BPPV: not a Minion language happy birthday!

Yesterday it was my birthday, 46 years spent around this funny world and I was supposed to be in Italy for celebrating the wedding of a special friend Valentina and her partner, Ivano..

Sweet Monday!

Monday can start in a completely different way when you got a colleague who is baking such great cakes!

peanut cheese cake

Autumn colors

Autumn colors..

..sometimes the way to work is not bad at all..

Relaxing morning

can’t be more relaxed

…nothing more to add this morning…

44+1- happy Aikido birthday to me!

Special treat for my birthday yesterday night at Aikido practice at Aikido Amsterdam dojo: I hope it represents the introduction of a tradition developed in Norway.

What better way for Aikido people to celebrate their birthday on the mats receiving Aikido “hugs” in forms of throws and techniques by the fellow aikidokas?

I cannot think of a better way to show Aikido love 🙂

Aikido Amsterdam – birthday treat

Night light of A’dam skies

Two nights ago, a strong slightly descendant full moon (no editing, point and shot with my mobile)..

..last night though a thunderstorm woke me up: fantastic lights as well, the lightnings and the sky, strong wind splashing against my windows the heavy rain..

Now the sun shines, but I biked to work in rain outfit and I got all prepared for going and coming from Aikido practice (8 km about per direction!).

Hail and locusts, we are ready for you!

Take my baby out for a spin…

The sunny water (yeah, finally!), a ling working day, no Aikido practice and too many thoughts on my mind found a very good cure (even if I was far from dressed properly!):

Iaido in the sun

Mainly repetitions of basic cuts, shoatto from standing position and 8 cuts sequence..

Enough though to make me miss my Iaido obi and all my Iaido notes..

A good spin that helped my mind demons to settle a bit and reminded me of the joy of swinging my sword! Unfortunately left me with a boring pain in my left arm/elbow/hand (signs of my old arthritis coming back maybe or some very wrong movement).

…what you do not see in the picture is that I was in shorts, sandals and listening to heavy metal with earphones!! Not a proper uniform.. 😛