And We Will Call This The Sunday Thread - Freeze-Frame Radio

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

And We Will Call This The Sunday Thread

firefly · Reassuringly Expensive

Wow! There weren't a lot of people in here today. I have been extremely lazy today. I watched the Packer game and then went to pick up my daughter.

I am going to work on the MySpace page now. It's needs some updating and Riggs and I are going to work on getting some new friends. smile

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Could you send out a myspace bulletin inviting people to tune in tonight?

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Good evening guys!! Thought I'd drop by and tune in for a while tonight. smile

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Hi Sandy

I think you've chosen a good way to spend some time on a cold cold evening!

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Oh heck yeah JD!! smile

All nice and warm in the house with some great tunes playing......that's my idea of relaxation. biggrin

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

I hope you like what you are hearing.

I'm gonna do some of G-gals jazzy favorites for her birthday.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

I have no complaints with what I'm hearing. biggrin

I think it's a great idea to play some of G-gal's favorites tonight in honor of her birthday tomorrow!! I'm hoping she'll be around to hear them.....I miss her during the week and usually only get a chance to do some chatting with her on Sunday nights.

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

YAY!!!! A brilliant start to the jazz show...2 wonderful Ray Charles songs! Thanks JD! biggrin

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Well, aren't you just so special!!! wink

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

did you bring birthday hats for yourself and sandy to wear tonight??

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Hahaha! When my good looks and natural charisma don't work, I find blackmail is a useful too in influencing people to play along...seems to have worked well on JD, don't you think?

Just kidding.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

I brought the wine for all of us! You want red or white??

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Red please!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

red please!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

garougal wrote:
Hahaha! When my good looks and natural charisma don't work, I find blackmail is a useful too in influencing people to play along...seems to have worked well on JD, don't you think? Just kidding.

your good looks and charisma woulda worked just fine, I am sure.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Here's our party hats G-gal:

And here's one for JD:
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garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

your good looks and charisma woulda worked just fine, I am sure.

well thank you...but the more fiendish approach is just way more fun. wink

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

ghostdancer wrote:

Here's our party hats G-gal:

And here's one for JD:

I love it...

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Since this is the Sunday thread...

I meant to wake up at 6:30 this morning to go to Indy for a workshop with Grandmaster Chen. But our alarm hasn't been very reliable lately, so I set the cell phone. The cool thing is that my cell phone lets you program which days you want the alarm to go off on. The bad thing is that I didn't reset it to go off on a Sunday, so I ended up waking up at 7:40, which was the time I wanted to leave by at the very latest so I had plenty of time to get there.

So, I did a quick wash of the important areas, put on my tai chi clothes and did 80 mph to hopefully get there on time. I had my Google map, and the directions were pretty simple: take 37 to 465 and get off on Shadeland Ave, exit 40, to 71st St. At 8:45, I was on 465 and thought I might get there right on time when I saw the Shadeland Ave exit 48. I figured there was a typo in the directions and took the exit. That Shadeland Ave dead-ended at 52nd! So I was in this sub-division type neighborhood and got all turned around and didn't know which way was north since it was raining. I finally found my way and got there at 9:30, which meant I missed most of the sword form session. :(

But the rest of the workshop was great. I beat one guy at push hands, but I think I pulled something in my hip at the same time. I'm walking around like an old lady!

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Oh Mz, I hope you haven't hurt yourself too badly. It sound slike a great experience except for the discomfort you feel now. Did you put some heat on it?

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Glad you made it to you class Mz.....sorry you hurt yourself though!! cry

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Thanks for your sympathy! I did have fun, and don't regret going.

I had a warm purring cat lay on it, does that count as heat?

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

I thought your 'sposed to play nice at tai chi! no fighting like kung fo!

hey if you are still a bit sore tomorrow and people ask, tell them you suffered a martial arts injury not a tai chi injury ok?

feel better soon!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Tai chi is a martial art. What most people do is just form, but Grandmaster Chen also teaches the applications. It's more than just meditation.

There's also something called Push Hands, which is rooted in Tai Chi, where you try to knock the other person off balance. I'm too nice, and don't do so well knocking other people off balance, but I'm very rooted and can be hard to move. I think that's how I hurt my hip, this one guy was trying really hard to move me.

There's also San Shou, although we didn't do much of that today. It's how tai chi relates to boxing. We did that at the last workshop last June, and since I've never really punched before, I learned a lot. I can't wait to do that again.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

wow!
sounds a bit more disciplined that Tae Kwon Do. We had some forms we did, but basically it was just tryin to beat the hell out of eachother.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Yeah, this is learning the form, and then learning the other stuff that ultimately teaches you how to do the form better. And there's really no beating each other up, with the exception of San Shou, you're really just trying to neutralize an attack.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

I'm glad you're enjoying these classes Mz! I've heard that it's a great way to help strengthen muscles overall, plus helps "center" yourself too in the process.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Oh yeah, I highly recommend tai chi to anyone. You don't have to go to the length that I do, you can just do the form for general health. But it gives me a kind of high afterwords. It must be all the chi going to my head.

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

hi all...just poppin in to say hi.