I have an Apple Watch and while I used to really, REALLY be into it, I'm not feeling it anymore. First, I've become disenchanted with the Apple Fitness app. The app rewards streaks: perfect week, perfect month, etc. I am a person who HATES to break streaks, and so I fell into the trap of thinking that activity doesn't "count" unless I have a fitness device tracking it. And for me, that's not a great way of thinking. You need rest from exercise. Even The Rock only exercises 6 days a ...
Five years!
Today is my FIVE YEAR anniversary at TNP, which really isn't The New Place at all anymore. Not so shabby for someone who thought she'd be fired before her first year was done. It's a good place to work, and has allowed me to travel to new places and learn new things. I'm doing great things with Excel, and I'm even doing a bit of SQL work on our database! (I also received $300 in gift cards, which will be put aside for future travel.) In unrelated news, I'm 23 days through the Yoga with ...
Fitness sucks
My journey towards fitness continues. I embarked on this Quixotic quest for two reasons. The first one is obvious. I'm larger and rounder than I've ever been. I hit my highest weight ever (my personal best!) and needed to start getting serious about my shape. Then I read and realized that fitness won't help with that. There's a dbaggy quote going around on Pinterest that says "Abs are made in the kitchen and not the gym." Yeah yeah, whatever. This will still help with my roundish shape. The ...
Zumba, week 2
This was my second week back. It got a little easier, because I was slightly more familiar with the moves. I'm better with the cha cha cha routines than the mambo routines. You'd think all the nights I spent watching Dirty Dancing would make me better with mambo. Halfway through the hour, I lose all worry that I'm secretly being videotaped for YouTube. I have to go again next week, because the week after I'll miss it due to work travel. Why am I doing this? I need to increase my stamina. My ...
Zumba class, week 1
I signed up for a Zumba class through my township's recreation program. I went to one class almost exactly five years ago (Something about September that makes me do silly things to stave off mortality, I guess) and PREDICTABLY* never went back. This time I paid for eight weeks upfront, so I'm pitting my increasing laziness against my increasing cheapness to see what will win out. I think I did okay, but I have to realize that me THINKING I can do any type of aerobic dance is the same as Joey ...
hey yeah?
I know Curves is owned by a devout Christian, but editing the line in the song "Redneck Woman" from "Hell, yeah!" to "Hey yeah!" in its music mix is JUSSST a bit much. ...
O Happy (Satur)day!
Went to Curves this morning. That franchise certainly loves Cher. There's a whole techno-Cher Curves soundtrack in rotation. Thirty minutes of Cher and I'm ready to go shag a bagel boy. Two trips around the Curves circuit leaves me tired, but feeling that I accomplished something. Tonight we're going with the Blackwells to see a Camden Riversharks game> Long time readers will know that every time we go to a game with John and Erin, it rains. Tonight should be clear. Tomorrow I head out to ...
Rediscovering my Curves
Tonight I joined Curves. Why? Because I have a vacation coming up in October and my YMCA treadmill regimen bores me to tears. Oh...and I purposefully bought all my vacation clothes one size smaller. I'm kicking myself now. Curves is a women-only fitness center with a workout designed to get you out in 30 minutes. There are different 'stations' arranged in a circle. Resistance machines alternate with these neat square bouncy-type boards that you can jog in place, bounce, jump or step on. Crazy ...
i am a lotus…i am a lotus…i am a lo– ow ow!
Tonight I went back to yoga for the first time in a looooooooong time. I have dubbed this year..."Year of Vanity"** mainly because I think I really let myself go during year 32. Put on some lbs...wore the hair in a ponytail almost constantly...more comfy clothes than attractive clothes...ignored makeup. Last week I wore some eyeshadow and mascara to work one day. Coworkers Damon and Shawn both immediately noticed. In a "whoa! you're wearing makeup!" kind of way. Which isn't all that great, if ...
Totally Tubular Tuesday!!!
Hey! Welcome to day two of my totally exciting blog!!! (Remember...truth is black...fake and exciting is in pink!) A few weeks ago, I 'attended' a Gannett (my paper's parent company) audio chat about Walking and Wellness. I mean 'attend' loosely. The audio stream was playing as I was working. Halfway through, they gave a secret phrase, and if you emailed that phrase to them, you'd get a free pedometer. Yeah. I know. Only geeks would do that. My pedometer came today through inter-company ...
Ow.
I have a love/hate relationship with Valentine's Day. I know it's a celebration of love, in all of its sickness and glory. But more often than not, it falls during the workweek and is therefore pretty uneventful for working folk. I don't ask for flowers, I don't ask for candy, I don't ask for jewelry. All I ask for is a card big enough to warrant the "extra postage needed" warning on the envelope. (Aw, c'mon...it's not like he's MAILING it to me.) Breakfast: 1/2 bottle of skim milk (70 cal); ...
Open letter
Dear DumDum,You have Pilates on Monday nights, remember? Of course you didn't. You didn't remember until Monday at 7:45 (class started at 7:15) when you were all curled up on the sofa with a sleeping dog at your feet. Hey Lady...you PAID for that class!But to your credit...the site redesign is coming along swimmingly. Just a few more things to put into place.Don't give up on the Proactiv. Your cheeks are looking MUCH better...and your chin will clear up in due time. It's already calmed down ...
