Tonight’s workout involved a series of punching and blocking combinations, working primarily on moving in with a punch and then cutting to the 45 degree angle and blocking and following up with a front leg kick to complete the attack.  The rest of the class consisted of kata, 8-10 minutes of your own kata followed […]

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After a long, busy day at the office Tasha and I had another of our weekly doctor’s appointments.  Things are progressing perfectly, Tasha’s doing fine (aside from being uncomfortable) and there’s nothing bad to report.  Tomorrow I have a doctor’s appointment for a physical and a consult for my acid reflux medication.  That means in […]

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To celebrate the end of baby classes, Tasha and I went to Denny’s tonight for a relaxing dinner followed by a lazy evening at home.  The weather is unseasonably mild right now, so I took the dog for a walk after I got home from work tonight.  He really wanted to be in the weeds […]

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Tasha and I completed the last class in our Baby University: First Aid.  We still have a few DVD classes to make up from our Active Childbirth (Bradley) class, but the part of the exercise where we have to be at the hospital three nights out of the week is behind us!  I am full […]

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This weekend has been hectic but fun.  We spent most of yesterday shopping and then gaming for my buddy Ed’s birthday, followed quickly by a D&D session on Sunday.  The remainder of the weekend was spent doing our normal end of the month routine, which included some extra baby shopping and the creation of the […]

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Today I finally made the time to go to Hobbytown USA.  My buddy Doug got me a gift card for my birthday, and it sat in a basket by the door for almost an entire year before I finally made up my mind that I was going over there and was determined to spend enough […]

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Tonight the Waltons are joining us to play some Rock Band and eat some pizza.  It has been a long week with a lot of baby classes, work, and very little time to relax so tonight is a welcome distraction.  This weekend is going to be pretty busy, with a party for one of our […]

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I had a productive day of writing unit tests and reviewing code, which I found way more relaxing than I probably should.  The day was still pretty hectic despite this soothing work, with many meeetings and consultations punctuating my productivity.  After that, it was quickly off to Noodles & Company before birthing class, and now […]

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The long litany of birthing classes continues tonight, with only two remaining.  Tonight’s class was on baby and infant care, so we got to diaper the plastic baby and then give it a plastic baby bath.  We also wrapped the baby in a receiving blanket, I did finally learn what those blankets are actually for.  […]

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I’m going to recap tonight’s workout, since apparently I missed about three workouts since the end of Kangeiko.  Tonight we started out with some simple punch/kick combinations.  We cycled through stances, kibadachi, front stance, back stance, cat stance, and rooted stance, and performed two punches, a rear leg front kick, then two more punches.  Shortly […]

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