Well I’ve never been to Hawaii.

But I kind of like their shirts.

Well they tell me I was born there.

But I really don’t remember.

What does it matter?

 

Well you all know that’s a bunch of crap because I was born in New Jersey.

I guess I just got caught up in the moment.

 

The fact is I do have a jones for “Hawaiian” shirts.

The fact is, I have forty-six of them.

I just counted.

 

This is the time of the year I like to get organized.  I have been working on my closets.

Fun stuff, right?  Livin’ la vida loca is my 2020 motto.

Last week I worked on my bedroom closet.

Today it was my laundry room closet where all my Hawaiian shirts reside.

 

I knew I had a lot of Hawaiian shirts, but I didn’t actually know how many until today.

Some are special, some are not as.

Five of them were actually made in Hawaii.  One of those is my Christmas shirt with Santa, a couple of reindeer, a jalopy, and a surfboard.  Another of my Hawaii Hawaiian shirts is the one with the ships sunk in Pearl Harbor depicted on it.  Alexa and Namaan bought be that one on a trip to Hawaii.

I have nine Tommy Bahama shirts.  Those are expensive.

I have one Tommy Bahama that is a Disney Tommy Bahama with Mickey Mouse on it.  I am sure that one was crazy expensive, but lucky for me, that was gift,  as were three or four others.  I found a couple of Tommy B’s in a thrift store, which is more my speed.

There are other special ones.

My unofficial good luck racetrack Hawaiian shirt that has thoroughbred racehorses charging down the stretch on it.  Though I always get a lot of attention when I wear that shirt to the track, I usually don’t get any good luck from it.

I also have one that is an official Kentucky Derby Hawaiian shirt and I have an official NFL Steelers Hawaiian shirt too.  I wrote about that one once before.

One of my favorites was designed by Steven Stills.  I bought that one at one of his shows.

I have another one that has the Christian fish shape on it.  I like to wear it to church.

The rest I have accumulated in one way or another and some remind me of beach vacations, weddings, or other nice memories.

 

And now that I have organized my Hawaiian shirts my next project is my office and shredding my unwanted 2019 financial documents while I prepare for taxes.

Can you feel it?

It must be real.

It feels so good.

Oh, feels so good!

 

I hope your first weekend of 2020 is going as well as mine.  Remember my motto for 2020?

 

By the way, my word of the day today was Jabberwocky.

 

Jabberwocky: Writing or speech that contains meaningless words.

 

So,

How did I do?

 

(Lyrics lifted from Never Been to Spain, written by Hoyt Axton)