I earned quite a few activity points this weekend. Saturday afternoon I suited up in my Jedi costume and turned on the lightsaber once again at the Mead Public Library. Members of Rebel Legion, the 501st and myself posed for pictures and met with kids. My dueling partner and I put on a choreographed fight about twice an hour for four hours straight. I was sucking water between sets and felt pretty good by the time all was said and done. When I finally went home I could feel it in my arms and calves. Even with yesterday's festivities we still had sword practice today. We took it pretty easy, going over some techniques and things like that. However, for the last half hour we padded up and did some full on sparring. We took sword practice outside, enjoying the nice weather and I gained my first sunburn of the year, and its not even May. I took one hard hit on my thumb and it still hurts so I've been icing it down. On the other hand, I got really nice move on my other sparring partner that we had practice earlier. So it was a successful session. I'm not very motivated to record and use activity points. Because I feel like if I do use them, the hard work I did is really going to waste, and I'll just end up breaking even.
For dinner we grilled out. I really like grilling. Maybe its because it embodies everything about summer, or maybe its primordial man thing, or something. I had two brats, but only one bun. I like to add buffalo/hot sauce to grilled meats. Puts a little zip on the taste. I really like buffalo wings, but too many of those will suck up points like a vacuum. My wife bought me the hot sauce they have at Hooters. I like it, and I don't think it really adds points for using it.
I'm really excited for this week because we find out if its a girl or boy on Wednesday. I'll have to end it here because I have to head out to the parents house tomorrow morning and take their garbage out. I hope I can get back in time to take the dogs for a nice long walk.
Sample lightsaber fight
Sample light saber fight with effects added
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Claire Says:
ReplyDeleteI had a fantastic weekend outdoors, too! Ellen was up from Madison and we walked around all day Saturday. I mean ALL day. We started out headed around Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun around 11:00 then found ourselves window shopping in Uptown until we got lunch out around 2:30. Then we walked to "Urbanimal" to look at puppies and kitties. Later that night, we went to a potluck (epic fail) and went for a two hour late night group romp to the Stone Arch Bridge. Good deal.
TODAY I met my WW leader and other WW members at Lake Harriet via bike, walked the 2.8 circumference with them, then biked around it and back past Lake Calhoun and around Lake of the Isles. Corrie and Joe came over after dinner and we took a short walk around the neighborhood. Definite sunburnage from the weekend. The only thing that could have made it better - a dog!