My first of post....hmmmm, wonder how long this will actually last. Heh

I guess I should introduce myself. I'm not gonna give my real name here but my puppy name is Aspen. Im from Ontario Canada, where I basically have live my entire life. 

I'm in the restaurant biz and have been for 24ish years and I....blame...attribute...reason...lol to my utter lack of filter or subtly and very matter of fact personality. It isn't an industry that really (especially in the time when I started) sheltered or babied a young person. You learned to be quick, you learned to be witty, you learned to have a very thick skin or you weren't going to make it. As well you learned that behind the prestine hostess stand or emaculate dinner wear that the world was dirty, the world was at times uncaring and the world wasn't black and white. You did what you need to do to survive. Mostly I learned that ppl were just fucked up and just how fucked up I actually was. For better or worse....

On the contrary I was brought up in a loving family and was not hampered by over baring parents, they were/are great! They trusted me to do what was right and guided me as best they could. My dad being a reservist in the CND army for 25vyears as a piper exposed me to that world and I love it, if I wasn't a chef I'd be out in the field somewhere for sure and often times wish I had made that choice. 

Along with being bestowed the ground work for military disapline I also got very involved in martial arts training when I was 14 and dove head first into that starting out in a goju karate school that also brought in aikido ju jitsu, taichi and weapons training. Id have training 7days a week but the dojo was closed in Sundays hehe.  And well I got banned from lunch classes when sensei figures out that I was skipping highschool to come train. 😉

I don't officially train anymore but always learn and adapt things from all over the fighting world as I learn of them. I am in no way a professional fighter! Ha maybe one post I'll talk about the one 2 real fights I've ever been in. I've always been a philosopher and interested in the way ppl think, work, act and the reasons why.

Heh I know none of that is what anyone is really here to read but I figure Ill give a slight ground work to myself before getting to the good stuff.