Beautiful Days Outside

The past two days have been absolutely GORGEOUS outside, and today is no exception. The temperatures have finally been up in the high 40s, low 50s, and I am LOVING it. It makes me want to go outside and do something, however, it's just muddy now where the snow is gone, which kinda sucks. :P It's times like these that I wish I lived just a few miles more into town so that the snow had melted weeks ago and I could be outside playing ball with Jack or something. Goodness I can't wait. And I blame Steve for this restlessness, now that he's made me accustomed to exercise.

Speaking of Steve, I spent a lot of the last two days at the dojo. Haha, not hard to do though, I love it there. But before that, onto the events of the day.

The interview at Stewarts went very well. I was straight up and honest with her, and she was the same with me. I like that. It looks like it'll be a little tough since they don't do call-ins except in dire situations. That, and everyone works every holiday, no exceptions. Not for long hours, but you do. We'll see. I'm sure I'll be with them for a while though, since I need income. It starts at $8.50 an hour, and I'll get between 10-20 hours a week if I get the job. But first I have to make it through a second interview with another manager of a different Stewarts, and if I make it through that I then have to do job training on a Saturday. If I can get through those two obstacles though, then I have a job and I'll have income. Hecks yes.

After that interview, I went to Chucks and had lunch with Karen. Hadn't seen her and Nicholas in a while, so it was really great to have lunch with them again. Dad even showed up since he was at the ambulance building on duty that day, and joined us for lunch. he also paid for all our lunches behind our backs, the fool. But I love him, he can be a really good guy sometimes. Karen really enjoyed it there too, and will probably be bringing the family back to eat there. And everyone at the store loved little Nicholas, and I can't blame them, he's a cute baby. The main reason we got together though was because Mom had ordered GirlScout cookies from Karen's daughter, and that was how we decided to make the delivery. Works for me! :3

It was after all that, that I headed to the dojo. It was fantastically fun. I got there in time to meet Steve's three younger students, and I even got to play with them a bit. Though I have to admit, it was a bit awkward because I've never been in a situation where I was practicing with someone who I could actually break and throw around really easily if I wasn't careful, so I didn't go live with them on the mats at all. I still have to get used to the idea that I can't be rough with them like I am with Kelsey and Steve. LMAO

After they were done, Steve started my private lesson. We practiced the Crescent Kicks, Axe Kicks, and some combos with them; and then we had to stop because something in my right hip popped and it hurt REALLY BAD. So we went to striking. In striking Steve helped refine my ridge and knife hands. Lemme tell ya, building up the hand strength to endure these a lot is hell, but totally worth it. So what's going to happen is that I'm going to have to practice them a bit every time to destroy my hands, so that my hands can continuously rebuild themselves to be stronger. NO. PROBLEM. xD Haha, I know, I'm totally crazy. But it'll be fun. After all that, we did some sparring/grappling.

Normally, I'd leave after that, but I decided to stick around to watch Cardio, and ended up joining them for the abs. If there's anything I still need to work on a bit, it's definitely my abs and my hip muscles. After he did that class, he started the MAXFORCE one, and good lord I will NEVER do that. xD; It's HARDCORE. And I do too much at that dojo as it is. ROFL

So I just watched the last class, and then Steve and Sandra and I chatted for a bit before heading home. I slept really well that night when I went to bed. x3 And I went to bed early, because I had to get up at 6am to be to the dojo by 7am yesterday.

Of course though, my cat Floyd just couldn't let me sleep in until 6am. No, he woke me up at 5:45am because he wanted to be let outside. YOU BASTARD CAT! Couldn't wait 15 more minutes, OH HELL NO. So I ended up awake 15 minutes early.

I made it to the dojo a few minutes before 7am, so Steve and I chatted for a bit until Student-Steve showed up. Apparently Kelsey didn't get up in time to join us. xD; But it was cool, because at the same time as teaching Student-Steve to use a bokken, Steve was helping me learn to teach the bokken. So eventually, I may be able to help out on Steve's level with that class, which would be really cool. I'm going to practice with him privately a lot so that I can really refine all my techniques and stuff so that I can be an excellent instructor. :3

After that Steve and I had some chatting time until Scheffleur (Shef for short) showed up to instruct one of the kids in Juijitsu. Shef is training to be an instructor in that, which is pretty cool. He definitely makes a better instructor than fighter it seems like, too. But that's okay, because he's good at what he does. So Steve just kind of watched from the side lines and helped where needed while Shef did the instructing for the kid.

I was going to leave after that, but then Michelle got there for the MAXFORCE, which turned out to be yoga yesterday, so since Carrington was totally wiped out from too much work and wasn't going to be able to make it, I joined her in the yoga exercises. Those were really nice, though it was hecka funny because Steve isn't as flexible as us so we were picking on him. A lot. x3

After that class came Cardio. And somehow I got suckered in to joining them for that whole class. OH. MY. GOD. Doing so much so fast with little to no real breaks is HECKA TIRING. I can see why you loose weight with that. Good god. O___O;;; But I'll admit, I had a lot of fun. I was picking on them though, and told them if I couldn't donate blood anymore because they made me loose weight, heads would roll. LMFAO They're awesome women though, so it was all good.

I did take a break after that though, while Steve gave Shef his nunchaku lesson. After that lesson though, Steve and I were grappling again, just for the hell of it. Totally a lot of fun.

Sometime before Friday though, I had hyper-extended my left arm, so that was actually really painful and I kept causing myself pain through all the lessons. xD;;; Steve helped it a bit though, since he's pretty good at relieving minor aches and pains with holistic medicine and stuff. Works for me. It's still painful today, but definitely not as much as before.

Around 2ish, when everything kind of winded down, the landlord Paul showed up. Turns out the doctor in another building he owned had lost his license and went out of business, and had just left the furniture behind because he didn't want it anymore. So Paul wanted to know if Steve wanted to go scavenging, which he readily agreed to. I stayed behind to watch the dojo, since Paul decided he trusts me.

So while they were gone I cleaned and swept to prepare for their return with the furniture, since Mom has instilled those habits in me. They were gone about a half an hour, at least, so after I was done picking up a bit (there wasn't much lol) I practiced with my bokken a bit. I was bored, and it was something to do. I did have one scare where the back door was rattling, but it never opened so no big.

When they returned I helped them move the furniture in and direct them when they were carrying some larger stuff. The dojo looks a lot more inviting now. :3 And there is this really cute blue couch that looks like it belongs in a dorm, and then this retro orange leather couch that I just laugh at. But he got a lot of good furniture, which rocks. So I'm meeting up with him around 3:30 tomorrow to help scrub and clean the shit out of it. And to rearrange it. I don't know what I'm doing after that. LOL

Last night we played games. I totally raped people the second game of electronic Life, and in Clue we all got raped due to a card mixup and thus lack of a room in the evidence folder. LMFAO

We did a little karaoke as well, which was fun. I totally attempted Heartbreaker on Expert, and almost got 30,000/50,000 points. All goods and greats. OvO I WILL NAIL IT DAMMIT, I WILL. >3>

That was my night though. I chatted with Mom for hours afterwards, and ended up not going to bed until about... 4am. ROFLWTFISWRONGWITHME!? OTL;;;

Today is another beautiful day. However, my body demands some serious recuperation, so I'm not doing much. My friends want me to RO with them, but I don't know if I have the attention span right now. xD;;;

Actually, noon seems like too early to have gotten up at, I want a nap. ROFL But I won't take one if I can help it.

Maybe I'll do some photography. Maybe. Who knows.