Second Catch-Up... Saturday, January 14

Wednesday – Dinned with the big league

Headed out to Seoul with Snickers for our much anticipated dinner with Adidas France and Adidas Korea. The man in contact from me from Adidas France has actually been relocated to Hong Kong so he’s just a hop, skip and a jump away from me in South Korea, none the less it was awesome to know he flew in to Korea to meet me. I won’t go into all the juicy details of our meeting but will say that it left me totally stoked, incredibly happy and super excited with working alongside Adidas. Adidas has some big plans and I’m so very honored that they asked for me to be included into them, of which my participation in an Adidas home shopping channel commercial definitely was the highlight of my evening.

Words can honestly not even begin to express the pride and excitement I feel with having Adidas supporting not only me and my boxing but also Snickers and his boxing. I don’t think I’ll ever wear any other sports wear but Adidas from here on out, mind ya, with Adidas once again showering us with sweet equipment and exclusive gear, it’s going to be next to impossible. Tonight they asked me to pick my colors and whatnot for an exclusive pro glove that’s made as ordered. They’re going to embroider my name into it --- sweet!!!


Thursday – Literally slept the day away

I wasn’t feeling well when I woke up for boxercise class today but I thought coming home super late from last night’s private Adidas dinner party was to blame for it. We had come home around 2am but I was like a kid on Christmas Eve, so very excited about the evening news and running off pure satisfaction from the meeting. By the time I feel asleep is was close to 5am, so a 7:30am boxercise class was a bit rough. Regardless, I pushed my feeling of blahness aside and headed out for boxercise class. Upon coming home however, the blahness returned and what was anticipated to be a simple sip of some NyQuil and a nap turned into a whole day event with me waking up around 8pm!!!

I’ve always been a believer in the more natural way of things. Taking naps when I feel tired or have a slight headaches, sipping on some warm milk if my tummy hurts and so forth. I remember back when I broke my nose I refused to go to the doctor and refused to take any pain killers. I simply placed a sock in my mouth, let Snickers reset it, and then tried my hardest to not touch it but to continue on through the pain. Having said this though, there are very few times when I have resorted to taking medicine, today being one of those days. One small sip of NyQuil was enough to push me into a comatose-like state. I was out like a light and for hours upon hours on end!!!


Friday – We Trained like Champs and Ate like Animals.

Tonight we had a boxing dinner party for UP Boxing Club, Cheonan, but I didn’t stay long. I wasn’t feeling up to par because of still not having shook off my cold from the other day. Training was rather rough for me today. In between sipping on hot lemon tea and chewing on Halls throat candies, I had boxing, running with client and weight training. Spent the day in a rather strange head buzz; definitely not feeling like myself or up to par with my focus, strength or capability. None the less, Junior Mint is all about “no rest for the wicked” so he practically killed me at training with loading me up on excessive rounds of pad work. Some days I wish I could curse his name but then I’m reminded that I do need his push and that I should be respectful of this and appreciative. I remember back in the day, watching Snickers with his former coach. His coach sat yelling at him, throwing him slander and discouraging comments. It was almost as if he believed the more he put Snickers down the more he’d drive him to succeed. He’s a big, dumb bully if you ask me. He doesn’t even have any kind of weight behind his name either to even back himself up. I’ve come to hate Snickers’ former coach and, to tell you the truth, I think he’s the only person in this whole world I can honestly say I hate. But that’s a whole other story….


Saturday – Cold Front Hits Again

Yesterday was spent in a strange head buzz and then in the evening I was hit like a ton of bricks again by the same cold that had hit me on Thursday. I had boxercise in the morning and was hoping to go out for a late night run to kind of sweat it off but that was a no go. What ended up happening was Snickers’ buddy 3Pak showed up at the house so the two of them chatted while I napped on the floor in the other room. Snickers cooked me up some eggs and I was basking in his sweetness when all of a sudden the unexpected happened… Snickers dropped my only bottle of NyQuil!!!

It crashed on the floor and out spurted NyQuil everywhere… and I do mean EVERYWHERE – onto the wallpaper, over our bedspread, on my clothes, on Pyen Chi’s head, and even on the shelf. It’s thick oozy gel stained the wallpaper and I watched as it crept under the heavy tv shelf. And with only three weeks till my fight and this cold driving me mental, I seriously had to hold myself back from licking it up with my tongue!!!