New is old

In a rare paradoxy, new has become old to me. In that I have had my fill (for now) of new people, places, and things. Give me tried and true. Give me the usual. Give me traditional. Give me the old standby. Yes, amen. Are you a familiar face? Come talk to me. Are you an old friend? Splendid. Have I known you long enough to milestone any recurring season or time period that enables me to complete the phrase "the last time we did this ..."? Hallelujah. Nostalgia is my current passion. So I am marking any repetition, pattern, familiarity. The fact that my friend's one year old son stopped fussing when I arrived to today's Memorial Day picnic (ah, memory) recognizing me was enough to stem the tide of uneasiness I was feeling about sharing time with friends among acquaintances. Thanks, kiddo.

Shout out to Meredith for prompting this update. Co-sponsored by Mountain Dew for luring me into caffienating. Just kidding. I take full responsibility for being awake five hours before I need to go open the pool.

More pictures from Maui

 I totally screwed up the formatting. Anyway, these are, indeed, more pictures from Hawaii. It was pretty.

Hibiscus

Joe and Laura with their baby and Jan among the lava rocks.

Dad posing as a teenager

Me with big leaves

Delphine and baby waiting 
on the golf course outside the 
restaurant of her birthday dinner party

my niece with salami sushi

beautiful small plants

my parents and baby granddaughter

Wiki Aloha

This is only a month over due. But I can't seem to muster the juice to post. So anyway, I started this draft a few weeks ago...

Spent ten days in Maui with my family to celebrate my sister's 40th birthday. Pretty nice.

 

Here's the whole lot of us + friends.

Whale-watching "date" with my brother-in-law's mom. It was AMAZING!!!

Quick update is that I was hired at both Kamiakin high school as a paraed through the end of the school year and at WSU's Prosser Extension as a communications specialist. Start next week after I get back from Gosia's wedding in Warsaw.