Hair?  No, sorry.  No references to CSNY today.  Actually I’m growing a goatee, not sure about it tho.  Hmm, I should take a pic when I get home.

No, this is in reference to cutting something else.

I’ve been having issues with my elbow that make it next to impossible to practice Kendo on any kind of regular basis.  I got a cortisone shot before the holidays, and had two weeks off from Kendo for the holidays.  Nice and rested, I worked from home this past Tuesday.  Got excited to go and get my ‘rah rah’ s out as my sister puts it.  I had a bit of a hangnail on my big toe and I went to clip it.

Problem is, as I was about to, the cat jumped on the bed.  Yep, I took off a huge chunk of the top left part of my left big toe.  SHIT SHIT SHIT! I screamed getting up and hightailing it to the bathroom to run it under cold water and then sat on the floor like a total idiot putting pressure on the damn thing.  I finally get it to stop bleeding (like 20 min later) and bandage, gauze, and wrap in tape so it looks like my toe is the size of a baseball.

To add to the equation, about a hour later I get an email from my Sensei saying her teacher, Kato Sensei, is coming to run class.  PERFECT!

So we go and I get dressed and wrap it a bit more and go through stretching and warm ups and I’m feeling good.  Toe doesn’t hurt too much and I’m feeling a good sweat coming on, jacked up for once instead of having to sit out with my elbow.  We go to put our armor on and line up for suriyashi (it’s a moving drill that you move quickly across the gym doing strikes at intervals), and again, I’m feeling good.

And then I look down and realize I’m about to bleed all over the floor.  Everything was soaked through.  AWESOME!

Spent the next 30 min getting it to stop and end up watching once again.  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Picked up some cool tips even tho I couldn’t practice, so it wasn’t a total loss and Aidan got to spar with Kato Sensei which is a plus.  of course I DIDN’T!!!! GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

okay, I’m done feeling sorry for myself.  It’s already feeling pretty okay, should be fine by Tues.  Please say a prayer my elbow doesn’t start hurting again by then