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Back to the routine

Janurary is back in full swing.  I am gone almost every night of the week. Our connection group has started meeting more regularly on Sunday evenings. I joined a bible study with Stonebridge church's women on Acts that meets on Monday nights. It is an inductive study, therefore it has much homework. I joined the Women's self defense class through Luke's taekwondo gym with his instructor Master Phillips.  It is like the Krav Mawga class without all the intensity, cardio, and sweaty hard core men. The class of women meets on Tuesday and Thursday night. This week, I attended my part 2 of the Women's pistol class. The class took 3 hours in the evening. Jayden wanted to take it with me, but had college meetings. By the time I get through all my classes, nobody is going to want to mess with me. I really enjoyed the class and learned about revolvers. This time I used a semiautomatic .380, it is called a mini 9mm. It had larger ammo and more power than the last class gun I used a 22. We practiced shooting quick rounds like 3 shots in a row fast. We also fired at three targets starting in the center then left then right. Our instructor is so good at teaching and demonstrating correct technique. Last we fired using one hand and using our left hand. At the beginning of the night, I was a little nervous and didn't shoot well my first rounds. Then I was on and did really well. When I did the multi target shots, I shot the three targets in almost the exact same spot both times. I also shot the best when I used my left hand alone, kind of crazy. I enjoy shooting targets, it is sure a stress release. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings we have youth group activities and taekwondo. On Thursday's mid afternoon Luke has a guitar lesson and in between guitar and taekwondo we have all been volunteering at Overflow. THis week on Sunday after church Jayden headed back to Iowa State in Ames after a long month break.  It makes me sad that she is going back and I miss her. I miss her smile, doing our hair and make-up in the bathroom together while listening to her crazy Texas country music. I miss her silliness and always making us laugh. She is the calm in my crazy days here with all these male species. I am going to miss her like crazy when she goes to OK.

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