mmmm back in brissy. made it home all sweet got held up at customs though. its amazing how much a pair of stilts looks like a pair of rifles in the xray lol. and then the first thing he found when he opened my bag was a wig for my roving character lol... sees guns then finds wig and proceeds to get VERY nervous lol. but after he completely emptied my bags and xrayed my stilts seperately just to be sure he calmed down and relaxed enough to ask for a demonstration of some of my skills lol. he cheered up after that.

now im just sitting relaxing to music while my girl finishes painting an engagement gift for her best friend. i have the most creative girl in the world it fills me with happiness.

oh and that apple and cinnamon dish from the recipe section is the perfect breakfast. *swoons* im so happy right now hehe

Hi Ant,

just catching up on people's posts.  it's been quite fun reading your story.  Being from the U.S., please inform me as to what busking is?  i'm totally clueless.  would appreciate some education here

sounds like you're enjoying yourself  quite contentedly now that you're with your girl.  I hope she will join you on your raw journey too.  that will make it so much more enjoyable.  it'd be a miracle if my husband even decided to cut out one of the animals, be it chicken, fish, or cow.  sounds terrible, i know, but who knows, miracles still happen!

love your circus stories too.  you must be one buff dude!

hmmm i will let you know what i think of false modesty Ant....show us a pic,nOOOOOOOW..lol...

just know you are having an awesome time with yer girl...have fun enjoy,live it up,play hard play safe and its allllll good!! alllllllllllright!!

good point sandy. whenever i think 'raw' it registers in my brain as 'raw vegan'. i sometimes forget there are other ways to do raw. id say there would totally be raw feta around somewhere. i'll keep an eye out for it when we head to the healthfood stores tomorrow thanks!

im feeling REALLY GOOD right now. ive had a blah kinda couple of days, eating too many nuts and the odd cooked bit here and there with my girl, just to put a fullstop at the end of some of our old favorites like buying Indian. If i just said
"no more indian" my girl (and me too honestly) would go "aww it would be nice to have indian like we used to" sometimes. but this way i got to say "this is our last time having indian takeout. lets really enjoy it" and it has that finality to it. or maybe its all excuses lol. either way its done and enjoy it i did lol.

so yeah, from those things my digestion has been pretty rotten the last couple of days and making me feel blah, but ive had a nice light day today, a gs for breakfast and lots of fruit during the day and now i feel really happy, like i could just laugh for no reason at all.

im taking a week off training this week. just doing a bit of light exercise and giving my body a chance to catch up after the heavy term and re-energise before the next one hehe. so just a little stilt play in the park, some juggling and a bit of yoga and stretching. its been nice. and its given me a chance to sort some destinations in my head for the journey im on at school. things i will have achieved by the end of next year. i will have my street show by this october, ive already got the outline all worked out, it just needs its details filled in. but i also spent today working out just how i want to make a living after school is done. it was good.

so over the course of these holidays i just need to start making a plan of what i need to actually *do* to make sure i reach that destination. i think the most immediate concern is to have more of a core training regimen worked out where i can spend 1-1.5 hours a day 3 times a week strengthening my core, and back, shoulders and triceps so i will have the strength to really be able to apply myself to the arials training i would like to continue with once the time comes to pick our electives. because at the moment, while i love web, and all of the moves sink into my brain instantly and i really understand the principals behind all the locks and such, i simply dont have the strength and endurance to do some of them. this needs fixing.

and then theres juggling, the area i actually want to focus on lol. lucking i dont really need to work out much of a true regimen for that because i train it every spare moment i have anyway lol and the skills that are most important for me to master at any given time and for any given reason are always floating around in my head anyway lol.

so its been a good day of mental housecleaning. and of uncooking hehe. im really enjoying all that uncooking.

oh and Neet: you will get a pic lol. eventually. i just never seem to be around cameras lol. but really im not buff. i actually keep getting told im skinny lol. tho i think thats crazy. i still have fat kid syndrome from highschool lol. i think its sunk in that im not fat anymore lol but it took me a long time to start buying clothes that actually fit me lol.

hey folks..

not much to report. just dropping in to say hi hehe.

im off to the bank to cash about $300 in loose change lol. it always makes me laugh being a busker. coz in brissy i live in a bit of an old peoples suburb, so you take in this massive jar of change and they go "ahhh savings" and then you take in another one or two massive jars the next week and they go "huh? where does this guy get so much change?" lol.

other than busking im not really exercising much. did 20 diamond pushups last night, a few chinups, hands forward and back, and a few leg lifts ... it was much harder than it was a couple of weeks ago lol. amazing how much a week of indulgence can take out of you. but i'll be on top form again in no time. better than ever.

and i have a nice big rocky waiting for me for lunch. the sun is shining and we will be heading out soon after that for a play on the bouncey stilts.

its a good day. hope youre all feelin it too

much love

-ant

totally important to have a strong core for gymnastics. my biggest problem with tumbling is that im too floppy in the middle lol... even with my handstands my legs tilt to the right lol. been working on correcting that the last couple of days. at least im starting to get the body awareness to be able to feel the difference. what kind of gymnastics do you do lea? we only really do floor and trampoline (and i really only do the most basic of those lol) but i love watching all the crazy bar and horse stuff. tumbling is the most fun though   and it lends itself so well to slapstick.

i guess a lot of the juggling i do could be seen as being closely related to a lot of the rhythmic gymnastics ball and hoop work lol.. though i would never dare to compare my skill to the awesome levels of precision and accuracy those kids have lol. not yet anyway

we'll have to trade clumsiness stories some time lol. gymnasts and jugglers seem to have the most awesome examples of pure embarrassing  uncoordination. its one of my favorite parts of this life. oh irony how i love thee.

make sure you keep us updated on your awesome new skills as you aquire them! and be careful with those niggles ok.

lol one day im gonna start an all raw circus lol. so far we've got me juggling and doing web, lea the gymnast, princessbee on arials hehe and neet can run around being our mischievous ring-mistress! yeah that sounds about right! 

who else wants to volunteer? harley how many other people can you take on that bike of yours at one time??
come one come all to the amazing Circus Rawkus!!!

I AM JOINING THE RAW CIRCUS!!! I've just signed up and paid my fees, in fruit, to the fruit man at the end of the street. When do we begin? I recently read in a vegetarian/vegan magazine about a UK gentleman who took a roadshow to shopping centres, with dancers/actors doing a show about encouraging kids to eat more fruit and veg, and then the show turned into a TV show after 10 years. I would absolutely love to incorporate some fun, active show/program AND encourage people to eat healthy!! Wow!

i was thinking about that this morning too pea... maybe one day making a street show that is based around healthy eating and making an issue of the fact that the guy up there doing crazy things with strength and precision does it all on raw. nothing too heavy in there ( i do need to get paid afterall) but just putting the info out there to people that the way they think of as "normal" for eating is actually very unhealthy and there are other healthy options out there. possibly even making it a raw food uncooking show on the street (with juggling and acrobatics thrown in of course) and letting people see how simple and quick and tasty and fun healthy food can be.

at the moment my street show in-the-works is a juggling cooking show, so it would just need some adaptation to one day make it raw and informative... something i will give more thought to and see what i can come up with.

on another happy note.... 8 then 4 handstand pushups against a wall. now that was an intense rush lol.