My muscles are starting to dislike me. Gravely. They grumble and groan every morning when we wake up and I tell them, “Muscles…you have about half an hour before we have to do it all again.” And they’re like, “Srsly? This is crap. You never stick with physical workouts for this long or this consistently.” [...]
The Tai Chi is “working”. That wasn’t really my objective or purpose in the study and practice of this, but it’s a positive by-product of my reluctant time studying it regardless. Yes, reluctant. In all honesty, the trainings themselves are tiring, tedious, and somewhat physically straining. That it’s done in slow motion makes the strain [...]
Today you get a chat from this afternoon: me: how is your teacher? is he ok? Ray: he doesn’t speak a word of english.. well, he does but it doesn’t make sense… the only thing I can really understand is “ugh” and “switch directions” but he is pretty active in making sure we are [...]
Mr. Raymond just left (and made it home in record time, by the way – 15 minutes! Woulda taken me 30-45, I’m sure! And in the dark!), and it was so awesome to have a little mini-date with him! We met after our respective afternoon classes and I had dinner with him and 2 of [...]
We’re mixin it up in Ray and G land! Well we’ve been together nearly 24/7 for 11 countries, 4 billion train and bus rides, and almost 450 days now and – amazingly – we still not only love each other but we actually still LIKE each other. Still, it’s no mean feat to survive this [...]
