now you're married with a kid when you could be having fun with me

I bought myself that which can only be described as a man-skirt today :D a giant camoflaged thing with too many straps and skulls on. as soon as I can think of something appropriate to replace the skull studs with I'll take them off :)

had a nice wander round town with neal and cor this afternoon in search of whitby supplies. completely forgot to go to peter maturi to buy fuel packs for the fondue burner. I assume they have them there... does anyone who's heading whitby-wards work at that end of town? and if so any chance you could pop in and get me a pack?

the pub last night was splendid - it was ace to catch up with dreadtemujin for the first time in what seems like ages. got a little drunk and had to consume tasty chicken pakoras as penance.

hmm. time for bed I think. got to be up at 4:15...

orange 3 laydeez faces 0

I live!
and I have medals!
blingy blingy medals!

I got silver in the ladies heavy weight - got proper pummelled in the final by caroline though. she kicked me in the head so hard it actually hurt for about an hour and gave me a headache! she's taking her second dan next weekend though so I don't feel too bad.
Our team also got silver in the ladies' team competition - one of my fights ended at 7 7 after 3 full rounds so we had to go to golden point (first to score a point basically) somehow, mostly due to being utterly drained after the previous 3 rounds and partially due to knowing I'm shit at golden point as I'm more reactive than attackive* I managed to make that one last about a minute and a half and when she finally won it was a bad judgement on the electronic score people as she actually kicked my hand not my body armour. ah well I was glad to sit down. and the other 2 won so we went through to the next round.

*yes I made that up

I had 6 fights in all, and I think 10 rounds in total in these fights (three of them only lasted one round as I won them 7 nil - matches end early when someone gets to 12 or there's a 7 point gap or there's a knockout) given I've only ever done one actual proper competition match before that was quite a lot of fighting! I axe kicked at least 3 of my opponents in the face (ball of the foot not heel - one is not trying to kill them) my left hand side is destroyed. too much blocking. my index finger and wrist hurt. my forearm looks like it's been mauled by the ginger and is really swollen and both feet are bruised. nice. I have sandals for one of my spa costumes too...

we also won the ladies team spirit prize - grandmaster loh tends to emphasise that these are very important and certainly the trophy was bigger than the gold for winning the competition - I think this might be because I'm very good at shouting loudly and so my voice was very... audiable as I encouraged my team mates.