Spring 2024 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!
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Another Friday

Today, work was mostly about talking with my team on the events over the last few days and continuing to keep them motivated and moving on things. Not a bad day, just long with phone calls and questions. Plus I am still swimming emails... I usually do not do much work over the weekends, but this might be the exception to get caught up. Nate and I went to Black Belt class and it was good. I found myself getting a few poomsaes confused when we were practicing even though we continue to do them at home. I honestly feel comfortable that repetition is getting sunk into my brain, but still making a few minor errors. Got a week to get those bugs out. It was a good class and continue to practice Bo Cho items as well. Came home from class to Olive Garden. My wife had gone an picked up take-out. Then we realized that what they provided for Nate was not truly Gluten Free, even though she asked the guy twice whether it was. We found that there were meatballs in the sauce and that Olive Garden's meat balls are not Gluten Free. She got on the phone and started to head over there... it is the Olive Garden by Northlake Mall... so a little hike. Got there... inspected the food closely... asked about 5 times that they were sure it was Gluten Free... and drove back. It frustrates me when people don't take it seriously. Nate will get violently ill from Gluten. Now it is not like Peanut allergy where he could die, but it truly sucks for everyone, especially him, and especially when it can complete be controlled by diet. People do not always understand that this is not by choice, but by need. Anyway, got back... we ate. Then went and finished our exercises. Another great day tomorrow. Good Night.

Journal - Day 21
Finally Friday