{"id":264,"date":"2009-04-30T11:03:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2009-04-30T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T17:03:35","slug":"i-have-the-power-of-the-white-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"I Have The Power Of The White Helmet!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still studying.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess that will be the trend for a long time for me.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just exhausting.\u00c2\u00a0 After taking the practice tests, I definitely know where my weaknesses are.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still pretty nervous.\u00c2\u00a0 Today makes one week until the test!!\u00c2\u00a0 :O<\/p>\n

In martial arts news – I’m a loser!\u00c2\u00a0 Ok, maybe not.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m referring to Tuesday night when sifu Corey gave me the opportunity to test, and I turned it down.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been ready for 2 weeks now, but I finally feel ready ready.\u00c2\u00a0 Green belt – here I come!<\/p>\n

I had an awesome martial arts experience last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you ever just feel like your in the zone?\u00c2\u00a0 Everything was going so perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to Tommy’s class which was killer with all the planks and ab exercises.\u00c2\u00a0 He left no section of the body out.\u00c2\u00a0 After that portion of the class, I went through my material.\u00c2\u00a0 Then it was time to go to TKD.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, I know…after that???\u00c2\u00a0 Little did I know what was in store for me!\u00c2\u00a0 My instructor decided he was on a conditioning kick.\u00c2\u00a0 So after Tommy’s killer workout, my instructor had us doing cardio forever with running, and different kinds of crunches and push-ups.\u00c2\u00a0 By the time we got to sparring, I was beyond tired.\u00c2\u00a0 However,\u00c2\u00a0 my body just kept going.\u00c2\u00a0 We sparred, and I even surprised myself by being more aggressive than I usually am.\u00c2\u00a0 After normal sparring, a few of us point sparred for the privilege to wear the white helmet.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, I don’t get it either, but the younger students love it.\u00c2\u00a0 Haha…too bad for them I claimed it last night!\u00c2\u00a0 Booyah!\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The TKD school is putting on a demo at a nearby school this Friday evening.\u00c2\u00a0 I will be there showing off my skills.\u00c2\u00a0 :)\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll be performing my senior brown belt form and the sword form as well as sword and adult sparring.\u00c2\u00a0 It should be pretty cool.<\/p>\n

We have a sick kitty in the house!\u00c2\u00a0 Mallos came down with quite the fever earlier in the week.\u00c2\u00a0 It came out of nowhere.\u00c2\u00a0 We knew something was definitely wrong because he wasn’t acting like himself at all.\u00c2\u00a0 We took him to the vet where they said he had a high fever and some type of infection.\u00c2\u00a0 They gave him fluids for the fever which thankfully worked and quick, and he got antibiotics which he’ll be on for several days.\u00c2\u00a0 He does NOT like getting his medication.\u00c2\u00a0 We had to quarantine him for a couple of days to try and minimize the possibility of it spreading to the other cats.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t like this either which broke my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 :(\u00c2\u00a0 I wish there was just some way to explain to animals what’s going on sometimes or know what they’re thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully, he’s feeling much better and back to his old self.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to think of anything else of worth to report, but I’m drawing a blank.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m trying to avoid large crowds these days.\u00c2\u00a0 :)\u00c2\u00a0 No reason to tempt the fates and contract any type of flu.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 My conclusion:\u00c2\u00a0 It’s going to be ok people.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t panic!<\/p>\n

Oh, Bryan and I finally used his gift certificate that I bough him for Christmas to a movie theater to see Mosters vs. Aliens<\/a> in 3D which was very awesome!\u00c2\u00a0 3D rocks!\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

We did go and buy some plants this past weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 We got some cacti and succulents and some pots to put them in.\u00c2\u00a0 I was tired of having only a few things in the rock bed in front of the house.\u00c2\u00a0 However, one of the cacti that I bought is quite a ways away from moving to the flower bed just yet.\u00c2\u00a0 We also got 3 herbs for Bryan to grow for cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that’s just pretty awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 :)\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 We had to relocate them for the week so they could dry out.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that was enough rain to last all of our plants for a long, long time.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still happy that they require so little attention.\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Recent Pictures of the Cats:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mallos

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?<\/p><\/div>\n

Lastly, Bryan and I have a few things that we’ve been trying to sell.\u00c2\u00a0 Check it out (only if you are a member of Facebook):<\/p>\n

speaker stands<\/a><\/p>\n

car rack (kayak rack)<\/a><\/p>\n

printer<\/a><\/p>\n

car stereo<\/a><\/p>\n

and Bryan has a sword that he’s selling for like $5, but I couldn’t find a listing for it.\u00c2\u00a0 It would make a great accent to your pirate costume.\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still studying.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess that will be the trend for a long time for me.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just exhausting.\u00c2\u00a0 After taking the practice tests, I definitely know where my weaknesses are.\u00c2\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yellowgin.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}