No, I'm not too lazy, I'm too content. I'm comfy, and warm. I have a big beaming smile on my face, and I just don't care one bit about that damn groundhog. Nothing is worth getting excited over today, I guess.
Last night was lovely. Tae Kwon Do was a good workout, and made me feel all sorts of good. I love when my body feels used the next day. I was also happy because I wasn't as unprepared as I thought. I started learning some new things at club (which is before class), which was cool... but then in class we were learning things I already knew. It really helped my confidence a lot, because I was able to help about a dozen of the other students with their forms. The class had been instructed to work in small groups, so I started out with just myself and one less experienced guy, and people slowly added themselves onto us. I firmly believe that the best way to master something is to teach it to a group of other people, and last night was no exception. I feel like I know that set of forms inside and out now. I knew them before, but now I can do them without thinking about them. That's a really cool thing, because that means I am free of the broader movements, and can concentrate on details. Exact angles, precise footwork, straight lines, body positioning. That's the way I like it.
I think Forest is going to get his Valentine tonight, because we have to be around home for him to get it, and there is going to be no other time in the next two weeks that is Kirstin-free and we will be around. Kirstin is coming over on Monday and staying for two solid weeks while her dad is out of town for work, so Valentine's Day proper will be a family-esque affair. Anyway, I hope he likes it, despite its extreme prematurity.
Last night we went out for dinner with Darcy after class, and had a really nice time. Darcy's funny, and very sweet to me, and probably closer to Forest than anyone in the world, except maybe me. They've been through a lot together, and love each other a lot. I think it's great that he's so close with his siblings. We didn't get home until very late again, and naturally overslept this morning, by about two hours.
I really have to figure out how to either need less sleep, or get more of it without throwing off the rest of my life. This was just a bad week for that, I guess. Every night we've been out late for one reason or another. Tonight will be no exception, since we're going to be gaming with my friends, and then Thursday night after club we have to run out to East Lansing to pick up some of Forest's stuff from his friend Will, and will likely eat dinner then, too, and get home well after midnight.
So that's pretty much an entire week of our being incredibly night-owlish, considering that our alarm goes off at 7 AM at the latest every weekday.
Happily, I have Friday off so we can head to Chicago for an overnight. I need to get out of town once in a while, particularly when everything is snowy and dirty all over the place. Sure Chicago will be snowy and dirty, but at least it won't be the same snow and dirt I've been staring at and shovelling for the past month and a half. I think we're planning to hit the Art Institute while we're there, which always makes me happy, and we might look for an IMax theatre so we can see the new Fantasia movie.
