How is it that you can gain 10 pounds by eating a quarter pound hamburger?
Monthly Archive for January, 2006
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Well, Something was rather interesting at Karate. Luke and I got out of the car, put money in the meter and then went into the room. There were some students there warming up. I put on my belt, started warming up. I saw Luke was putting on his belt. I saw he had his gi top on, but no pants! I mean he had his shorts on, but no gi pants. I thought maybe he was gonna put on his pants after but then I remembered that he puts ‘em on at home (as I do). I said to him, “Hey Luke . . . Where’s your pants?” He looked down and, well, I think you can guess the reaction. It’s like walking into the grocery store and suddenly realizing you still have you bathrobe and shaving cream on. I was smiling for a bit but then I sobered up. Suprisingly, the teacher didn’t say anything! Maybe it was just standard procedure?
After forgeting both his pants and his belt (on two different occasions), concluded that it’s better to forget the belt than the pants.
Now gossip like that is something to donate about!
I was straightening up my bed today. I took off my down-comforter since I wasn’t too chilly at night. I kinda layered it on the side of the bed just in case I needed it. After that, I put a tan comforter on the bed which also draped over the rolled up down comforter. Just then, I realized that the down comforter with the tan comforter over it looked just like an eclair! Not only that, it looked mighty tasty! Of course, I hadn’t eaten breakfast yet so most things looked pretty good enough to eat.
We went to Karate today since we’re feeling better from our colds.
Jumbo taught the class today. He’s pretty intense. . . which was good. He did an interesting thing where one person punches to the face and to the stomach and the other person is the target. The attacker was supposed to punch one inch from the chin and one inch into the stomach (which didn’t feel as bad as I thought). I trusted myself punching one inch from the face ’cause I took the pencil test at Karate testing where I was supposed to rapidily punch one inch from a moving pencil and I passed that (I only hit it once). The other people, however, I didn’t trust. especially the new guy. Luke, also I didn’t trust (only because he hit the pencil five times at the testing). Fortunately, my chin made it through. Getting punched in the stomach was fine. Some people kinda held back but I didn’t. I mean I was controlled but the teacher wanted me to go in an inch, and I went in an inch. When I got punched, I tightened up my stomach which really helped. When we did the same thing but kicking, that was interesting. One person kicked with their toe which kinda hurt. Tightening the stomach didn’t help to much there.
After class, we waited outside (’cause Ma was gonna pick me up and Luke was gonna go to the girlfriend’s house). It was dark out and gently raining (almost fell softly like snow) which felt really good. I didn’t feel sore at all which was good (not that I usually do but we hadn’t done Karate in a long time so. . . you know). We then waited in the car for Ma. A half hour later, she came and Luke went to the girlfriend’s house.
Since we found an online book printing store that prints free color covers, we decided to take some pictures to make a color cover for Blowing Zen II and Blowin’ West. Here’s a few that we came up with. Papa didn’t want to be in it. He just wanted Luke and me to be on the cover. Of course, we needed the author of the book to be on the cover (it would be ackward for Papa to be autographing [at the big book clubs] his book without his face on it!) so we managed to rope him into it. We also did a Zen picture (no-smiling). Also, since the back of the Blowing Zen book has Papa sitting down with Luke and I on his knees (from a long time ago when we were tots), we decided to take an updated picture of the same scene. fortunately, Pa legs didn’t give out or break.
