Lobsters and Independance Day!

For the 4 th of July we started a new tradition 3 years ago.
Well, our grocery store started it I guess due to their Lobster bash for the 4th. $13.99 live maine lobsters WOOT! #1.25 fresh!
Since its a BBQ holiday and its usually warm we have taken to grilling the ill fated bugs.
This year, I plan to try a method of stabbing them behind the head to kill them first. I tend to jump around and scream alot when they are thrown on live!(unbecoming for a "toughgirl" like me! lol) It seems way worse than dropping them into a vat of boiling water for some reason.
Wish there was a way to eat them that's healthier than drawn butter. maybe Ill eat mine with only lemon.
The fireworks will be fun, we have lots of friends coming over to watch them from our yard! HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY!

Bruises and Fish Tacos

So I haven't blogged much about cooking... I know. SOON.

But today's topic is BRUISES. My husband hates it when I have bruises, but I cant help it! I do a contact sport for gosh sakes. I always had bruises from sparring at TKD but never like the bruises I get from MuayThai kickboxing with guys!

The one above was from some repeated kicks to the thigh when I was just learning how to Thai-check an incoming..lol... guess I wasn't too good at it yet!

I dont even notice them (unless they are huge and painful) but people are always making comments and looking horrified because of little black eyes, arm bruises, shin bruises etc. Its kind of funny..they look even more horrified if you tell them you got it in a fight! I guess I could make up stories that I was moving furniture or I fell down the stairs.

I understand that my husband especially hates it when I have a black eye, he insists people look at him like he's a wife beater, and in todays society I can see his point. Ha ha sympathy for me!

OK on to cooking! I AM gonna cook tonight, Gonna make some fish tacos on the grill with Orange roughy. I plan to make an avacado spread for them and a corn relish, a salsa verde and a mango salsa as well... yummers! Puttin on corn tortillas. I notice that alot of people marinate then fry or grill the fish and flake it into the tacos, others batter and fry the chunks of fish. Obviously the fried would be crispy deelish, BUT Im also looking for HEALTH minded dinners for the family here, so I will most likely do the flaked. (must take a vote from the family!) Either way, I rarely eat my own cooking since Ive been on a raw foods health binge... Probably break down for fish, but avoid the corn tortilla. I'll put it in a lettuce wrap! WOOT!

Well, thats it for now, I covered some fighting AND some food! =) Smile cause "It's ALL GOOD!"

Hyper

Some nights I train at AOD pretty late..like till 9:00 or later, then drive the half hour home. The late night workouts are usually the most intense because they are the competitive class. Which means, we work out cardio we spar etc. The class consists of me and 15 guys who really want to fight. It gets rough, but I love it. The intensity, my adrenaline, the workout, the sweat.. Not the man sweat, that part is icky...(hasnt anybody heard of freakin deoderant?!)
So anyway, I always feel queasy after these workouts cause they take alot out of me and I never want to eat afterwards. (I SURE cant eat b4 because then I would throw up and thats never fun.) So, comes 10:30 pm or so and I go to sleep, only to wake up around 2 a.m. starving!! So, off I go into the dark kitchen in the wee hours of the morning to forage for food. As I said in a previous blog entry, this cant be good. But Im telling you, Im STARVING or I wouldnt get out of bed. So...the question is, how to change and or avoid this weirdness. Force myself to eat b4 bed? Bring a snack up to bed? Try to ignore the hunger pangs? (this one doesnt work..I just lay there awake till I eat) Ug.. Ya so Im figuring oout how to deal with this.
(GOD my blogs are interesting!! >__<)

Injuries

So today I'm nursing some injuries, after a 3 hours of training last night.
The funny thing is, my worst injury comes from accidentally kicking the dogs dish during one of my late night somnambulistic forays into my kitchen! I told my husband that it's karma - I know damn well eating cookies at 2 a.m. is NOT a good thing. Now my toe is reminding me of the fact every step!
It wasn't as bad last night at training cause I had no shoes on and I taped the toe.
The other injuries are a chronic painful shoulder, and I re-injured my sprained foot while practicing rolls on the mats last night. Its all purple again, but not as bad as when I first tore it up a couple months ago. I can walk on it.
Just seems like one of the main obstacles to overcome with training in Martial arts are the injuries. You have to expect them, deal with them, work through them, and I suppose learn limitations from them.
I'm always of the mindset that I should work through an injury so that I don't get out of shape from the layoff and so that the injured part of me doesn't freeze up and get worse. That's what I worry about with the shoulder. My right shoulder used to feel like this, and now it has healed. So, I'm waiting the left to do the same hopefully! I also had some very bad tendonitis in my achilles tendons on both feet and that resolved by working through it too. It just HURTS to do it. I'll let you know if this shoulder resolves too.

Translations

Today I spent some time trying to get the translation of a JKD kick known in our gym/dojo, as "Nal Tek". When I asked a friend from Singapore, he asked me for the Mandarin symbol of it in order for him to translate! Ug.. I don't even know if the way we say it is correct!
I have found that depending on what dojo I am training in, everything from counting and bow-ins, to moves and names of poomse are inevitably pronounced in different ways.(taekwondo in Korean, other arts Chinese etc) It gets frustrating never knowing what the correct pronunciation/translation is. If I were to ever travel to China or Korea I would definitely feel embarrassed by my lack of knowedge in this regard.
ANYWAY, so "no", I didnt have a symbol.
Next,I went to a Jeet Kun Do sight and looked up all the listed kicks ("tek"="kick") and could not find Nal tek.
Then, I asked another friend, (who lives in China and studies JKD) if he could translate it for me, and he kindly refered me to very good Mandarin Language website. erm.... it didnt have nal tek.
I'm kinda like a bull dog when it comes to not letting go of stuff. Stay tuned. I WILL figure this out eventually!