Knight of Pentacles

 August was not a great month for me, Kung Fu-wise.  My focus was on other things, so I'm hoping that with the coming of Autumn I can re-focus.  Here are my numbers: Pushups: 18400 Situps: 18400 Lao Gar: 158 Bat'leth: 136 Sparring: 58  1609 kms: 1825 DONE Relationship mending: progressing Blogs: 35 (a couple behind) Online presence: there was a bit of a blip but I'm getting back to it 3 performances: DONE (looking forward to more) Lion Dancing: DONE (also looking forward to more) Tiger Challenge: DONE No Missed IHC Meetings: I think I have missed 1 non-mandatory one Core Curriculum: Doing ok.  Want to do better. SRKF Projects: BTSW DONE!  What's next? Mastery: doing good, can pretty much get through most of it with a little prompting. Unfinished projects: 2 done, 1 getting started this week. Meditation: 436, could be WAAAAAAAY better Books: 3.5, need to get back on it. Craft Projects: 1.5 Work Performance: 8 out of 8 months good. Leg Exercises: 6050 You kno...

This week has been a heavy one for me.  My Dad is still in the hospital.  Work has been insane.  Frankie is had her birthday party on Saturday and then starts kindergarten this week.  I was really looking forward to throwing myself into work at the Kwoon, but my preparations were slightly thwarted.  My phone died.  My truck died. Everything's going to be ok, but I am running on very few spoons.  And when I made that comment at the potato bake earlier nobody knew what I was talking about, so here I present to you:  Spoon Theory!   Spoon theory was originally coined by blogger Christine Miserandino, to describe what it's like living with lupus.  (you can view a pdf of her original post here:  https://cdn.totalcomputersusa.com/butyoudontlooksick.com/uploads/2010/02/BYDLS-TheSpoonTheory.pdf).  It has since been adopted by the chronically ill and neurodivergent communities, and I think it's great because pretty much everyone ca...