Sunday, June 26, 2005
I should be doing other things right now. There are some bills I need to pay now that I have the stamps to send off the checks, and normally I’d actually be going to sleep right about now, or at least getting ready for it, but not today.
I’ve come to the realization that I have really boring weekends, but really awesome weeks. Probably because I do homework and watch school over the weekend. But regardless:
Tuesday and Thursday were standard ‘TKD Awesome’. I think my sprinting is starting to pay off a bit in sparring, as I suspected it would. I haven’t been doing it that long, but it’s already helped my 3 mile time tons. I went from a 37 minute 3-mile to a 32:40 minute 3-mile over the course of two weeks by sprinting. Mom wins again. But this week sparring felt easier. It’s really easy for me to burn myself out throwing too many kicks, and then I get sloppy and that’s just no good. I think I’ve been getting my stamina up higher, though, which is good.
Another thing I’ve noticed, though, is that I can throw much better kicks when I’m not all tired out, or at least more powerful kicks. By the time we actually get to sparring, which is at the end of the class, I’m worn down enough that getting everything together is tough. Of course, that may be the idea. But regardless, TKD still roxxorz my boxxorz.
Wednesday, I went out to Joxer Daly’s. Here’s that story:
I heard about this place a few weeks ago and wanted to check it out because it reportedly has a very large catalog of songs, and I’ve been looking for Tool: Aenima to sing for a long time. It’s not really standard karaoke fair, though. It’s not even exotic karoke faire. It’s way out there. But I wanted to check the place out.
Bon and Tyce came out together, which was cool. And Jess came out with some of her friends from hockey. That was nice of her. Rounding out our table was Sol. (Yeah, fake names). Sol has been to this bar before, though, as it turns out. It’s his Redskins Bar. During the football season, the place get all rowdy and packed for Sunday redskins games. They’ve got a song they sing when the Redskins get a touchdown, and everytime they get a first down, everyone goes: “First…first…FIRST DOWN!” That’s a bar.
So I got to this place, ordered up a HEINEKIN (more-real bear, S!) and sat down to watch some Futbol (what you Americans call soccer) while they set up the Karaoke. Then they brought out these *enormous* binders full of songs, and I started browsing through in search of good music. And guess what…THEY HAD AENIMA! I was way thrilled. Then everyone showed up, and we ordered some NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE (bam!) and got into the singing. Here are some of the ones I went through:
Fuel: Hemorrhage
Tool: Aenima (woo!)
311: Down (another one I’ve been on the lookout for)
A Perfect Circle: Judith
I’m very proud that I sang Judih. Those of you that have heard the song (it’s real purty) might remember that the last note rings for probably about 15 seconds or so. I’ve never been able to sing it all before without taking a breath but last Wednesday, I *nailed* it. Evidently it takes less air to sing loud than it does to sing normally. It was fantastic, I felt so great and had such a good time. Thanks to everyone for coming out. Aaaah. Good times. I gotta do that again.
Oh, and the beer? I gotta be honest, here, I can’t tell the difference yet between real stuff and not real stuff. My palette isn’t quite sharp enough yet. Maybe if I got them right next to each other. Give it a taste test. Maybe next time. But they all went down just fine. No gagging or anything. Maybe it was the singing, gotta restock the fluids after you sweat that much on stage (singing is hard!)
Friday I went out to volleyball, which was way monster fun as always, (btw: there was this *crazy hot* girl playing in the court next to us. Like, abs of steel. It was amazing.) And then afterwards, I went out to American Martyrs Church and hung out with some people. Mostly people I knew from my periodic stops at bible study. Good people all around. We hung out, ate some pizza, and just enjoyed each others company. This is a great way to spend a Friday, in my opinion. As we were breaking up for the evening, the two girls said they had to go back home and work on scrap booking a ‘good bye’ scrapbook for Fr. Steve, who is leaving for another diocese. Well I still had some energy, and I was curious, and so I volunteered to come over and help out. And I did. I helped cut out stuff to put under things, glued stuff together, and generally made myself useful. We ended up working on it until 4 in the morning (!) but when we were done, we were done. Whole thing finished. It was pretty neat. Plus, ‘L’, the girl whose house we were at, had some *cats*. They were mostly nervous little critters, but I got to pet them for a while, which was great. I want a cat.
Which reminds me! June 10th there is an ‘adoption festival’ right across the street from me. I want to go. Not because I want to adopt, more because I want to hang out with all the pets. Might get a sense of things you need to know before owning a pet, too. I really want a cat someday. Maybe when I get more stable.
Okay. Now I’m sleepy. Gotta get my winks in. SAYING GOODBYE!
[Edit:] Ooh! I almost forgot. I got *sick* this weekend. Yeah, that was the whole point. I had a really exciting week, and then when the weekend kicked in, I got sick and just sat around watching class, doing homework, and drinking a lot of Orange juice. Yeah. There, my post has a theme.
Oh, and I'm already over the illness. I woke up with a sore throat after staying up until 4 in the morning friday night scrapbooking. (Coincidence?) A little sore throat, a little aches, and a little bit of runny nose. *Really* wimpy cold. Okay, I'm done.
-N
I’ve come to the realization that I have really boring weekends, but really awesome weeks. Probably because I do homework and watch school over the weekend. But regardless:
Tuesday and Thursday were standard ‘TKD Awesome’. I think my sprinting is starting to pay off a bit in sparring, as I suspected it would. I haven’t been doing it that long, but it’s already helped my 3 mile time tons. I went from a 37 minute 3-mile to a 32:40 minute 3-mile over the course of two weeks by sprinting. Mom wins again. But this week sparring felt easier. It’s really easy for me to burn myself out throwing too many kicks, and then I get sloppy and that’s just no good. I think I’ve been getting my stamina up higher, though, which is good.
Another thing I’ve noticed, though, is that I can throw much better kicks when I’m not all tired out, or at least more powerful kicks. By the time we actually get to sparring, which is at the end of the class, I’m worn down enough that getting everything together is tough. Of course, that may be the idea. But regardless, TKD still roxxorz my boxxorz.
Wednesday, I went out to Joxer Daly’s. Here’s that story:
I heard about this place a few weeks ago and wanted to check it out because it reportedly has a very large catalog of songs, and I’ve been looking for Tool: Aenima to sing for a long time. It’s not really standard karaoke fair, though. It’s not even exotic karoke faire. It’s way out there. But I wanted to check the place out.
Bon and Tyce came out together, which was cool. And Jess came out with some of her friends from hockey. That was nice of her. Rounding out our table was Sol. (Yeah, fake names). Sol has been to this bar before, though, as it turns out. It’s his Redskins Bar. During the football season, the place get all rowdy and packed for Sunday redskins games. They’ve got a song they sing when the Redskins get a touchdown, and everytime they get a first down, everyone goes: “First…first…FIRST DOWN!” That’s a bar.
So I got to this place, ordered up a HEINEKIN (more-real bear, S!) and sat down to watch some Futbol (what you Americans call soccer) while they set up the Karaoke. Then they brought out these *enormous* binders full of songs, and I started browsing through in search of good music. And guess what…THEY HAD AENIMA! I was way thrilled. Then everyone showed up, and we ordered some NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE (bam!) and got into the singing. Here are some of the ones I went through:
Fuel: Hemorrhage
Tool: Aenima (woo!)
311: Down (another one I’ve been on the lookout for)
A Perfect Circle: Judith
I’m very proud that I sang Judih. Those of you that have heard the song (it’s real purty) might remember that the last note rings for probably about 15 seconds or so. I’ve never been able to sing it all before without taking a breath but last Wednesday, I *nailed* it. Evidently it takes less air to sing loud than it does to sing normally. It was fantastic, I felt so great and had such a good time. Thanks to everyone for coming out. Aaaah. Good times. I gotta do that again.
Oh, and the beer? I gotta be honest, here, I can’t tell the difference yet between real stuff and not real stuff. My palette isn’t quite sharp enough yet. Maybe if I got them right next to each other. Give it a taste test. Maybe next time. But they all went down just fine. No gagging or anything. Maybe it was the singing, gotta restock the fluids after you sweat that much on stage (singing is hard!)
Friday I went out to volleyball, which was way monster fun as always, (btw: there was this *crazy hot* girl playing in the court next to us. Like, abs of steel. It was amazing.) And then afterwards, I went out to American Martyrs Church and hung out with some people. Mostly people I knew from my periodic stops at bible study. Good people all around. We hung out, ate some pizza, and just enjoyed each others company. This is a great way to spend a Friday, in my opinion. As we were breaking up for the evening, the two girls said they had to go back home and work on scrap booking a ‘good bye’ scrapbook for Fr. Steve, who is leaving for another diocese. Well I still had some energy, and I was curious, and so I volunteered to come over and help out. And I did. I helped cut out stuff to put under things, glued stuff together, and generally made myself useful. We ended up working on it until 4 in the morning (!) but when we were done, we were done. Whole thing finished. It was pretty neat. Plus, ‘L’, the girl whose house we were at, had some *cats*. They were mostly nervous little critters, but I got to pet them for a while, which was great. I want a cat.
Which reminds me! June 10th there is an ‘adoption festival’ right across the street from me. I want to go. Not because I want to adopt, more because I want to hang out with all the pets. Might get a sense of things you need to know before owning a pet, too. I really want a cat someday. Maybe when I get more stable.
Okay. Now I’m sleepy. Gotta get my winks in. SAYING GOODBYE!
[Edit:] Ooh! I almost forgot. I got *sick* this weekend. Yeah, that was the whole point. I had a really exciting week, and then when the weekend kicked in, I got sick and just sat around watching class, doing homework, and drinking a lot of Orange juice. Yeah. There, my post has a theme.
Oh, and I'm already over the illness. I woke up with a sore throat after staying up until 4 in the morning friday night scrapbooking. (Coincidence?) A little sore throat, a little aches, and a little bit of runny nose. *Really* wimpy cold. Okay, I'm done.
-N
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