- I have a slightly addictive personality. I have been known to crash on the couch and watch a full season of Downton Abbey in two days. Or to burrow down and plow through the entire Twilight series in 5 days. Seriously. Twice. Over this past weekend, I sat still with a book, a blanket, a cat, and a cup of coffee for 6 hours on Saturday and 8 hours on Sunday. And I was thrilled!
- I lost my activity tracker in (literally) knee-deep mud out in the cow pasture. Believe it or not, I found it the next morning! (Thanks to the ladies for not trampling it under the manure/mud!)
- Speaking of cows. I love healthy baby calves. It’s so much fun to watch them play!
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Random Friday
What's rambling through my head this week…
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Pick it back up again
As you may have noticed, I have been a bit absent lately. I didn’t have much to say in June, until the last week where I really rolled some posts out! July has been pretty spotty, to say the least.
What’s going on?
Well, time, for one thing. Our county fair was the first week of July, and John and I were both tied up quite a bit with that. I’m also very involved with our local community theatre, the Gibson County Theatre Company, and I just finished stage managing “The King and I” last weekend. Between those two big events, they pretty ate up all my free time for the last three weeks.
But that’s not all, as much as I would like to say it is.
I’m having some trouble getting “back into the swing of things.”
Have you noticed that? It’s not just with blogging. It’s with eating right, exercising, getting up on time, reading instead of watching TV, cooking at home instead of going out to eat, anything like that. Those are just a few of my biggies.
It seems easy to STOP doing some of these things… piece of cake (pun definitely intended) to STOP getting up 45 minutes early to spend some quality time with Bob, my treadmill. Easy to STOP picking up the book and flipping on the stupid television. (200 channels and still nothing on?) Easy to STOP blogging.
But, gosh, it sure can be hard to START doing some of these things again!
What is it about that? These are things I like to do (reading, blogging), and things I know I need to do for my health (eating right, exercising).
Getting up early? Well, that doesn’t really fall into either category. But I do know that I feel a whole lot better, all day long, if I get up without any (or with only one) snooze, instead of fighting with that stupid thing for an hour.
Okay, so it is pretty easy to get into a routine that involves sleeping in and not getting enough exercise and camping out in front of the television. Why is it so hard to get back out of that habit? Lazy feels good sometimes, but most of the time lazy doesn’t fell good. At all.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve thought to myself, “Self, there is nothing on television, and you would rather be (blogging, writing, reading, whatever-ing) so get your butt out of the recliner and go do that thing!” And I don’t move.
Seriously! What is the deal with that?
So. Today, July 26. (yes, writing a day ahead of posting) For the next month, I will post no less than three times per week. And for every post I write, I will comment on three other blogs. (Another of the things I have a hard time “picking back up” again.)
Help me out, and hold me accountable, please!
I love all of you, my readers, and I do miss spending time with you! Here is my effort to bring the relationship back to life. ;)
What is something that you have stopped doing, that you want to start again?
What’s going on?
Well, time, for one thing. Our county fair was the first week of July, and John and I were both tied up quite a bit with that. I’m also very involved with our local community theatre, the Gibson County Theatre Company, and I just finished stage managing “The King and I” last weekend. Between those two big events, they pretty ate up all my free time for the last three weeks.
But that’s not all, as much as I would like to say it is.
I’m having some trouble getting “back into the swing of things.”
Have you noticed that? It’s not just with blogging. It’s with eating right, exercising, getting up on time, reading instead of watching TV, cooking at home instead of going out to eat, anything like that. Those are just a few of my biggies.
It seems easy to STOP doing some of these things… piece of cake (pun definitely intended) to STOP getting up 45 minutes early to spend some quality time with Bob, my treadmill. Easy to STOP picking up the book and flipping on the stupid television. (200 channels and still nothing on?) Easy to STOP blogging.
But, gosh, it sure can be hard to START doing some of these things again!
What is it about that? These are things I like to do (reading, blogging), and things I know I need to do for my health (eating right, exercising).
Getting up early? Well, that doesn’t really fall into either category. But I do know that I feel a whole lot better, all day long, if I get up without any (or with only one) snooze, instead of fighting with that stupid thing for an hour.
Okay, so it is pretty easy to get into a routine that involves sleeping in and not getting enough exercise and camping out in front of the television. Why is it so hard to get back out of that habit? Lazy feels good sometimes, but most of the time lazy doesn’t fell good. At all.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve thought to myself, “Self, there is nothing on television, and you would rather be (blogging, writing, reading, whatever-ing) so get your butt out of the recliner and go do that thing!” And I don’t move.
Seriously! What is the deal with that?
So. Today, July 26. (yes, writing a day ahead of posting) For the next month, I will post no less than three times per week. And for every post I write, I will comment on three other blogs. (Another of the things I have a hard time “picking back up” again.)
Help me out, and hold me accountable, please!
I love all of you, my readers, and I do miss spending time with you! Here is my effort to bring the relationship back to life. ;)
What is something that you have stopped doing, that you want to start again?
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Back on the wagon
I have not been very good with my alarm clock war lately. There’s been lots of snooze button-hitting. Frankly, it’s been pretty ugly.
I also have not been all that great getting up in the morning to fit my exercise in. This has been an issue for me since the well went out. Something about not having easy access to a shower at 7:00am that makes it less appealing to get up at 6:00am to exercise.
And, well (no pun intended), once I got out of that habit, it’s pretty hard to get back into it.
So I am making another go at it.
I have set some weight loss goals for myself. I am going to be at my goal weight by the end of 2010. I have some intermediate goals to hit, and some non-food awards planned out as I hit them.
In order to make these goals happen, I will be getting back on an exercise plan. Starting Thursday morning - up and going!
Of course, if I keep eating like I ate on Wednesday, that won’t be so easy! But! Back on the wagon it is! Back to Weight Watchers meetings, back to tracking, and back to paying attention. And back to only one snooze button hit in the mornings. Whee!
I also have not been all that great getting up in the morning to fit my exercise in. This has been an issue for me since the well went out. Something about not having easy access to a shower at 7:00am that makes it less appealing to get up at 6:00am to exercise.
And, well (no pun intended), once I got out of that habit, it’s pretty hard to get back into it.
So I am making another go at it.
I have set some weight loss goals for myself. I am going to be at my goal weight by the end of 2010. I have some intermediate goals to hit, and some non-food awards planned out as I hit them.
In order to make these goals happen, I will be getting back on an exercise plan. Starting Thursday morning - up and going!
Of course, if I keep eating like I ate on Wednesday, that won’t be so easy! But! Back on the wagon it is! Back to Weight Watchers meetings, back to tracking, and back to paying attention. And back to only one snooze button hit in the mornings. Whee!
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