Overwhelmed
Things have been so so busy here I just haven’t had a chance to write. I’m only writing this now because I’m sitting in our hotel in St. Louis getting ready for bed. We’re picking the dogs up from the dogsitter in the morning and with any luck, we’ll be in MD tomorrow evening late.
The house is all packed up. They did that yesterday. It was loaded on the truck and the driver should be about half way there if he had his way. His home is in Baltimore, so he’s hauling ass to get back there for the holiday weekend. Good news is, we’re getting our goods delivered Tuesday instead of the company’s quote of next Saturday. So we’re crashing in a hotel here and the dogs are off visiting their friends.
Another bit of good news, I was surprised Tuesday night when my karate instructor decided to award me my brown belt. I was almost certain I’d missed it by about 4 weeks. I really needed another month to prepare for the test. I was still a little hesitant on some of the unarmed defense against oppenents with knives, but otherwise made it thru without much trouble. The worst part was the fighting at the end. After 30 minutes of working out solo, followed by my weekly 30 min. private lesson and a 1.5 hour class, I had to finish the test with the sparring. Basically, they formed a 7-man circle around me and I had to fight each of them in turn for 1 minute each. By 5 minutes, I was completely worn out and that’s when the 2 black belts each got to start attacking me. Still, I managed to keep my guard up and even left them with a few shots to remember me by, but my face was pretty swollen by the time I made it home Tuesday night and I’m still hurting a bit from all the body shots..
But after 3 years of studying, I do have my brown belt and I’m incredibly happy.
So that’s it. Next post will be from Maryland.
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