Family

 This weekend was my parents 50th anniversary.  All the kids got together to host it and my parents siblings, friends and family joined us at the hall.  It was such a good time! Seth and Eagle came out to join us, that was also special.

It was not tons of work as all the girls did a section so the work was split up and it all came together.  How is this related to Kung fu? 

Small consistent work by each person was able to bring together a successful event, just like our demos.  Also family is the most important thing about in my life.  This also includes my Kung Fu family.

On a side note, I have been working on contraction and expansion during my circular motions in Da Mu Hsing.  Sifu Brinker explained that I should also be feeling that in my linear moves and presto…another aha moment!  I  didn’t think it would come so fast after the last one.

NUMBERS

Situps (modified):  4039

Pushups (modified): 4850

KMs: 493.37 

AOKs: 375

Da Mu Hsing: 108

Weapon Form: 65

Sparring: 57

Germain: 2664

Meditation: 455

Tai Chi: 623

Decluttering: 380

Yoga, Stretching, Exercise: 600

Days of Zen: a few days behind 😳

A little goes a long way!

Finally after being on a steroid inhaler and steroid nasal spray, I am starting to feel better.  Things that have been piling up around me during the illness are not only bugging me, but I am doing something about them.  Checking items off my list. 

I am looking forward to my exercise class tomorrow even though I will be doing the chair version of the exercises and really pacing myself because I do not want to have any setbacks.  I am hoping this is the last of the illnesses and I am looking forward to a summer of doing more.  

Mike and I bought electric bikes and we plan on biking to our classes but this just hasn't been in the cards yet.  I am also worried about Canada Day coming up and doing our demos as I have not been doing my reps.  I am frustrated because my pushups and setups were progressing nicely and now I am back to square one but as I stated above, I just need to pace myself and start again because a little goes a long way.  A few minutes every day will have tremendous impacts.  My German has come a long way when I look at where I started although I am terrified to even try a sentence out loud as my pronunciation is a bit to be desired. 

Sick AGAIN!

 My body has decided to get all immunity that it has missed over these last three years.  I now have a deep cough and combined with the vertigo (I had to have two treatments last week) I am wiped and the work week is just starting😡.  I have to keep reminding myself “this too shall pass”.  So pacing myself and hoping this will finally clear up soon .