Sunday, February 19, 2012

Inscrutable

Lately, I've been having trouble with the captchas on blogger. That is annoying.

I've also been having trouble finding time for the paper from my PhD that I'm working on. And getting down to business when I do have time for it. Wah.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

NYR update

I'm doing exceptionally well with my new year resolution this year, which was to be a more active person.

I've been working out nearly every day! My only aim has been to just go. No other fitness goals. Even if it's 20 min of walking on the treadmill that doesn't break a sweat, it's a success. I just want to build exercise into my routine so that working out feels like something I just do at the end of the day instead of being a big deal. I've been doing weights a couple days a week, treadmill or elipitcal some days, and...wait for it...a dance class one day a week! I DID it! I've been taking ballet and it's really fun.

I've also been doing all sorts of social things. I'm extremely fortunate that I have recently landed in a group of friends who are doers. They plan all kinds of interesting things and get people to do them. I've said yes to some things I wouldn't have wanted to do in the past, and it has been quite rewarding. And I've had people over a couple of times too.

I'm not sure I can say the exercise has me feeling all that different except that I seem to have more energy for chores. I've been keeping the house WAY cleaner. A nice consequence of that is that I can have friends over on short notice without worrying if the toilet's gross.