Last weekend I made a bold move. I got on a plane with my two rugrats by myself to go home to visit family and do a book signing. I was real.... 31 Jul 12:55 am
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When I came in to work yesterday, something was different. Someone had put a TV on my desk!! SWEET!
It’s definitely not what you think tho.... 14 Jul 7:35 am
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I’ll be at the Kahala Mall Barnes & Noble today to sign copies of Yum-Yum Bento Box: Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches! I hope to se.... 11 Jul 4:38 am
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I cannot express to you all just how badly we need to move to the house already. The drive home is just killing us lately. Baby Girl usually.... 9 Jul 7:27 am
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As Big Island residents now know, the Hilo Borders will be closing its doors for good at the end of the month. I’ve been getting emails an.... 8 Jul 9:42 am
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The other day I had one of those Horrible Parent episodes. It was the 4th of July and the plan was to take the kids to see Toy Story 3 aroun.... 7 Jul 8:00 am
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Mahalo to those that came to see me at Marukai yesterday! If you didn’t have a membership, you can come see me to get your book signed at.... 4 Jul 6:32 am
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As I mentioned yesterday, I was scheduled for a brief appearance on Sunrise on Hawaii News Now to promote Yum-Yum Bento Box and the book sig.... 2 Jul 9:50 am
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I’ve discovered that logging in over 400 contest entries is right up there among fun activities such as watching water boil or washing mol.... 1 Jul 5:27 pm
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The other night, I was watching Goonies with the kids and during that part where Sloth scares them and they fall into the counterfeit room a.... 25 Jun 5:57 am
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I looked back at my past bentos and it looks like after I made my 500th bento, the cute drive in me went crawling under the stove and laid t.... 22 Jun 5:19 pm
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As you have probably guessed by now, I’m still compiling the entries for the Zojirushi Mini Bento Giveaway. I’ve realized now that I p.... 20 Jun 3:10 am
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This year Final Fantasy XI turns 8 years old and though I’m still viciously bitter over the loss of my character’s name, I still love th.... 16 Jun 6:11 pm
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I know what you’re thinking. I’m trying to trick you by posting the same lunch twice. Alas, it is not so.
Yesterday, when I asked Baby G.... 11 Jun 6:57 am
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Yesterday after school, I had the experience of waking Baby Girl from a car nap to go buy eggs and strawberries at Costco. It was all fun an.... 9 Jun 5:28 pm
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This morning I suffered yet another blow to my bento ego from none other than my resident 6-year old anti-bento daughter. Last night, I’d .... 8 Jun 3:51 pm
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Last year, I made you guys tell me what you’d pack in a Zojirushi Ms. Bento in order to win one and then later asked you to fill out a sur.... 5 Jun 10:50 am
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The other day, I mentioned that we tried rabbit for the first time and Susan asked what made me want to try rabbit and the answer is that it.... 4 Jun 3:20 pm
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I’ve come to the point where whenever I have J-List credit to spend, I try to avoid the bento stuff. It’s not that I don’t want more b.... 2 Jun 7:06 am
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I’ve come a very long way from my very first bento and actually, probably my first 100 bentos. People who have read my blog from the start.... 27 May 8:41 am
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It’s now the dreaded Monday that I talked about on Saturday and I sit here at my Wordpress editor with a hundred different thoughts swirli.... 25 May 1:42 pm
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It feels like this week flew by faster than flaming arrows during an Others raid, with the series finale for LOST coming up in just under 2.... 23 May 6:17 pm
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I meant to post this yesterday, but ended up just completely forgetting. It’s been a long week and since Mr. Pikko has been sick, I’ve h.... 23 May 2:23 am
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I’ve been having a pretty terrible week so far and I’m hoping that all of this crappy stuff is leading up to something nice happening. .... 21 May 8:10 am
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My apologies for not posting this earlier today, but work had me busy at an assembly and we had a full schedule with some house issues after.... 19 May 7:35 pm
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This week, the Marukai Irrashai newsletter should be coming out with the first of three mini bento tutorials by me. I’m excited, to say th.... 18 May 8:13 am
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Ever since the Honolulu Advertiser article in February outed me as a bento box maniac with some serious addiction issues, I know that I’ve.... 15 May 8:05 am
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A few weeks ago, Susan Yuen, my fellow bento cookbook author here in Hawaii sent me a copy of her new cookbook, Hawai`i’s Bento Box Cookbo.... 14 May 10:25 am
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Yesterday on the way home, we passed by the Harley store on Nimitz Highway and Buddy starts telling me how when he grows up, he’s going to.... 13 May 5:20 am
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