Girl Friday has been so busy lately, designing a cool retro menu for a restaurant chain in Alabama (see my Print Portfolio!), and wine labels for Leaf and Vine Wines in Napa, CA, and creating fundraising tools for non-profit organizations, and other neato projects…. she totally forgot to take a vacation! So recently she packed her a tiny little suitcase and flew off to Maui for some fun in the sun! In her suitcase: one bathing suit, one sarong, one pair of shorts, one hat…and SEVEN pairs of sandals! A girl’s gotta have her shoes.

Oh wait! One more item: Girl Friday did pack her laptop! I know, I know…it’s supposed to be a VACATION! But clients don’t disappear, y’know, and I had to keep in touch with my peeps. To help me keep up with my work, I used a fantastic online tool that was new to Girl Friday, who uses APPLE computers for her work: http://logmein.com. FINALLY, Girl Friday could log-in to her desktop computer at her office from anywhere in the world, and, best thing yet…here it comes…it’s FREE!! It works just like “Go To My PC.com” but it’s for Mac computers. So NOW Girl Friday can go to Maui, Italy, Tahitia, Egypt…anywhere there are the Internets, that fabulous “series of tubes,” and get some work done. Should she choose to do so. While on “vacation.” So next time YOU take time off theoretically and want to be able to access your desktop Mac, check out http://logmein.com!

The OTHER things Girl Friday learned while on vacation:

• Coconut gelato, with coconut macaroons crushed on top, makes a lovely entree, especially when followed by Coconut Candy for dessert. In fact, Girl Friday believes Coconut in all edible forms should be declared its own food group.

• Coconut water, in copious amounts, is the nectar of the Goddesses! (yes, more on coconut here…I\’m almost finished!) Drinking coconut water as a chaser to multiple tropical rum beverages, guava martinis, and/or margaritas actually does prevent a hangover. My scientific research confirms these findings, and as a service to you mainlanders, I pass the information on to you. Feel free to experiment with your own beverage of choice.

• Multi-tasking (i.e. “working”) at the beach requires superior powers of concentration, intense focus, attention to detail, organization, and top-notch communication skills. Oh, never mind. Check out that gorgeous surfer!

• Sunset in Hawaii = Better Than Any Movie, TV, or even Facebook! “Nuff said.

• While in Maui, do not, under any circumstances, embarrass your daughter by talking, looking, acting, walking or thinking like a “tourist.” You may not dress like a tourist either, so the purchase of “Aloha” clothes is strictly forbidden.