{"id":1359,"date":"2011-12-16T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2011-12-16T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:19:02","slug":"fantastic-thursday-with-celine-and-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/12\/16\/fantastic-thursday-with-celine-and-training\/","title":{"rendered":"fantastic Thursday with Celine and training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I was pretty busy- weight lifting first thing in the morning, then met a friend for lunch, then went to work, then sparred MMA at the AACC at night.  I had to bring 4 changes of clothing for all that, plus gear, so I brought my huge blue wheely camper bag thingie. Everybody was asking me if I was going on a trip. lol<\/p>\n<p>I spotted a Hello Kitty tour bus.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hello-kitty-bus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hello-kitty-bus.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hello kitty bus\" width=\"566\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AND the poster for the UFC in Japan in February! PSYCHED ABOUT THAT.  I&#8217;m going to have to take a day off from work to go. ^^;;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ufc-poster-in-shibuya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ufc-poster-in-shibuya.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ufc poster in shibuya\" width=\"320\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had such an awesome Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, I was tired from Wednesday night&#8217;s sparring with Akano-san, so I just watched Christmas movies. Nester, the long eared Christmas Donkey, was made by the same team who made the puppet Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer. I&#8217;d never seen it before! Have you guys? It was &#8216;okay.&#8217; Maybe it wasn&#8217;t pushed because it was religious.  I chatted with friends online, played Holidaytown and Cityville, etc. I went shopping and got Celine a Christmas present and did chores.<\/p>\n<p>Then I met Celine and we went to Kiddyland- the best toy store EVER, located in Harajuku.   After that, we chatted in this Italian Cafe because Johnathans, our preferred diner, was packed. ;_; It was so nice, though.  We chatted about a lot of things.  I&#8217;m so lucky to have nice friends like Celine, and glad to have met her. We seem to run into each other a lot because we&#8217;re both in the MMA world, and she comes here to fight in Jewels.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Asakusa after that to finish Christmas shopping.  I&#8217;m done \ud83d\ude00  Finally, I went to the AACC and had a great night.  I hit mitts, and held them for this one guy who said he really enjoyed it, so that was cool.  Abe-san showed a nice bicep crusher and I worked with Takahashi-san, this nice lady who got MUCH better since I last trained with her.  That was cool.  She went from a sloppy beginner to snapping on the arm-bar really tightly.  Good job! ^_^b  Then sparring!  <\/p>\n<p>I seem to have been selected as the training partner of choice for Hitomi to prepare for her fight, which is fine.  We&#8217;re close in size, fight experience, and skill, so it always makes for good roll. I would think that training with men who could over-power her and challenge her EVEN more would be best, but Japanese don&#8217;t think so, I guess. She currently out-weighs me, which is the way it should be if she&#8217;s going to be fighting AT 135.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m jealous of people who can work out and gain mass, while I just gain body fat, even heating healthy. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;. I sparred a lot of just grappling, which is what I love to do the most.  It FEELS different doing grappling compared to doing grappling while sparring MMA.  It makes me so happy! \ud83d\ude00  I had so much fun! ^^<\/p>\n<p>I love Holidaytown.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/holidaytown-pinkie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/holidaytown-pinkie.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"holidaytown pinkie\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I was pretty busy- weight lifting first thing in the morning, then met a friend for lunch, then went to work, then sparred MMA at the AACC at night. I had to bring 4 changes of clothing for all that, plus gear, so I brought my huge blue wheely camper bag thingie. Everybody&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,9,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing","category-every-day","category-friends","category-fun","category-training","category-6","category-5","category-9","category-8","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}