I Have The Power Of The White Helmet!
I’m still studying. I guess that will be the trend for a long time for me. It’s just exhausting. After taking the practice tests, I definitely know where my weaknesses are. A lot of what I need to approve on is reading the questions better (geez!) and learning all the vocabulary from the English/language arts section. I’m still pretty nervous. Today makes one week until the test!! :O
In martial arts news – I’m a loser! Ok, maybe not. I’m referring to Tuesday night when sifu Corey gave me the opportunity to test, and I turned it down. I’ve been ready for 2 weeks now, but I finally feel ready ready. Green belt – here I come!
I had an awesome martial arts experience last night. Do you ever just feel like your in the zone? Everything was going so perfect. I went to Tommy’s class which was killer with all the planks and ab exercises. He left no section of the body out. After that portion of the class, I went through my material. Then it was time to go to TKD. Yeah, I know…after that??? Little did I know what was in store for me! My instructor decided he was on a conditioning kick. So after Tommy’s killer workout, my instructor had us doing cardio forever with running, and different kinds of crunches and push-ups. By the time we got to sparring, I was beyond tired. However, my body just kept going. We sparred, and I even surprised myself by being more aggressive than I usually am. After normal sparring, a few of us point sparred for the privilege to wear the white helmet. Yeah, I don’t get it either, but the younger students love it. Haha…too bad for them I claimed it last night! Booyah! 🙂
The TKD school is putting on a demo at a nearby school this Friday evening. I will be there showing off my skills. :) I’ll be performing my senior brown belt form and the sword form as well as sword and adult sparring. It should be pretty cool.
We have a sick kitty in the house! Mallos came down with quite the fever earlier in the week. It came out of nowhere. We knew something was definitely wrong because he wasn’t acting like himself at all. We took him to the vet where they said he had a high fever and some type of infection. They gave him fluids for the fever which thankfully worked and quick, and he got antibiotics which he’ll be on for several days. He does NOT like getting his medication. We had to quarantine him for a couple of days to try and minimize the possibility of it spreading to the other cats. He didn’t like this either which broke my heart. :( I wish there was just some way to explain to animals what’s going on sometimes or know what they’re thinking. Thankfully, he’s feeling much better and back to his old self.
I’m trying to think of anything else of worth to report, but I’m drawing a blank. I’m trying to avoid large crowds these days. :) No reason to tempt the fates and contract any type of flu. The outbreak, if you can call it that, has lead me to do a lot of reading which actually makes me feel much more informed and thus not so terrified. My conclusion: It’s going to be ok people. Don’t panic!
Oh, Bryan and I finally used his gift certificate that I bough him for Christmas to a movie theater to see Mosters vs. Aliens in 3D which was very awesome! 3D rocks! 😀
We did go and buy some plants this past weekend. We got some cacti and succulents and some pots to put them in. I was tired of having only a few things in the rock bed in front of the house. However, one of the cacti that I bought is quite a ways away from moving to the flower bed just yet. We also got 3 herbs for Bryan to grow for cooking. I think that’s just pretty awesome. :) I’m happy with the way that all of our plants look though I apologize to the succulents for the huge amounts of rain they received the day after being planting. We had to relocate them for the week so they could dry out. I think that was enough rain to last all of our plants for a long, long time. I don’t have a green thumb and don’t generally care much for plants, but I have to admit that I’ve enjoyed planting these. I’m still happy that they require so little attention. 🙂
Recent Pictures of the Cats:
Mallos trying to convince us that he has a migraine. Just kidding - I totally put his hand up there. But seriously, how cute is that?
Lastly, Bryan and I have a few things that we’ve been trying to sell. Check it out (only if you are a member of Facebook):
and Bryan has a sword that he’s selling for like $5, but I couldn’t find a listing for it. It would make a great accent to your pirate costume. 🙂