Doing It Wrong archive
Date : January 2008 (4)
Well not really. I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. What I did do, however, is start taking Taekwon-Do at one of the local dojangs. The Bean has been learning taekwon-do for a few months now and I wanted to both get a little more exercise and provide a good example for her to make it easier for her to stick with it.
I’m really in a lot of pain though. The first day was actually yoga because the school has a new yoga instructor and wanted everyone to experience yoga if they already hadn’t done so. I have and I mostly enjoyed it but it was just a little embarrassing to know most of the postures but to not really be able to hit a single one of them. The Saturday class was my first real martial art instruction in about fifteen years. I didn’t do too badly but I was literally starting to gray out after an hour of jumping rope, crunches, doing kicks up and down the dojang and learning the basics of the first form (Chon-Ji / Heaven and Earth).
So I’m still really sore but I’m still stretching every day. I realized that I’m about as flexible these days as your average steel girder so I’m also doing some basic stretching every day. Once I can walk without cringing I’ll add in some time every day to work on forms.
This is technically about Halloween but it’s definitely creepy enough to go in that bin. Makes me wish I lived in Iceland.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html
I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the icepack, I use a deep pore-cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser, then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial masque which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after-shave lotion with little or no alcohol because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing “protective” lotion…There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping you and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
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