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Diane

I am here for Networking

About Me

I'm Monica from "Friends." Or... see "Virgo" on the astrology chart.

My Interests

Travelling (work husband Paul Drewes calls me a "travel whore"), volunteering at Friends of the East West Center (www.EastWestCenter.org), jujitsu at Hawaii Zenyo Bujutsu Kai

I'd like to meet:

Dalai Lama

Music:

Steely Dan, Gypsy Kings, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Alicia Keys, disco hits

Movies:

Shrek, Anchorman, Life Is Beautiful, Mystery Men, Hero

My Blog

HawaiiMoms.com

Aloha and sorry for being a little absent lately. I have a feeling this might be my new modus operandi. Anyhow here's sort of my version of an update with life and Olivia.   http://hawaiimoms....
Posted by Diane on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:39:00 PST

Update on life

Hello all, I'm sorry I'm too busy to write back separately to all. I don't think you need to be a parent to figure out why, but certainly, if you are, you will really relate! Life's good. The baby is...
Posted by Diane on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:47:00 PST

Red Bull Helicopter ride- aerobatics chopper

http://www.khnl.com/global/story.asp?s=7210950   Check out my ride in a stunt chopper. Click on "raw aerial footage" on the left hand box to see my camcorder shots....
Posted by Diane on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:36:00 PST

Star Bulletin - Olivia

http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/16/news/heckathorn.html   ..> ..> COURTESY OF DIANE AKOOlivia, left, daughter of KHNL weekend anchor Diane Ako, and Kai, son of co-anchor Paul Drewes, ...
Posted by Diane on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:48:00 PST

Olivia on tv this week

If you are interested... Olivia will briefly be on "Night Time with Andy Bumatai" this Weds Sept 12 at 9:30 pm. I'm the first guest of the night on this local late night talk show, so I ...
Posted by Diane on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:55:00 PST

Yahoo e mail

I do not check this site every day or even every week. Esp now with Olivia and I can't get my life together, I'm super tired and stuff. If you are writing something time sensitive please call or ...
Posted by Diane on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:31:00 PST

The baby and the remodeling

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. I'm using the blog to keep in touch with my friends because I barely have the time to check my personal e mail. Baby is great. She has been in a junk sleep cycle la...
Posted by Diane on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:31:00 PST

Jumping the gun?

I was a little too premature on saying Olivia sleeps through the night. I'm sure babies change their patterns all the time so it shouldn't surprise me that about 4 days ago she stopped sleeping after ...
Posted by Diane on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:43:00 PST

Baby Wise

Olivia is going on 3 weeks old and she is such a pleasure to have in our lives. We so love our little girl. The first week home was really hard for us because we are new parents and don't work in chil...
Posted by Diane on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:16:00 PST

Olivia's debut

HERE IS THE SCRIPT FROM THE 9 PM NEWS. (IT WAS SLIGHTLY DIFFRENT IN EACH SHOW BUT THIS WAS THE LONGEST.) IF YOU CLICK THIS LINK YOU CAN ALSO WATCH THE TV CLIP.   http://www.khnl.com/Global/st...
Posted by Diane on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:28:00 PST