AoT: nearing the end.

[sennashi_dorei]

AoT is simply amazing. I could pretend to have jealousy of the teacher in the series, because she is around my age and acting as my teacher, which means her folding techniques are greater than mine, but the truth is, I have no jealousy there. She said in one video, that she has been folding her entire life, and I have no idea how true that is, but I basically feel glad that it is not me. Like, in some ways, that is suuuuper cool... like, you go to school, and everyone learns how to write, so anyone acn say Ï've been writing my whole life." Nothing wrong with that!! Origami is that kind of thing especially we are taught, in relation to Japan... but it doesn't need to be that specific.. everyone plays with giftwrap! Anyway.. if I had been someone that folded my whole life.. Well, I chose origami as a major passtime when I was leaving Japan. At that point, I was already folding sometimes, while living there... but.. it was not the entirety of my existence like it feels like, these days... I have this... study Japanese language, and then take on origami... as a pattern for how I did that, and I love looking back on that, in that way, it makes me happy that I am not her, and that I can consider her my teacher, even though we are around the same age!

I am going to be a little sad when I finish everything.. currently, I have about 80 pieces done, so, really nearing the end here. She might have new content come out around December, that will be awesome if she does it... I guess she is just that much more advanced than me: funny story, I have not UPLOADED a SINGLE origami instructional video yet. I have taken one or two, but have not uploaded them. So behind the times lol. There may actually be people that don't believe that I do origami because I have no teaching videos, even though I apply to teach origami in the school system!!

Health is basically amazing right now. I am doing better than I have been for years now. My pain levels are just doooown, so cool. Currently, my back is upset because I am sitting down and not laying down. I decided to make the effort to sit down for a while this morning because I often spend several hours laying down every day. My modes are pretty much WALKING, trying to run a little bit, which never goes anywhere, lots of laying down, and I do make efforts to sit down, but I try not to torture myself out of it. Like if you think about it: mechanics lay down underneath vehicles, so I don't need my upward position to describe myself as doing something...

When I got my first full time job, I was already post heart surgery.. that's 40 hrs a week, but my company was nice, it was still close though, and I had no idea at all if it was going to be possible for me to sit down for almsot 40 hours a week.. I was scared and anxious... I said: "I will try this out, but I don't know what will happen." And it went fine!! Great even!! I had something to look forward to every day, because I would change position to sitting down for like 8 hours a day, and I was really doing that, and I felt OK doing it. It was unbelievable. Then after work, somehow, I still had energy, and would go out bicycling. I could not believe what post heart surgery life was. You get heart surgery, and you think your life is over, but it is not. I still enjoy laying down a lot. I don't force myself to hurt myself, but I do make efforts at doing different things.