Miscellany
Mar. 26th, 2003 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandIt's been a while since I posted (I'd love to say it was pressure of work but in fact, in some weird paradoxical way, the sudden release of pressure has driven my productivity right into the toilet: I feel no urgency, so I do very little, so I feel guilty and stay much later at work than I otherwise would. I know, I know, it makes no sense whatever. I need to work on this).
Got out of work at a semi-reasonable hour, went to the gym, grocery shopped, did laundry, did dishes, cooked... I feel so normal! (Don't look at the time.) I'm pleased to note that I seem to be developing positive associations with the gym, which I'm pretty sure is what's going to keep me motivated. I really do notice a difference in my mood and my energy level when I go. And the machines help. I like knowing EXACTLY how far I've gone, how fast I'm going, what my heart rate is etc. -- feedback helps. I think one of the reasons I never got into running outside, at least after the summer I was 15 and decided I needed to lose weight (teenage girls are stupid, OK?) and went jogging every day, is that my fitness level hasn't matched my expectations for years -- result, I try to do too much and wind up with an asthma attack and a bad attitude.
There was a small child at the grocery store who has made me entirely rethink my opinion of Boo from Monsters Inc. -- she was utterly adorable and exactly like. (It must be spring, I'm thinking somewhat fondly of small children; my boss's girlfriend brought their daughter in to the office this evening, she's about 2 now and terminally cute. I'm still not at all sure about children for myself, and screaming babies are not my thing, but paraverbal toddlers are, well, OK. At a distance anyway.)
Got out of work at a semi-reasonable hour, went to the gym, grocery shopped, did laundry, did dishes, cooked... I feel so normal! (Don't look at the time.) I'm pleased to note that I seem to be developing positive associations with the gym, which I'm pretty sure is what's going to keep me motivated. I really do notice a difference in my mood and my energy level when I go. And the machines help. I like knowing EXACTLY how far I've gone, how fast I'm going, what my heart rate is etc. -- feedback helps. I think one of the reasons I never got into running outside, at least after the summer I was 15 and decided I needed to lose weight (teenage girls are stupid, OK?) and went jogging every day, is that my fitness level hasn't matched my expectations for years -- result, I try to do too much and wind up with an asthma attack and a bad attitude.
There was a small child at the grocery store who has made me entirely rethink my opinion of Boo from Monsters Inc. -- she was utterly adorable and exactly like. (It must be spring, I'm thinking somewhat fondly of small children; my boss's girlfriend brought their daughter in to the office this evening, she's about 2 now and terminally cute. I'm still not at all sure about children for myself, and screaming babies are not my thing, but paraverbal toddlers are, well, OK. At a distance anyway.)
