AikidoT

This one is kind of scary The instructor is Skip Chapman Sensei, Jersey Shore Aikikai.

Randori This instructor is Peter Bernath Sensei, Florida Aikikai.

This is the kind of randori referred to in the title of this blog. Bernath Sensei's is amazing.

More With The Ice

SO, blah, blah, blah - the deal is I go to aikido, I fall. A lot. During I get thrown or pinned on the floor, sometimes I ask my sempai to throw me hard to practice I did all of that tonight. I need 11 ice packs to cover all the germane girl parts that need to be iced. My cats think I'm turning the joint into a penguin refuge. They also do not think I provide enough fish for it to be a good penguin refuge. And they object to the cold.

Somedays I want

To exercise my keen command of gutter invective, and scream: "douche eared motherfuckers" whilst driving. It doesn't necessarily need to make sense especially if you snarl it with the proper intonation of disdain and menace. "Snot sucking fuckwad" is another favorite and I, of course, overuse the rhetorical "what's your fucking problem, did you douche with mace or stupid?"

After more years of therapy than I can recall, I can still find anger every damn day. Every damn day, for more than 30 years. I suppose I was expecting to be done being angry at some point. And I know at certain points I was afraid to stop being angry. But this is not that. I get tired of anger being my instinctive reaction so often still.

I can keep it in check when the parties at whom I might direct it, whether justifiably or not are important enough to me to work at managing it. But I am surprised that I still struggle with it every day. Still.

Quality Family Time

I was sitting around with the parental units, the sisters, the nieces and the brother in law, and happened to make an offhand comment that I'd misplaced my good thong. The mothership remarked, "Jeez, that must be the size of a hula hoop." My response was, "true, but if I wear white grannies they make my ass look like a drive in movie screen."

The payoff was that we made the assembled parties shoot their respective beverages out their noses. I love it when the random hilarity leads to nosers.

What I Don't Quite Get

amid all of the hoopla about health care reform and so forth, there's been an ongoing debate even since before Roe vs. Wade decision and folks who identify as conservative don't think women should be having abortions, finding the right to life to be a moral imperative. But many of these same paid talking heads see no moral imperative to insuring people's health? And are spreading ruckus and mess about the rationing of health care? Hello, if you have money and/or insurance, you get health care. If you don't have money and/or insurance, you don't. There's your rationing.

Now 'splain real slow for me, how that's moral, or justifiable.

Ru'roh

Sharkbutt is going to be 5 next weekend and I promised him that he would be the baby cat until he was 5. He may or may not be concerned about this status but a recent reread of the homeowners ass bylaws indicates that I'm only supposed to have 2 cats. So one of these is my sister's who is boarding it with me whilst she travels.

ICE

I spend a lot of quality time with ice packs on my person lately, at an attempt to keep inflammation away. With the aikido training comes the increased inflammation and there's only so much NSAID's that my guts will contend with so I'm all about the ice. Also, dropping turmeric capsules a couple of times a day, makes for interesting breath which is much less of a concern lately.