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\"Hideaway\"<\/a>Ms Swanky gave me a few nice birthday presents. First, a stainless steel mini fridge to keep all the assorted juices and syrups needed to make great drinks <\/a>in the bar. Second, a stainless steel bar sink for the bar. We bought a house about a year ago and have been renovating and now we’re coming to some new places. The 3rd edition of the Hapa Haole Hideaway <\/a>will be very grand, but, it will require a LOT of work and money. Not just a decorating job like times past, but a construction job with contractors and electrical, plumbing and carpentry work. I really miss the Hideaway<\/a>, and so does she. But we also have work to do on the kitchen and bath, etc. So, those gifts really meant more to me. They show she’s behind this project.<\/p>\n

As if I didn’t already know, my male friends are reinforcing it. She’s a keeper.<\/p>\n

We still can’t afford to get married, but we’re setting a date anyway. It’ll be in April or May 2009. We’ll settle on an exact date soon. I did Hukilau <\/a>year after year starting with nothing in the bank. We’ve managed a lot of goals that were difficult and we made them happen. So, we set a date and we’ll make the wedding happen too.<\/p>\n

And in August or so, we’ll have the grand reopening party for the the bigger and bestest Hapa Haole Hideaway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ms Swanky gave me a few nice birthday presents. First, a stainless steel mini fridge to keep all the assorted juices and syrups needed to make great drinks in the Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[537],"tags":[480,520,702],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-fodder","tag-bar","tag-cocktails","tag-og-tiki-central"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s731sH-keeper","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":370,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2008\/07\/06\/hapa-haole-hideaway-rebuild-iii\/","url_meta":{"origin":365,"position":0},"title":"Hapa Haole Hideaway Rebuild III","author":"Swanky","date":"July 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I built the Hideaway first in my rental house. 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