{"id":218,"date":"2011-03-04T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T21:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-03-10T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T20:30:19","slug":"thursday-and-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/03\/04\/thursday-and-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday and Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had used all of my paid vacation for Strikeforce in July, I&#8217;ve been opening my schedule to work bonus lessons to make up the lost mulah.  Thursday I opened, but there were no extra lessons. \ud83d\ude41  <\/p>\n<p>So I took advantage of it.  I invited my host mother (from my college exchange year, who I still keep in touch with) over my apartment.  She&#8217;d seen my one in Atsugi, but not my new one in Kawasaki, and she had expressed an interest in seeing it.  In the morning, she came and I showed her around.  We went to a big kaiten sushi restaurant (coveyor-belt sushi) and ate WAY too much sushi. lol  I love my host mother!  Then at 1 o&#8217;clock, she said, &#8220;Oh I gotta go take care of the dogs now, bye bye!&#8221; She&#8217;s so cute.  Pretty open minded for a 75 year old Japanese woman.  I love it (or maybe not) how I&#8217;m in the middle of a story or explaining something, and she says, &#8220;By the way&#8221; and asks me a totally unrelated questions. ^^;;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after that, I pretty much walked around Kawasaki eating any kind of dessert that I had deprived myself of during my dieting. I ate SO much chocolate&#8230;..it was super unhealthy. lol <\/p>\n<p>In the evening, I went to my friend Kozo&#8217;s Japanese restaurant with a former student I made friends with, Haruno-chan!  I love this girl- she is SO cute and genki and gets excited so easily.  She&#8217;s a 22-year-old sophomore in college, who we found something in common.  She does ko-budo, a kind of traditional martial art.  Once last year I&#8217;d taken her to the AACC, and she came to my Sengoku fight to support me!  Even though I didn&#8217;t actually fight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was nice!  Kozo&#8217;s kamayaki (grilled tuna neck\/head) is the best.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roxy-haruno-at-tsuruchan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roxy-haruno-at-tsuruchan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"roxy haruno at tsuruchan\" width=\"576\" height=\"430\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-219\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roxy-haruno-ochazuke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roxy-haruno-ochazuke.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"roxy haruno ochazuke\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After THAT, I popped in the AACC and did grappling sparring lightly.  My body still really hurt, but I did about 5 rounds. It was heaven!  It was so fun!  I was so at peace, and that night, I slept longer than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Friday I opened my schedule and got a bonus lesson!  I taught Kozo (restaurant owner friend) English in the morning, and won 10,000 yen ($120) on a scratch ticket!  WOOO.  Which is great, because I owed Kunioku 5,000 yen cuz I got the return flight date wrong and he had to miss one of his lessons with another customer. ^^;;;  And then I paid for Haruno at Kozo&#8217;s restaurant cuz she&#8217;s a poor college student.  So thank you Lady Luck for reimbursing me for that.<\/p>\n<p>SO yeah, went to work, work work worked, came home, went to bed at 11, and woke up to my alarm at 5:15!  Which is great ! I&#8217;ve been waking up before my alarm lately. I&#8217;m thinking that the sleep is connected to grappling on Thursday&#8230;I&#8217;m gonna make sure I get in lots of sparring tonight, and then if I sleep well again, my sleep theory is proved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had used all of my paid vacation for Strikeforce in July, I&#8217;ve been opening my schedule to work bonus lessons to make up the lost mulah. Thursday I opened, but there were no extra lessons. \ud83d\ude41 So I took advantage of it. 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