Holiday summary & memetastic resolution

Total holiday damage: 8 lbs. gained, 2 emotional crises tended, 1 emotional crisis suffered, 1 emergency room trip accompanied, 4 awful movies watched & 2 awfuller movies turned off partway through, [deleted] bottles of booze consumed. Zero hangovers, though.

Treasure bag contains: a drinks fridge, a lot of DVDs (DOOM DOOM DOOM!) and books, ihatetheuniverse.com, a Hello Kitty phone which audiovile has already threatened to defenestrate, 2 necklace & earring sets, an evening shawl, Pirates! (arkham1010 does not like my loved ones, clearly), the trade paperback of Final Night, a calendar, bath salts, massage oil...I am undoubtedly forgetting things.

And now, the meme:

In the year 2005 I resolve to: Stop being a productive member of society. Get your resolution here

Heh. heh. heheheheheh.

[aikido] Once more, with feeling

After not having gone at all the past two weeks, and having gone but sporadically before that, I expected today to be a lot more painful than it was. Considerably tiring and sweaty, check; painful, not so much. I exhibited some incompetence but not immoderate amounts, so that was okay. None of the techniques were particularly demanding, but they were coming from an opening I had problems getting my head around, so I certainly wasn't bored. However, the primary point I came away with was a philosophical one shared by the first person I was working with: (yet a different) John, a black belt, who this week is celebrating his 25th anniversary of aikido practice.

( The 'Queen of the Universe' philosophy. )