Busy Weekend

[garnigal]

Here's hoping that this was the last truly "busy" weekend of the year. There was absolutely no downtime this weekend.

Friday night I got home at 7, got picked up at the bus by D, Jen and Ashley, had dinner, got pictures done, got wood, Karaoked, went to bed.

Saturday I was up at 6:20, out of the house by 7:30, picked up Ashley, headed to Toronto, started warming up, warming up, warming up, sat on the mats at the TKD club for hours, did my 20 minutes of work over the course of a 5 hour grading, and wound up with a black belt at the end of it. Then we went to dinner, and home by 8:30, bed by 11, cause I was just so wiped.

Sunday I was up at 9 (late!), baking and grocery shopping, car to Crappy Tire, off to R&T's with Sandra, baking, playing with the kids, chatting for 7 hours, hour drive home (2 for Sand, poor girl), started laundry, rested for 1 hour (Crossing Jordan was on) and finally bed at 11.

I am so exhausted - but proud. And today I get to show off my black belt at the colour belt grading for our club.

Comments

[rockinkitty.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Congratulations on your Black Belt!

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I can slack off now!

[sandraregina.livejournal.com]

Ooh, black belt. Shiny! Congrats.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

I'm really looking forward to getting my name embroidered on it. That'll be fun.

[jen-the-great.livejournal.com]

Yay black belt! I'm going to try and post some pictures tonight.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Yay you too! You should see the video that Ashley captured on her digicam - it's awesome. She got me falling on my ass when I did the jumping front snap kick. Apparently, the look on my face is priceless.

[dothewu.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for getting your black belt!

:: note to self, do not piss garnigal off...::

^___^

~w00

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Haven't you heard D's theory of the black belt? By the time you get your black belt, you are so aware of all the painful things that can happen that you are unwilling to get in a physical altercation because you are afraid of pain.

[sandraregina.livejournal.com]

I'm already afraid of pain. Can I skip all the intervening bits and just get the belt now? ;)

[dothewu.livejournal.com]

I havent' heard that before....

but you can still whoop my arse from here to the other side of the city

[married-n-mich.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!! That's quite the achievement.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm going to get some pictures (we even have video!) up on the web at some point. Especially the great video of me falling on my butt as I broke a board. Nice.

[married-n-mich.livejournal.com]

Priorities! You broke the board!

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

I certainly did. I also fought the 14-year-old Junior National Silver medalist for 2005. She was very nice to me and hardly hurt me at all. :)

[married-n-mich.livejournal.com]

One day I might do something like that... its always been toying at the back of my mind.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

It's really good. Good exercise, and it really helped me write better fight scenes. Priorities, you know.

[married-n-mich.livejournal.com]

Better fight scenes... #1 priority!

[smallstar.livejournal.com]

Wow, black belt! What an accomplishment, congratulations. :)

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Last night was the colour belt grading and we had to sit at the front and look all intimidating. That was fun. However, having to hold board... not so fun. Scary.