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Hello! I'm sitting here at work again, extremely bored. It's Tuesday afternoon (1:04 pm, to be exact), and I have no work to do, as per usual. I really don't remember what I said in my last blog, so I apologize if I repeat anything.

Well, I officially took my first karate class last Thursday. I have my second one tonight... yay? I'm somewhat looking forward to it, but at the same time I'm... not. I've been looking at other dojos in the area, and hopefully I'll find a (really cheap!) new one that I like. I mean, if worse comes to worse, I'll stay at the Court Club because, hey, it's free. But I would prefer to be working in a place where the sensei actually... helps me, if that makes sense. Yes, I learned a bit last week. But they're using some crazy kata that I'm pretty sure they made up themselves (which is odd, since it's goju-ryu and they don't need to make their own up... there are plenty of official ones out there...), and they basically expected me to know it on my first night. Well, one sensei (the nice lady who didn't introduce herself) didn't, but Sensei Bob did... and then he didn't even have any papers to give me, like he gave all the other newer people on their first night. But hey, I learned that I have a great punching technique and I can have a pretty powerful front kick and roundhouse kick once I warm up. I'm just hoping tonight goes a bit more... smoothly. Oh yeah, and they don't have a warm up, which is dangerous. They just tell us to warm up before class starts... so if you don't get there early enough, you don't get to warm up... then we go straight into our lineup and technique moves. Yeah.

Also, I'm (hopefully) going to start doing cardio kickboxing tonight. I was going to last week, but something always came up. But my sister is gone this week, so that helps (since she was the one who made me miss it all week! =/) I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy it, since I've always enjoyed times when I could do kickboxing moves (and any other martial arts moves... which is why I'm doing karate. duh. Though there is a Christian taekwondo place really close by... but I haven't been able to get ahold of them... anyway, yeah, possibly style change in the making =P)

Oh yeah, I'm not going to CBC in the fall. It's not worth it. I'll just end up wasting six to eight thousand dollars on classes that may or may not transfer anywhere. I don't have that kind of money, and I don't want to take the risk. So I'm just going to take this year off to work and earn as much money as I can... now just pray that I can get a better job... and soon! =/

We went up to Creation this past Saturday (me, my mom, and my dad, that is). It was pretty fun, but let me tell you, we will NEVER go for just one day again! Yes, it's hard spending four days up there. But if you camp, you have a trailer/tent, which means you have shade and a place to sleep during the hot, hot afternoon. When you're not camping... you have no escape. And you end up like me, with horrible sunburns (the ones on my feet might be second degree sunburns... we aren't sure yet, but we'll find out in a few days, huh? but they're looking like they have a real good shot at it. Speaking of which, wearing shoes for kickboxing is going to HURT, and anything karate-related is going to make me scream in pain. Yay.) But anyway, David Crowder played John Mark McMillan's "How He Loves" and it was amazing... Still not as good as John Mark (hey, I'm bias, I know), but still. The message behind the song... knowing that John Mark's friend died to help save our generation... knowing that this song was the result of his death, and knowing that John Mark's friend's prayer was answered, that our generation would be reached and hear God's message... knowing that it's happening every time we sing that song, every time it's played on the radio (which it actually has been now! =]), and now every time the "big stars" of the Christian industry sing it... it's just amazing. Okay, sorry about the tangent. Umm... oh, Ron Luce gave a great sermon, and so did Eric Samuel Timm, who is an amazing live artist minister (http://www.nooneunderground.com/missis). And I bought two shirts and a really beautiful faith/cross necklace =] So, despite the sunburns, it was a great day.

I really don't have anything else to say right now (and my boss is back), so have a great day!

Kelsey