Mele Kalikimaka & Aloha!!!!

Can't sleep. Jet lag of doom. ARGH

But I have been having really strangely awesome half dreams of John Stamos and Jason Batemen and that kind of scares me.

Ah the holidays. Jet lag, cramped quarters, too many people wanting to do too many things... Having Christmas in Hawai'i is a little hard. North Carolina was easier. I was there just to see my family for the holidays. Here I want to sightsee and visit old haunts and try and see old friends. But I'm also supposed to be hanging with my family and relaxing and enjoying the holidays. And I'm having a hard time doing both. At least in my mind. Some of the group wants to shop tomorrow morning and some of them want to sleep in and I really hate the idea that I'm going to be in Honolulu and may be forced to just hang around the house and be a bum when there are a million sights to see. I just have to work it out. It's not like it should be hard to be grateful for having a wonderful family who loves each other and wants to spend time together and that we all get to do it in a house in Hawai'i with a lovely view and gorgeous weather and all that. I think I'm partially just jet lagged and feeling a bit of the contagious holiday/family visit stress coming from everyone else. Maybe another good night's sleep and I'll be good to go.

One amazing thing... I actually had fun in LA. I'm not a New Yorker born and raised, but I've been there seven and a half years now and love it. In terms of Yankees vs. Red Sox, I'm firmly Yankees. In terms of East Coast vs. West Coast I'm firmly East Coast. I mock LA. Because I can. And because I should. But K and I went out and had a nice time. We went to a pub (without the 'pretty people'), drank some. Drove around and mocked the club kids and the skanky boys and girls wandering around at 2AM. We drove by the famous people's homes like the Playboy Mansion (well, the service gate at least), Gene Simmons's place, Aaron Spelling's place. We drove, we mocked, we giggled. We had fun. I was informed I need to come back in daylight hours. And I think I will. And I think I'm looking forward to it. Even the spa day, which looks way different from a New York spa day. I fear the future mud fight...