself of 79 things although the unofficial count was about a dozen more. I had to search and dig and root around through possessions and the back of closets and drawers rarely navigated. Saturday night at 11p found me rummaging for the final 3 extraneous former treasures to rid myself of. Yay, hooray, the deed was done and I had donated or purged over 100 items that had taken up space in my little bungalow.

My very deh duh astute observations are as follows; pfuffh! 100 little possessions of what? Their absence not in the least noticable, removing 3 a day made the task manageable and limiting myself to only 3 items daily resulted in what I can only describe as my eagerness in the physical act of finding articles to relinquish.

All this tossing and trashing and recycling and relinquishing happened only inside my house. I never got to the garage or my ’sewing shed’ both in desperate need of chaos control, and I limited myself to mine or ours-I kept my purging little paws off my husband’s stuff(note that his belongings are stuff as opposed to mine which are heirloom treasures).

This was such an overwhelmingly successful resolution that I am continuing this January experiment into February -with just a tiny bit of tweaking. So, I will continue to recycle or remove a minimum of 1 item every day. Of course I have the primary February resolution cooking, but I will update on that later.

For the month of January I am recycling or tossing 3 items every day. This year I decided to try a January only New Year’s Resolution.  On January 1st however I had to discard/recycle 7 items. The total at the end of the month will be 100 less pieces of detrius cluttering my house. So far so great. As expected the first 10 days or so were easy. I blithely and eagerly found things to discard without much searching. I could stand in the middle of a room and without even a muscle twitch my eyes would alight on yet another piece of junk that need to GO. Week two proved a bit more of a challenge. Fewer of the obvious and more digging for the discards. Week three found me musing over my objects d’art and weighing my emotional attachments to various gifts and former treasures and occasionally taking the easy road and donating some magazines off to the library.

There are rules…

• all items must leave the house
• recycle and donate when possible
• regular recycling doesn’t count ie bottles, cans, newspaper
• the same goes for general trash
• pairs and sets count as 1
• 3 (or more) items EVERY day-if I throw away 4 things I am not allowed to ‘bank’ that 1 extra for the next day
• no replacing of a discarded item for a newer version

Week four begins. Stay tuned.

Happy New Year!

We lit the mandatory handfull of firecrackers at the entrances to our driveway gate, front and back house doors and workshop to ward away the bad spirits. We then needed to escape the obnoxious odors and unbelievably jarring blasts of illegial mortor type rockets and long banned yet easily available aerials that bombard our neighborhood for a more peaceful and fairly fireworks free hideaway on the North Shore. Made sure that the Kitties were safe and secure in the house then loaded up the Doggers, champagne and lots of special  yummy pupu for the Eve and a quiet celebration.

Some resolutions for 2008

Do Good. I like this one. I make it a resolution every year beacause it is the only one that I enthusiastically keep.

Think-Act. Also called procrastinate less or shorter time span of procratination.

Keep in Touch. Somehow connected to the above procrastination. 

Learn a New Skill or Polish a Current Talent. Classes or practice practice. hmmm I like this one too.

Have more fun. Unbelievable as it seems,  I often feel as if I am  caught up in busy work and chore mundania.  Yay, I really like this one.

My wish to all:  Good Health, Prosperity, Understanding, Time to Enjoy.

Aloha Nui Loa ~A Hui Hou