Little Lion

I saw the little purple lion yesterday in the kids class.  I love it and it looks my size!  I have to work on my thigh muscles now so I can hold a horse stance for longer than 20 seconds and get in there!

Mumford and Sons

I missed class last night to go to Mumford and Sons.  I got tickets for my birthday.  It was awesome!  I'm a little tired and cranky today but its worth it.  I remember when I used to be able to stay out until 4am and be at work for 8am.  Those days are definitely gone. 

I'm still not logging, I don't know what to do to get my brain to remember.  I know I'm doing way more acts of kindness than I'm writing down because I feel guilty when I'm not nice when I have the chance to be.  All 20+ of you are sitting on my shoulder, acting as my conscience.

I'm worried about our upcoming demo.  It was really good, for over a month we had a good group of people that were able to diligently come to practice but for the past couple of weeks, that's seemed to go downhill and there are a couple people now that know they can't make it because of the date.  I'm not blaming anyone, most of you have very good and understandable reasons, it's just the circumstances.  I hope we practiced enough before hand that everything goes smoothly.  It's mostly the people for the fill in positions I'm nervous about because I didn't really give them all that much time to practice.  Like I said in my UBBT post though, I'm naturally a worrier.

Why are people not blogging anymore? I read them, it helps me with my struggles when I find some of you are having the same ones.  It also helps me to get to know you better, especially you guys that aren't at the kwoon that much.  At first I felt creepy about it but now I spend my lunch breaks reading blogs.  Don't give up, you're not allowed to quit!

Long Weekend

I was a little disappointed in the turn out for Friday's Demo practice.  It looks like I'm losing alot of the self defense portions as partners disappear.  To me, these parts are important.  It gives "meaning" to the forms we are showing for those who don't understand forms...I'm not sure if that makes sense or not, but it does in my head.  Regardless if I'm making sense or not, I hope this week we can get it all together without any absenses. 

For Sihing Janzen's challenge.  I'm not sure how I'm going to take a video and post it yet but I will try to figure it out.

Overwhelmed

There's so much to learn in so little time.  I'm just learning knife defenses, trying to learn Long 1, trying to learn how to do a backwards shoulder roll for Sei Chen (totally know I spelled that wrong), trying to organize a demo for the first time, trying to learn ropedart, learning to remember to log, trying to discipline myself into doing pushups and situps, etc, etc.  It's starting to be alot and trying to organize and prioritize everything gets difficult sometimes.  I periodically have to take a deep breath and sort everything out so I don't just get frustrated and quit because sometimes I feel alot of pressure that I'm sure alot of it I bring on myself.  It is a pretty darn good feeling when you finally get something though after trying for so long.  When you have those moments when something just clicks and your brain and body start working together, its awesome!  I just wish I had more of those.

RAKS-Opened door X 4, rescued a beetle from the office bathroom, picked up garbage, tried to win Mumford and Sons tickets for Josh's mom.  I just had some guy at Tim Hortons almost knock me over with door I opened for him and cough in my face so he didn't get the coffee I intended to buy for him, so I'll take that as a -1.

Need Sleep!

Ever since starting the I Ho Chaun I went from maybe 2 hours a week of kung fu to 5 classes and kung fu on my days off.  I'm exhausted.  I don't get home from my weekday classes until 10:30, then I'm to hyper to fall asleep right away so by the time I settle down its almost midnight.  Then my alarm goes off way to early and I'm not getting near enough sleep.  I had the habit of doing some situps, pushups and making a smoothie in the morning but that's been falling off the wagon lately as I've becoming much friendlier with my snooze button.  I've almost fallen asleep at work a few times and I can't keep going being as tired as I am.  I've tried several methods of relaxation after getting home so late; deep breathing, slower music, chamomile tea...it's not working...
I NEED REGULAR SLEEP AGAIN OR I WILL GO INSANE!

RAKs:  Made coffee for everyone at work, did dishes at work, opened door for someone, let 2 people in front of me in traffic, shared my cinnamon bun and made tea for girl at work.

Random Acts of Kindness #4

I'm having a hard time determining what to count as an act of kindness.  I do nice things for my animals all the time and for my family and Josh...Do these count?  I haven't been including them because I figured it should be something you wouldn't normally do or something for a stranger.  Maybe I should count everything.  I NEED TO REMEMBER TO LOG!!!  I'm going to figure out how to use my voice recorder tonight.

I called security at WEM to help a man that was passed out in the entrance and waited to see when they got there, I made conversation and smiled at the girl in the store that was obviously having a bad day, I gave Josh some of my crab dip (If you haven't noticed, I don't normally share food very well) Let 2 people in traffic, opened the door for a couple people, rescued an ant from 3 interested kitties.

Random Acts of Kindness #3

I gave my kitties new toys, let 4 people ahead of me in traffic, opened the door for 3 people, let Josh eat not 1 but 2 pieces of my delicious fudge (that should count as 1000 on its own) and ate a veggie burger, your welcome cow, don't let Mr. Fuhr find you.