By Shawn Hartle on Friday, 28 August 2026
Category: Candidate Journals

TGIF

​Today was another good day overall, aside from waking up pretty tired. I didn't sleep very well last night, so I was feeling sluggish and got to my workout about 30 minutes later than usual. Unfortunately, being late meant I missed the birthday pictures the ladies set up for my dad this morning. HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPS!
​My foot was a bit sore from catching an elbow in sparring yesterday, but I still pushed through a solid workout at 9Round. After that, I headed to work to hang out with the few kids who didn't have school today. We made paper airplanes, and I set up targets for them to throw them through. I also got right back into cleaning the fleet. I finished three of them—minus the exterior wash, since we're still under water restrictions.
​After work, I stayed for Friday Black Belt class. It was another good one; we worked on Hapkido breakaways, so now I just need to make sure I remember 1 through 15.
​Got home, ate dinner, and knocked out about an hour's worth of writing for my diet challenge essay. I’m hoping to finish that up this weekend so I can jump straight back into the Kwans essay I already started. Fingers crossed for better sleep tonight so I can crush tomorrow. Good night all, see some of you in class in the AM!

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