Great day with the girls, sucky night at fencing

[mmcnealy]

Today Ysabelot, E and I had our Diversity Holiday outing, Pagan, Jewish and Christian respectively. We went downtown and rode the carousel, got Frango's and looked at all sorts of really cool stuff in the little shops in Westlake Mall. Then we headed over to Nordy's and had a nice little snack at their cafe. Then we hopped on the bus and came home. We all had a nice fun time. Plus I know what I'm getting Ysabelot for the gift exchange. ;)

After I got home I pulled some stuff together and went to got pick up A for fencing. I totally forgot to eat dinner, this most likely contributed to the sucky night at fencing, but it wasn't the whole cause. We had a different instructor than last week and I totally HATE his style. 15 mins of "No", "Wrong, do it this way", "Wrong again", "No, NO, NO!", is enough to bring anybody down, I like to know that I'm at least doing ONE thing right. I mean, I KNOW my foil technique sucks majorly, which is why I HATE foil and prefer Epee, fewer bad habits and better technique, plus I hate losing points in foil because of stupid right of way.
To top things off, I lost the coin toss so we are stuck doing foil for the rest of the stinking month.

Free fencing was good though, starting to use some of the new techniques that I'm learning begrudginly in the lessons and if my opponents didn't have so many dead spots in their jackets I would score more points in the bouts.

Next time I really need to remember to eat dinner before I go, I really will have a better time, stupid blood sugar. Grrrrr.

Comments

[gailsedotes.livejournal.com]

ok - was any of that first paragraph in English?
what's a Frango and how does one have one - if it's not too rude and whom is Nordy? Sounds uncomfortable!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

hahaha, yes I think the first sentence was in English. Ysabelot also known as Aine, is Pagan religiously, E (for Eden) is Jewish and I'm Christian. We all wanted to do holiday fun stuff, but its not like we can get together and sing Christmast carols, so we went downtown and saw the lights and the holiday stuff.

Frango's are a wonderful chocolate candy, I can devoure an entire little box in under 24 hours. They're a Seattle specialty.

Nordy's is short for Nordstrom's, which is an upscale department store.