I'm Back

A bane of my existence has always been going TDY. In a wild paradox, the overflow of free time coupled with singular distractions equates to me wasting a great deal of time--either watching the TV or other things. As a result, and honestly, as expected, my challenge collapsed as soon as I left home for 5 weeks. I tried desperately to get ahead of the game prior to coming here, but in the end it didn't help a whole lot. I missed my first PV by a mile. I've kind of gotten back on the horse, but here's the challenge as it stands: CHALLENGE STATUS PUSHUP: -632 SITUPS: -1082 MILES: -15.4 FORMS: -23 SPARRING: -13 RAOK: GAVE UP JOURNAL: -21 So, as you can see, I have some work to do. Since I last wrote both the kids and SW took their tests--SW is now an Orange Belt and the kids are each Yellow-R's. We're having some issues with Princess applying herself and practicing, but we're working on it. I also entered the Battle of the Beach tournament, my first. It was a little disappointing because there were only 3 people (including myself) in my division, even though it was a class A tournament. I tok first in sparring, but I got hammered in my form--for reasons which I still don't get. The hurtle, however, was to enter a tournament for the first time--so mission accomplished. Next one is on Sept 23rd at the AZ Fall regionals. That's it for now.