Aunty was in Las Vegas, the ninth Hawaiian island, and very happy to be in a picture with KSSK radio celebrity Larry Price at the McCarran Airport.  Uncle took the picture.

We were there for a Nerium Bash – what a company!  New and improved tools, great training and an awesome new program for non-profits to earn commissions without any start up costs!  Please let Aunty know if you are interested.

Aunty put $6 in a slot machine that took the money and didn’t give back anything, so it was break even on the gambling front.

We are now at home, and it feels so good to sleep on our own bed and be surrounded with our own things.  Going on trips every once in a while gives me a new prospective – also makes me realize what a mess our house is in, yikes!

Aunty is getting back into the swing of building into our retirement goals so will be posting more in the future about cash flow, financial lessons, reviews, etc.   Hope y’all (met a lot of people with that accent at the Bash) are having a great day!!

Aunty signed up for Oceanic’s Business Class internet service and planned to terminate the residential Oceanic internet service.  However, those plans were put to a screeching halt (have picture of road runner) by the inability to transfer over my hawaii.rr.com email addresses because our Hawaii Time Warner Cable does not own or have anything to do with the rrs.

Yikes.  Really yike, yike.  All 9(!) of Aunty’s schizoid email addresses are hawaii.rr.coms, and for this multiple-hat-wearing-blog-happy-aunty, switching over and finding another good email hoster that has a good and easy suffix is a chore.

So, Aunty is now using aunty@honoluluaunty.com as her primary “aunty” address.  The rr.com accounts will be replaced with gmail accounts, or possibly another email hoster.  The problem with gmail accounts is that most of the names that I want are taken, and they must be at least 6 letters or numbers long, so aunty@gmail.com does not work.  However, Google’s email accounts seem to be the best for now, and the slow conversion from rr.com accounts for Aunty is taking place, resulting in juggling double the number of email accounts for now.

If anyone knows of a good email hosting, please let me know in the comments section below.  Mahalo in advance!

Hawaii Women Real Estate Investors is the brainchild of Gail Slawson and Chelli Eich of Ocean Head Investment Group.  This is for HiRei members, and just for the girls (no boys allowed!)

We used to meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every month in the Nextage office from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm at 98-029 Hekaha Street, #44 in Aiea/Pearl City.  Currently HiWire is looking for a new home and I will update when that is found.

I thoroughly enjoy this group of women and look forward to each meeting.  It is more informal, and we get to interact with each other and meet new friends as well as see old friends.  Sharing is the common element here.  Bringing some food to share is not required, but greatly appreciated and consumed.  A guest speaker takes the stage around 7:00 and most of the time it generates interesting and lively discussion, giving us much to ponder.

I’d like to thank Gail and Chelli for arranging these meetings that nurture and grow us into successful investors/entrepreneurs.  It’s my favorite meeting every month.  To join, pay the HiRei membership dues (tell them Aunty sent you), and get the details on the website or attend a monthly HiRei meeting on the 1st Thursday of every month at JCCH (Japanese Chamber of Commerce) on Beretania Street.  Hope to see you there!

Aunty met Minesh Bhindi, a young mature wealth builder from England at the recent Wealth Summit here in Honolulu.

On the first day, he explained how the billionaires keep getting wealthier with the concept of the wealth triangle.  In short, they buy assets below market value, they cash flow those assets, and then they rinse and repeat (compound) with the cash flow without blowing the profits/cashflow/income.  Aunty will soon be posting notes under Reviews later.

Here is a link to Minesh’s Gold For Life site.  Much of the subject matter that he covered at the Wealth Summit is found on his site, as well as a promo video he made from his Kahala Hotel balcony overlooking the Waialae Golf Course:

Aunty joined his program.  I’ll review it once it gets going.

Aunty and Uncle were invited to the Opening Day Ceremony of the Hawaii State Senate by the new Senate President (sweet!) Donna Mercado Kim on January 16, 2013.

Aunty never attended an opening before but had heard about the ono and plentiful food, so rsvp:ed with gladness with Uncle dropping me off in front.

Well, it was a pretty nifty event, and I was very proud to say I knew Donna, especially after she did a really wonderful address.  The lone Republican Senator Sam Slom also did a great minority address and Aunty’s wish is that bipartisanship and personal agendas are put aside and new laws that benefit our Hawaii are adopted and implemented with foresight, speed, and wisdom.

Aunty saw many old and new friends there – all very pleasant surprises!  I wish I took a picture with the now retired Marian Higa, former State Auditor and I said hellos (as if I knew them, lol) to former and current governors and mayors.

One wonderful memento is a picture of Aunty and Willie K that new friend Doris snapped for me on our way into the Senate Chambers.  Even looks like Willie K is my friend!

All in all, going to the State Capitol was a wonderful new experience that Aunty highly recommends to everyone.

Uncle is in Auntie Teresa’s Fishing Club – a VERY socially oriented club of “fisher” people with our cousin Teresa and friends.  I put quotes around “fisher” because sometimes fishing is not the end game or plan.  Sometimes, instead of choosing a spot based on being good grounds for catching fish – comfort, bathroom accessibility, ease of path and parking win out after a few sips of good wine and pupus.

Each “fisher” puts in $1 for the evening’s pool – and the person who catches the biggest fish gets to scoop the pot.  At the very first ATFC (Auntie Teresa’s Fishing Club) gathering, cousin Teresa actually won – catching a 2″ opu which probably weighed 1 ounce.

For Uncle, who is an avid fisherman with poles, reels, tabis, lead, hooks, and bait buckets taking up precious real estate near our front door, NOT catching fish and being beat with a 2″ opu was a blow to his “I’m a FISHERMAN” ego.  He could not stop shaking his head that whole week.

So, tonight, just before 7:30 pm, Uncle had me drop him off in Waikiki (secret spot) all by himself since Auntie Teresa’s Fishing Club members were doing their own non-fishing activities.

When I picked him up 3 hours later, Hana pa’a!!!  Sweetest words to a fisherman!

Aunty will make fish cake after Uncle cleans and spoons the meat.  Ono!!!  (yummy!!!)

This fish will give Uncle bragging rights when ATFC meets for their next dinner, potluck, beer/wine pupus fishing expedition.   Even though this catch does not count as a ATFC win since Uncle struck out alone and unsupervised, it was a long awaited win for Uncle, and possibly (since there are only 16 days left in the year) the biggest fish of the year.

Congrats Uncle!

60 years old always sounded old to me.  Grandmas and old aunties were in their sixties.  Gray haired citizens who walked slow and sat at McDonalds drinking endless cups of senior discounted coffee were in their sixties.  Sixty was a big number and it took a long time to get there.

Well, Aunty just turned 60 recently, and it really was quite nice.  A fruit bouquet of chocolate starred pineapples and a day with a couple of good old friends  made the milestone event a very pleasant bump in the pathway of life.

We dressed up in hats and our best jewelry, had a delicious healthy buffet lunch at Indigo Restaurant in downtown Honolulu (fish was fabulous and so was the balsamic vinegar eggplant) and then finding a trendy little shop with a surprisingly wonderful inventory of things to wear and see was icing on the cake.  La Muse at 1156 Nuuanu Avenue is tucked away and worth looking for.

Aunty’s big 6-0 gift to herself from La Muse are hand embroidered magical shoes that transport the wearer and might further Aunty in her quest to perform TaiChi properly.

I actually love being able to finally say that I am 60.  Next year, I’ll say I am OVER 60 and hopefully people will say that I don’t look a day over 59!