why wy?

My resolve not to drink for a week lasted 2 days, which is better than getting back on the bandwagon straight after, I supposed. Some links:
soft toys + food
some cool utube vids about what you can do with aikido (not that I actually do stuff like that in class... yet)
bloggg is acting strange so this will be a short post.

Have been woken out of blog slumber by Team William's challenge - five things to eat before you die.

1) Sashimi at the Tokyo Fish market at 5am in the morning. I didn't watch all those discovery travel shows for nuthin'.
2) Special adult version chocolate chip cookies or brownies, like the ones they have in Amsterdam or similar, with an extra ingredient that I will not spell out in public.
3) Paella in Spain. Cos I want to go to Spain.
4) A meal at Tetsuya's in Sydney.
5) Fried chicken skin from one of the beachside restaurants in Krabi, Thailand. Incredibly addictive, forget the calories.

By the way, absinthe is overrated. All I had for my troubles is missing out on dinner, a massive series of spews, a banged knee and the ruined shoulder of a friend who had to carry me home. Definitely the worst drinking-related night of my life and there were no green fairies either.

I passed my 4th kyu grading this weekend (it's an aikido test) and thanks to all the training I did for it, I can now fit into an old pair of jeans. Woo hoo! Double happiness.