Wanna see what happy looks like?
For me at least.
If you catch me standing still, not giggling, this is me in uniform, with my beloved lightsaber, Petrichor (yes, she has a name. There’s at least five ‘named’ Light Sabers in this house, four of which we train with).
Just compare how much more relaxed I am in the photo in black though. Brown was UK Arena 2022, and I staffed, for the first time, in my uniform.
Black is April 2024. I’m going back to Ludosport Bristol after (by the time we get there) about an eight or nine month break, to do Course Ypsilon (Course Y!) (I already train irregularly on a Tuesday night at LudoSport Cheltenham).
I did a LOOOONG weekend of training (and I was joining people who had done a five day instructor course before that, and they’re all fricking awesome) but that photo is me, Sunday evening after we got home, actually managing to ignore my headache mostly. It was so wonderful being around people at LudoSport. Great community, and I’ll be doing another L for LudoSport.
My shoulders, knees and ankles have unionised and it’s clear they’re on strike today, cause OMG, I woke up yesterday and my brain went ‘yay LudoSport’ and my body went ‘excuse me? Three days already this week. No!’. I pushed through it.
This morning, it took me 40 minutes to move my legs from being curled up. My shoulders are ok, as long as my arms are doing what gravity does. Walking in and out of the house is one step down, one up. Nuh uh. LOL. I was on a call at 10:30 this morning or I’d still probably be in bed.
I had a GREAT weekend. Worth it!
Back to our regularly scheduled programming with “G for Groups”.
Kai is a writer, author and avid reader. A mental health advocate, Ludosport athlete and coder. She’s the mother of two young adults, owned by two cats, and lives with her beloved in the Cotswolds.
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