Finally Back to it

Okay so my goals up there on the side have not been going so swimmingly.  I haven't really been working on them nor monitoring my progress on them as I had intended. But today I got back to the Jacob's ladder.  I managed 17 minutes on it again and with 8 of the minutes as intervals.  And I can tell you that last minute on there I just did not want to do it.  I would much rather have gotten off of it - but I pushed through and that is great.

I have committed myself to 2 more times before next Thursday.  Then 3 more times the following week.  So that should be a bit of a challenge as I have some out of town time and then also some time I will miss the chance because they are painting the fitness centre.  So hopefully I can figure out how to fit those 5 jaunts in there around all of that!

As for the pushups and the plank they are both definitely still needing a lot of work.  Although the wall pushups we did in pilates class the other day was definitely helpful - works those muscles in ways I never could with an actual push up on the floor.

Protesting as Activity

I am off to an election fraud protest today.  I hope to move lots and walk lots during it.  And hopefully it isn't the type of thing that means I have to dodge tear gas or something like that. It is kind of hard to believe that I actually feel any concern in that way in our society - but sadly it seems like that is increasingly the case in these situations of peaceful protest.  So wish me luck that this protest is one of note only for the peaceful nature of it and the raising awareness aspect of it.

Narcissism

Oh goodness me oh my.  I am just recognizing how deeply narcissistic I can be sometimes.  Look at the blog address of this blog and my other blog that is meant to be a beginners guide to this whole process of change.  Both of them are based on the czing thing which comes from crystalizing which in turn comes from my name.  Well I guess that is just a little bit narcissistic - it doesn't make this about anyone else at all - really about me. I can kind of understand that in this context - a blog is most often really just about the person writing it.  But my other one that is meant to be useful for other people who are starting on this path of getting fit and healthy - it shouldn't be named after me. If I saw someone else's thing that was like that and it was named after them I would probably mock it and think what a blowhard that person was naming it after themselves.  How did I not see this when I was coming up with this idea?  How did I not immediately recognize the narcissism of it?  Well I guess the answer to that is that we all are sometimes farsighted (yes I wrote that correctly) - we can't see what is right in front of our face only the more distant picture.  Because I think it takes some corrective lenses sometimes to get that near vision back - the vision to see inside ourselves and see our own foibles.  So glasses on.  I think I had best pop over and change the label on my other blog.  And here I thought it was so clever this abbreviation that is like seizing but not.  It is clever actually (I still think so) but it is also something else that overwhelms the clever I think :(.  Oh well, off I go to change the name (although I am not going to change the link for it yet).