What goes on here and now...

I've finally picked my breaks for brown belt testing on the 11th. I will start off with a right leg high-low roundhouse: basically a back leg roundhouse followed immediately, without putting your foot down, by a front leg roundhouse. I'm confident on the back leg roundhouse and tried the front leg roundhouse this morning and broke it clean as soon as I got rid of the mental barrier. That's why you break practice boards: to get rid of the mental-woozies before Mr. Murry's standing there watching you. Second up will be a left palm-heel and right rear elbow simultaniously. That will be delivered from the keba that I land in from the roundhouses. I was nervious about the rear elbow so I did it this morning, too. It was so easy-don't know what I was nervious about. I'll then twist into a left zenkutsu at a 45 degre angle from my keba. Left jumping front kick through two boards. Finish off with stepping my left foot to the side and twisting over to go through two boards with a right descending hammer fist. It should be a piece of cake. Ethan and I are buying 4 more boards in the 10 days till testing. 2 for us to use on testing day and two for us to run through the actual breaks (as best as we can with two bracers). We're also buying 2 boards for Isaac and Joshua to use for practice and testing. We haven't broke since Samuel left so we're kinda go hog-wild now. ;) Naomi said that she doesn't know her material well enough to test but I think she does. I'll go over them with her today and have Samuel review and pep-talk tomorrow night and she'll do fine.

When I'm done here I'm going to...

Start laundry

Make chocolate chip cookiedough. Dough, not cookies. Yum!

Do Isaac's lesson. We're reading a book about Bach, one of those aweinspiring greats.

Get Dad to drive the subaru over to Lowes to get Joshua and Isaac's board.

Do nursery. I'm thinking about bringing bubbles and sidewalk chalk and spending the whole time outdoors. Last week Ryan got to having so much fun that he reached the squealing stage. I'm sure the choir didn't appreciate it. :)

Send some notes to my wonderful friends.

Eat supper.