32 steps

32 simple steps to a fabulous day off:

1. awaken without the aid of alarm clock.
2. eat a large breakfast of cornflakes, banana and ½ a chocolate chip cookie.
3. prepare self for entry into public (fashion hair, put on clothes, etc)
4. realize the medicated shampoo you ordered arrived!!
5. walk to bus stop, stopping to gaze in wonder at the hibiscus along the sidewalk.
6. board the e bus.
7. ride e bus for a while.
8. disembark e bus.
9. find public restroom (macy’s).
10. find self in chinatown.
11. locate chinese bookstore. get discount because you are buying for your sister, adopted from china.
12. find chinese veggie sellers.
13. realize that produce is so much cheaper in chinatown: must come more often! find green beans, broccoli and papaya all very affordably priced. also locate fresh sweet cherries for the can’t-beat-it- price of $1.79/lb.
14. catch bus to ala moana shopping center.
15. enter ala moana shopping center and manage not to get lost immediately.
16. find that aeropostale has opened. score affordably priced shorts that fit (not expensive and they fit? must be dreaming!)
17. walk across the street from ala moana shopping center to ala moana beach park.
18. find slighty (but not overwhelmingly) fragrant beach restroom. change into new shorts.
19. find shade under palm tree with nice view of the ocean.
20. eat cherries, read highly amusing j. maarten troost travelogue.
21. realize the sun is moving so the shade has moved: now the shady spot offers no view of the ocean.
22. realize if you stay here all afternoon you will fry to a crisp.
23. dip toes, feet and ankles in ocean.
24. grab belongings (produce, clothes and purse, together weighing no less than 20 lbs), walk to foot-rinsing-shower-thingie, rinse feet.
25. walk to bus stop.
26. catch e bus home.
27. arrive home, eat another cookie and a papaya, have roommate tell you that she has killed lots of spiders residing in our garden (what?!) with this amazing spray. this spray will forever be on hand in residence. it kills bugs, of which we are both terrified. the garden is looking lovely.
28. take leisurely bike ride around neighborhood. bike pedal looses a screw and falls off.
29. refrain from using improper language- the bike is inanimate anyways- and survey bike pedal situation.
30. put bike pedal in purse. one good thing about working next door to lowe’s… the availability of such necessary nuts and bolts. hopefully this can be fixed with limited fix-it abilities.
31. consume evening meal.
32. retire for the evening.