{"id":3771,"date":"2013-09-24T18:49:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2013-09-24T18:49:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:49:26","slug":"on-my-birthday-i-played-with-jessica-rakoczy-son-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2013\/09\/24\/on-my-birthday-i-played-with-jessica-rakoczy-son-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"On my birthday, I played with Jessica Rakoczy & son in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Rakoczy (pronounced \u201cra-KO-zee\u201d) is a very special lady. We fought each other during our time in the TUF house, but before and after, we knew we\u2019d be homies forever. She lives in Las Vegas! So after both of our training sessions this morning, we met up and hung out! First, we had to pick up some food, so we went to a supermarket. Her son Jesse kept wanting to buy a balloon, and she said to him, \u201cBut it\u2019s not your birthday!\u201d I pipped up, \u201cNo, it\u2019s mine!\u201d She was like \u201cWHAAAT?\u201d and insisted on buying both of us balloons, me lunch, and chocolate cupcakes. LOL
\n\"say<\/a><\/p>\n

We went to the park and jungle gym to try to chat, but Jesse kept begging for attention instead of playing. \u201cHe\u2019s quite a handful,\u201d she said. \u201cAll the time, he\u2019s like this. I take him everywhere with me.\u201d
\n\"jessica<\/a>
\nbtw do you like my Tussle shirt? support me by buying it here! \ud83d\ude00
\nTussle Fight Gear website<\/a><\/p>\n

Man, how does she train? It seem so exhausting! She\u2019s a single mother. Her son is four. Just watching them, I can see that she is a really good mother. I already respected her, but it went to a whole new level seeing her run around playing with her son in the park, already exhausted from a tough work-out with her coach earlier in the day. She never gets a break. She\u2019s remarkable. <\/p>\n

\"jessica<\/a>
\n I really enjoyed our time together. We talked about the episode we\u2019re both in (because we get sneak peeks so we\u2019ve seen it already) and about life in general.<\/p>\n

Then I played on the slides!! \ud83d\ude00 I mean, I played with her son on the slides. Then I went on the swings!! I mean, I played on the swings with Jesse. THEN I climbed on the rock wall….! With Jesse. And this funky rotating bar-swing thingie?!
\n\"roxy<\/a>
\nI had so much fun. I was SO tired. Dude, I got tired before her kid! We decided to call it a day, and Jesse started pouting. hahaha This is why I’m not gonna have a kid while I’m still a fighter.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, watch us fight tomorrow on The Ultimate Fighter on Fox Sports 1 at 7 PM PT \/ 10 PM EST. \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, it\u2019s my 31st birthday! \ud83d\ude00 I don\u2019t care about the number\u2026I just don\u2019t want my body to start failing me so I can\u2019t do MMA anymore. A fighter\u2019s time is limited, right? But thanks to sports Chiropractor supreme Jacob Steckel, my back is feeling awesome. I sparred the whole time and it didn\u2019t hurt a bit! Another body part was hurting for a few days, but once practice started, I didn\u2019t even feel it, so I just went on it. I dunno about wrestling tomorrow\u2026but today was awesome. I noticed some things about my balance, I landed a sweet move! And I threw some stuff that didn\u2019t land, but I think at least my form was correct. I\u2019m so motivated right now. <\/p>\n

I just keep repeating to myself\u2026 The harder something is, the more you grow. The more something hurts now, the stronger you\u2019ll get later. In some way or another. Excluding injury obviously.<\/p>\n

But I managed to finish class and do that one last round with Ricky, which I wasn\u2019t gonna do. Then Heather told me not to do it. So I had to do it. Hahahaha <\/p>\n

And then everyone in the class punched me twice in the stomach for my birthday. \ud83d\ude00
\nAnd Heather and her boyfriend gave me cute little panda bags! I feel so loved! I\u2019m so lucky to have found a great team and made great friends here in Vegas!
\n\"panda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jessica Rakoczy (pronounced \u201cra-KO-zee\u201d) is a very special lady. We fought each other during our time in the TUF house, but before and after, we knew we\u2019d be homies forever. She lives in Las Vegas! So after both of our training sessions this morning, we met up and hung out! First, we had to pick…<\/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,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing","category-friends","category-fun","category-training","category-6","category-9","category-8","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}