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annuinSo late this afternoon we headed off to the Palisades mall, because PreZ desperately needed new underwear in the worst way. Finally we managed to come across relatively nice underwear that wasn't hideously expensive, and not white. Why women get to have underwear in all colours, and for guys it's about 85% white and about 13% idiotic colours or plaids or things that would be downright embarrassing to have seen by people of the interested sex, I'll never understand. But he has 10 new pairs, which should last him for a while.
We also got him swimming trunks, for that one swim a year he has on July 4th ;) and a pair of sports shorts and a very light weight sports t-shirt with little holes in it, which will give him coverage, but not make him super hot either, like most cotton t-shirts do. That stuff will be what he gets to wear when we go to yoga. And we also found some nice black short sleeve button down shirts, so he has 2 nice shirts for summer. After that we headed over to Circuit City to turn a gift card we'd gotten for Christmas into some electronics, and we picked up a cheap Panasonic dvd player. So now we can actually watch dvd's in the living room, rather than just on the computers.
After that we were pretty much out of time as the stores all started to close, so I didn't get a chance to look around for anything for myself clothing wise. I still have a gift card to redeem at Victoria's Secret, so I'll be back eventually, no doubt. We had dinner at Chilis and headed home. Tested out the new dvd player with the first Harry Potter movie.
The other day we also worked out what sporting schedule would work. Which sport had the best session times on which days and would be best for us to do when. So we've managed to pencil in ideal days for 2 karate (kyokushin) lessons, and 2 yoga (bikram) lessons a week. This is pretty much our "new year's resolution", the old faithful 'get fitter/lose weight' one. He promised me once that if I went with him to karate, he'd go with me to yoga, hence the two sports.
Now I need to organise some sports wear of my own, and some other gear, like sticky mats and we should be good to go. I'm not sure if we're going to start with both at the same time, I'm leaning towards doing a month of karate before we add yoga into the mix, because I just think that considering our fitness levels are zero, starting it all at once will make us wish we were dead. I'm sure karate will do that to us initially anyway, as we try and convert our lazy asses into a more active lifestyle. The bikram yoga I'm really intruiged by though, as you do it in high heat (something like 90-105F), which makes it aerobic, and also better for the joints and muscles. Amusingly enough last week on Queer Eye For The Straight Guy they took the straight guy to bikram yoga too, he seemed to dig it. I thought it was cool to see, because other than a clip on a local news station once, I'd never actually seen a bikram class in action, only read descriptions. So that was nifty.
The concept of the karate class still kinda scares me. I'm just worried I'll make an ass of myself, especially when doing those yells with the punches and stuff. Yes, I get worried over inane and unimportant things like that. It's not so much screwing up, as screwing up in front of a large group of people.
We also got him swimming trunks, for that one swim a year he has on July 4th ;) and a pair of sports shorts and a very light weight sports t-shirt with little holes in it, which will give him coverage, but not make him super hot either, like most cotton t-shirts do. That stuff will be what he gets to wear when we go to yoga. And we also found some nice black short sleeve button down shirts, so he has 2 nice shirts for summer. After that we headed over to Circuit City to turn a gift card we'd gotten for Christmas into some electronics, and we picked up a cheap Panasonic dvd player. So now we can actually watch dvd's in the living room, rather than just on the computers.
After that we were pretty much out of time as the stores all started to close, so I didn't get a chance to look around for anything for myself clothing wise. I still have a gift card to redeem at Victoria's Secret, so I'll be back eventually, no doubt. We had dinner at Chilis and headed home. Tested out the new dvd player with the first Harry Potter movie.
The other day we also worked out what sporting schedule would work. Which sport had the best session times on which days and would be best for us to do when. So we've managed to pencil in ideal days for 2 karate (kyokushin) lessons, and 2 yoga (bikram) lessons a week. This is pretty much our "new year's resolution", the old faithful 'get fitter/lose weight' one. He promised me once that if I went with him to karate, he'd go with me to yoga, hence the two sports.
Now I need to organise some sports wear of my own, and some other gear, like sticky mats and we should be good to go. I'm not sure if we're going to start with both at the same time, I'm leaning towards doing a month of karate before we add yoga into the mix, because I just think that considering our fitness levels are zero, starting it all at once will make us wish we were dead. I'm sure karate will do that to us initially anyway, as we try and convert our lazy asses into a more active lifestyle. The bikram yoga I'm really intruiged by though, as you do it in high heat (something like 90-105F), which makes it aerobic, and also better for the joints and muscles. Amusingly enough last week on Queer Eye For The Straight Guy they took the straight guy to bikram yoga too, he seemed to dig it. I thought it was cool to see, because other than a clip on a local news station once, I'd never actually seen a bikram class in action, only read descriptions. So that was nifty.
The concept of the karate class still kinda scares me. I'm just worried I'll make an ass of myself, especially when doing those yells with the punches and stuff. Yes, I get worried over inane and unimportant things like that. It's not so much screwing up, as screwing up in front of a large group of people.
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Date: 2004-02-22 10:21 pm (UTC)I wouldn't worry about making an arse of yourself though, since I'm sure you won't be the only "newbie" there. It's not as though you'll be at a tournament or a grading with tons of people watching.
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Date: 2004-02-22 11:05 pm (UTC)He enjoys it, I need the exercise, and we trade off by each joining the other at a sport of their choice. Plus I do get the benefits of the training, the discipline and I'm sure it's effective as a self-defense technique as well. Who knows, I might really warm to it ;)
I'm not unwilling to give it a shot at any rate. There are some sports which don't appeal to me at all, and this definitely isn't one of them. And having been fairly fit at one time, when I was doing quite a few hours of aerobics/callanetics/weights stuff each week, I do really miss that level of fitness. I didn't *love* to do the aerobics, but it wasn't bad, and doing it with a friend is always more fun.
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Date: 2004-02-23 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-23 01:36 am (UTC)Shit yes! My collection of boxers is hideous. I have Dilbert, Christmas Trees, Reindeer, and the rest is plaid. And I refuse to go back to anything more constricting than boxers, but also refuse to go commando. So I'm stuck...
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Date: 2004-02-23 10:40 am (UTC)Commando, it would seem to me, would just chafe too much. Not to mention the accidents you could have getting bits caught.
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Date: 2004-02-23 11:06 pm (UTC)And yes, commando is just dangerous as well as wrong. The bits must remain protected behind something.
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Date: 2004-02-23 02:17 am (UTC)And don't worry about the 'making an ass of yourself' part. It will surely feel like that, but when you're in the right dojo, people won't laugh but give you advise instead. :)
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Date: 2004-02-23 12:51 pm (UTC)I saw that same episode of Queer Eye, it was interesting but I have a tough time with heat, I get the worst headaches when it's hot.
Good luck at karate and have fun with it!