A short videolog sharing scenes from today’s Chinese New Year festivities at the Chinese Cultural Center in Honolulu’s Chinatown.

[tags]Chinatown, Chinese New Year, Honolulu, Hawaii[/tags]

Last year, I filmed a vlog to record my mom-in-law’s secret “simple ozoni” recipe for posterity — and so I’d remember how to make it in coming years. Unfortunately, that was before I discovered the correct encoding settings, so the video quality is pretty poor. (Oh, and let’s not even talk about that bad haircut!) Nevertheless, the content is what’s important! I’m posting this early, just in case anyone wants to try their hand at making this simplified version of a traditional new year’s dish.

Happy new year!

It was a bad hair day, but I’m wearing a cool t-shirt!

I set off yet another alarm, so here’s another vlog entry. Man, I am on a roll.

Here I am futting around doing vlogs when I should be finishing my gift wrapping and Christmas cards. Typical.

Anyway, enjoy the madness.

WARNING: This is an in vitro fertilization (IVF) update, so be prepared for TMI (too much information).

Honestly, I know that some of what I say isn’t of interest to the public at large, but I vlog to chronicle this time in my life. Someday, when I’m on the other side of this experience, I will look back at these vlogs and marvel at what I’ve been through. It’s a way of memorializing life and everything about it. Even the mundane.

DISCLAIMER: All the stuff in the background, that’s not trash — it’s packages upon packages of Christmas gifts yet to be distributed. Yours could be in that very pile!

BONUS FEATURE: For some insane reason, it took me 37 takes to get through this entire videolog. (I think it’s because Hubby was in the room and he was making me nervous.) He thought it was pretty funny and suggested that I create a blooper reel. So, at the end, I share a few outtakes from the making of this vlog just for fun.

I wrote of my wallet woes in the past. You may think that I am intent on making a grand entrance when I enter a room, but it’s not my vanity that sets off bells and whistles wherever I go: it’s my Coach wallet. This issue has caused me much consternation for many months, but the frequency at which we’ve been at the mall during this Christmas season has only exacerbated my frustration. This videolog entry is a tribute to the end of my wallet woes.

All of this is attributed to a random Twitter comment I made and the subsequent responses by Twitter pals kimonostereo and typezero3. Who ever said that Twitter isn’t useful? Twitter pals have saved my bacon on more than one occasion! Do you Twitter? If not, you should!

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It all begins again! Shots, patches and pills — oh, my!

NOTE: Please pardon the mess in the background. It’s our multi-purpose computer/fitness/project room.