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I am happy to report that my migraine is almost completely gone this evening. This afternoon a little after lunchtime it started letting up, and now there's just a kind of vague throbbing and a general disoriented feeling. I can live with that. ^_^
I did make it out to the dojang tonight, and I think that helped push the last of the headache out, too. Lots more kicking today, except this time it was "back to basics" day instead of "crazy Jet Li tornado kicking day" like it was on Monday. I've learned that my side kicks absolutely suck. Master M pointed out that I keep trying to put a bit of a spin into it and turn it into a roundhouse, and I just can't seem to stop it.
Oh, well. It's nothing a ton more practice won't cure. We also did some muay thai style roundhouse kicks, which I totally kicked ass at. \o/
I finally watched the season finale (at least I think it was) of Supernatural the other day. Hmm. I'm not quite sure what to think of it just yet.
I'm going to go make myself some dinner, and then I'll probably head in to bed early tonight. I didn't sleep very well last night, and I'm dragging right now. Or maybe I'll curl up with a book and read for a bit, if my eyes can take it. I haven't done that for a while.
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While loitering in Barnes and Noble earlier today (they had zero YuYu Hakusho, something that pained me in my soul area) I noticed they had a decent collection of the manga versions of Alice in the Country of _____.
I pawed through them, (roused only by the PA system announcing there were fifteen minutes till closing, haha, manga you are the bane of my productive existence) and though I like the Hearts art best - which I read ages ago - that most prominent romance takes the creep stakes (which apparently was added in completely extraneously, as his character was not openly misogynistic in the games or other manga?) and most of all, I love Alice. I just want to pet her and put her somewhere safe and cuddly and affirming and ARGH.
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| 2013-06-17 19:10 |
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I'm having a much better day today than I did over the weekend. Work was surprisingly dull, but I did make it out to the dojang this evening. It was kicking day today: front kicks, side kicks, roundhouse kicks, jumping hook kicks, reverse crescent kicks, spinning bladed side kicks. Holy crikey. Some of them I'd already learned, but most were being introduced to some of us for the first time. I even tried my first tornado kick, which was quite amusing. (Mine didn't look anything like the one in the video, LOL.)
It was all a lot of fun, even the ones that were above my rank level. I'm getting a much better sense of balance, and I'm remembering to chamber the kicks before letting loose with them. The instructors are very patient and stress repetition to improve technique, as well as pinpoint drills to practice hitting the intended target. I'm getting better and actually got a "pop" more often than not out of the target bags, which makes me feel pretty good about myself. ^_^
So right now I'm just full of energy and raring to go. Maybe I'll go out for a run in a bit, since I'm having trouble winding down. Physical exercise really does help improve mood, I'm discovering. That might be why I'm feeling so much better today.
As for my new novel, I'm getting to the point where I'm sick of looking at it and I'm just tired to death of tweaking it. I'm thinking that might mean that it's time to let it go and ship it off to my publisher. I'm not sure why I'm hesitating, but I always do at this stage of the game. That first time I send a new story I just wrote off to be "judged" is always so terrifying. :/
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I'm feeling a bit down today. I'm going through one of those phases where I just feel like I'm a crap writer, and no one anywhere would want to read my stuff. And now because of that I feel all whiny and drama queeny, but it's not making the depression any less pervasive. It's not a rational feeling, and it sucks.
I don't think it helps that my original stories are being stolen left and right, and I don't have any real feedback on how well they're legitimately selling. This is where I get a little frustrated with having a publisher handling everything for me. I'm sure they're doing their best, but it's hard having that distance separating me from the books.
I'm thinking I might like to try self-publishing a story, just to see how it goes. Then I'd have something to compare the experience to. Do books actually sell better and get more exposure when there's a publisher promoting them? Hmm.
In more positive news, Urban Ninja Summer Camp is coming up next week at my new dojang. I'm really looking forward to it. They're hiring a parkour instructor to come in and teach some different freerunning techniques, just for the fun of it I guess. Summer is apparently a big deal with different events and activities there. It should be a lot of fun.
I'm nearing the end of the first revision stage on my newest novel, the third volume in the House of Silence series. It turned out to be 126,000 words, and I'm fairly happy with how it's coming together. I'm thinking I might not want to look at it again until I dig my way out of my current mood, because I'll probably decide it's all crap and no one will ever read it anyway so really, what's the point? :(
What did I tell you? Whiny, depressed, and drama queeny. *sigh* I'm hoping it's just hormones and it'll clear up in a couple of days.
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Title: Share and Progress
Fandom: Homestuck
Characters: John Egbert x 2
Kink: Mirrors/doubles
Content notes: Characters under the age of 18, age not referred to. No other notes apply.
A/N: …so in theory this would be part of a longer story involving how there came to be two Johns. Maybe eventually I'll get back to it!
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I had a page up on my cell from last night, and after pulling it up on my computer, went to the home page on the cell to check the weather, a couple of my rss feeds, etc.
Got a lousy shock. Without ever letting me know what they were going to do, ATT and Yahoo wrecked my home page, and there is no way to go back. All my RSS feeds and my bookmarks are completely gone. There are a multitude of things added that I don't need or want, with no ability to make changes, whether deleting or moving them. Looks like all my cookies were lost too.
I double checked my email, in case I missed an alert or email or something. Absolutely nothing.
I usually clear out my bookmarks every night and write them down in a notebook; I've had a cell phone break unexpectedly. Unfortunately I've skipped that for a couple of days, now I wish I hadn't.
Having some warning would have been nice.
Maybe it's not only time to go looking at/researching new phones, but a new company as well.
Theresa
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Okay, so I've started taking taekwondo lessons. It's really different from aikido in that aikido is all about moving in circles and defending against attacks with various throws and joint locks. Taekwondo seems to be more about moving yourself out of your opponent's strike range while simultaneously moving them into yours. There is quite a bit of hitting involved. And kicking! I've never had so much fun in my life. ^_^
Last night I was introduced to step-sparring, which basically amounts to choreographed light-contact strike and defense patterns with a partner. I'm only a white belt, so I didn't get to do any of the really interesting stuff, but it was still a ton of fun. The other students and instructors at the dojang are incredibly supportive and are just plain nice people. I really think I'm going to like it there.
The best part about the place is that they aren't afraid to cut back and have some fun with the training. They're bringing in a parkour instructor to teach an Urban Ninja Training Course later this month, which I surmise is all about running obstacle courses and doing cool batman-like backflips. A lot of the kids are really looking forward to it. There are also all kinds of competitions scheduled with names like "Jedi vs. Sith", "pirates vs. ninjas", "samurai vs. gladiators". I have no idea what those are, but I guess I'll find out. Later in the summer there's going to be a Zombie Apocalypse Survival Training Course. I admit to being intensely intrigued about that one. ^_^
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| 2013-06-10 21:55 |
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I came downstairs at 5-ish this morning to find my son curled up on the couch in the living room, sound asleep. When I woke him up to ask him what was wrong, he told me he found a scorpion on the headboard of his bed in the middle of the night and was too freaked out to go back to sleep there.
I really hate living in the desert. :(
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Sometimes recipes don't go so well. I tried to make mochi but alas my dough turned out lumpy and rather than resembling the yummy treats I wanted, instead I got food for the trashcan.
Luckily even though that was a bummer, dinner turned out amazing! With the exception of the rice and broccoli everything was a new recipe. ^_^
Dinner:
White Rice
Miso soup with wakame seaweed, fried tofu, and enoki mushrooms.
Broccoli
Chicken kira-age with green onion sauce (marinated in soy ginger mix, fried in cornstarch, and dipped in a green onion, soy, ginger, rice vinegar mixture) Tasted amazing!
red grape juice in wine goblets
( Food Porn )
Crossposted on IJ/LJ/DW. Comment wherever you please.
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Grr my phone is not turning on it should have a full battery but it's just not responding. Add to the fact that the speakers haven't been working for a month unless I'm listening to earphones and you have a smartphone that is about to have a date with a hammer.
Have a busy night tonight. Ian's working ten hour shifts without time scheduled for a lunch break unless he wants to arrive earlier or leave later so I want to get so much stuff done around the house and have dinner cooking when he gets home at eight am.
Now onto the delicious talks of food:
( Dorayaki Pastries and Omurice )
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| 2013-06-07 23:57 |
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So we went to Jesus Christ Superstar! It was pretty spectacular. I think they made great use of lights- I think moving the lights onto the audience added another bit to the kind of social statement. Also the backgrounds (locations! posters! bonus focus!). And this was set to, well, a local-ish now- mmmmostly not Australia I guess aside from a couple comments (mostly Herod, thinking back on it). Which… kind of makes the line in the final song about mass communication kind of odd, but in theory aside from all the now-jazz it's Back When. Still. And I get that you need to end the story, of course, but- why put that bit after all the big finale-ing? I guess here we had all the lights (and the petals! oh man.), but. (And Simon's mic had the bad fortune to misfunction, which meant his first verse was unfortunately silent [saying something? aheh.] and he ended up singing into Jesus's mic. It was cool!)
Overall, it was pretty fun. I kind of wish there was a good way to signal applause for crew, though, I guess.
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