Ki-YAH!

I was INSPIRED tonight by my KARATE final exam.  YES, I completed the Gengi (Genji?) Kata, 4 one step sparring episodes, 2 free sparring incidents and then, after all that, I BROKE A BOARD!!!  I did.  I walked right up, and kicked it, and it broke with a resounding crash!  On the first day of class when the prof told us we had to break a board, I almost dropped it (class, not the board) on the spot.  But I hung in there...  I persevered and... I broke a board.  Man, what a stress release.  I'm sorry but that needs to be at the end of every Stroller Strides class....  "Now, 3 deep breaths, and our final most important STEP is to BREAK A BOARD!"  OK, MAYBE not.  But I was inspired to write a song tonight.  Just a little diddy I thought up.  COMpletely original....  If you happen to think to yourself, "Damn, g. this is amazingly like John Lennon's War is Over Christmas Song", I will tell John you thought that the next time I see him...  And so, Happy Christmas...

So this is Christmas....

And what have you done?

One semester over....

A new one just registered... uh, begun...

AND so this is Christmas....

I hope you had fun,

The near and the dear one,

The old and the young.

A very merry Christmas,

And a happy new gelati (tough rhyme on that one...)

Let's hope it's a good one,

without any Karate!

And SO this is Christmas!!!!

For weak and for strong

For rich and the poor ones

The world is so wrong!

And so Happy Christmas!

For black belts and white,

For yellow and red belts

let's stop all the fight!

Karate is over over...

If you want it....

Karate is OVER... over...

See- look at all that Christmas cheer just OOZING off the computer screen.  I KNEW I would feel better once it was over.  Or, it could be the Bailey's over Ice I'm drinking right now...