Missed lesson

It came to me while driving:

The tree bends and sways with the wind, but branches fall from time to time. The tree allows the branches that are no longer flexible enough to break, and be gone from the whole. When one has done so much, but yet a part becomes otherwise immovable, then it is okay to let it go.

Recovering

still recovering from the dehydration on Sunday.... sore muscles ooouch...

However, I am super proud of all the students and their demos, as well as everything else they did.

I did find out about adult sparring and chanbara sparring.... Derek doesn't want to add events until they sign up for the events he has offered already..... Didn't really make sense to me, but okay if that's the criteria.

Did it

Checked up on some things, changed my oil, brother's oil, Delinda's oil, niece's oil, rotated brother's tires, finished T-shirts with niece help, rolled up tees, borrowed portable DVD player just in case, all homework except team and essay, made CD, tested CD, cleared out car, filled trailer with raffle, put copy of DVD in car, put playlist in bag with DVD and list of who gets which raffle, diagnosed bad news on Delinda's coolant leak problem, missed Kuk Sool to finish more, missed yoga, but gave yoga teacher her CD today, and will get paychecks tomorrow and Monday.

Whew....

Now just to get up at 4am.

Busy Busy

T-Shirts, Coolant problem, oil change, pick up paycheck(s), Kuk Sool Won, school work, CD for demo teams. Wow there is a lot to do tomorrow.

Naka-kon?

Well Joe ends up having to work 'til noon at LAC, because people don't shower before getting into the pool and they have to put a bunch of chemicals in to break up the oils.

I am super tired. So I don't know if I'll make it... there is the $20 fee, and I'm really just going to browse, and possibly by Nathaney a panda hat....

I dunno. Maybe, I'll see if my other niece wants to go.

Next week

In addition to my classes, I am planning on attending Kuk Sool 4 out of the 5 evenings next week. I have to print out, cut out, and make the T Shirts for demo teams. I have to get the audio files ready for them, and put them on CD. I have to make a highlight reel of Masters Camp for display at tournament. I have to come up with my handouts, curriculum, and a plan for the DVD portion of my section at Masters Camp this time around.

I have gotten the certificate approved though, which is one small step. The certificate is going to be my DVD cover too.... hehehe

Other than that, nothing to do, but the other long list of to do's:
clean room
file papers
grind sharps in trailer
redo driver's side of trailer to be straight.... I don't know how they got it so lopsided.
Get paycheck, and adjust budgets
and innumerable others.

My how it flies

Time and money that is.

Went and looked into my monthly budgets. I have all of them starting in December 2006 on. So I put everything into one big Excel sheet. Then did some calculations, and the results were eye opening.

I have spent:
27,773.70 on Vehicle Loans and Insurance
27,063.28 on Mortgage, Condo Dues, Storage, and a Personal Loan used for the home
21,000.70 on Credit Cards - That was a shock.
06,546.69 on Utilities
06,461.43 on Phone Service
01,690.71 on Cable and Satellite TV

90,536.51 total since just December of 2006!

Yeah, that rededicated me to what I'm doing as far as paying off credit cards this year and not using them anymore, especially when I saw that I have spent 5,757.24 at Best Buy alone, with still 1,283 left to pay off.

Then, if all goes as planned this year, next year getting the Cobalt off loan, and getting the personal loan paid for within the first 6 months. Then starting to chip away at the Charger with a plan for 2 years on that.


Also, looking at budgets, it's been 2 years since I've had a girlfriend. Strangely, I'm not bothered by that.

More lessons learned

I watched Batman Begins for the first time all the way through last night. That made a big difference. I caught two really good ideas in the process. They were:
"Why do we fall down? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
"It matters not what's underneath, it's what you do that defines you."

Good morning

even though I was confused when I was first waking up... My mind was overly thinking that which I had already planned out.

Went to the tail end of the restorative yoga class, and the week after the week after next I might start having a sparring partner or a movie partner.

Worked out

I finished reading for English 112 during/after work at LAC. Then I went to work on Kusanku also known as Kanku Dai. This being the form that Sensei Derek wants me to work on to test in front of Dan Kennedy, and I think I am going to have to polish up Ananku as well.

Had good talks with a couple of people at the gym about healthy things tonight. I think the Yoga instructor is teaching tomorrow as I finish work, and since Joe isn't wanting to go to a movie tomorrow, but Naka-kon next week, I am going to see if she rested tonight, and perhaps wants to spar and/or work on her back issues.

Getting there

now time to get on the second week of school work.