{"id":1487,"date":"2012-01-24T23:16:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T05:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2012-01-24T23:19:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T05:19:53","slug":"i-can-be-strong-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2012\/01\/24\/i-can-be-strong-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I can be strong again"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I still have a cold, but I feel really energetic. It’s weird, so I gotta be careful not to overdo it.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was Tuesday. At my kindergarten outservice, a little 5 year old girl asked (in Japanese), “Oooh pretty ring! Are you married?”
\nI answered, “No,” in English.
\nShe went on, “Oh, so you’re not married?”
\nI said, “No.”
\nShe said, “Did you buy it yourself?”
\nI said, “Yes! \ud83d\ude00 I bought it! It’s my school ring! School ring!”
\nShe said, “Oooh! \ud83d\ude00 You’re rich, aren’t you?”<\/p>\n

LMAO >:D So cute. She couldn’t understand me, really. (I am definately NOT rich. Not poor, courtesy of job. Saving is important, kiddies.)<\/p>\n

Yesterday between my morning and evening shifts, I watched some MMA I bought in to work, and my co-workers who wandered into the teacher’s room one by one also sat down to watch. Before you knew it, it was me plus four of my co-workers watching together. It was SO COOL. A lot of my co-workers are MMA fans. XD It’s kind of boring watching all alone…. <\/p>\n

Yeah that was sweet. So today, I decided to let myself watch a movie instead of more MMA, so I’m watching Ironman now. ^_^ I wanna see Haywire sooooooo badly. ;_; It’s not fairrrrrrrr that I can’t see it in Japaaaan. *whine whine*<\/p>\n

This morning I lifted weights and tested my max number of pull-ups and was THRILLED to find out that they INCREASED by NINE! NIIIIIINE! I’m so excited. I started my weight training program at the end of October, so 3 and a half months, I don’t know if that’s good or not. All I know is that there is progression and I can do NINE whole extra pull ups that I couldn’t do before. My other numbers are increasing. My max number of push ups has also gone up. I forget if I posted that before. Omar is a personal trainer from http:\/\/functionalcorefitness.com\/ who’s been making me videos to follow, Tony’s been giving me the biomolecular and muscle information behind it, also keeping me on task (thanks!) and Take-san has also been giving me exercises. And the videos I’ve been watching.<\/p>\n

I also weighed myself. I’m 133-135ish. That’s good, so I just gotta kick the cold and I’ll be ready for another test cut. *sigh* I’m still not sure how to do it. I wanted to try a hot bath method Megumi said she and Akano do, but I don’t have the bathtub for it. -_-;<\/p>\n

I want to train hard again. I was before my knee\/cold\/eye. I know I have to make myself hold out in the 125 lb division. Akano out-weighs me and can out-muscle me in the gym, and Sarah McMann outmuscled Akano, so how can I hope to out-muscle SARAH? -_-; I know styles make matches….anyway, I KNOW I can make it in the 125 division! I need to fight again and prove that I can be strong! Somebody offer me a fight! I promise to put on an exciting action-packed fight for the fans. I’m making a new super-attack!! But you’ll never know if you don’t hire me. \ud83d\ude09
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