boring things I want to remember

thedailymeme: First World Problems

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:43:41 -0600

First World Problems

just got back from dancing

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:28:43 -0700

Please help remind me that I love going dancing. I danced for almost all of 3.5 hours. Even though my legs were already sore.

what is this for?

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:18:55 -0700

I don’t know anymore. For awhile it felt important to track my exercise, especially what I was learning in judo. But most of the time it just made me feel bad, like I should be doing more. As much as I still love my judo people, I’m less and less excited about judo itself. Now that I’m a brown belt, the one tournament I’ve gone to (unblogged - I won one round of three against an older woman I outweighed, and got beat up by a bunch of teenage black belts) was a miserable panic-attack filled experience, and every practice is punctuated by just how much I hurt. But I’m following more and more people, just happy at what awesome people are out there, and I want to learn to share more of what’s going on a bit like they do. So maybe sometimes I’ll find something I want to say here. What’s the worst thing that can happen? What’s the best thing that can happen?

What should you do during an election year?

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:59:53 -0700

You should endeavor to understand the electoral process through the drug-addled eyes of Hunter S. Thompson. 40 years ago he followed the Democrats through their primary process and somehow not only am I reading along with it this year (though I intend to read at something approximating my normal pace, not move along with the full year) but I seem to have talked some other people into doing it too. So you - Internet person that I don’t talk to enough - you should read with us! We should chat. I’m up to Mid-March.

it just hasn't been my week

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:55:10 -0600

toe still hurts when I try to curl it or push off to generate power, so no judo. somehow I managed to have meetings that messed up going to all 3 possible yoga classes. so:

friday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2. despite my netflix streaming sucking mightily. damn you roku!

judo classes 227 and 228

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:25:56 -0600

monday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2

tuesday: judo. endurance training is killing me

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

thursday: judo. killing. jammed/bent my left big toe pretty crazy bad. hopefully it will heal over the weekend.

judo classes 225 and 226

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:09:04 -0600

monday: lunchtime yoga

tuesday: judo

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

thursday: judo. survived being the person who wasn’t let rest in naiwaza drills.

saturday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2

judo classes 222, 223 and 224

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:36:20 -0600

tuesday, june 7: laid low with the sinus evil

thursday, june 9: made it to judo

the next week: out of town

monday: lunchtime yoga

tuesday, june 21: judo. some great drills for o uchi. Key idea - your whole body makes that circle. You are spinning around and taking that person with you.

thursday: at a conference

saturday: judo, mostly conditioning drills, a little naiwaza.

judo classes 220 and 221

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:27:35 -0600

monday: 30 minutes elliptical. this is an ankle test.

tuesday: judo

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

thursday: judo

friday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2

the week I babied my ankle

Mon, 30 May 2011 11:03:38 -0600

I think I hurt it dancing, and then walked around on it for a few days in the same shoes. go me. It was swollen and hurt randomly.

monday: lunchtime yoga - included balancing. that convinced me the ankle was actively not happy

ice and elevation for a few days, then found my ankle exercises from physical therapy

math and travel week

Sun, 22 May 2011 18:20:58 -0600

monday: lunchtime yoga

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

judo classes 218 and 219

Sat, 14 May 2011 09:43:24 -0600

sunday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2

monday: lunchtime yoga

tuesday: judo - our favorite visitors from mines. turnovers, naiwaza

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

thursday: judo - more mines visitors! JL’s ko uchi - step across with offside foot, wrap entire lapel side leg around their knee. lapel goes up, sleeve gripped elbow goes down to their waist, BANG. if they step back out of it, just go into tai o

saturday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2 (dr who season 5 is available on streaming! hello again elliptical!)

judo classes 216 and 217

Sun, 08 May 2011 12:31:01 -0600

tuesday: judo

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

thursday: judo - moving uchikomis, some good randori

judo class 215

Sun, 01 May 2011 07:15:37 -0600

monday: lunchtime yoga

tuesday: judo - passed sankyu test. pushing/controlling drills. turnovers (I never caught which side I was supposed to roll to.. right/left is so complicated) naiwaza, randori. uchi mata trick where you come in more to the side. less vulnerable, but too far over to turn into harai if you miss.

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

judo classes 213 and 214 and tournament 10

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:12:39 -0600

sunday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2

tuesday: judo

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

thursday: judo. elbowed in the eye. the beginners are dangerous

saturday: our big local tournament. lost my masters fights. won my novice fights.

and then I published this nearly a week late because I was traveling and did nothing.

judo classes 210, 211 and 212

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:57:44 -0600

monday: lunchtime yoga

tuesday: judo. worked on harai and tai o some, randori, naiwaza. practiced my two new holds.

wednesday: lunchtime yoga

thursday: judo. everyone worked on harai (getting the hip in far enough) and some randori

saturday: judo. kids randori, adults randori, switch!

judo classes 208 and 209

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:19:05 -0600

monday: 116 pushups: 40,40,36

tuesday: judo - went over the brown belt test. gonna try to test in 2 weeks. need to learn 2 new hold downs first.

thursday: judo - naiwaza drills, went over the holddowns for the sankyu test - not at all what we thought they were tues. :(

friday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2 - no knee trouble!

judo class 207

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:29:04 -0600

sunday: 6 rounds of just dance - N even joined in for a few. extra fun!

monday: 108 pushups: 40,40,28. gonna make it to 3 sets of 40 one day.

wednesday: 112 pushups: 40,40,32

thursday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2. getting kinda worried about my knee. judo - joshi judo with D. very similar turnover to the one from JL a few weeks ago. some hardcore naiwaza (and I’m better at it than I thought I was.) randori - I need to spend more time getting banged on by black belts.

friday: 4 songs on just dance

saturday: 5 songs on just dance.

gym closed to bring up to fire code

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:41:40 -0600

sunday: 35 minutes elliptical. tried to do intervals, my knee said no after about 15 min

monday: 100 pushups: 40,40,20

tuesday: 20 minutes wii fit

wednesday: 5 songs on just dance, 100 pushups: 40,40,20

thursday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 2. my knee was ok, but it felt difficult

judo classes 205 and 206

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:53:00 -0700

tuesday: judo - 2 line uchikomis, pair up and work on your favorite throw. I did uchi mata and o uchi - wisdom acquired: uchi mata depends on getting your hip into their gut, gotta be pretty close. pulling the jacket all the way over the shoulder really helps with o uchi. a little out of breath, but not too bad. last of the crappy faux protein drinks. eh randori.

thursday: judo - complicated turnovers/pins that I don’t think I can describe that well. but class went pretty good, and I managed to use both the complicated turnover and the super simple one from last week in naiwaza. oh, protein shake around 5. I am now officially a believer in protein shakes around 5 for not dying during judo.

saturday: 35 minutes elliptical, level 3