Finished my black belt screening, and I didn't actually collapse. Was pretty sure I was going to for a while there, but I didn't. XD I won't know what the verdict is until... Saturday, probably. But right now I'm feeling pretty good about how I did, all things considered, so I'm hopeful. If I passed, that'll be four of the seven down, three to go ( Read more... )

Yep, that's pretty much been my mental and physical reaction to this month so far. Between helping my mom through the continuing recovery from her surgery the first half of the month (she's pretty well back to normal now), being right in the middle of the most stressful and demanding part of the black belt testing process, and a ton of other events ( Read more... )

Also, my head hurts and I may wind up with a permanent scar on my forehead.

Negatives:
- Figuring out how to wash my hair tonight is not going to be fun
- Ow
- That was stupid
- Possible permanent scar on my face

Positives:
- Will be mostly hidden by my hair once it heals
- Being in possession of a scar... caused by a sword.

If only the story ( Read more... )

 ... you start with a pleasant discussion of Thanksgiving celebrations, you end with helping to clean the blood off the floor. Literally, not figuratively ( Read more... )

The good news: cut on my left hand's healing nicely, doesn't hurt so much anymore, should only leave a small scar, I think. The bad news: I have impaled myself on a fork. It takes a lot of force to draw blood with a fork, y'know? Think I need to avoid the kitchen for a while. Or at least stop putting away dishes ( Read more... )

why am i typing like this? because i'm only using one hand. why's that? because i dropped a glass bowl and cut both my hands. right one's just got a little nick, but it's taking a surprisingly long time to stop bleeding. cut on the left one's rather deep. i actually think i came within a millimeter of passing out. weirdest sensation... all the more ( Read more... )

Did sparring for the first time last night. Not necessarily one of my better decisions, but... it's the first chance I've had to get there, and almost certainly the only time I'll be able to before the next promotion night. So.

Not that much to report. That much activity combined with a cold didn't work so well. Was almost ready to throw up by the ( Read more... )

So, we had a surprise guest teacher at karate today. And I was very nervous, wondering if it was one of the owners stopping in for a "pop quiz" to see how we were getting on or something of the sort. But no, just a guest teacher, Mr. Olsen, to introduce us to some new concepts. I was quite relieved when he stepped to the front and started off ( Read more... )