AriaStar's Journal: Seeking pity! :)

Well, not really..., I just ache! OMG, peoples, I must be the stupidest person in the world. (If you're going to agree, go get a papercut in the crease of a finger most likely to come into contact with salt. *grin*)

For most people, starting (or, in my case, restarting) ballet with a class or two per week is good, three or four is pushing it. Because it's HARD.

This week I've got five, then, starting next week, ten. Three on Mondays and Wednesdays, one on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and two on Saturdays.

I HURT! Like severely. It's funny. I went to grab something on the floor and had to put my hands on my knees and bend over ssssslooooooowwwwlllllyyyyy like a feeble geriatric person. I don't think there's a single part of my body that doesn't hurt. My legs, calves, tummy, arms.... Okay, so my hair doesn't hurt. But otherwise?

I'm so exhausted. In a good-bad way. Good in that it's good for my health and distracts me from not-happy thoughts, bad in that all I want to do is sit around watching martial arts movies, like Bloodsport (true story about Frank Dux, who ditched the military to go fight in an underground kumite). And, you know, I'm going to lose a ton more weight. Woot!

So figurative puty, peoples! Well, not even that. I just want some ballet talk and to see what people have to say about this. 'Tis some of the only amusement I have right now because I hurt too much to even go take a bath! No, wait. Vaseline bath salts, coconut-mango bubble stuff, wine, candles.... Scratch that. Bathtub, here I come!

This too, shall pass...

[TopShelf]

That reminds me of freshman year at college, when a bunch of us in the dorm took Tae Kwan Do. After a couple weeks, I could barely climb the stairs to my 4th floor room, and felt like an 80 year-old. After another month or so, I felt like I was in the best shape of my life.

Just think of the words of one of our great philosophers [wikipedia.org] who once said, "pain don't hurt."

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[AriaStar]

Taekwondo! I did that for years. Got pretty close to my black belt. Did you stay with it?

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[TopShelf]

No, sadly not. It was a tight-knit group in that dorm (instructor lived on floor above me, assistant a few doors down), and I transferred to another university after that year. I went to the Tae Kwan Do group in the new town, but it just wasn't the same. Instead, I took up ice hockey, and the rest is history...

Bloodsport!

[nacturation]

One of my favorite movies as a teenager. It's also one of the few good Van Damme movies... IMHO, anyways. I later took up Aikido and had to drop it due to injury (not in Aikido) then years later started again and stopped due to time committments. It's probably time I started doing that again. It's quite the workout!