Aloha from the Malasada Mobile

One of my goals while in Hawaii is to eat all the food unique to the islands.  After dinner at S's house this week I shared this goal with her and said that she needed to accompany me on all the trips.  (I have dependency issues, I don't like to be alone lol.)  We were discussing all the places when I brought up Leonard's Bakery.  S asked what was there and before I could answer her husband, B, shouted out "Malasadas!"  We both asked what that was and he said, "Soft pillows of awesome."  Of course boob jokes had to follow for the next few minutes.

**For those that don't know (like S and me) Malasadas are a Portuguese baked treat.  Like a donut without a hole.  Leonard's Bakery is well known for many baked goods but malasadas are one of the more popular ones. **

We looked up Leonard's Bakery online and saw that they have a food truck that is located by the Waikele Outlets, about 20 minutes away from us.  S needed to do some shopping for her Lularoe VIPs so we decided on a whim to just go out and kill two birds with one stone.

The Malasada's Mobile has six different types.  Three are sugared (original, cinnamon, li-hing/sweet and sour) and three are filled (custard, coconut and chocolate).  

After getting 24 total malasadas (because we are freaks with eyes bigger than our stomachs) we put them in the car and went to take care of the shopping.  As we were leaving S said, "Lock the doors!  We have important donuts in the car!"  When we got back in the car it smell soooo good.  Soooo very good!

When we got to S's house we pulled out a plate and began picking malasadas and sampling them. 

We were laughing and compared it the likes of sampling wedding cake lol.  Ticklebug and B kept making fun of us because we would take one bite from each malasada and then the rest would be left on the plate.  I don't know why they were complaining, they swooped in and took pieces from our sampling plate...

To be honest I think that the malasadas were just okay.  They weren't anything life changing.  Maybe it's because we didn't eat them right as we got them.  Ticklebug and I agreed that it was nothing to write home about.  It just made us our favorite donut joint back in Maryland, Arundel Donuts. 

Things I don't understand in Hawaii - Selling of Winter Clothing

On a shopping trip this weekend with some girlfriends I noticed that many stores had big, fat, heavy, jackets for sale.

To make matters even more confusing there were no short sleeve shirts that were being sold in this store either.  We are living on an island.  Why in the world do we need big, fat, heavy, jackets?  I don't get it.  In the two months that we've lived here I've worn jeans once and I was ridiculously hot.

Sunlight during the shopping trip.  It was hot as balls, in November.

 Can someone please explain to me the point of having winter clothing on the island?  Don't say "Maybe it's out for people to purchase when they go back to the mainland."  I considered this, it still doesn't make sense.  How many people are going to purchase big heavy jackets?  It certainly can't be enough to make a profit!  Don't say, "They are on vacation in Hawaii and bought a jacket to take back home" either.  Nope, can't be the case.  Everything in Hawaii is more expensive, if you did that.  You're dumb.  Sorry, not sorry.

That's it.  I have nothing really relevant to say.  I just wanted to share my confusion. :) Happy Monday!

Military Housing

It was an unspoken agreement between Ticklebug and I that we would live in base housing while we were stationed in Hawaii. In the three years we've been together this will be the third time we've used base housing.  I'm just going to be a brat and say that this is the worst military housing we've ever been in.

The layout is awful.  It would be fine if the bathroom wasn't randomly put in the middle of the downstairs.  It makes the downstairs like a circle.  If the bathroom had been put in a corner then it could have been a somewhat open concept. 

All the toilets have issues.  Downstairs to make a complete flush you have to push down on the handle twice.  For all the toilets if you don't lift up the handle the toilet continues to run.  If I were a jerk I would just leave it running to say a big "eff you" to housing, since we don't pay a water bill, but I sadly care about the environment.  I have to constantly tell everyone (including my husband) to make sure the handle is down. 

Thankfully, there are things that I'm able to fix up.  For instance a nasty cream tone was the standard color throughout the house.  It gave off a really dreary feeling.  I fixed that thee night before we got our household goods.

1. Is our entry wall.  The color is a pretty blue.
2. The color on the right is more of a white/blue/gray tint.
3. Blue cocktails are what motivated me to get the painting done in just a few hours.  Since we didn't have our household goods I improvised and used a coffee cup. 

The kitchen has/had a random open empty nook.  It may have once been for a refrigerator, but yea, it's nothing now.  Since storage is nonexistent we converted it into a pantry (there isn't even a pantry!).

So glad Ticklebug took care of this.  It may not be much but at least it's something!

To make it feel more like home I've taken on some small home decorating projects.  I don't decorate so this is a big thing for me.  One of the first things I fixed was the ugly oven back drop.

Just some contact paper from Wal-Mart (yes, there is Wal-Mart in Hawaii.)  I actually fixed the backdrop after the picture was taken.  I extended the paper so that it went past the oven.

The serious lack of storage has forced us to downsize a lot.  We've honestly gotten rid of about 30 bags of things.  The majority of things are random times, old clothes, and bedding.  There is just no room.  It was a little heartbreaking to let go a few things because I'm a sentimental fool (maybe a little bit of a hoarder) but it was done.  I'm expecting around ten more bags to go before I'm completely satisfied. 

Even though I'm complaining hard core about this house I will have to admit that it's worth being here because of the awesome school the girls get to go to.  The teachers have been willing to work with them and give them extra attention to catch up.  Also, I'm willing to make some sacrifices to live in paradise. :) I hope to be spending a lot of time exploring, adventuring, and having so much fun that I will just be happy to have a home to come home to. :) <3