My dear Mr. Hockey is pretty impatient, so Christmas has come early ’round here! First, he ordered me Phillip Roberts’ new tiki book: Waikiki Tiki: Art, History & Photographs. Very cool, can’t wait to make a trip out to Hawaii and see all this stuff in person. (Well, what’s left of it, anyway.)

And, second, he got me my very own domain name: http://www.thetikichick.com. (Apparently somebody already registered tikichick.com and is doing nothing with it. Jerk!) Anyway, this is all very exciting and official so I had to share.

Also, I might as well announce two new pages that I made a couple weeks back in honor of my 100th post:

• “My Top 5 Tiki Bars” — pretty self-explanatory.
• “Who is Tiki Chick?” — a bio page of sorts. So far it’s just a pic of me at the Mai Kai and a quote from Duke Carter that sums up why I started this blog.