I'm enjoying a 4 day and 6 hour reprieve from work, which started at 10:00 Thursday morning. I haven't done much except for exercise and clean house. Neither exercising nor cleaning house are New Year resolutions for me. I should do both without making a resolution to do them, and I do both, albeit sporadically. I go to the gym to improve my mood, to streamline my thinking ability and to hopefully ensure that I will be moving when, and if, I'm lucky enough to reach the age of an elder elder [that's not an extra elder, it's a specific double elder, because the spirit guides (that's a whole nuther story) once told me that old wasn't until you were 80 or 90, and maybe not even then -- I think they were thinking of Jack Lalanne. Anyways, I like to use the word elder, and anyone a bit older than me could be an elder -- hell, I'm someone's elder. Let's just say, that if I refer to an elder elder, then I'm referring to someone of advanced years.] Sorry, I digress. What I was saying, is that if I happen to look a bit better for having exercised in addition to all the reasons I actually exercise, then that's a cherry on top! I recently read a book about the brain, and how exercise helps our brains to think clearer (sharper, better ... pick a great adjective) and mentally feel better (it chases a mild case of blues away). I already knew that from experience, but it reinforced my desire to be more consistent with exercise. For better or worse, my mind is always with me, and it keeps me company when I have no one else to keep me company, and I don't want to spend all my free time with a flake, even if I'm the flake. Hey, I said ALL my free time, I didn't say I was totally down on flakes. Flakes need love and attention too.
As for cleaning house, I am not fond of that activity (ahem ... cough ... mammoth understatement). However, I am fond of its benefits, so I'm motivated to wage war on my cleaning aversion without the assistance of a resolution.
I really didn't know where I was going when I started to write this post, and I still don't. I was just checking in to wish you all a Happy New Year, and I got to thinking about all the resolutions that people are probably going to make, and how many I could make, but won't. I have things I want to improve about myself, but I think about those things all the time anyways, and I've yet to become that perfect person I keep imagining I can be. What I do know, is that if 2012 has something sweet and juicy to offer, I will meet it halfway ... hell, I might even run after it. If nothing else, I will get some exercise.
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I thought about doing some exercise, but I laid down on the couch with a beer 'till the feeling passed. Scared the shit out of me. But I do have to say that I can tell a difference in my mental being when I do. Like when I walk to the frig to get another beer. I feel so much better. Even more so when I walk back to my chair. But I don't overdo it. I usually just ask Judy to bring me one. But you have a great new year, ya hear.
ReplyDeleteI got some exercise just trying to follow that elder elder discourse. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!! I hope the new year brings you something you quest for!