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“What’s the luckiest thing that happened to you?”
uring the weeks where I was confined to staying at home, I felt that rather than just lying around, I was going to step out of my comfort zone and do
some things that I normally don’t tackle.
Of course, first I did the things that fall under my purview. I
repaired the lamp in our bedroom, something that was plagu- ing us for at least two years. It was a lamp that my in-laws gifted us when we first moved in to our then “new” home.
It’s a beautiful lamp and in spite of the problem, we would never get rid of it. The problem being, you would have to rotate the switch at least 20 times before the bulb went on. Don’t know why it took me this long to repair it, but you know how it goes. I bought a replacement switch and fixed it in under 15 minutes.
ANALYN COLOMA
Realtor, Waipahu
“I went to Vegas more than 15 years ago and won $1,000. I don’t consider myself lucky, but I know I’m very blessed.”
MATT WATANABE
Shipyard Painter, ‘Aiea
“Meeting my fiancé.”
LEIA TSUBOTA
Security Specialist, ‘Ewa Beach
“That’s an easy one — it was becoming a mom of two.”
BRYAN ECHALAS
Avionics Technician, ‘Ewa Beach
“While I was sitting at a red light, a car came flying down the hill and all four cars surrounding me got wrecked, but mine was untouched.”
In my mind, this meant I could do anything, so I figured I would further impress my wife by doing the impossible. That being, doing the laundry. Years ago, I was banned from doing it because I ruined many of her outfits. She wasn’t about to have me learn through trial and error. Truth be told, my feel- ings were not hurt by being banned from doing this chore.
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TYour New Social Self
he social scene is coming alive again. Invita- tions are coming in, and new decisions about how to spend our time and who to spend it with
need to be made. Many are feeling the pressure to say yes, even if inwardly they want to say no.
If your needs have shifted and you are uncertain about who your “social self” is today, my advice is to begin with what you know you don’t want to say yes to. This is a start in the right direction. Be open with yourself in a new way to ascertain “who you are” today socially. It’s totally OK to be unsure and stay in the unknown.
Just because a chrysalis is still, it doesn’t mean that great change is not happening. The right answers will come.
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But my wife works really hard and does so much for our family that I thought it was time for me to step up and contrib- ute to this weekly never-ending task. Just to be safe, I would only do the towels. I figured only an idiot could screw this up.
I had no idea how many towels we used in a single week! I felt like I was working in the laundry room for an aircraft carrier. Seriously, there are only three people living in our house. And I can account for using a bath towel, maybe two in a single week. That’s because it’s immediately hung up to dry for its next use.
My girls, namely my wife and daughter, can use up to four towels in a single day! That’s because one towel is to dry their body and wear wrapped around their torso and the other is to dry their hair wrapped around it like a turban. That times two women equals four towels. This doesn’t include hand towels. Multiple hand towels are used daily for makeup removal or skin care rituals.
For whatever reason, there were about two weeks of tow- els that needed to be washed and dried. This included kitchen towels and the towels used after bathing our dogs. I suspect they use my towels for that, however, that’s another story.
Turns out I had four loads of towels to put in the washer. Each load took three runs in the dryer to be completely dried (it’s an old gas dryer). And the task is not checked off until all towels are folded and neatly placed into the linen closet.
I don’t think I’ve seen my wife happier. Especially when she said, “OK, Ron. You can launder towels from now on!”
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