Well January has to go on the record for the FASTEST MOVING MONTH! Yesterday it was New Year’s Day and today is end of January. I guess it’s true, the older you get, the faster it goes. On many levels.
My training these days has taken on a new dimension. I’m still joggling along on the treadmill, been toooo darned cold, windy, snowy, rainy, icy, nighty, (one or all of the above) to run outside, but have also thrown in some additional body work. At this age, I really need a lot of body work, but hey. And now that I am 49, I have to do 49 pushups every morning. For some reason, 49 pushups is a LOT more pushups than 48. Of course, most of them are girly pushups. To prepare myself for 50 (right around the corner), I have started throwing in 10 manly type pushups a day. Once 10 feels comfortable and does not make me groan, will increase each week until I am doing my whole set up pushups manly style. Hey, a girl can dream.
I am also doing ‘workouts’ on the Wii. Really, they are just video games standing up, but I’m gonna call them workouts. I hate standing on the thing, however, because after it tells me to ‘STEP ON’, it says “OW” when I do. Tell you what, irks me every time. Want to slap her. It. Whatever. That Wii doesn’t like me much, and I’m the kinda gal that really wants to be liked. So I am working hard to master her games so she likes me and stops saying “OW” when I step on. I’ll keep you posted. She also reminds me every day that I am (and I quote here) “overweight”. Uh, like, hello. I’m 49. I have lots of history packed on this body. Baggage adds weight.
We are Bowling for the Cure soon, so spent the last week with the lost art of Tie Dye. I am a master of the pink tie dye now, and hoping to expand my Tie Dye Empire to the masses. Okay, the masses are only, like 20, but it’s a start. With the Bowl for the Cure, I am working to raise a little dough for the Cure to keep the money coming in throughout the year. The major fundraising is done with the Race for the Cure in October, but if we want to find a cure, we need to focus on this all year long. I hope that within my life time, I will see this disease wiped out so my friends and family and THEIR friends and family don’t feel the fear of hearing those words “you have breast cancer”. Met a new friend recently that is a breast cancer survivor (they are EVERYWHERE). He is active in the Race as well, and he got me energized all over again. I am looking forward to linking back to my Komen Race Page so we can all be in this together. Keep the faith. Keep the wiggle on.
My training these days has taken on a new dimension. I’m still joggling along on the treadmill, been toooo darned cold, windy, snowy, rainy, icy, nighty, (one or all of the above) to run outside, but have also thrown in some additional body work. At this age, I really need a lot of body work, but hey. And now that I am 49, I have to do 49 pushups every morning. For some reason, 49 pushups is a LOT more pushups than 48. Of course, most of them are girly pushups. To prepare myself for 50 (right around the corner), I have started throwing in 10 manly type pushups a day. Once 10 feels comfortable and does not make me groan, will increase each week until I am doing my whole set up pushups manly style. Hey, a girl can dream.
I am also doing ‘workouts’ on the Wii. Really, they are just video games standing up, but I’m gonna call them workouts. I hate standing on the thing, however, because after it tells me to ‘STEP ON’, it says “OW” when I do. Tell you what, irks me every time. Want to slap her. It. Whatever. That Wii doesn’t like me much, and I’m the kinda gal that really wants to be liked. So I am working hard to master her games so she likes me and stops saying “OW” when I step on. I’ll keep you posted. She also reminds me every day that I am (and I quote here) “overweight”. Uh, like, hello. I’m 49. I have lots of history packed on this body. Baggage adds weight.
We are Bowling for the Cure soon, so spent the last week with the lost art of Tie Dye. I am a master of the pink tie dye now, and hoping to expand my Tie Dye Empire to the masses. Okay, the masses are only, like 20, but it’s a start. With the Bowl for the Cure, I am working to raise a little dough for the Cure to keep the money coming in throughout the year. The major fundraising is done with the Race for the Cure in October, but if we want to find a cure, we need to focus on this all year long. I hope that within my life time, I will see this disease wiped out so my friends and family and THEIR friends and family don’t feel the fear of hearing those words “you have breast cancer”. Met a new friend recently that is a breast cancer survivor (they are EVERYWHERE). He is active in the Race as well, and he got me energized all over again. I am looking forward to linking back to my Komen Race Page so we can all be in this together. Keep the faith. Keep the wiggle on.
