*Warning* this is going to be a very long post. Maybe? After the first two, I am getting kind of … bleh towards typing a long post. Plus, I want to include pictures. So Maybe this one will be more broken up.
FYI: In order to get out of Alabama and get to Hawaii, I needed money. David provided both the money for me to get to Alabama and the money to come to Hawaii.
So the first thing I noticed about Hawaii was the extreme heat. I had just come from 72 degrees in Alabama. Hawaii felt like I was dripping. Dave very sweetie gave me a lei. Very beautiful. It is a traditional gift for a first time person visiting Hawaii. I thanked David. Put the lei on. And in less than five minutes, took it off. I was developing a rash around my neck.
We drove a long time. Dave was trying to show me things, but I was so tired (and the engine was running) that I think I fell asleep. When we started climbing the long hill Aupupu Street, I woke up. We drove up. And up. And up. And up some more. David was renting a three-story mansion in an area of Kailua, HI, called “Enchanted Lakes.” He had 5 bedrooms, three bathrooms, 3 lanais (covered patios), a living rooms, a dining room, a den and a two car garage. His landlady did not live on island. She lives in Portland, but when she is in Hawaii, she has her own place in the house but a different access point. He pays all the house’s electric bills while she pays all the water. Address: 1468 Aupupu Street, Kailua, HI …
It did have a bolt on the inside. I had mine own floor. There was a bathroom at the end of the hallway. For some odd reason, I thought his daughters still lived with him. I had prepared for a super awkward meeting. David said, “Nope.” His eldest daughter, 28-years-old, left when his ex-wife left over a year ago. He said his youngest daughter, 23-years-old, had her own apartment in Honolulu.
I think that day. I pretty much showered and passed out. I used a fan for noise, but I didn’t hear anything outside. It was silent. Silent. Silent. This was the first neighborhood I had lived in a decade where there was non cars driving by, no tweakers screaming, no dogs fighting, no couples fighting in a decade.
I kept myself busy in six ways:
1) David was scheduled for a double knee surgery. He wouldn’t allow me to pay rent. He said he had plenty of money to do that. I decided that I could help clean up his house. It needed a good deep cleaning. I started in the kitchen. Then did the bathrooms. Then did living room, dining room, spare bedrooms. While doing this, I asked him what was keep and trash. I think we had over 37 car loads of trash or unused items that we took to the dump.
2) I started going to women’s small group and church on Sunday. Slowly my gifts started coming back. I thought I had sinned to much for them to return. They are kinda Baptist in nature; I am Pentecostal. We have our differences. I think I am still the only person in the church that has been baptized in the Holy Spirit and/or speaks in tongues. Not to mention: I see the spiritual realm a lot. And in Hawaii, that is actually an ACCEPTED idea. I did not tell a bunch of people this in the USA cause they look at you like you are crazy. I do not know if Mom had the sight, but my Dad and brother do. Hmm. I wonder if my Sister has the sight or any of my aunties. Anyway … I also have a strong dream gifting. Mom and Dad and my WHOLE family have that gift.
This is just a long way of saying that I have a few prophetic gifts and prophets are not much liked in the church or Bible. (We are ummm … we say things as God prompts us to speak, not the politically correct, bleh, bleh, b.s. that normal BS Christians speak to look good or sound pretty.)
3) Dave and I started going to the Kailua beach together. It is a five-star beach. It is beautiful and amazing! Bathroom temperature all year round.
4) I played video games. Very relaxing for my brain to just …. Chill out.
5) I tried to cook a lot. (Figured cooking was something kind I could do.)
6) I brought in the last two of the outdoor feral colony: Brook and Whisper. I nursed them back to health. We took them to vet visits for shots and tests. Both were very healthy.
David. Now to describe David. When I met him, he was spending almost 15 hours a day on his computer for work at Netgate. He lived on Hawaii as a child and attended a very prestigious private school. His father was military, so he lived in Germany and grew up all over the US. David is a vegetarian. He will not eat something that requires the animal to be killed. He loves butter. Eggs. Whipped cream. Creamer. And chocolate. He introduced me to Manoa Chocolate. Organic locally made chocolate. Super yummy flavors.
David is a better cook than me. He made me sirloin steak three times.
David is Mexican, Native American Mexican and Philippiano in heritage. “Cornejo.” He loves Mexican food. (I do too.) He made a lot of beans and rice in a .. umm.. one of the contraptions he had on his kitchen countertop. He literally would ask me what I liked to eat: I would respond rice, eggs. One day he caught me starring at the Salted Caramel Talenti Gelato. From that day forward, there were two can of it in the house.
David does not yell. I have only heard him swear probably 10 times in the last seven months. He is a thinker. A process and then respond five minutes later to a question. He has NEVER raised his voice to me. David said of himself that he is a “lazy smart” personality. He is an INFP.
David is smart. I thought Matthew/Jack …. Whatever his name was at the time was smart. But David can talk about anything. I can . David told me at one point that only a handful of people in the world could code at this level. He started messing with computer systems at seven-years-old. He said he was breaking into back doors on government sites at the age of eleven-years-old. There was no law against hackers until David was in his twenties.
David is very kind and giving. I would ask for rice. He cook me a full meal. I’d ask for eggs, he would buy me steak. I ask for quiet time, he wouldn’t speak to me until I spoke to him. I’d ask to watch a movie, he’d setup a profile for me on Amazon Movies or Netflix. I’d ask to go out and buy stuff (as my stuff was still trapped in storage), he’d order the items on his Prime account. He told me he didn’t care if I showered 5x a day – August in Kailua is HOT!
I am getting tired. More tomorrow. … dun. Dun. Dun. Other stuff.
Hmm. It appears like I am exceeding the upload site for the website. I’ll have David change that when he gets home and … oh wait.. let me try another way… Furk! I insert the pictures into this post tomorrow.