Quintessentially Quilly

Quilly | September 29, 2007

OC and I have company. He’s a very considerate guest. Mostly he hangs out in the 15 ft. corner of the slanted ceiling. We hardly ever use that spot ourselves.

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Quilly | September 29, 2007

To all who linked to Oahu Dreams from their own blog — thank you.  You have helped me raise my authority from 0 to 3.  That is a lovely start and a long way to come in just a few days!

Category: Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, economics, friends

Quilly | September 28, 2007

As most of you know I have started a new blog.  It’s purpose is to, hopefully, become a revenue generator.  In order to generate revenue it has to have some authority, and the only way to get authority is to have links.  So, if you would please add Oahu Dreams to your blog links I [...]

Category: Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, economics, friends

Quilly | September 27, 2007

I am the new pre-school teacher at Ma’ili Elementary School.
Pre-school.
Little gooey kids.
I believe there will be much learning in that classroom — by me!
Anticipated start date: October 9th.

Category: Uncategorized | 25 Comments »
Tags: ECE, job search, school

Quilly | September 25, 2007

Those of you who envy me Hawaii, enjoy this reality: there is a banana-sized flying cockroach behind my refrigerator. I swatted it out of the air last night and it scurried under the fridge. It just peeked out and looked at me. One of us will be dead before the end [...]

Category: nature, vacation | 13 Comments »
Tags: detour, Hawaii, vacation

Quilly | September 23, 2007

I’ve joined the crowd — those blogging “wannabes” who are hoping their blogs will make them rich … Yep. Me. You can find my purely commercial offering here: Oahu Paradise Vacation. Go take a look at my shameless commercialism … then give me any pointers you’ve got!

Category: vacation | 10 Comments »
Tags: detour, money, vacation

Quilly | September 21, 2007

OC made light of the centipede episode, but I really didn’t take it all that lightly. We leave the windows wide open so the breeze can blow through the house — the standard in island air conditioning — and occasionally other things blow through as well. Last night it was a dead leaf [...]

Category: humor, nature | 8 Comments »
Tags: Hawaii, hello?

Quilly | September 20, 2007

You know, I love this island. I’ve been here almost a month — my car has been here almost a month — I drive it almost every day, and I have never once put gas in it. When I bring it home and park it, the gage often indicates that it is low [...]

Category: humor | 17 Comments »
Tags: driving, Hawaii, hello?

Quilly | September 19, 2007

sigh

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Tags: detour

Quilly | September 18, 2007

I hate looking for work.
Want ads.
Resumes.
Job interviews.
Stress.
At home I sit at the table in the dining room staring at my computer screen, revising my resume just a bit for each new job posting. I research the business names, peruse websites, package myself for sale — and I stress.
On interviews I sit in straight chairs in [...]

Category: award, nature | 15 Comments »
Tags: award, Friday Harbor, Hawaii, job search, memoir, moving

Quilly | September 17, 2007

Why? 

I dunno!
I went to get my hair cut. OC went to the grocery store in the same shopping center. Well, turns out the beauty shop was really a barber shop, so I opted out on the hair cut and walked on down to the grocery store. I found OC picking [...]

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Tags: memoir

Quilly | September 15, 2007

OC and I frequently recycle the same conversation. Each time it has a slight variation. It always starts with my apparent curiosity. Today we were discussing maple syrup. The real stuff. OC is a New Englander, you know.
Me: [while pouring syrup on my waffle] My uncle called this, “tree [...]

Category: OC, humor | 18 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, consumer alert, cook, cooking, he said-she said, hello?, memoir, OC, quirk, weight loss

Quilly | September 12, 2007

Category: nature, photo | 9 Comments »
Tags: family, Friday Harbor, friends, Hawaii, moving, Wordless Wednesday

Quilly | September 11, 2007

This morning a NY Times article reports that many people are tired of 9/11 tributes. Enough has become too much. They want us all to just forget and move on. Yeah.
Tell that to the people in the twin towers; the people in the pentagon; and those on flight 93. Tell it [...]

Category: inspirational | 17 Comments »
Tags: he said-she said, O'Shea's Law, plumbing, Sidewalk Sunday School, war, weather

Quilly | September 10, 2007

Morgan wanted to know how close we are to the beach. Well ….

If you step on to the lanai and look right, you can see the sea.

Of course, you don’t have to look right (west). You could just look straight ahead (South).

Or you could look left, into the mango trees. No mangos [...]

Category: award, nature, travel | 15 Comments »
Tags: award, Friday Harbor, Hawaii, home, moving