Good morning, cuties. Merry Christmas! Just a quick note to wish you a wonderful day today and to tell you thanks for your support and friendship. It’s been a fun year (but one with its share of challenges for us all), and I hope the year to come is a great one for you.
What are your plans today? Does your family celebrate Christmas? My side of the family back in California celebrates late on Christmas Eve, so we used Skype last night to video chat with them from here in Hawaii. Today with El Hub’s side of the family, we’ll be opening presents soon and just spending the day together chilling at home (it’s POURING down rain right now).
Whatever you have going on this weekend, be safe and have fun! We’ll talk again soon.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Andrea says
December 25th, 2009 at 10:31 amMerry Christmas Karen !!!! 🙂
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pmMerry Christmas, Andrea!
CC says
December 25th, 2009 at 10:34 amMerry Christmas, Karen! It’s great to see the quieter side of Hawaii (instead of the usual resorts and hula dancers we see on TV). I could listen to ocean waves all day…and run forever outside with a view like that! My family celebrates Christmas just like any other holiday – good food, family and a relaxing day at home. 🙂 Have a great holiday weekend!
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pmHi CC!
Food, family and relaxing… sounds like a good time to me.
We’re doing pretty much the same thing — just chillin’ and relaxing at home!
Have a wonderful day, and Merry Christmas!
Karen B says
December 25th, 2009 at 10:37 amMerry Christmas Karen.
I hope you enjoy the rest of the holiday season.
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:31 pmHi Karen B,
Merry Christmas to you too, dear! Hope you’re having fun. 🙂
Did ya get any Chanel this year? I hope so!
gio says
December 25th, 2009 at 10:43 amMerry Christmas and happy holidays Karen!
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Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pmHappy holidays to you, too, Gio!
amy says
December 25th, 2009 at 10:46 amMerry Christmas Karen. Thanks for sharing your Hawaiian adventure with us. I love the shot of the flock of chickens crossing the street. Too bad it is raining there. No white Christmas for me this year. It is chilly but sunny at least it is not raining. I hate rainy, dreary Christmases.
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Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pmHi Amy,
Those chickens are all over the place, LOL! They practically run the neighborhood. There used to be a peacock too, but I dunno where it went.
Hope you’re enjoying the day! Merry Christmas!
Marina says
December 25th, 2009 at 10:58 amMerry Christmas, dear Karen xo
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Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:28 pmHi Marina,
Merry Christmas! Tabs sends a virtual kitty hug. 🙂
Rae says
December 25th, 2009 at 11:14 amMerry Christmas my dear Karen! Hawaii looks absolutely amazing, and thank god for Skype 😛 Happy Holidays to you, el hubs, and tabs!! xoxo
.-= Rae’s last blog post… A last-minute holiday red lipstick =-.
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:28 pmHi Rae,
Merry Christmas, hon! Enjoy the day with your family. 🙂
Veky says
December 25th, 2009 at 11:25 amMerry Christmas! 🙂
My side of the family doesn’t celebrate, but my boyfriends family does so on Christams Eve and today, on Christmas his grandma cooked few meals so we were there, eating, opening presents, etc. 🙂
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:27 pmHi Veky,
Sounds like fun. Hope you had a great time with your sweetie and his fam!
Sabrina says
December 25th, 2009 at 11:57 amthis sounds awful but I actually used skype for the first time yesterday. Haha been living under a rock. But I’m loving it!
I can finally talk to my best friend who’s studying in UK. Thank you santa for skype. Or whoever it was genius enough to invent it lol.
Hope you have a blast today 🙂
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:27 pmHi Sabrina,
Have a wonderful Christmas! Hope that you are enjoying your day. 🙂
Glosslizard says
December 25th, 2009 at 12:15 pmMerry Christmas, Karen!
We enjoyed a mellow Christmas morning and now I’m off to take the imps to a (bad) movie! 😉 Hope you and El Hub have a wonderful day and a big fat Merry Skype Christmas to Tabs!
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:26 pmHi Glosslizard!
Merry, merry Christmas to you and to the fam (and the kitties!).
What movie did you guys watch?
Glosslizard says
December 26th, 2009 at 9:01 amI had promised the kids that I would take them to see the new Chipmunks movie on Christmas day! It wasn’t terrible, I admired the amazingness of CGI technology in creating small furry animals singing Beyonce, and the kids liked watching chipmunks giving wedgies! 😛
How was your day?
Jen says
December 25th, 2009 at 12:20 pmMerry Christmas! We have rain in Miami too!
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Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pmHi Jen,
Stay dry! Merry Christmas. 🙂
ezzie says
December 25th, 2009 at 1:27 pmMerry Christmas!
hawaii looks amazing! i didn’t get the snow i wanted, but the sun is shining soo bright here today! hope you enjoy your day 🙂
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pmMerry Christmas, Ezzie!
Did you get any beauty stuff this year?
Jenny says
December 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pmMerry Christmas, Karen!! I love it when it rains in Hawaii 🙂 I’m on the westside of Oahu. When it rains really *really* hard in Kaneohe, do you ever look at the mountains and notice it somehow resembles little mini waterfalls? Pretty 🙂 Oh! And I braved the last-minute shopping at Pearl Ridge. I wonder what shopping was like at Ala Moana last night, it surely had to have been much more hectic!
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:24 pmHi Jenny,
Yup! I love when those mini-waterfalls come out of the woodwork. 🙂
How’s the weather over on your side today? It’s still raining like CRAZY here.
Tomorrow I think we’re gonna brave Windward mall… hopefully there will be some good sales!
Merry Christmas!
Christina says
December 25th, 2009 at 1:48 pmMerry Christmas to you, too, Karen! Hope you’re able to relax and enjoy the day. 🙂
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:21 pmMerry Christmas, Christina! 🙂
Hope you’re enjoying your day!
Joanne says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:51 pmMerry Christ,as Karen ! I wish I was in Hawaii right now. It is cold and rainy
here in PA.
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Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:56 pmHi Joanne,
Merry Christmas to you, too. It’s raining here too… if you stay dry I will too!
Shannon Steele says
December 25th, 2009 at 2:59 pmLast night when I was wrapping gifts and listening to Christmas songs Mele Kalikimaka came on and i wondered if it was really a Hawaiian Christmas greeting and thought of you. Merry Christmas MUBB!
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 3:02 pmYup, it’s a real Christmas greeting! 🙂 Hope you’re enjoying your day.
Stacie says
December 25th, 2009 at 3:26 pmMerry Christmas, Karen! Hawaii looks great! We got snow yesterday in Fort Worth, right on time for Christmas. I’m off to work tonight–the hospital never closes, after all! But I was supposed to work last night too, and I was canceled, so staying home on Christmas Eve was my Christmas present. Hope you have a great day, Karen!
Karen says
December 25th, 2009 at 3:30 pmHi Stacie,
Oh, a white Christmas! That’s wonderful. 🙂
Hope that work tonight for you is mellow… Merry Christmas!
P.S. Did Santa bring ya any beauty loot this year?
Katie & Zena says
December 25th, 2009 at 6:37 pmMerry Christmas, Karen! It’s tradition in my family to open presents Christmas Eve. The only bad thing is that everything is closed today here in the USA. In Europe (where I was born), presents are opened Christmas Eve, hang out with friends on Christmas and New Year’s Eve & Day are spent with close family. It’s weird knowing I was raised that way yet I’ve lived here for 17.5 years. Christmas is so boring here!
At least it’s raining in a tropical climate. It’s raining ice cold rain here in the Midwest, which is so unusual here. Snow and sun are expected, but rain is really weird. Very, very weird.
DonnaN says
December 25th, 2009 at 7:38 pmKaren,
Here’s to you and your family on this wonderful Christmas night! Hope that lots of goodies found there way to you this Christmas. Here in Delaware, Santa was very GOOD to me!!! Hubster and I have decided that a Christmas vacation is due maybe next year…..I’d like to spend the holiday in a warmer climate, I think……
Lindsay says
December 26th, 2009 at 1:02 amIt’s been awhile since I commented on here, but Merry Christmas! I love the video of Hawaii, it shows everyone a more realistic side of the island compared to the usual Waikiki scenes. Anyway, I hope you’re enjoying your vacation! Happy Holidays!
Ashley says
December 26th, 2009 at 2:20 amBelated Merry Christmas, Karen! I’v ebeen good, so no coal for me this year ;]
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Suji says
December 26th, 2009 at 9:36 amI’d love to learn how to surf sometime. It seems like it would be great exercise! Hope you had a great Christmas!
Marce says
December 26th, 2009 at 10:21 amHello Karen! Merry Christmas! Hope you had a wonderful day 😀
Here in Argentina we get together for Christmas Eve and dig into presents at 12! Then celebrate a bit more and go to bed to rest and continue eating next day, LOL
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Tiffany says
December 26th, 2009 at 2:09 pmHope you had a wonderful Christmas! I love the baby chicks in the vid!!!
Petra says
December 29th, 2009 at 11:03 amVery happy holidays, Karen! Wow you live in such a stunning place! Feeling so jelaous now. 🙂 The landscape is wonderful and you gotta love some loose chickens. 🙂