Lika’s Log

I am pau going to da docta or hospital for the week. So the short story is shot in da ass, shot in da ass, down 7 nuke caps anden get scanned. LOL Oh dats da shortcut pidgin version.

So what happened was: Monday I went to da Drs and got shot 1. Tuesday shot 2. Why I no could get both of’em same time I dunno. I not one docta. Wednesday I went to da hospital report to Nuke Med section aka radiology and dey gave me 7 capsules to take. Simple enough right. So ha’come I took long time to down seven pills. Cause I do’em one at one time.

I could not be a druggie. Took me fo’eva. I was like, “is that 7 yet?” NO, 2 more. Hooo I just gotta go shishi drinking all dis watah. LOL Anden I askem’ “are there any restrictions, can I eat am I not suppose to eat?” Da Tech guys says, ‘yeah you can eat but wait at least 30 minutes because we don’t want you throwing up.’ I was like - “OH that would be serious nuke waste huh, gotta call hazmat.” We was just cracking up.

It reminded me of da first time I had da nuclear medicine thing. On the paper work it states: If you are in an accident or die, you must tell the physician that you have had RAI-131. HUH? I told my docta, did you read this? If I die I ain’t telling anybody jack. LOL He was rolling his eyes, you know what we mean. Yeah well you guys need to reword it.

So today was get scanned day. I go in, lie on this flat bed and it feeds me into a machine. Kinda of MIR-ish. No biggie. Been there done that. I just close my eyes and take a nap because it takes like 20 minutes. Well there was another machine and another person getting it done too. Someone who had never gotten it done before. Well the lady kept moving her head I guess and the tech kept telling her to keep still cause then the machine won’t get good readings and what not. Oh I guess she didn’t understand English either so the Tech told the husband how important it was to not move and he had translate.

So pau now. I go docta in two weeks and he tells me the good, bad and or the ugly. The way I look at it, I’m still here so it can’t and won’t be that bad if bad at all. Hana hou next year.

I was afraid I wasn’t going to be able to go thru with these tests cause I had the flu. But it was not an issue. Two days after I get the shots I’m thinking I should know what the side effects are and go look it up. Late reaction on my part. duh? So whats one of the symtoms or after effects. “May cause flu like symtoms.” Noshit & what if you all ready have th flu, den you going feel even moe shitty. Hmmm that explains the 102temp Monday afternoon. Oh no wonder I left work early. Oh yeah with all this “protocalling” I go to work afta. I gotta pay for my meds. *L*

I was reading all the side effects of thyrogen. It said if you die its usually happens with 24 hours. I read that 48 hours after the fact so I was feeling safe. And there’s only been 1 death and the person had 6 shots and he still had his thyroid and he was 77 or something like that. All I know is, if you’re a dude with thyroid issues, you are worst off den one wahine. One moe thing for me be grateful for. LOL

I’m still conjested. My voice is still low & raspy. So hey call me. Yeah right? LOL

P.S. I did not turn off the comment of the previous entry. I can’t even fine an on or off? Where’s it at? If I did do it I don’t know how I did it and I was truely sick. Ok I am truely sick. *L*

I was sicko during the new year. Just your average 3 day bug take drugs (over the counter) and stay in bed kind of sicko. Once upon a time, I would get a cold or flu and that meant I wouldn’t get again for 6 months maybe a year. That was once upon one time.

Saturday I woke up with a dry cough. By the afternoon I was in bed. That evening I had a serious fever. The kind that feels like it won’t break and it makes you toss and turn and not sleep well. I woke up in a world of hurt. My back felt so outta whack, like each vertabrate throbbing. I just had to lie still. But then I had to go shishi….. shheessh…

Then I got this brillant idea that a good hot shower would be good for my aching back. And it was, using the hottest water that I can stand I just stayed in the shower. I was thinking I shoulda signed up for Guiness Book of Records. I didn’t want to get out of da shower. But all good things must come to an end. Dang I had to get out. I hate that cold feeling of getting out of the shower after I just been steamed like one manapua.

I went WalMarting and got me Zicam, Airborne and Oscillo-watchacall it. I got carded for Zicam? Like I know how to cook it into something it ain’t. I thought it was just Sudafed and stuff like that people got carded on. I’ve been popping alot of Tylenol. Tylenol, tea and chicken noodle soup. Campbells Chicken Noodle Soup, oh and throw in a scoop of rice. Sicky comfort food from small kid time yeah dat.

The difference between this bug and the last bug I had is my aching back. I remeber getting body aches and everything but this time around its like all in my back which I think is kinda strange. Obviously a different strain of flu or whatever germ war affair is going on.

I keep hearing, “yeah everybody is getting it again.” Thats scarey, I think.

I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to go thru with my Thyrogen protocal stuff becasue of my fever but I was good to go. Accept I don’t know if my fevers are from the flu or my shot. I think its from the flu.

Anyways I write more on the Thyrogen stuff when I pau it. *L*

Afta hula class I was putting stuff in my vehicle and I had this “twilight zone” feeling…ok it was more deja-vu-ish.

I was putting stuff in my vehicle and I felt like I had been there done that. Then it came to me…. I had dreamed it? Or did I. It was a dream that I had dismissed. I mean come on, me & a ipu heke? Hello, at the time I wasn’t even taking hula. This may have been a few months before I started going to hula class. So I didn’t even have hula on my mind muchless an ipu. And an ipu heke that I made? If you told me that 2 years ago I would have said “gidouttahea.” *L*

It seems I’ve had more then a few “deja vu-ish” episodes in life. Its just that a lot of times I dismiss it. I mean they feel so disconnected to me. Then when it happens, which is usually months or years later; I wonder if I dreamed it or I made it up or whatdafk…..you know what I mean.

I know my kids tell have told me, they dream things that happen. Which I think is a good thing? Da strange is that they or me can not predict if or when. There is no time table. You don’t know you’ve dreamed it/felt it until something happens then its like a late reaction. Oh yeah I knew that would happen. Yeah right? Not till after it happened though.

What is deja vu? Psychology ~ the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.

So my minds just playing with me and I didn’t even drink or smoke. I can imagine if I did drink and smoke. Doesn’t that sound messed up? Or am I messed up? Both. Product of flashbacks? hhmmmm

Speaking of messed up… I remember when I was pregnant to my son, I use to always feel like I could see some one from my peripheral view. You know from the corner of my eye I see movement, or I think someone is watching/looking so I turn to look but then theres nothing. I use to always think a little person was peaking their head out from the hallway. Hala, menehunes? I was told that that was the spirit of the baby I was carrying. I dunno? I guess? Sometimes I’m doing stuff and I feel like somebody’s watching and I turn to look to see if there’s someone. Paranoia, perhaps?

Another theory I’ve been told is that there is a parallel universe to the one we live. I can’t even start to explain that one. LOL

Oh and the movie Deja Vu, with Danzel Washington. Love Danzel BUT, DUH I don’t get da ending. I need to watch it another more then a few times to figure it out. It sooooo confuses me. *L*

Also known as ~ get pictures NOW. So I wrote da stories awreddy. Here’s da pictures.

My first eva ipu heke.

This is a picture of my ipu heke, my store bought ipu (with black cord) and da ipu I made. I haven’t put a cord on da one I made because it would require a drill. I don’t have one. But if I did have one I’d be too afraid I’d ruin it. Besides the neck is really narrow, its comfortable in my hand, I don’ think it needs one for now. I need to go take drill 101 before I attempt to make any pukas in a gourd.

My ipu heke bag. If you have an ipu heke, you must have a ipu heke bag. Sooooo I created this. Its from scrap material that I had and prequilted material I all ready had too. The black cord was suppose to be used to make a cord for the ipu heke. BUT I was too lazy to sew strips for make the tie, so I just used the cord. So then I had to practice braid 4strands so I used material.

So those are my pictures of my new craft I learned. Cool huh? I have one more small ipu heke I going try try make on my own. My friend and I switched pieces. She had this small gourd and when she paired it with the big gourd, it came out looking like ET. You know da ET Phone home guy. So I told her I had two extra gourds in da dirt and maybe one of mines will work. So I took my 2 gourds ova deya. She took one and she put da ET’s head looking one on da extra one and said “here these match.” So I’m gonna make that. I guess it all ready has a name huh, ET? But it won’t look like ET any more. But its ET’s head. LOL

So like I said I made my own Ipu Heke. It was a hula class project and great learning experience. I wonda da seeds would grow for me.

Anyways my ipu heke is short, brown and round. Oh kinda like da owna & maker. Kinda like, she says? LOL I used Plantation Walnut Wood Sheen to make’um shiny pretty. I wanted it on the dark side so I wood sheened it like 3 days in a row. Probably just cause I could. I had neva done “word working” befoe and I really enjoyed making my own implement. Although I tink I need one sawing & used da drill 101 class, still yet. hehehe

Us had one practice wit plenny peoples 30 - 40 maybe, something like dat. Us had to practice dis one song. Liliu’e. Basic pa’i, ho’opaa stuff. People say dat but for me I find it hard to look at a person dancing while I’m “trying” to say da words & do da right beat. Its cool learning it and all but I so distracted by anything dat moves. Maybe I need blinders like da horsey kine.

At practice we did it ova and ova and respectfully so, as da only way it registers with me; if at all. We had a break and dis one Unco came ova to me and said “you made dis?” (my ipu heke) I said “yeah” and I was tinking “ahshoots wotdid I do or not do?” Unco is known to be on da crotchety side sometimes. I was ready to get scolding o’something. So den he said “let me see.” So I gave him my ipu heke. He did some pa’i on’um, look inside, outside, turn’um all ova la dat. Den he gave’um back to me. “Get one good tone, good job.” I tell him “low yeah? YOU can hear’um?” He look at me like funny kine, “yeah I can hear’um.” K~Unco was way across inda front and I was way in da middle. But he does have an ear for music I know dat. But to think he knew was me playing BASS I was kinda surprised. Cause like I prolly wouldn’t been able to tell from far away was me da one. LOL

I still haven’t gotten a comfortable grip on my ipu heke. The neck of da ipu is way bigga den my hand and I gotta wrap the rope a certain way to make sure da ipu doesn’t slip outta my hand. I know da exact area I gotta hit, well I no have to but its “da spot” dats right. I can’t do da finga roll kine slap. Only da basic flathand kine. I was trying to learn da roll da fingas; I tinking so hud how fo’do da fingas I stay all wrong wit da beat. Neva mine. I do babystyle, I’m good. *L*

Now my issue is memorizing the UKK UKK. Also know as u(oo) (k)tay (k)tays. Da k-s is da slap da U, da down beat. I’m good looking at da paypah. *L* duh no pose to have paypah.

My camera is OOC. Out of commission. Junk yeah. I so want to take a picture of it and post it. Teacha said us should name our ipu heke. Hmmmm So in class us was talking talking and you know how everybody talking about different things at da same time. Well some people was talking about dis and us was talking about dat. So me & somebody else was talking about costoming and da oddas was talking ipu heke-ing. So somebody was saying something about “white kekepa/blue kihei” - which is wot us ‘pose to use. Anda ada peoples was talking about names. Dey was asking me about da ipu’s name? An I was tawking about wot us wearing. And da conversation turned into da question “Your ipu heke’s name is Kihei?” I looked at dem cluelessly and said “It is now.” *L*

Anyway I think so. Its all about perspective aint it?

So I went to my follow up appointment. You know the needle in the neck test? Anyway biopsy showed no junk cells present in the thyroid. Good sign. Then again I know that the fine needle biospy is not conclusive. Because before I had my first surgery no had nothing thats why only the right side wen get hemo. So wen dey went insai anden pathology den as why had to hemo da ada half hence da 2nd surgery. But that was good too it turned out A-OK, I mean I’m here right. Alot of things “coulda” happen. Stuff I don’t talk/write about. Cause why, could, woulda, should, no need neva mind. Its all good. *L*

I still gotta go get da shotindass therapy. Oh dat don’t sound right at all. LOL I get this serious injection anden I get scanned anden they can tell if the biopsy was right, wrong or indifferent. Its a yearly thing. Use to be the RAI - raidioactive iodine, nuclear medicine stuff with da low iodine diet etc. Da diet itself was killa. So no need da diet, just go docta bend ova. Hala!

Da docta was telling me, “I am please at what I am seeing, there is nothing in the thyroid area. BUT I can’t tell you there’s nothing there because it may be else where.” And I said, “SO IT hasn’t left the building?” We started cracking up. He was like “that is a good way to put it.”

I’m encouraged by that. Then discourage by the weight issue. But hey you reap what you sow. And I have soooo been grinding. All about da choices yeah. Obviously da wrong kine. And it don’t help that I have not been gymrat lately. Hmmm soon. lol

Ohyeah so see prayers do work. I/we are proof of dat huh? Mahalo fo’yo pules. Continued prayers all around.

My sowa knees pau. Totally a tahitian/hula not in shape getmyass to da gym thing. Especially getdaoloke to da gym part. So of course now that pau pain there, it has to go else where. LOL

NOW my back is hurting. I was gonna say latissimus dorsi. Why do I know those kines of words? Then again its not really da lats, its infraspintas or tres major,maybe minor. hehehe My shoulder blades is throbbing big time. Ok just achey-breaky. Why would that be you ask? Ok you did not ask. But anyways….

I had an ipu heke workshop this morning. We (da class) is working on making ipu hekes its required for this program I tell you about bumbye. Cause as one ada story.

So last week us wen go to da gourd farm and find gourds. Today we worked on making’um. So you gotta scrub da outside of da gourd, den you cut da top off, anden you gotta clean out da insai; scrape scrape scrape out all da seeds & membranes. Stink you know. So need fo’do two yeah one fo’da top piece and da bottom. Sounds simple enough.

I suppose it is if you do it ALL the time. This is my first time. Its very labor intensive. And when da day is done, da back stay sowa. Ha’come? LOL Where’s my meds?

I did intend to document da process in pictures until my camera no can even turn on. Whatisupwitdat? Junk da kine. So for da record, no record no pic-chas.

So afta you do all of da outside den you gotta cut off da top. There’s a reason I’m not a carpenter? I am one of those parthopeless HOW do you use this tool type. But had fo’saw off da top and so I needed to do saw-ing. Da regular hand saw. Its just a gourd right. Well I had to pick the hardest and thickest shell ipu cause afta I chopped off da top which took longa den most, hello no had puka juss hard gourd so had to hack off another inch. MORE sawing. I am not one with a saw, my back is a testement to dat right now.

Ok pau da sawing now da long time part, scrape scrape scraping. You have to wear a mask, da stuff is haunau. Plus some people are very allergic to da dust and stuff and even if you not its bad to be inhaling dat junk. I learned: A backscratcher works real well in digging out all da opala. You could use a drill dilly wit this attachment and you putt’um inside and it scrapes all da innards. You have to KNOW how to do it cause if you don’t do it right or do it too hard you can crack da ipu. I figured I’d be safer and more authentic and do manual style. Hence my sowa back.

Gotta do two pieces, da top and bottom. Den you gotta cut out one moe puka in da head part. To do dat we had a Drummel drill? Drimmel? A DRILL I’ve never used before. Ok the first drill I’ve EVER used. I’m not a driller, I’m da drillee. LOL BUT I digress. K-so I drawed my circle, den make one puka and follow da circle, stay on da inside part of the drawn circle. Easy for dem to say. My hand was shaking all ova da place. My circle look moe like one flowa, da edges all kinda crooked-dee. But I stayed insai da line. I drew da circle wit a compass, juss dat it doesn’t look like it. But I like it, no need fix make perfect circle. As my signature. Nobody can say as their ipu, as my identifing mark dat. It has character LOL look who madem. Fo’shua as not one commercial piece, I no tink anybody can copy my style circle, not even me. As one time only kine. An ART piece. LOL

Den da next fun part is stuck’um togedda. You gotta make sure da piece fit snug. Gotta sand’um. I didn’t know dat bigass file was called a RASP. Learn something new everyday yeah? Den I tape’um up on da outside keep’um stuck togedda in place. Den had to do serious glue work. I’m like Hawaiians no had Gorilla Glue huh? But now is now. So thankfully had one of da kids making there’s too and I’m like hey will you stick your hand down in deya and do da glue part. She was happy to oblige and I told her I could make her one badge (cause her GirlScout) for ipu heke making. LOL ALWAYS use gloves wen using Gorilla Glue. And for those who don’t know, I just learned this today too; Gorilla Glue expands up to 4times. All this woodshop talk is so new to me.

Anyways dat how far I got. It sill needs to be stained. I also found a gourd that was perfect ipu shape plus it had a narrow neck and so I prepared that one. I have a store bought ipu so I wanted one dat I could say “I made dis.” See how crooked. I bought these two itty bitty gourds like 2-3 inches tall. Too cute, so I cut off da tops using da drill. I know wrong tool, but it worked. Sanded it, tied braided raffia around it and TAH-dah my car got a new mirror ornament. I wanna go get more and try try make Xmas ornament and play wit glittahs. *L*

I know, too bad no moe pic-chas. My ipu heke’s kinda jacked up looking maybe it’ll look better when its stained. LOL

You just gotta push!

A man was sleeping one night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled
with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to
do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained
that the man was to Push against the rock with all his might…

So, this the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sunup
to sundown, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of
the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might!

Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, Feeling that
his whole day had been spent in vain. Since the man was showing
discouragement, the Adversary (Satan) decided to enter the picture by
placing thoughts into the weary mind: (He will do it every time)!

You have been pushing against that rock for a long time and it hasn’t
moved.” Thus, he gave the man the impression that the task was impossible
and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the
man.

Satan said, “Why kill yourself over this? Just put in your time, giving
just the minimum effort; and that will be good enough.”That’s what the
weary man planned to do, but decided to make it a matter of Prayer and to
take his troubled thoughts to The Lord.

“Lord,” he said, “I have labored long and hard in Your Service, putting
all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this
time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter.

What is wrong? Why am I failing?”

The Lord responded compassionately, “My friend, when I asked you to serve
Me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the
rock with all of your strength, which you have done .

Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task
was to push. And now you come to Me with your strength spent, thinking
that you have failed.

But, is that really so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and
muscled, your back shiny and brown; your hands are callused from constant
pressure, your legs have become massive and hard.

Through opposition you hav e grown much, and your abilities now surpass that

which you used to have. True, you haven’t moved the rock. But your calling
was to be Obedient and to push and to exercise your Faith and trust in My
Wisdom. That you have done. Now I, my friend, will move the rock.”

At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect
to decipher what He Wants, when actually what God wants is just simple
obedience and faith in Him.

By all means, exercise the Faith that moves mountains, but know that It is
still God Who moves The Mountains.

When everything seems to go wrong…………………..Just P.U.S.H.

When the job gets you down…………………………….Just P.U.S.H.

When people don’t do as you think they should……..Just P.U.S.H.

When your money is “gone” and the bills are due…..Just P.U.S.H.

When people just don’t understand you ………………..Just P.U.S.H.

P = Pray

U = Until

S = Something

H = Happens

Pass this on to all your loved ones and friends who may need it; they may
get it just in time. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new
start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

Friends are like quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly. May God Bless You.

My head is minus da headache. 600 mg of Ibruprophen (sp?) will do that. My shoulders & toes are fine. Although I always have this kink in or behind my right shoulder blade, its gotten use to a year of being cracked and now no moe, pau chiropractoring. *L* My toes are fine, knock on wood; watch I get up and stub my toe bumbye. Rememba small time PE class; head, shoulders, knees and toes. You memeber? lol

My knees are aching big time. Its a frkng sign ain’t it. I don’t know of what, oh ok yeah of falling apart but not really. I know that with me its a little bit of “everything” because “everything” is related.

I forgot to take two tylenol before Tahitian/Hula class. Not that that would of helped but I would like to think it would have some. hehehehe My knees did not hurt before or after class but in da morning! Auwe. Its that achey breaking throbbing feeling that usually ain’t there so when it is its just irritating.

So of course being the semi-healthy person that I am I need verification and authentication, proof that whatever the hell I’m doing for my achy breakyness is the right thing so that means webmd-ing. LOL Plug in my symtons and see if it tells me something I don’t know. *L*

Osteoarthritis maybe? Overworked overexercised? Ok so I overdanced maybe. Hehehe This happens like clockwork afta tahitian/hula class. Only thing some times are worst then others and today is da worst-tist kine. *L* Worst-tist. Good word, my English teach just wen huli 360s in her grave. Then again I’m only assuming her makediedead.

I was reading all the “literature” and I was like tell me something I don’t know. Overweightness puts extra stress on the joints. Thank you for reminding me. Its arthritic related. Its hypothryroid related. Its overworked related. I work in a two story building and I always use the stairs. Going up has started to get way harder then going down. Did I just “type” that? So what am I saying, going down is easy? MADE YOU LAUGH!?!

Hula is very subtle exercise. You don’t feel anything till the next morning. Especially if ya’ain’t in shape. Tahitian is hard on your knees. Must be cause it has to move da ovaweight okole. We are working on this aparima; Mihi Au Ia Oe. Beautiful Tahitan song. You gotta ka’o plenny; you know sway left & right and aihaa; da kine bend low and I think dat is tearing up my knees. But it only happens sometimes; not all the times. So how come only sometimes?

Hmmm I think its related to not having gone to da gym lately. That so could be it. Like I said “outta shape.” Then again there’s the “makule factor” but we won’t go there. I’ll just take the drugs and deal with it.

I should write something on da “makule factor” but nah bachi hah? Bumbye come moe worst. And besides aren’t WE in denial. LOL