Recovery
I know I haven’t written in awhile. As far as my fitness goes, I’ve plateau’d while in recovery from the wreck. I’m healing up pretty well, all things considered, though. I have full range of motion, though it still hurts when I reach too far. I am also too weak to lift much on my left side.
It’s very frustrating.
But I feel like I have been given a second chance at life, so I have to grab it by the whatsits, you know? I am ready to train again in the gym, and my mother has said she wants to join me (though she’s got some real issues, so will likely be training light).
I am writing on my novel again. 
Getting my mind in the right state for it. Very hopeful about that. I am also looking at some ways to bring income into the house, so that I can save up for a car and look for a FT position. I should know by the end of this month or the beginning of the next month, whether I interview for a position in Japan.
Provided that I don’t go to Japan until late July or sometime in August, there is another thing I will be doing this summer that I am STOKED about!!! My sumo trainer has been in contact with a martial arts center north of Atlanta, about using their facilities for us to train. In the process of doing that, they have also asked if we would be up for teaching a sumo class during summer camp for kids. HECK YES! 
So I really hope that goes somewhere.
I told him that I have been thinking a lot about fitness and sumo, and how to approach bringing sumo into light for people in the US. You see, I think sumo is great because anyone at any age and any shape (so long as their joints are good!!) can participate! It’s a good way to get people who aren’t physically active interested in sports. How do I know this? Because that’s what brought me to body building! There are other, more fit body builders already in the sport, on the men’s side. I think it’s a wonderful way to crosstrain, and I do think there is potential for sumo to help kids lift their spirits and find their fighting spirit so they can either continue to be healthy, or get healthy in a fun and energetic way.
Yes, I’ve been thinking about it. At some point in my fitness "recovery" not only from the wreck, but from the massive amount of fat I’ve been toting around…. I want to get my personal training or fitness training certification.
I think I’ll be strong enough to do sumo by this summer. I’d better be! Grr!
