Cocock’s Nail Art

As many of you might already know, I love having my toe nails brightly colored. You might also already know that for as much as I love brightly polished toe nails (read: teal, dark green, royal blue, black, etc.), I have only had two pedicures in my life. I have a thing about not liking people touching my feet. I know, it’s weird, but hey, it’s me we’re talking about here.

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Kamezen–Okinawa Soba Shop

Out back of American Village, in the new “Depot Island” area, we recently tried the Okinawa Soba shop, Kamezen. We were immediately enchanted by the Okinawa 1960’s era décor, as we were seated at a small table with a sewing treadle.

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Hothess Food Campaign

Found this in our mailbox the other day.  Not sure which was more funny – the fact that they misspelled “hotness” or the fact that the first thing I thought when I scanned the ad was, “Hoth?!  As is, food from the ice planet Hoth?!  Maybe some taun-tauns?  So cool!!!” 

Uh-huh.  I might think about Star Wars..…a lot.

“You’ve been hit by a smooth criminal…”

This past weekend was HansenFest.  Two big typhoon’s ago, back in May, we were getting all geared up to see Alien Ant Farm at SchwabFest (where we saw the awesome Lit concert last year.)  Unfortunately, Typhoon Songda caused that event to be cancelled.  We were so disappointed; after all, this was our big chance to see Alien Ant Farm (best known for their rocking remake of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”!)

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Beni-imo Wedges

Tonight Brandon grilled us steak and I was in charge of the potato – the beni-imo (Okinawa purple sweet potato) to be specific.  We both really like sweet potato fries, so I decided to try making beni-imo wedges.  While in Okinawa, consume as much beni-imo as possible, right?

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