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Doughy Dave has a deathwish, of this I am sure. For those new to the saga of Doughy, he's a kid whose father put him into the karate class. He's horribly out of shape, however he was taller than the other kids and used his size to his advantage, and was a bit of a bully. That lasted until I caught wind of it and set him up to spar some of the kids he had attempts to lord over who, unknown to him, could fight their little asses off. So he learned the lesson size doesn't matter.

After spending months making excuses and ducking out of being placed in the adult class due to his age he got moved up and immediately got introduced to the "Knucklehead Club" who proceeded to knuckle him in the head about 200 times that night. Seriously, it was like whack-a-mole up in there. This began his excuses, and out-and-out hiding. See, his father can't stay for the class, so the boy gets dropped off, which is fine. Lots of parents do it and i have all of their phone numbers in case there's a problem. That kid has gotten on the bad side of every instructor there, but last night was just the stupidest thing he could possibly do.

My instructor, Lenny, is back in town and was at the class. I'm leading the stretches and warm-ups. Lenny looks around and asked Kathy (one of the instructors who Doughy had royally pissed off), "Hey, where's your buddy?"

"Who?"

"The yellow belt kid. I saw him in the hall earlier, before class."

My eyes roll because we're already 10 minutes into class and I know exactly where he is. "Well, I guess we'll see him in a half an hour."

"What?"

"He's hiding in the bathroom again."

"He hides in the bathroom?"

"Yeah, his record is 45 minutes." Lenny's eyes bug out. Frankly, I'm not going to bring my class to halt to haul someone out of a bathroom who's trying to avoid drills. Lenny had no such problem and without a word left the room. We all knew what was coming.

*Boom, boom, boom!* Lenny was banging on the door with his hamhock of a fist. "HEY! Class has started! Hurry up and get in there!" There some more pounding on the door. Doughy didn't appear so I figured he was going to hide for the whole class. Nope! When Lenny's back was turned to talk to another student, he slipped out and Lenny found him on the other end of the church. Lenny asked him what he was doing down there, even though the answer was obvious. Then the boy opened his mouth and did the stupidest thing he could possibly do.

"Well, if class is going on then why aren't YOU in there?"

Lenny might as well have marched him back in by the scruff of his neck. He told me later what the boy had said, and if he had told me sooner he'd have spent the rest of the class doing push-ups. So, he's managed to piss off one of the toughest karate men you are going to find. That boy is not long for this world.

You know what's a great way to spend New Years? Having your plans fall through for the nth year in a row, working until 11:30 because your co-workers decided to call in "sick" and probably getting called in the next morning because the very same co-workers won't go to work while hungover. Suck it up; it's your own damn fault. The show How I Met Your Mother is chalk-full of truisms, but the one that seems to ring most true right now is that New Year's Eve always seems to be the biggest letdown of the year.

It's actually not that bad. I'm just venting. All things considered, it wasn't a bad day. I finally snagged a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #121 on the last day of my local shop's Boxing Week sale (Thank you, Commonwealth) and got a really cool (free) poster for the movie Choke. (Which I actually haven't seen yet, though I loved the book.)

I'm actually really looking forward to '09, and I hope you all had fun New Years Eves. heart

It's an unfortunate fact that everyone I knew around my parents' home, that is to say the people I went to high school with, turned 60 when I wasn't looking.
What was planned was a great big New Year bash. Jordan was flying in from Japan, people were going to come down from more northern regions of the state, a ball was going to be had. And then Jordan "might not make it here in time for New Years" (he did), so one by one, everyone else decided to stay home and have a "quiet night in."
"I don't see my girlfriend enough." (they live together and are joined at the hip)
"I work too much." (at a part time job)
"It's cold out." (it's not even freezing)
You people are pathetic.
So I cooked my little heart out and make a 4 star dinner for three, (pictures of pie coming soon). I'm still super annoyed at all of them though. mad
What depressing is that every time I visit, the less I have in common with these people. I don't think I'll be doing this again. I was promised that, if I took the extra time off, there would be partying and hanging out and doing of things. Instead, I've got no car and they're "too tired" or "too cold." Why the hell did I come here then?

Ah, sorry you put so much work into your party for nothing Selina. I only wished I had something to do on my new year. No party, no friends to hang out with, nothing.
All I did was come home after work. My mom and brother went to P.F. Changes, so they had some left over hot and sour soup, Chicken Kong po, Tofu & broccoli, and fried green beans.
My mom was ....well...a combo of being both drunk and high, To the point where she tried to make a $500.00 bet with me. The Bet over that she could go 5 day with out needing my help (something she would lose at in 10 min) so I didn't bother taking the bet. Not only that, but time and space no longer mattered. because she was yelling on how the hell it was 12/00 in NY while it was 11 in Texas.

So after that, I just took a hot bath for about an hour while reading Planetary By Warren Ellis and John Cassaday.

Then finaly went to bed. Yep, Party central here. sweatdrop

I need to get out more. Think I might start doing some volunteer work.

I was happily showered and in bed when the ball dropped. I worked every New Year's Eve during my bouncing days, so the luster has been taken off the event. Just happy to have survived the previous year.

Well, did everyone have at least a good New Years day? It was weird over here, everything is closed. xp