I've had a busy last few days. Saturday, the TKD tournament, I received last place in sparring. It's what I expected, though all the rounds were close. The other ladies gave me four nice hard kicks to the head, which weren't fun, but I doled out a few myself, which were. Besides, I made a new friend - Mel, an awesome 50-year-old 2nd dan black belt who could pass for 35. She won our sparring division, which made me glad.

The best part of the tournament was feeling myself actually a part of the TKD world, able to act as an individual, by myself, in the adult world. I went to the tournament on my own volition, and I was the only one of my family there. It felt odd, but good.

In the evening, I took the sibs contra dancing. I gotta say, I was exhausted! We left half an hour before the dancing was done, but I made a new friend, Dan, with whom I argued for about an hour over origins and creation vs. evolution. This led me to think that I should start researching woolly mammoths. :D (You had to be there to understand.) So I now have a new file on mammoths in my file box, with a chunk of about ten documents inside. I shall have to write up my research soon.

Sunday was nice and restful, as always, but Monday the sibs had a swim meet in the evening, and they needed their team swimsuits first. So I was commissioned to drive them to the sports store, which is on a rather busy street. I combined this with several other errands in widely-separate places, such as finally picking up my contact lenses (yay, no more four-eyes!). The trip took the whole afternoon, in 100-degree heat. Then I watched the swim meet for four hours, in more of the same. This was sufficient to give even me a slight sunburn, and I _never_ burn! By the next day it had turned nicely brown, though. :D

Tuesday night was Civil Air Patrol. I am finally moving up to senior member, and I appreciate the greater freedom this allows. I can help cadets, or I can talk in the senior-member room. :D Still, it takes three hours out of the evening.  ¶ 12:07 PM