Day: July 13, 2007

ALOHA FRIDAY IS IN THE BUILDING!

/ Anita Marie / 4 Comments

It’s been a long, hard week and now it’s…

yes it is

IT’S ALOHA FRIDAY!

HURRAH!

lyrics at the bottom of this post

guess who gets to call these bluffs above Waipio Valley her

childhood home?

😉

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It’s Aloha Friday, No Work ’til Monday Song Lyrics

c 1982 Paul Natto

Here is where I sit, all cloudy and blitzed

with the Primo bottles lying everywhere

Got a guitar in my hand and a Wesson Oil can

Under my okole for a chair.

CHORUS:

It’s Aloha Friday, no work till Monday.

Doo be doo, doo doo be, doo be doo be doo be doo!

(Repeat)

The cousins all here, drinking up my beer

got keikies running everywhere.

I got some poki on the side while mama’s trying to hide

the Miller and the Heineken beer.

(CHORUS)

OK. You know when you wanna get away, I mean one ting

about Friday ma, da working work is ovah yeah.

Frankly, ya, I feel good man.

I work hard all week long.

I can’t wait to get away, you know like down like the beach.

I’m cruise dis weekend yeah, get one hot concert too man,

dat’s the most important ting. But main ting too,

is to get enough money fo gas and to go out to da disco.

I like to see all da beautiful chicks Yeah!

So now I gonna jus kinda cruise, take my Bank Americard,

you know adderwise, how can I get money?

Right, plus den my friends always say

eh braddah, you can buy me one drink then.

THIRD VERSE

Kimo and the crew sucking up the brew

pulehu meat smoking on the side

All the surfers are a-droppin’

while the highschool are a-poppin’

down Kaluakaua for a ride.

CHORUS:

It’s Aloha Friday, no work ’til Monday.

Doo be doo,  doo doo be, doo be doo be doo be doo!

REPEAT

Lawn Chairs, Balloons and Glory

/ Anita Marie / 13 Comments

 To fly, Couch dressed in shirt, sweater, jeans, work boots and sunglasses handed him at the last minute.
He took off at 6:06 a.m. Saturday after kissing his wife, Susan, goodbye and petting his Chihuahua, Isabella.

By Associated Press

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And then Kent Couch sat down on his lawn chair- to which over 100 helium balloons were attached and he flew almost 200 miles from his home in Bend, Oregon at altitudes ranging from 11,000 feet to 13,000 feet – to a farmer’s field in Union, Oregon.

I love this story- just love it because Kent Couch took a dream and made a plan and it involved Balloons and Lawn Chairs.

I ask you, did he take his dream that involved lawn furniture and balloons and learn to fly a plane? Did he buy his way onto The Space Shuttle? 

Heck no, Kent Couch had this dream; it involved a Lawn Chair, balloons and Idaho.

And he made it happen.

Okay, Kent Couch didn’t actually make it to where he wanted to land in Idaho- he says he came up short. If I had the chance, I’d tell Kent Couch he went much further then he planned.

what can I add to that except-  way to go Mr. Couch!

( full story here )

Oregon man takes lawn chair up to 13,000 feet

Balloons suspend Kent Couch in a lawnchair as he floats in the skies near Bend, Ore., Saturday, July 7, 2007. (AP Photo/ The Bulletin, Pete Erickson)

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