June 10, 2007

Ahhh. . .

I have arrived. . .

My family and I are on vacation this week in the lovely Outer Banks of North Carolina. We rented a new house this year, one with a pool and hot tub and it is just. . . well. . . ahhh. . .

We arrived here today after visiting some good friends in Dover, DE for the weekend. The drive was rather uneventful, just the way I like it. Of course, I did knowingly allow the girls to eat about 4000 M&M’s during the drive, but the way I see it? It was all to secure my sanity.

Sanity is good.

I arrived here only hours ago, but I’ve already done my pilates and practiced my sai kata’s. Yes, I managed to sneak my sai, nunchaku, and tunfa into my suitcase. Insert big eye roll from Mr. BBM here. Some may use the table in the bedroom for sunscreen. Mine is for my stash of weapons. It makes me cool. . . obsessive but cool.

I just couldn’t imagine not being able to practice with them for two weeks after I’ve been working so hard to get in good shape and make sure the kata’s and all their parts are in there. And who wouldn’t jump at an opportunity to take a set of sai out on the beach and actually be able to do the throw into the sand???

Mr. BBM says I’m a dork. I say, I’m not the one who has memorized 4,278 useless facts about Star Wars, so there.

If you’ve been a reader here for a while now, you know that last year’s vacation was quite eventful and not in the good way. I’m looking forward to having a very uneventful week; and I’ll be sure to bore you to tears with it if I can manage to put my lime and beer down and drag my derriere out of the hot tub for more than a few minutes at a time.

Oh, and if you happen to be in the Outer Banks right now and you see a crazy blonde chick doing kata in a swimsuit. . . yeah, that’s probably me. And no, there will not be pictures documenting such an event, so don’t even bother asking.