Storyteller

It's wednesday again, which means advanced class. It's been kata tonight, and I was pretty rubbish. Funny thing though, I went there with a headache. Some 20 minutes into the class, all of a sudden I felt a deep quiet... similar to when you switch off some machine and suddenly realise how noisy it was, by the sudden lack of noise. All that background brain activity, the background noise of thought all of a sudden subsided, together with the headache.
I think, I've had a lot of stress lately, and now it's given way. I actually feel calmer and rather positive. Well Aikido has sometimes this effect on me, well any kind of physical workout really. Life is good again.

I'm just about back from work. It's not that I didn't expect to work late, I did start late after all, because we knew, the experiment was going to take longer. But when I came in at lunchtime, things that should have been done hours earlier were just about to happen...
Did put my name down for the company xmas party. Not sure though, if I'll be going. Food sounds nice, I mean one option would be to just stay for the meal... most likely thing to happen, as I'll have to drive down myself. Also, I don't know yet, who else is going to be at my table. Might have some major influence on my final decision.

I have been watching Max Payne tonight. My verdict? The most boring film since Resident Evil (fell asleep in that one). There's so much more, that could have been made out of this story. Virtually no interaction between the main characters...

Well, it's been a while, since the last post. Had a bit of ups and downs. Monday morning my smoke alarm went off for no reason, and I had to finally take the battery out before I left for work. Well it's working normally again now. But somehow, the whole day has been chaos, had to turn around, because I left mey keycard for work at home... and was basically stressed out all day. Wednesday on the otherside was quite fun, started with some comments of mine being read out on the radio. They had a story on TFM radio on tuesday about a guy with no arms stealing a telly. He's mates had it strapped to his body. Sent in some reason, why they strapped it to the guy with no arms and didn carry it out themselves... the read it out the next day. And once you start a day positive, things just go smoother.
Enjoyed the training yesterday. More tanto waza (defense against knife).
All in all, I guess I'm not to bad, but I'm counting the days to my holidays... 29 days to go.

"Come on in", the woman called and disappeared inside the house. Mav took the reins of Derricks horse and sent him ahead.
"Go on in lad, she doesn't bite. Tell her I'm taking care of the horses and join later."
Derrick went through the open door. He heard her rustling around in to the left, which must be the kitchen. The house seemed somehow a lot larger in the inside.
"Don't be shy and come on in, I've got tea ready", she called.
Derrick peaked around the door and carefully went into the kitchen.
"Mav's taking care of the horse, he'll be here soon," he managed to say quietly.
"I guessed as much", she answered, "so you must be Derrick. You've grown quite a bit, since I've last seen you. Oh come on and sit down." With that she pointed to a chair in front of a steaming cup of tea.
"You're not much of a talker, are you?"
"Well Birgitta, maybe you should introduce yourself first. I don't think he remembers you, he's been a babe, the last time the two of you met." This was Mav coming in.
"Aye, I guess you're right. I'm Birgitta, nice to meet you Derrick. I was a friend of your mother."
With that she took Derricks hand to greet him.
A shy "Hello, I'm Derrick" escaped from his mouth.
Then she turned around to Mav, "And how are you, old friend, I've heard you left quite a mess behind. Tahira will be here soon".
"It is about time our young friend here gets properly taught". With that she gently patted Derricks head.

It's been a few days since the last post. Still haven't updated the storyteller, but hope to write a bit more tomorrow or Friday. I've been a bit demotivated lately, but is seems to get better. Well I'll actually have some work in the lab tomorrow. It's a long time since I've actually been doing proper expereiments. Have been either in manufacture, or in meetings and in front of my computer this year. Training on Monday was ok, though I do not think I actually improved much. Well a little bit maybe, but that has more to do with my own agenda than with instruction.
Today, well in the morning I didn't feel to well, so I thought, I wouldn't go to the training tonight, but I did feel better, when I came in from work. Well, moving up the stairs, I thought whether I really wanted to do this to moe. But it was the right decision to go. It's been a good night, mostly variations on gokyo, a little bit of tanto waza (knife techniques). Got some praise from Sensei, doesn't happen to often, so that's good as well.
All in all things don't seem to be to bad at the moment. But I am looking forward to my holidays... a bit more than a month to go to my last work day this year.

Managed to nearly get through another day. Been to the cinema last night. Did I get something wrong in High School Musical 2, or is High School Musical 3 set before number 2... Anyway, it did get me out of the house, and I needed that. Pity, there's no where to go for a drink up here.
Anyway, I still feel pissed of by all and everything, but I've got some hope left, things will be getter at some point.
Probably should go away for holidays somewhere, but can't see at the moment where the money should come from... well life's a bitch

Ok, at the moment everything pisses me of... maybe it's the weather or the phase of the moon or whatever. My sis is taking over my parents house (or at least that's the plan), and to be honest I couldn't care less about it. I do hope to get a couple of grand for not insisting on my legal share (not much given the size of the house, but she'll need enough money to do it up... don't want to interfere with that). Got another sister, who seems a bit anxious about it... don't really know what's going on there (it is b* f* hard to tell at 1000 miles distance), but communication isn't as it should be. But bring it up, and you get told off, to say the least.
Apart from that, everone seems to be bugging me with xmas... it's still nearly 8 weeks to go, and already I can say, I have never ever been so annoyed with it like this year. As far as I am concerned, the whole xmas thing can be cancelled. I don't want xmas.
I don't know, there's more pissing me off, but I can't really put a finger on it right now... but there might be other rants to come.