Thursday, August 25, 2011

Death to the scooter....

As I said in the previous post, I was inspired to pick up the ole' quill (or tap on the ole' keyboard) again because my friend CO started blogging.  She was inspired because she wants to make some changes in her life (52 of them, once per week for a year...) you can check out her journey here:http://52changesandotherstories.blogspot.com/.  She is much more ambitious with change.  She often states that if it is not big, dramatic and all the way at once that she will not do it.  I am a little more gradual with change... I like to dip a big toe in, see how it feels, go slowly and figure I'll get there someday.  If it feels uncomfortable, I won't continue.  I like to trick myself into changing, make it so gradual that I can deny it's even happening.  This is why it has taken me the last 17 years or so to exercise even 2 or 3 times per week.

I currently am in  a yoga phase, I'm trying to do 20 minutes of yoga, 3-5 times per week.  The reason I do this is to stave off age-related decline.  I have a pact with a couple of friends that we won't let ourselves end up in a nursing home, drooling and being alone.  We plan to have a senior- hippie commune, where we travel and exercise and cook and terrorize the young men that we will eventually hire to do the yardwork...    I don't ever want to have to use a motorized scooter to get around, not until I'm 100 anyway.

I also am trying to drink more green tea, because it is so good for you.  Unfortunately, while I love regular orange pekoe (Tetley please...)  I tend to not like other teas, herbal or green.  I'm trying to choke this stuff down for the good of my health, until I jump onto some other health related, life extending bandwagon....

or scooter.


Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Ode to renewed efforts...

I have been avoiding looking at my blog because I haven't posted in....4 months.  This is typical anxiety avoidance behavior on my part... I feel guilty for not posting, not like I'm disappointing legions of devoted fans or anything.  I last wrote about the fact that since my boys have been getting a bit better I haven't had the screaming inside of my head that gets relieved when I write about it.  Having said that, they are going through a bit of a rough patch...more on that later, but I'm posting today because on of my friends (Cyn or CO as she is known online..) pointed in my face last night and said.."You need to start writing your blog again, I check it everyday".  So even if no else reads it, Cyn, this is for you.  I am also inspired because my other slack blogger friend, Dawn has posted on fruitflies, which you can read at http://heymanwhatthehell.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-with-fruit-flies-anyway.html

Anyway....so I have to think of other things to write about, which should be ok, since I feel the need to verbally regale people with triviality that I find interesting.  At least with a blog, they have the option of shutting it off.

Thank God that's not an option in real life.  My fragile ego (think inflated balloon that's easy to pop) couldn't take it.  I prefer to live in the misty pink haze of self delusion....no, I'm sure they want to hear about this, just look at their smiling faces, heads nodding in encouragement... wait, maybe that's not a smile but a grimace of pain, and wait...are they nodding off???  No,  it can't be...come on misty pink haze..work for me..

Maybe you should just head on over to that other blog now....