Why My Life is so Awesome - Family Day Edition

1. I slept in.
2. I got out of bed, ate a hearty, healthy breakfast & then did some kung fu homework.
3. I got a text from my BFF & we decided to go for dim sum.
4. We went to dim sum, which was delicious. While at dim sum, we noticed some people dressed in fancy garb carrying Chinese lion dance costumes.
5. We got to watch a delightful Lion Dance through the restaurant! The lion danced & ate everyone's red packets & made everyone smile & be happy, like a good lion should.
6. We went shopping & bought some feng shui charms.
7. We adventured in to various punk/vintage shops. We met a cute dog. We bought some items with hot pin up girls on them.
   
8. We had some delicious sushi & I had ramen for the first time ever. Believe it!
9. We ended our fantastic day out by heading to the gym to train.
10. Training was wonderful as always. There's lots I have to work on, but with practice I'll get better. Just gotta stay focused. Gave 2/3 of my Sifu gifts & they both liked them.
11. Ended the day with a nice cup of tea & relaxation.

Now if that's not the good life, I don't know what is.

Almost Lunar New Year

I really need to put more effort into doing this blogging business. Unfortunately, my life isn't a bevy of excitement. But there are a few things going on of note.

Probably most importantly, I'm coming up on my "training anniversary", which will be referred to as my "trainiversary". Since I don't really have a landmark for when I started martial arts in the first place, I decided to make the landmark for the time when I started training where I am now, which is about the same time as my Sifu's birthday (although I'll admit I still need to learn the exact date for that). So, this year will mark the start of my 4th year of training.

I'm still very much a baby, but alot has changed since I started this journey. Physically, I'm substantially stronger, more coordinated and have more endurance then I used to. Mentally, I've come a long way as well, overcoming sometimes crippling anxiety, shyness and negativity. I won't get in to too much, since I typed a long rant for New Years about this, but my life is alot better now, and if I can make this much progress in 3 years, I can only imagine what the next 3 years will bring. I love my training, I have a collection of wonderful teachers & classmates and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm a happy camper.

Also, speaking of New Years, Chinese New Year is upon us! This year is the year of the Metal Tiger, which is exciting for a Fire Tiger like myself. Apparently, I can look forward to good health, which makes me happy. I am still in my middle of "The Art of War", so I haven't had a chance to study in depth what I can expect, but I think everything will be good. The metal element should look after me. I'm hoping to get together with friends & catch a lion dance too.

I've also started a routine to get rid of my access skin, because it's become a source of anxiety for me. See, when I started this weight loss adventure years ago, I neglected to think that my skin would be a concern. Knowing very little about how skin actually works, I figured it would just keep up with me and everything would be happy. And of course I dropped lots of weight really fast. So now I have an access of skin that's making me very uncomfortable. I've gotten reassurance from people that what I'm doing will work, it's just super frustrating because it's something that will take a very long time to see results.

Anyway, I think it's working, because the skin actually feels better, so hopefully after a few months I will loose some sag and never have to worry about this again. If nothing else, I've found an effective way to get rid of stretch marks.

So that's that. Hopefully there will be some more exciting things to rant & rave about in the future, but for now, I'm off to lunch. Toodles!