Tonight I went to karate and taught, even though it wasn't one of my classes. I've been teaching only black belts for a while now, so working with intermediate, beginner, and advanced students was a nice change ( Read more... )

So my vacation was amazing. Old Quebec was full of people who looked like me, and amazing buildings all stacked next to eachother. I put a ton of pics on my flickr, and another beautiful woman put some much higher quality pics on hers.

I'm rather fond of this one. I bet you can't tell why ( Read more... )

no really alive. I biked to work today! yay!
usually i'd post my times but my cyclometer was not reading every wheel spin and thinks i only biked 12 miles out of 15. BLEH.

speaking of, I teased my cousin with the idea of a tagalong:

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I passed my test! I passed I passed WOO I’m a 3rd black belt I did it!! Yay!!!

The promotion ceremony will be on Wednesday 6/24. When I got out of the studio I screamed and jumped up and down I was so happy. Yay!!

Last group test was today. My team passed the physical, and may be the first team to pass all at once, the first time. We certainly worked hard for it ( Read more... )

Thursday was the anniversary of my birth, but today was my birthday. Today was amazing ( Read more... )

Passed.

2 more test before 3rd Degree Black Belt.

On Sunday I took an ill-fated nap around 4pm, aiming to wake up around 6. It had been a beautiful day of lounging around and reading. I loved the rain, and my book The Time Traveler's WifeAround 5:30 I hit the 30 minute snooze as I'd planned, smiled to myself, and rolled over ( Read more... )

Yesterday full of folly.

As you know I biked to work (biked today too!) and even made pretty good time on my way home. After almost 9 hours of working and a cycling commute, I drove half an hour to karate ( Read more... )

the test, and jog, went off without a hitch. the teachers will tell me how I did next week, but I know I passed.

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just so everyone knows there are still two more tests. i'm really honest to god worried about the last one. they will throw everything at me. everything. will celebrate like crazy in May when i pass THAT test.