Doing pagination without paginate()

Im having problems getting pagination working. I have complex custom
queries and I just cant get it working correctly. Ive tried building a
custom paginate() method within the model that does additional
filtering, but then I also feel limited using the $paginate var in the
controller.

Anyone have suggestions here?

This is the method im trying to turn into paging (cant seem to get the
$user_id and $status passed in (its dynamic of course):

function getMyFriends($user_id, $status = 'approved', $limit = 5) {
$friends = $this->find('all', array(
'fields' => array('Friend.*'),
'recursive' => -1,
'conditions' => array(
'Friend.status' => $status,
'OR' => array(
'Friend.user_id' => $user_id,
'Friend.friend_id' => $user_id
)
),
'order' => 'Friend.requestTime ASC',
'limit' => $limit
));

$cleanFriends = array();
if (!empty($friends)) {
foreach ($friends as $friend) {
if ($friend['Friend']['friend_id'] != $user_id) {
$friend_id = $friend['Friend']['friend_id'];
} else {
$friend_id = $friend['Friend']['user_id'];
}

$userObj = $this->User->find('first', array(
'fields' => array('User.id', 'User.username', 'User.avatar',
'User.handle', 'User.country_id', 'User.signupDate'),
'recursive' => -1,
'conditions' => array('User.id' => $friend_id)
));

if (!empty($userObj)) {
$cleanFriends[] = array_merge($friend, $userObj);
}
}
}

return $cleanFriends;
}

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