Category: weekly wrap up

Weekly Wrap Up | 12/8/24

Aloha friends!

I survived the week! My hubby came home yesterday morning – I cannot believe two years have gone by that quick. I feel like we saw him every 4 months so it wasn’t too bad. Being a single parent was exhausting enough that the days went super quick. We need to wait for some of his new furniture (furniture that he got in Okinawa that we are replacing some of our older furniture with) but it’s been a bunch of unpacking and organizing. Kids love that they have another parent to bother again though and I love it! I can get some quiet, unbothered time!

Today is my son’s holiday piano recital and the first one that my hubby gets to watch so it will be great! Then he has a break from piano for a month for winter break. Kids have 2 more weeks of school until winter break – so they are really looking forward to that! Can you believe 2025 is just around the corner?! I can’t…

Anyway, I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • The Darkness Within Us by. Tricia Levenseller

Currently Reading:

  • Get Lost with You by. Sophie Sullivan
  • A Song to Drown Rivers by. Ann Liang

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Listened to GNX by Kendrick Lamar – LOVE this album! It’s on repeat, can’t wait for his Superbowl Halftime show.
  • Listened to Rosie by. Rosé – such a great album, no skips!
  • Watched Football

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 12/1/24

Aloha friends!

Well we got through it! Thanksgiving lunch at my mom’s was nice. I made green bean casserole, corn bread, and pistachio cake. I also bought pumpkin crunch and custard pie. There’s only three of us that really eat turkey so since my hubby isn’t here and he was one of the three, we opted for Popeyes fried chicken instead. And since I’m Filipino my mom made lumpia, pancit and pinakbet (a veggie dish). My dad cooked some steak so my tummy was happy! We (me, my bro in law, and son) had an intense game of Monopoly because my son is so competitive. I think it lasted 2 hours before I had to call it done because my daughter wanted to go home lol. On “Black Friday” we just hung out at home because I’m not doing all that anymore lol…and we don’t have any piano lessons or Sunday school this weekend so it was a real break from everything which is so nice.

Anyway, I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • What the Woods Took by. Courtney Gould
  • Bloodguard by. Cecy Robson

Currently Reading:

  • The Darkness Within Us by. Tricia Levenseller

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Watched NFL – football
  • Watched Our Little Secret on Netflix – the one with Lindsay Lohan. I thought it was over a fun movie, but I felt like it lacked in the romance department. It’s a second-chance romance but I felt no chemistry between the two characters.
  • Watched Dash & Lily on Netflix – I watch this once a year it seems. I love it! I just love how it’s set in New York City and starts at a bookstore.
  • Listened to Wicked Soundtrack – love it! I really need to go watch this movie. Just don’t know if I should wait until my hubby comes back so we can watch it together.
  • Listened to Number One Girl by Rosé

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 11/24/24

Aloha friends!

It was a long weekend that continued into a long week but it is what it is. I did most of my Christmas shopping this weekend – YAY! Just a few more to go, but those are gift cards. I even had enough motivation to put up the tree. I actually had to buy a new tree, because our old one was not looking fluffy anymore haha. I got one at 50% at Target and it’s pre-lit! We love it.

Anyway, I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Hate Mail by. Donna Marchetti
  • The Starlight Heir by. Amalie Howard
  • The Half King by. Melissa Landers

Currently Reading:

  • What the Woods Took by. Courtney Gould
  • Bloodguard by. Cecy Robson

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • NFL – football
  • Oppenheimer (Prime Video) – I finally watched this one and it was a little long, but I can see why Cillian Murphy won an Oscar. I love Christopher Nolan movies.
  • How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Prime Video) – I have been looking for something cute and funny to watch and Netflix had nothing so I found this on Prime! I love this movie!
  • The Ugly Truth (Prime Video) – I guess I’m in a rom-com phase? I forgot how funny this one is also.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 11/17/24

Aloha friends!

I got to eat lunch with my daughter at school on Wednesday because it’s National Lunch Week – and whew…the chaos of the cafeteria lol. It was nice to meet some of her classmates and see who was who. Other than that the week went by way too slowly I feel, even with our day off on Veteran’s day. I did get some Christmas gift wrapping done! Woohoo!

My hubby comes back in 3 weeks (hopefully, still needs to get his plane ticket) but we are excited! He does come back with some new furniture which means we have to get rid of things or move things around. But it’ll be nice to finally have him home.

Today I’m going to brunch with 2 friends I haven’t seen in awhile, so that will be nice!

And by the way WordPress gave me a notification congratulating me for 6 years on WordPress – WOW. 🤯. Thanks for sticking by me and reading my blog – I didn’t even realize 6 years has passed. I thought I was still on 4 or something like that lol.

I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Window Shopping by. Tessa Bailey
  • Dating and Dragons by. Kristy Boyce

Currently Reading:

  • What the Woods Took by. Courtney Gould
  • Bloodguard by. Cecy Robson

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • NFL – football
  • Nobody Wants This (Netflix) – I can’t wait for season 2!
  • Emilia Pérez (Netflix) – it’s a musical and I really enjoyed it! Zoe Saldana is amazing in it.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 11/10/24

Aloha friends!

My week started good because it was my birthday on Monday. I had a massage at the spa on Sunday and lunch afterwards with family. Then Tuesday hit (USA Election Day) and I experienced the 5 stages of grief in the span of a few days. It has sucked but I’m glad I’m not alone in my despair. I’m now in the mode of – to quote Taylor Swift “I think I’ve seen this film before…and I didn’t like the ending…”.

I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Is She Really Going Out with Him? by. Sophie Cousens

Currently Reading:

  • Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong
  • Window Shopping by. Tessa Bailey

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Nobody Wants This (Netflix) – my friend told me to watch this one and it’s pretty good so far!
  • The USA election…😒

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 11/3/24

Aloha friends!

What a week!!! 😅 It was spirit week of course at my daughter’s school so that was fun, plus she had early release schedule all week which she loved AND no school after Halloween. Lucky her! She had a Halloween parade at school which wasn’t as hot as usual (yes even at 8am) so I survived and got a kick out of so many kids wearing the inflatable costumes, it makes me laugh to see them walking in them! After the parade I dashed over the our local grocery and Hallelujah the candies were 75%! So I finally got chocolates.

Halloween evening my son and I wore the hats Mario and Luigi hats we bought at Universal Studious Japan. I was Mario, he was Luigi and I had a little cute Yoshi purse. Like an actual Yoshi plushie purse. My daughter was a Pikmin at her Halloween parade but that night she wanted to be a spider. So she wore a black dress and we put one of the smaller spider decorations on her dress.😅 We went around the block and down a few streets. I felt like our street which used to get all the trick or treaters, had less this year because a lot of my neighbors didn’t pass out candy or decorate which is kinda sad but totally understandable with candy being so expensive. But we also have a bunch of retirees on our street and maybe they just didn’t want to stay up passing out candy.

After we got home we sat outside for maybe 20 minutes passing out candy (we had left a bowl of candy for people to help themselves to when we were gone) but I was SO tired. It was a long day, I had a headache earlier, it was a little humid and so we left the 2 bowls of candy outside and I refilled it every 20 minutes. And then at 8:30pm I noticed one bowl was missing! Ugh – candy thieves! I mean take the candy but at least leave my bowl! 😆 It’s okay, it was a plastic bowl that was $5 I think, but geez…someone was hungry!

Overall, it was an exhausting week and I can’t believe October is over. I’m getting a massage at the spa today because tomorrow is my birthday and I so deserve it. My body hurt this past week so this is overdue! Then we are heading to my parents’ house for some lunch with the family.❤️

I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Burning Crowns by. Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale LaCelle
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard

Currently Reading:

  • Bull Moon Rising by. Ruby Dixon
  • Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Coco on Disney+ I wanted something to watch with the kids for Halloween so we ended up watching this a few days before. It’s the perfect movie to watch for Halloween and it inspired us to do an ofrenda (altar) this year.
  • Martha on Netflix – this documentary is wild! Martha is stone-cold lol, loved it.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/27/24

Aloha friends!

Not a lot happened this week, just the usual Sunday school for the kiddos, and school the rest of the week. It’s been warm in Hawaii this week! I’m always wishing it would cool down for Halloween but it never does and I think because the election is in full swing here, I feel like people aren’t in the Halloween mood. My daughter totally is though – we have parent conference this week, then on Halloween morning she has a Halloween Parade at her school and then we go trick or treating at night! She’s excited – but I think my son is over it plus he has school the next day and she doesn’t! 😅 Lucky her!

I hope everyone has a nice Halloween week if you do celebrate and if you are in the USA, please go out and VOTE. I already did my mail-in ballot, woohoo!!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • A Queen’s Game by. Katharine McGee
  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen

Currently Reading:

  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Bull Moon Rising by. Ruby Dixon
  • Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • APT. Rosé and Bruno Mars – because it’s so addictive!

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/20/24

Aloha friends!

This was a chill week, we are all back to our routine again. Took my kids to school, piano, Sunday school, and did my chores and errands all week. I am doing a little more decorating for Halloween outside, but have been waiting for my items to come in. And I got an Etsy order to do – my shop has been slow – but I almost haven’t added anything new to my shop in a year. I always get a little more orders during the holidays though so I guess some people are starting. I’m actually halfway through my Xmas list – woohoo! Yay me!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Darkly by. Marisha Pessl

Currently Reading:

  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Bull Moon Rising by. Ruby Dixon

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat – I play it when I’m on the treadmill because since I can’t get to the Sweat Tour, I’ll sweat on my treadmill LOL.

  • APT. Rosé and Bruno Mars – what a SURPRISE! I love it!! It’s got me dancing! Love the video, it’s so fun!

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/13/24

Aloha friends!

It was a much needed Fall break for me and the kids but it did start off so busy. We did a Halloween event, then we also went to Dave and Busters and a cat cafe. We went to watch The Wild Robot which was AMAZING, but my face hurt from crying lol. Then we did some shopping at Target and the rest of the week we stayed home and chilled. So it’s back to our weekend routines sigh…when is Thanksgiving break? Haha, I’ll be waiting for that!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • The Wren in the Holly Library by. K.A. Linde
  • Filthy Rich Fae by. Geneva Lee
  • Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace

Currently Reading:

  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Darkly by. Marisha Pessl

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat – I LOVE this Brat roll out, seriously, and this remix album, so good. It’s been on repeat! I guess it’s a Brat autumn for me lol. 🍎🍁

  • The Wild Robot – oh my heart…this movie gutted me! It’s SOOOOOOO beautifully done, the illustrations, the colors, the animations are just everything. And all that from the book cover design? Like they really looked at the cover of the book and was like ta-da, here’s a movie that captures all of that. I was floored. I cried so many times (ok I am pms-ing) but still…I almost sobbed at one point. My daughter had to kept rubbing my hand lol. My kids and I loved it – 5/5! I can’t wait to watch it again and again on streaming.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/6/24

Aloha friends!

How is everyone doing? Well, here we are in October!

The place where my son takes piano lessons, the Kroc Center Hawaii, had a Kroctoberfest and so I thought to take both my kids since I was going there with my son anyway. We actually went right at the time the event started and even found parking woohoo…and we got to enjoy some fun and games, but my daughter’s favorite was the butterfly tent. She got 2 butterflies on one stick – bugs love her and she loves them back!

My kids played tic tac toe and my daughter won – woohoo!
This is the butterfly my son caught – it’s loving that sugar water stick thingy!

The kids have a break from Sunday school today which is nice and I wasn’t planning on driving all the way into town but I told my daughter I’d bring her to Dave & Busters because she doesn’t remember the last time we did go (4 years ago LOL…and okay she was 3 years old). Also I told her there is this place that has crepes at the mall in town and now she wants to try it. So I guess we are going to have some fun in town today!

Tomorrow is Fall Break for my kiddos – we made it! 😅 Time to sleep in, maybe catch a movie (The Wild Robot), and just relax sigh…we totally deserve this break!

Anyway, I hope you all have a nice week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Eleven Houses by. Colleen Oakes
  • Love & Lattes by. Beth Reekles
  • Better Than Revenge by. Kasie West
  • Reckless by. Lauren Roberts

Currently Reading:

  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
  • Wisteria by. Adalyn Grace
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Darkly by. Marisha Pessl

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Football

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!