Aloha!

As it turns out, I still love Kauai. Poi Pu beach is still wonderful. The monk seals enjoy the sand in the early morning hours. I saw several sea turtles - one group I think was a family (large and small turtles). We saw them while we were geocaching (very fun).

While there we toured through a time share right on Poi Pu beach. As is always the case with time shares they are priced just a bit too high, but still somehow competitive. I swear I feel like just a complete moron when it comes to time shares. I always walk away thinking that there is something I am missing or a question I didn't ask or a catch I didn't pick up on. I'm the perfect person for them. I'm like chum in the water. I walk around a beautiful property and imagine myself there and I'm ready to move in. My saving grace is this nagging feeling that there is a catch. Thankfully, Roy likes to "run the numbers" and figure out what the real story is.

So my question, do you have a time share? Where? For how long? Has it been valuable to you? Have you traded for other properties? Tell me everything.

Twenty Years Later

I just received my first notification of my upcoming high school reunion. That's right I am a card carrying member of the Palo Alto High School Class of 1987. Go Vikings! Yeah! It is all so surreal. Twenty years! Ouch.

This is one of those areas where I don't get any sympathy from friends and family. My shock and dismay at the fact that I have been out of high school more years than I had lived when I left falls on deaf ears. My mom is being notified of her 50th reunion, my husband just passed on his 40th. Most of my friends have already either dealt with or happily ignored their 20th high school reunion.

Here is the thing: I LOVED my 10 year reunion. I was stunned at how much fun I had. There was nearly 500 in my graduating class and about half came to one of the three events we had. I think I may have talked to every single one of them. What is so strange about this to me is that I have almost no memories of high school that don't involve actually attending class or playing some sort of sport. I honestly can not recall how it is I seemed to personally know all of these people. But there I was, "Sally! Hi! So you went to Brown and I think you majored in subterranean mammals, right? How is that working out for you?". This will largely be funny to those of you who know me today and know that I can't remember the details of a story you told me 30 seconds ago.

So what advice do you have for me? Lose 10 pounds? Change my hair style and color? Botox? I suppose I'll have to go shopping...