Tkd @ MindSay

I am actually pretty excited about tonight.  After my long tiring weekend with friends over till late Sunday afternoon, I vegitated all day yesterday.  I didn't do shit!  I even took the fajitas I made Saturday and reheated the meat and veggies for last nights dinner!  I should have used that for tonights dinner but that is okay!  I busted out the patato soup I made a few weeks back and froze the left overs! 

 

I need some help with two subjects for my next paper.  We are doing a compare and contrast paper.  I want subjects/topics that are orginal.  DeLaney suggested Dogs and Cats.  Coltin sugested marital arts (any two), Randy has made no suggestions.  My girl Teri suggested Paganism vs Christanity (to indepth of topics I think) and my girl Bree suggested long hair vs short hair.  The only thing I have come up with is  washing the dishes by hand or by dishwasher!

 

I want topics that that is orginal but not a lot of research.  I have to have all my homework done by Friday afternoon before I pick the kdis up from school. We are leaving for Sioux Falls for the weekend right after I pick them on Friday.  We are going to our Regional TKD tourny.  I can get the majority of my homework done today but I need my subjects for my next paper to do a compare/contrast chart for one of the assignments!  Please help!

 

Anyway I have an IEP meeting today at 2:30 with DeLaney's speech teacher, then we have to blaze to TKD, after TKD we blaze home,  I'll get the kids feed, Randy can get their homework and baths done and at 7, I'll blaze to the Pub.  Our pool league starts tonight.  Yay!  I have decieded I am treating myself with a few drinky drinks tonight!  I need them!  :D

 

I can't wait!  Tuesdays are definatally going to be my night!

These pictures are from our last testing at the beginning of May.  Boy I didn't realize I was looking so terrible with the bags under my eyes!  They are a lot better now since things have settled down some!  But I don't feel so bad, my cousin Joe has the same dark circles under his eyes.  He would be the one in white uniform with the red strip along the collar!  The last photo is of the kids and Mr. Johnson messing around.  That is the best one I have showing DeLaney cause she insisted on being in the back!

Well I FINALLY found my thumb drive.  I left the small movies I made of the tourny on my card and of course NOW I can't find my thumb card reader to up load those! 

 

Please don't mind my funky pictures.  I NEVER take decent pictures.  Even in highschool my senior pictures took the poor photographer who came out of retirement to do my pictures two days to get any decent ones and I was looking a lot better then than I do now!

 

I'll upload the movie clips of the tourny once I find my card reader!

A fast update of a bit of everything. 

 

1.  I have started getting my mail on an every other day biases!  My moms is sooo proud of me!  I started because I was waiting for checks to come in for the kids and various First Communion presents from all the family and "pagany" friends that sent to them.  Now I am waiting on my checks to come in.  So now that I have gotten in the habit we can start actually "writting".  Craftywench dear, I need you to email us full addy and your mini me's name and your name again.  DeLaney said she won't promise any decent letters (they just got done with proper letter writing at school so she is burnt out) but she will write!

 

2.  I was very upset with my TKD Academy instructor Monday and ran into Aj's wife yesterday and told her why.  It looks like my cousin's wife has been talking and the owner/instructor is beleiving every word she has to say about me.  Which is funny as hell cause the stuck up bitch doesn't KNOW me, doesn't talk to me outside of saying hi, and thinks I am "white trash" cause I don't dress in brand name clothes.  Carrie is upset over this cause she had to deal with my cousin's wife talking shit about her last year.  AJ is going to talk to me Friday cause he is worried that after we get our black belt at the end of this year beginning of next year instead of stickign around that we will leave the Academy.  AJ knows that I don't put up with this type of shit but I am also not going to play highschool bull shit games, I'll call the instructor and cousin's wife out and be dayumed any family fall out.

 

3.  After 7 years (i though it was 5 until my moms counted back) I actually took myself to my hair stylist and got my hair colored.  The kdis and I got our hair cut Wensday or Thrusday last week and I splurged on hair color yesterday.  I think I look kick ass hot with my new do.  The bottom half of my hair is a purply reddish brown and the upper layers are reddish brown.  So when I put my sides up you can see the purple and when I actually blow dry curl my bangs you can see it also!  My hair stylist instead of charging me for my length which at the moment is short and thickness of my hair (usually takes a lot of dye for my hair even when short) she charged me just for shortness for two different dyes even though the bottom dye she used a full bottle of it she said!  I was very happy over not paying close to 100 for my dye like normal!  It was closer to 50!

 

4.  I don't know if I told you all about the plan I had in plotting progress but I started it.  At the end of May when my kdis get out of school, instead of taking them on their first camping trip, they will be staying with Pappo and Mammo (Unless daddy is home those two days) while Mommy is bettering herself.  I registered for 1 of 6 classes to start my certificate/licensing process to become a Certified and eventually Licensed Drug/Alchohal (sp?  can't ever spell that word) Counselor!  The total amoutn of classes is $1300.00 but you only pay for the class your taking.  And if the class that is scheduled doesn't fit in your schedule you just wait for the next one to be listed, it doesn't hurt you!  It is through the Lincoln Medical Center and a program called TAP out of Lincoln.  The series of classes are held every 6 months.  Sometimes on the Western/Central parts of the state and the other times on the Eastern/Central part of the state.  Right now they are in the Western/Central parts of the state but I am going down to a weekend class in Lincoln the day my kdis get out of school for the first class.  I have NOT told Randy yet, because Randy told NOW would come up with a way to sabatoge my plans and he wouldn't even realize it.  Once it comes closer I will inform him and he will get over it.  My parents and my sister (and one friend) are stepping to the plate to help with the kids especially when it comes to the week long classes coming up.  After I do the classes I have to intern at 1 of 4 places near me or try to get on at the IHS out paitent clinic.  Once I get that over with I can get licensed and work anyplace in NE as a counselor.  I am going to hold out for the IHS Drug/Booze Dependency Unit to be up and operational to get on with the Tribe/Gov't.  They are in the process of building it now right next to the new IHS hospital my moms works at!

 

5.  My garden is tilled and my onions planted.  I have to find my other seed to get the other cold weather seeds in, my herb garden needs one more tillign and then I can plant that, and Coltin's room is about done with the fixing of cracks so I can paint!

 

6.  Randy has been an ass lately so when he is home this week we will hash that out.

 

Over all life has been good.  I even wrote gwydionjim a letter while he is at boot camp.  He might even get another one here when I mail out the last of the kids' thank you cards for all their First Communion Presents!  Yes I make my kids do snail mail thank yous!

I won't say we did excellent at our first TKD tourny but we did really well for being one of the bigger Regional Tournies in our area!

 

Hell there were ppl all the way from FL that showed up outside of Omaha to the Tourny!  It doesn't suprise any of us that we had ppl down from MN, ND, SD, IA or even up from MO, KS, and AK.  But it did shock a lot of folks that we had folks from FL, CA, OR, GA, and a couple from CO!  Why the FL one shocked us over the West coasters and the GA folks, is because the person was a lil 7 year old 1st Degree Black Belt!  I even talked to his mom (sittin next to each other during the Adult and Tiny Tot's BB competitions before opening ceromonines!).  This lil boy's mom flys him all over the states for TKD tournies!  This weekend they were of course in NE, last weekend AJ (my assistant instructor) saw him in St. Paul, MN and the weekend before they were in NE again at a smaller state Trouny!  Must be nice to be 7 years old and being flown all over creation by parents with money!:P  I don't begrudge them doing that but I'll be dayumed I fly anywhere for a tourny unless my kids eventually make it to one of the big ones out in Las Vegas.  Even the World Championship ones we won't ever fly too!  That is only down in Little Rock!

 

Anyway, AJ is waiting on BB point standings to be released Monday morning to see if he made it to the World Champinship (Only those in Leadership Status can collect points and go on to World Championship or get any State Championship or REgional Champsionship).  Mr. G (his first tourny also) placed in the BB also with forms and got a Victory Medal (basically 4th place -they only place 1-3) on his weapons. 

 

The kids and I weren't up till after opening ceromonies.  Which by the way was kick ass KEWL!  Master K not only owns the Bellevue NE school (outside of Omaha) but owns 3 other schools in NE also, so they of course always host regionals and he went out of his way this year because they got some High Ranking Masters to help judge this year.  A 1979 Triple Crown NE State Championship and World Champioinship Woman (can't remember her name) who is also on the ATA Board of Directors was there, along with the Current 7th to 9th degree Master who is currently the Triple Crown Holder for World Champioinships and one of the retired World Championship Head dudes that helped our Founding TKD Org and TKD Style Master Lee with some of the forms was there.  They were all there to help judge!  Not to mention a few other high ranking TKD folks who were helping to judge.  Then for opening ceromonies after all the chitter that irritates ppl, they had a Korean group come in and did a whole Korean Dragon show with 4 dragons.  It was AWESOME!

 

I managed to watch all of DeLaney's section and she did EXCELLENT for her first tourny!  A Victory Medal (again 4th place) for forms and a 1st placing in Weapons out of 5 girls.  She was the only ranking in her group.  All the rest were higher ranking and a total of 8 girls ages 8-10.  Sparring will come as we do more torunies.  I didn't get to watch Coltin's because my section was called up and gettin started at the same time Coltin's was.  So i relied on DeLaney to take pictures for me.  Coltin also did EXCELLENT!  He got a Victory Medal for 4th place in forms and got 3rd in Weapons out of 4 or 5 boys.  There were three other boys the same ranking as he was and a total of 15 boys ages 8-10 that he had to compete against.  Alas though Coltin wasn't able to spar.  The ignorance of a Mamma and not knowing that lil boys had to have a cup.  First who would have thought at that age group they require a cup.  They have really nothing there:D  So the judge (4th degree Dan) helped calm him down by letting him be the offical score keeper (usually reserved for BBs) and told him not to get mad at me cause us Mamma's don't always think of those things and just to have Daddy take him cup shopping before our next tourny!

 

There was about 10 of us women age grouped from 17-39 because there was only 3 girl for the 17-20 age group and the rest of us were the 30-39 age group.  So instead of putting those 3 women off by themselves they just lumped them with us.  Only two women did weapons (me and a higher ranking woman) and of course there was only 1 other woman at my rank and the rest of the women were either two ranks ahead of us or clear up to the rank below black belt.  I did pretty good if I must say so!  I got a Victory Medal (4th place) for forms, and the other Blue Belt Rank lady that didn't do weapons and the other Camo Rank (my rank) also got the Victory Medal, so in other words we tied for 4th place and since they only count 1-3 we didn't have to do what is called a Form off:P:D  The other blue rank and I were the only ones that did Weapons.  She got first and I got second.  I didn't get to watch her form beause I was running over to Coltin's matt but EVERYONE said I got jipped out of 1st because I may have had my chucks do something funky twice, she dropper her weapon twice.  The other Camo belt ranking goes to the same Academy as the Blue ranking women who took first and said she is either sleeping with the instructor or doing some massive kiss ass because they both started at teh same time and the Camo belt lady is right were she needs to be at and the other lady is two rankings higher then her now.  Plus the 2nd Dan judge (Dan is the degree of black belt) is one of their Academies sister school instructors and Camo woman and the other ladies think that is why the lady who got first in weapons got it.  I didn't see her weapons form and I dont' care.  I placed!:D  Again I did good in sparring didn't place but it was our first tourny and the judge even said once I get some things down I am going to be a force to be reckoned with because I don't just do kicks or just punches I do a lot of combos!

 

They were doing closing ceromonies by the time Coltin and I were done and getting changed and we were getting complements left and right on how well we all three did!  The Triple Crown Lady went up to DeLaney and told her she was really impressed with her form and gave her a few tips to clean it up before testing and our in school tourny.  Coltin's judge and the Men's Triple Crown Current Champion both told him he did great and the guy took Coltin up to another tourny matt and showed him what he could do to improve both his form and his weapons!  I had the head guy that was retired and on board of directors show me a couple of arm and hand positions to help my sparring and complement all three of us and said that he is hoping to see us at some more tournies and asked why we weren't leadership yet.  That he was watching all 3 of us all day long because he sat near us, and was really impressed with not only how well we did but how the kids and I were NOT shy and talked to EVERYONE and even helped out others in our postion of being first tourny.  And he asked Coltin's judge  if she would please find out why we weren't leadership.  Coltin's judge is testing at World Championship with our insturctor for their 5th Dan BB and when I explained that I had leadership i just haven't taken it yet cause my kids didn't make it to open try outs and now have a invit try out after our in school tourny, the Host Master popped in and told Coltin's Judge (guess she is going to be at our tourny helping) to tell our instructor to get us in Leadership ASAP so we can start earing points!

 

Over all we did REALLY good, and I am proud of my kids.  They went in to have fun and that is what they did!  Sure they placed in weapons but that wasn't the goal.  The goal was to get some experenice in and I delibreatly choose a BIG tourny to do it so they would get over the nervousness and here they both placed!  We all are on a Marital Arts high today!  It was late by the time we got out of Bellevue into Omaha and I decieded NOT to stop anywhere for food and we picked up Micky D's in IA before crossing BACK into NE on our way home, so we are going to the Olive Garden today for a celebration lunch!

 

I'll post pictures later (sorry none of me cause I was the only parent there to manage my two!) and wish us luck on preparing for our next rank testing this coming Saturday!