Dept. of randomosity

[kaffy_r]

Things I've Thought Recently

• This I believe: it is impossible to keep knit sweaters safe from disfigurement in a house with three cats.
• After checking out some clips of rugby games (don't ask - it started with YouTube clips of haka from the New Zealand All Blacks and went from there to the Rugby world championship) I am now convinced that rugby is a game that requires more skill and gut toughness than any other version of sport that could be called "football." It particularly eclipses American football (Sorry, supergee.)
• Also? Haka are pretty amazing pieces of theater to watch and listen to and make me want to learn more about Maori history and culture. 
• I have gained back much (not all, but a lot) of the weight I lost to my RA/scleroderma. I find that I don't care quite as much now as I did a few months ago. Perhaps the idea that I'm exercising regularly and attempting to be a teeny bit more active, makes me feel this way. Perhaps it's because I just can't be bothered to worry about it. Hmmmm.
• Getting anywhere at all on Chapter 26 of Hearts and Moons has proven to be very difficult. This story won't be done before the end of 2015. Bother. 
• I really am liking this season of Doctor Who, although the most recent one had me violently swinging between enjoyment (Osgood! Kate Stewart!) and irritation (Doctor with little time in world-threatening crisis decides to travel trans Atlantic in a plane instead of the TARDIS. O rly?)
• Exercise is hard
• Wow. Much randomosity. 

Comments

[kaffy_r]

I sent you a message with the information, with much rolling of eyes at self.

And I'm working on hard on continuing to exercise. The entirety of my life has been lived in opposition to, and fear of, exercise. So learning to like it at this point has been pretty surprising to me. Still, I'm happy that the desire to keep going is there; it's never been there before.

[shanghaied]

Got it. And hey, it happens to the best of us, and to the worst of us, and to all of us in between :D I shall act on it soon...

I'm working on hard on continuing to exercise

Good on yez! BTW please don't take the impression from my love of 'exercise' that I'm some sort of gym-bunny - a sub-class of modern urban twattery upon which I rightly heap great scorn and sneering snarfles - no, I'm just one of those people who's always enjoyed being fairly active and who was blursed (portmanteau intentional) with a body that complains at me if I don't use it fairly frequently - the kind of body that can't bear to sit still for long and fidgets. I was an extreme distance runner in childhood and early-early teens for the sheer love of it, but time and busy-ness and shinsplints eventually brought that to a halt, at which point I became a hillwalker for the sheer love of it... and then a Bad Thing^TM happened in my mid-twenties after I'd gone back to running several miles every morning, the result eventually being that I came to associate running (proper running, mind, not this daft jogging lark) with life-threatening illness and thus never go faster than an hour's crazed racewalk (>150 paces/minute; I often pass joggers out...) in the mornings these days :D

But yes, it was the sheer bloodyminded determination to get myself out of forced bed-dwelling and away from having to use a walking stick that made me do some sort of activity every day, even 15 or 20 minutes was all I could manage before keeling over again. And that gradually increased to the hour's crazed racewalk, plus as much other activity as I can get in, and the result is that hills don't exist now and even when my immune system is doing its regular Defcon 3 tricks I still keep the system running reasonably well...

...all of which is my long-winded way of suggesting to you that you try replacing the word exercise with the word activity in your thoughts. Exercise is something people do with conscious intent; activity is just, y'know, being active. And some activities are more fun than others but there are pretty much no unbearable bad ones. Even being a lumberjack :P

p.s. Pardon the edits - my L key appears to be having issues :D

[kaffy_r]

As I swim through my days, I occasionally back-paddle to things online, and here I am to tell you that I'm still fighting the good fight. I do still persist in calling it exercise, largely because I'm doing specific exercises to strengthen specific muscles in my torso. They work a proper treat to keep my back spasms pretty well at bay, so I won't stop doing them. Still, I understand the difference between activity and exercise. There are certain things I try to do to stay active during days that are, by structure, incredibly sedentary; I try to park a block or so away from interview appointments, to get at least some walking done, for instance. Also, housecleaning; it can be very active.