Thanksgiving was a success! We were so full, we couldn't sleep. We stayed up until 2am watching movies. We really liked Fred Claus- cute xmas comedy. Then today, we tried to pour ourselves into our bathing suits and went to the beach. Not to make everyone jealous, but it was a beautiful day. Not too hot, perfect breeze, sunny.....80 I think. We walked to the beach and spent most of the day there. Then I watched the Ko Olina Christmas parade (about 20 min), it was cute...golf carts decorated for christmas. Then we went on a walk tonight.
Tomorrow, back to work...but I don't think we will be that busy.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Getting ready for Turkey!
So, we're getting ready for turkey day. I had a busy day at work-not too busy- just nice to have lots of things to do. I started one root canal and did another complete root canal, then some extractions, and lots of fillings.
I took a ball exercise class at the yoga studio I went to last week. Its all these exercises using one of those big bouncy balls. It was fun, and great exercise.
Then to the grocery store to pick up the turkey day fixin's. I had another rough day at the office in Kailua. For those of you who don't know, I'm not liking that job as much. To make a long story short, I have to do everything a certain way (not the Dr. Webb way) and I also am gone for 12-13 hours since its so far away. I've been looking to see if Gentle Dental will add me on Mondays so I can have a normal life on Mondays. And so I don't have to dread Mondays all week. But the owner killed what interest I had left in the job this Monday when he said that he hated Paula Deen's accent and thought that green bean casserole was the worst dish ever.
Who does he think he is?! ..... insulting my favorite accent and a traditional family dish in one day?! Life's too short to be at a job you don't like and I LOVE my job at Gentle dental so I'm hoping they come up with another day for me.
I' ve been getting faster and faster at work and this is exciting. Once I start producing a certain amount I start getting bonus's. So I'm working toward that. It also takes time to build up a patient pool. I hope to be getting a bonus by spring.
This week is great because I have my first two days off in a row since I started working (since my days off are fri/sun). I'm really ready to relax! And for those of you who want to know....its been in the low 80s, high 70s during the day and low 70s at night. But we have been getting more rain so we haven't had a "beach day" in a couple weeks. But we take walks along the beach most days. We are quite spoiled. This is an advertisement for people to come visit us. Doesn't it sound nice? Airline prices are coming down.
I took a ball exercise class at the yoga studio I went to last week. Its all these exercises using one of those big bouncy balls. It was fun, and great exercise.
Then to the grocery store to pick up the turkey day fixin's. I had another rough day at the office in Kailua. For those of you who don't know, I'm not liking that job as much. To make a long story short, I have to do everything a certain way (not the Dr. Webb way) and I also am gone for 12-13 hours since its so far away. I've been looking to see if Gentle Dental will add me on Mondays so I can have a normal life on Mondays. And so I don't have to dread Mondays all week. But the owner killed what interest I had left in the job this Monday when he said that he hated Paula Deen's accent and thought that green bean casserole was the worst dish ever.
Who does he think he is?! ..... insulting my favorite accent and a traditional family dish in one day?! Life's too short to be at a job you don't like and I LOVE my job at Gentle dental so I'm hoping they come up with another day for me.
I' ve been getting faster and faster at work and this is exciting. Once I start producing a certain amount I start getting bonus's. So I'm working toward that. It also takes time to build up a patient pool. I hope to be getting a bonus by spring.
This week is great because I have my first two days off in a row since I started working (since my days off are fri/sun). I'm really ready to relax! And for those of you who want to know....its been in the low 80s, high 70s during the day and low 70s at night. But we have been getting more rain so we haven't had a "beach day" in a couple weeks. But we take walks along the beach most days. We are quite spoiled. This is an advertisement for people to come visit us. Doesn't it sound nice? Airline prices are coming down.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Busy Week
I had a busy week, I picked up an extra day at Waianae while the other doctor was out of town. But I love working there so it wasn't so hard. I was sure tired at the end of the week. On thurs, I had a crazy busy day at work...14 scheduled patients and another 8 recall exams (people who come in for a cleaning and need check ups).
I checked out the local yoga/dance studio on Weds night and took a yoga class. It was nice and the prices are quite reasonable. They offer mainly yoga, but also a few dance classes, but they are on nights I can't make it. Oh, well.
A gecko was loose in the house today, we named it Gordon. We were going to let him roam around and eat ants....until he took up residence in the bathroom. Too creepy. Brian managed to grab him in a grocery bag and let him loose outside.
We decorated our xmas tree today since it was raining. It looks great. We found a discount store for ornaments. We have a short week this week! I work M, T, W, Sat. Of course, Brian only works M, T, Sa.
I checked out the local yoga/dance studio on Weds night and took a yoga class. It was nice and the prices are quite reasonable. They offer mainly yoga, but also a few dance classes, but they are on nights I can't make it. Oh, well.
A gecko was loose in the house today, we named it Gordon. We were going to let him roam around and eat ants....until he took up residence in the bathroom. Too creepy. Brian managed to grab him in a grocery bag and let him loose outside.
We decorated our xmas tree today since it was raining. It looks great. We found a discount store for ornaments. We have a short week this week! I work M, T, W, Sat. Of course, Brian only works M, T, Sa.
Friday, November 14, 2008
I can still move my fingers
Today we went on another hike. I picked up a book on hiking in Oahu at Borders the other day. We've been planning our trek this week. We finally decided on a trail last night. I ordered some hiking boots, but they are on backorder and won't be in for a couple weeks. There are NO outdoor sports/specialty stores here. We went to some sporting good stores, but the women's hiking shoe dept is practically non existent. Brian got a new backpack and we were ready to go.
Our hike was the Waianae Kai Trail. It starts in Waianae (where we work) and goes up into the Waianae range mountains. The trail was to be 6 miles with part of it as a loop. There is an extended version of the trail that goes 8 miles total. So we packed our sandwiches and such last night and woke up early this morning to blaze the trail. This morning we headed out with much needed coffee.
We should have seen the difficulty in finding the start of the trail as an omen. We spent at least 30 min wandering around the road trying to find the start of the trail once we got near it. We finally found it- really the middle of nowhere. We were pretty sure our car was going to get broken into because we saw people driving around looking for interesting trash by the side of the road. So we left our car door unlocked. They sometimes recommend this so that no one breaks a window. They just look and realize there's nothing there. We left two vital items in the car...a cooler and 6 beers on ice in case we wanted to go to the beach post hike. However, in the morning rush, we forgot our suits.
The start of the hike was up a forest reserve road in a dry area with brush, shrubs and cacti- The waianae valley. It is the hottest place on the island and it was (even at 8:30 am). This was a steep walk up for about 1 mile. Of course, that's when it started raining. Just enough to keep you hot instead of cooling you off. It was such a steep road!
Then we made it to the trail part. I should mention that the trail was labeled as Intermediate with a danger level of Low. We started our hike to the mountain. We went thorough strawberry guava trees and passed a dead gutted pig carcass. This is a ferrel pig hunting area on weekends and holidays. Luckily, we hiking on Fridays. We treked into a gully where there was a pile of rocks wrapped in ti leaves. This is what you are supposed to do when you are passing through sacred land. At that moment a rock or fruit or something fell and almost hit me in the head. We wrapped up one of those rocks and put it on the pile. No more falling rocks after that. Then the trail started going up and UP and UP! There were areas where we had to grab onto trees and roots to get up. Then some places had ropes to use to get up. We followed the markers wondering what we had gotten ourselves into. We just stopped often for breaks.
We were trying to get to the point where the power lines peak on the mountain so we kept looking for them. I was sure a Velociraptor was going to jump out and get us. We finally got to the top. It was so cool. First of all, it smelled like burning sugar- we don't know what that was. Then the mist set in and you couldn't even see the mountains! It was just like the three sisters for me in Australia (for those of you who know that story)! Basically, there were 1000 foot drop offs on either side of us in certain areas on the trail. We ascended up 2100 feet during the hike. We then started the descent! That was more difficult for me than going up. I really wished I had my hiking boots instead of my old tennis shoes! On the way down, we followed an ancient Hawaiian trail. It was really fun. We finally made it back down, down, down, to the steep road and finally to the car. We had made it back to the car 1:45pm. It took us over 5 hours. The car was in order and we had a much needed cold beer.
We then came home and collapsed. I am sitting on the couch right now typing this and I have serious doubts as to whether I can get off of it. Our legs are so sore! But it was so fun! It was beautiful and we feel like we really accomplished something. We will definitely try the 8 mile loop sometime, just not until we are in better hiking shape. And we would bring more water and supplies for the long one. I have lots of video of the event, I will be working on compiling it.
On another note, this week I was passing McDonalds in Nanakuli and someone had parked their horse out front. And Dr. Yamamoto, our orthodontist at Gentle Dental got on Lost as an extra so I'll be looking for him when it starts.
Signing off- no energy left....
Our hike was the Waianae Kai Trail. It starts in Waianae (where we work) and goes up into the Waianae range mountains. The trail was to be 6 miles with part of it as a loop. There is an extended version of the trail that goes 8 miles total. So we packed our sandwiches and such last night and woke up early this morning to blaze the trail. This morning we headed out with much needed coffee.
We should have seen the difficulty in finding the start of the trail as an omen. We spent at least 30 min wandering around the road trying to find the start of the trail once we got near it. We finally found it- really the middle of nowhere. We were pretty sure our car was going to get broken into because we saw people driving around looking for interesting trash by the side of the road. So we left our car door unlocked. They sometimes recommend this so that no one breaks a window. They just look and realize there's nothing there. We left two vital items in the car...a cooler and 6 beers on ice in case we wanted to go to the beach post hike. However, in the morning rush, we forgot our suits.
The start of the hike was up a forest reserve road in a dry area with brush, shrubs and cacti- The waianae valley. It is the hottest place on the island and it was (even at 8:30 am). This was a steep walk up for about 1 mile. Of course, that's when it started raining. Just enough to keep you hot instead of cooling you off. It was such a steep road!
Then we made it to the trail part. I should mention that the trail was labeled as Intermediate with a danger level of Low. We started our hike to the mountain. We went thorough strawberry guava trees and passed a dead gutted pig carcass. This is a ferrel pig hunting area on weekends and holidays. Luckily, we hiking on Fridays. We treked into a gully where there was a pile of rocks wrapped in ti leaves. This is what you are supposed to do when you are passing through sacred land. At that moment a rock or fruit or something fell and almost hit me in the head. We wrapped up one of those rocks and put it on the pile. No more falling rocks after that. Then the trail started going up and UP and UP! There were areas where we had to grab onto trees and roots to get up. Then some places had ropes to use to get up. We followed the markers wondering what we had gotten ourselves into. We just stopped often for breaks.
We were trying to get to the point where the power lines peak on the mountain so we kept looking for them. I was sure a Velociraptor was going to jump out and get us. We finally got to the top. It was so cool. First of all, it smelled like burning sugar- we don't know what that was. Then the mist set in and you couldn't even see the mountains! It was just like the three sisters for me in Australia (for those of you who know that story)! Basically, there were 1000 foot drop offs on either side of us in certain areas on the trail. We ascended up 2100 feet during the hike. We then started the descent! That was more difficult for me than going up. I really wished I had my hiking boots instead of my old tennis shoes! On the way down, we followed an ancient Hawaiian trail. It was really fun. We finally made it back down, down, down, to the steep road and finally to the car. We had made it back to the car 1:45pm. It took us over 5 hours. The car was in order and we had a much needed cold beer.
We then came home and collapsed. I am sitting on the couch right now typing this and I have serious doubts as to whether I can get off of it. Our legs are so sore! But it was so fun! It was beautiful and we feel like we really accomplished something. We will definitely try the 8 mile loop sometime, just not until we are in better hiking shape. And we would bring more water and supplies for the long one. I have lots of video of the event, I will be working on compiling it.
On another note, this week I was passing McDonalds in Nanakuli and someone had parked their horse out front. And Dr. Yamamoto, our orthodontist at Gentle Dental got on Lost as an extra so I'll be looking for him when it starts.
Signing off- no energy left....
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Working Girl
Its been awhile since my last post. I've just been a busy working girl! Being a dentist is exhausting! I've been really tired after work, some days I fall asleep on the couch before 9:30pm and its real tough for me to stay up past 10:30 on our "weekend nights". I've been seeing all kinds of things at work and learning every day. I've been doing a lot of extractions at Gentle Dental since I do all the extractions on Tues, Weds, Thurs, and Sats. There's one person that works every other Weds that does some extractions and one lady that does them on Mondays.
On Halloween, Brian and I went on a hike. We didn't read too well about the difficulty of the hike and it was tough! But it was so fun! It was through a rainforest and in the moutains of the North Shore. It was in Kahana Bay. We were hiking through a lot of mud, over roots and streams. We had to take off our shoes and wade through 3 of the streams. One stream we had to shuffle over a dam with ankle deep water rushing over while holding onto a rope. I have it on video- Brian almost fell in. But then he held the rope tight for when I went across so it was easier for me. The hike took us over 3 hours. We were tired, but had fun, so we are looking into doing more hikes. I'm going to get some proper hiking boots so I don't turn an ankle.
I have a hand injury I'm nursing. Part of the nail on my left thumb nail decided to fall off. Of course, its at the base of the nail. I think I remember smashing it last month on something. So, I have to keep my left thumb all wrapped up (especially at work). The nail will probably take weeks to grow out. I'm watching it for a few days to see if I need to find some Phelanges specialist- hahaha.
This week, I'm working 6 days- I picked up an extra day in Kailua while the owner is out of town. I may work another long week before Thanksgiving. Nothing like working on my own slush fund! But its not really slush since I'm taking off a couple days around xmas without pay so I'm making up for it now. I won't get paid vacation until next year. Of course any paid vacation in dentistry is a luxury.
On Halloween, Brian and I went on a hike. We didn't read too well about the difficulty of the hike and it was tough! But it was so fun! It was through a rainforest and in the moutains of the North Shore. It was in Kahana Bay. We were hiking through a lot of mud, over roots and streams. We had to take off our shoes and wade through 3 of the streams. One stream we had to shuffle over a dam with ankle deep water rushing over while holding onto a rope. I have it on video- Brian almost fell in. But then he held the rope tight for when I went across so it was easier for me. The hike took us over 3 hours. We were tired, but had fun, so we are looking into doing more hikes. I'm going to get some proper hiking boots so I don't turn an ankle.
I have a hand injury I'm nursing. Part of the nail on my left thumb nail decided to fall off. Of course, its at the base of the nail. I think I remember smashing it last month on something. So, I have to keep my left thumb all wrapped up (especially at work). The nail will probably take weeks to grow out. I'm watching it for a few days to see if I need to find some Phelanges specialist- hahaha.
This week, I'm working 6 days- I picked up an extra day in Kailua while the owner is out of town. I may work another long week before Thanksgiving. Nothing like working on my own slush fund! But its not really slush since I'm taking off a couple days around xmas without pay so I'm making up for it now. I won't get paid vacation until next year. Of course any paid vacation in dentistry is a luxury.
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