Bikram yoga experience

this past Tuesday I started hot yoga. couldnt believe how much I sweat. the class was 90min but I think about an hr into it, my head was throbbing and I was getting nauseous. there were a couple of fit women there that I tried to pix myself as to motivate myself. the funny thing was that even they were losing their balance. after class I went to the changing room and sat in the bathroom. i threw up! i have never thrown up from wking out til today. then Wed I had to go back. i pix that the people there might be saying "she'll never come back". that 2nd day the class was great. felt energized and positive during and after class. what I noticed is that I had plenty of water the night before and I had some fruit /spinach smoothie the morning of. the 3rd day I was driving to the yoga class thinking "i dont feel so good (dizzy)" but I thought that once I get in there I ail be fine. sat down in the class and 1st thought was "why is it so hot today". I should've walked out but I stuck in there again. a lot of friendly classmates and workers like Debbie ( a tiny lady at the front desk). 4th day I skipped and went to my local gym and did the elliptical. felt great. did some weight lifting. later on I even did some yoga at home. guess I will still have my good and bad days of wkingout. just nn to remember to take some powerade before yoga since it makes me sweat so much. i have been drinking tons of water. today i reached 16cups (128oz). i can tell my body is holding onto more water weight since it is getting used to the yoga classes w/tons of sweat. i have made a goal to try new classes so that my body doesnt adjust to one excercise and defeat the purpose. I have worked out 4 out of 5days so far this week. yay!!!

A Lesson Learned

Keai did a job for a guy that is related to me. It's been almost 2 months now and still no money. He told Keai he would pay him payments since he under bid by $3000. He owed Keai about $1200 Then he calls a few days after the first job to say he wanted Keai to do another job w/o being paid from the 1st job. We both said hell no. almost 2 mos have passed and he never came by w/even $20. so i took Keai's ph and texted him 2 weeks ago and said "its Hakeai. is there any way you can bring some money by this weekend?" I used Keai's ph bcuz Keai said to stay out of it but I couldnt sleep at night hating this guy for what he did to us. He never answered that text. I still couldnt get this anger out and then he wasnt answering the text so I was even more mad. then this past weekend I texted him from my own phone and said " my husband is too embarrassed to ask you but he really needs money to try n get his mom here before anything happens to gma Sena" not even 2 min later he replies that he will come by in a few days. I was so excited that I told Keai that he finally responded. Keai was mad that I was still asking the guy and interfering and plus embarrassed when he shouldnt be. it's money he worked for. Keai said " u believe this guy when he never made any effort to pay me in the first place. he's never gonna show up. just leave it alone" Then on the night of Keai's bday i am sleeping for work and Keai was at school. my kids wake me up to say there's a guy from church at the door. i walk down still half asleep and dont recognize him til he starts to talk. i just started balling bcuz i held all this anger and here he was at my door. i hugged him and he held out $200.. he was so nervous he went on for about 10 min saying how sorry he was and how everything was messed up at that job and that he had made an honest mistake but the owner of the house would pay him the extra $$. needless to say I can finally sleep at night. even if he doesnt ever show up again at least he made an honest effort. on top of this Keai comes home from school at 830pm and Zerin hands him the money. Keai's face lights up and we tell him what happened. Keai then turns to Zerin and says "give this to mom to help pay the bills" and hands her the whole $200. way to teach mommy a lesson in letting things go and forgiving others.

Veni's arm

I was 1/2 asleep when my mom's voice is yelling for me to run the the school cuz my son was hurt. I stumble out the door as I am trying to reach a nearby clinic to see if they'll take him. they tell me if its a broken bone it's better for us to run to Primary Children's. I walk quickly into the school expecting to hear his screams of pain but I hear nothing. A volunteer there finds me and walks me into the nurses room. there he is not a tear on his face and a creative sling of fabric with his arm inside of a thick magazine. they all say he's so brave. I run him up to the hospital. 20 min later Keai walks in. he couldnt concentrate on his work so he ran home to change and then up to meet us. then I remember I havent had more than 3hrs of sleep. he says he already thought of that and how I wouldnt be a happy camper. they took Veni to xray and Keai tells me to go sleep in his car. I am outside for 10 min when I know I cant sleep and walk back into the room. there about 7 dr and nurses there to help him fall asleep and then straighten his arm. before I know it, it's fixed and we are going home. his sisters are angry and say they'll find the little girl that hurt him. lol.

grandma Ika

Grandma's been with Sola for over a year now. in the last month she her health seemed to declined suddenly. the last time she came to my house she was complaining that one of her hands couldnt grip anything. then about a month later she cant use either hand and her legs couldnt hold her up. they finally got her to the hospital to find out that she had a pinched nerve in her neck bone. had to have been the most anxious few days of my life. the Dr said that there was a chance that she might not make it through the surgery. I couldnt sleep. cried on my husband's shoulder at night. my kids were probably so confused. i couldnt explain to them how serious the surgery was for fear that they'd feel my worry and stress out with me. i want them to be kids, to be carefree. The night before the surgery I was at home and couldnt get myself to go to the hospital again bcuz I didnt want to cry in front of gma. my husband came into our room to find me crying. then he tells me "you should go. take your brother and go". i go down to the bottom of the stairs and couldnt stop crying. i turned to go outside before I walked into his room. As I stepped outside my mom pulls up. she probably thought something bad had happened. so she tells me to wait for Walter. 5 min later, Veni, walt, mom and I are in the van and on the way to the hospital. it was already passed 11pm but there we were walking into the hospital. grandma had just finished visiting with Ofa and his kids. being there I felt comforted. no more tears. just held onto grandma's hand. when we left she said "alu pe koe. teu sai pe au ia". the next day I watched the clock from home with my kids and husband as I knew if I stayed at the hospital there wasnt a lot I could do. finally saw a post that gma made it through the surgery alright. words cant express how relieved I was and how thankful I was to Heavenly Father for helping her and us. There was a little part of me that felt sad bcuz I know that her journey ahead with rehab will not be easy. After stay at the hospital they transferred her to a rehab center to help her get back some of her strength.

Now it's a real emergency and Laine's baptism

many weeks I am debating if I can use our savings for what I think is an emergency. last week I bought a steamer to clean our tile. that went well, but then I tried to be supermom and turned off the frigerator to clean it. about 2 hrs later keai asks so are you still going to clean the frigerator. I was doing other things and forgot to turn it back on. ever since then it hasnt worked the same and finally it died on us. so now it's a real emergency and I dont want to drain all our savings. My husband and I went to Home Depot, their service guy sucked! then ended up at RC Willey. my husband notices one of my cousins (Alona) and he then takes us up to the refrigerators. the salesman that helped us there was great and Alona got us a great deal. family discount...who even knew that was a real thing. we then went home and spent about 4 hrs trying to get it into the kitchen with the help of uncle Sai and then Keai working effortlessly up in the hot roof to hook up a water line. now my kids and I are spoiled having water and ice ready to go whenever we need it out of the frigerator. I was so impressed with Keai and his maneuvers to get the job done. My niece Laine was also baptized last Sat 9/7/2013. her mom asked for Line to do the talk on baptism and me to do the talk on the Holy Ghost. Luisa Iongi did primary songs with us while we waited for Laine to chnge. Her dad Eliesa had baptized her and given her a blessing. Laine looked so adorable and was able to recite her articles of faith for us. her gpa and gma camd from Tonga and her uncle and aunt from Florida to witness her special day. at the end my kids had told me that that day was also Metiline's bday so we took her a pink skateboard as her gift. then as Nia is always thoughtful she took all 3 of my kids swimming to celebrate. Keai and I havent been kidless in who knows how long. thanks my favorite Nia!

Picking Myself Up

Had an argument with my husband yesterday. Usually this type of day will have me wanting to quit doing better on my eating and exercising....not today. so proud to say that I couldnt even force myself to eat chips when I was angry. then i woke up this morning on 5hrs sleep and went to gym. by the time i was done sweat was pouring from my neck to my kete. we even had brownies in the house. it wasnt even a 2nd thought for me to walk past them and not touch. it doesnt sound good to me. some people may hate to sweat but when I workout and sweat drips from my face i feel exhilarated and so happy to know my body is burning unwanted fat. ran home just so my husband could see how drenched my clothes were. on top of all this I come home and my husband's outside mowing so I went to help. 800 cal burned at gym. another 250 cal burned mowing the lawn. total 1050 cal burned today!!

Zerin's been collecting change from wherever she can find it. I took her to the bank. love to see my kids determined on a goal that helps themselves and their parents and work towards accomplishing it. Keai was off this whole week. he took my son swimming, took us to the movies (Pacific Rim...humans vs aliens), and he was able to take a nap when he wanted to. we didnt get to fly anywhere but we were happy.

burned 3680 C for this week!!!

well i got on the scale. couldnt help wondering if lost anything...NOT! sucks but I impressed myself and hit the gym at 5p but didnt get home til 730pm. fought neg thoughts during my wkout bcuz I wanted to hit 1250C today....and I DID IT!! My husband didnt want to go with me and the old me would've used that as my way out of wking out. The me, now, has to put it in or I know I will not feel good about myself. I really am chasing a high when I go of good hormones. my reward at the end is being able to relax in the dry sauna and then coming home to a great shower or bath. I know it's daddys day tmrw but I am glad I was able to have some time to myself. I am gonna sleep good tonight!! way to go TEAM SELF!!! hehehe