The other night, I saw the movie Julia and Julia and really enjoyed it. I appreciated the young Julia's character involving herself in a blogging journal to help her get through the process of cooking through Julia Child's thick cookbook.
Then I remembered that I too had started a blog and it made me come back to this space. Since I have been "gone" from blogging, I haven't gained any new viewers - but that would probably be helped by increased efforts in marketing myself. So. . .why back to the blog this time?
I love to write and I really LOVE to communicate with people, and introduce different people to eachother. I also think that this writing will help me keep my head onstraight and help me in my efforts to strength train my body. AND I like to share my newest visual art that I create and this format is just so very cool to allow me to do that.
A good friend is coming over today to spend the afternoon with me. . .we have much conversation to share and we are also planning on going out to do a little car/van/truck "window shopping." This will be a FUN day. In fact, I was so excited about getting my life going again, about getting a kickstart on the next chapter of my life, that I found it hard to sleep last night. THAT hasn't happened in a long time. I am going to cook some meals for my friend and see if I can coerse him to help me unload an exercise bike from my current van. Yes, that's what I said, and exercise bike. I've gone and done it, and now I've gone and SAID it to you (whomever may read this). I'm putting it out there. This bike, I am going to call it - "my new best friend" and spend time with it each and every day. I have absolutely NO endurance these days, and I am going to start easy with this bike and my cardio training. I will have the bike to just get me started. . .then I have another stepper machine that has resistance bands that will help my arms, and then I have two 3 lb. weights to use also. Essentially, it will be the beginning of my own personal gym equipment. I plan that each day, as I wake up, I am planning on starting out the day on the bike and see where this leads me. Repetition is the key here, that plus adding minutes as I go along.
Unloading that heavy new machine from my van with my friend's help will allow me to clean out the interior of the van - and I mean REALLY clean that sucker out! Once it is cleaned out, I will be closer to trading the van in when I buy a new vehicle. So until my friend arrives this afternoon, I am doing dishes, laundry, and sweeping - which is always "a feel good after it is done kind of thang!"
