A narrative of my journeys with diet, exercise, and various healthcare professionals
Valid reasons for skipping Krav Maga class:
INVALID reasons for skipping Krav:
New year, new techo!
My focus for this year is to do Future Me a solid. That could look different on any given day: organizing stuff now so I don’t have to fuss with it later, re-establishing healthy habits so I don’t have to use mental energy to make conscious decisions about what to eat or how to be active, or even giving myself permission to play a game while I have some down time.
Future Me will be glad to have 2024 more well-documented in my blog than the past couple of years have been, too.
I assume that the amazing pain in my right hip, leg, and knee is coming from my SI joint. Figures that it would ramp up over a long weekend, so I have to just deal with it until my chiropractor is open on Tuesday. Hopefully she can get me in for an adjustment then.
Sitting at the kitchen table with a coffee beside me and a cat draped around my shoulders.
Just got back from having blood drawn in preparation for an endocrinologist appointment later this week. It didn’t take long at all — half an hour, including drive time — but I’m now feeling much more awake than I usually do at this time of day. I suspect it’s the combination of having to drive myself there, being outside (albeit briefly) in the brisk darkness of early morning, and having to interact with other people in person.
As soon as I hit Publish on this quick check-in, it’ll be back to the usual routine of working from home.
This post has been languishing in my Drafts folder for nearly a year now.
There was clearly more that I wanted to say at the time, but didn’t quite manage to get into words. There’s even more to say now that a year has passed… but that’s a post for another day.
The date embroidered on Connor’s black belt is December 3, 2022; mine says December 17.
It may have taken longer than expected, but we finally have the tangible proof that we’ve earned the rank of black belt.
The interesting and perhaps unique perk of our dojo is that we now get to cross-train. Connor and I now attend a weekly all-ages Black Belts Only class, which introduces the kids with black belts in American Freestyle Karate to Krav Maga concepts, and the Krav Maga adults get to learn forms and katas.