"jogging" in the wind makes my ears sad

Naive is the word of the day... Or maybe Foolish. I don't know why I did that to myself, to decide that I want to go for a jog today. Seemed like a good idea when I went all formal and sent V an audacious and optimistic recurring calendar event invite for Monday 6:30-7:30 jogs.

And it had to start on pretty much the windiest Mondays ever. Good thing I still had my whale weight to keep me grounded, but my overly pointy and sensitive ears weren't so lucky. I thought they were gonna eventually pop somewhere along the way and bleed me to death as a manner of protest.

I even got jealous of those damn birds by the lake (seagulls, loons, pigeons, ducks, geese and swans). Damn earless creatures were just chilling along the lake like it's business as usual. The swans has got their neck buried in the lake and looked like giant floating white plastic bags from afar. I thought they were litter and was pretty indignant for a long time too, since I was pretty much walking for the entire time and it took me quite a while to be close enough to tell they were just fat birds looking for food.

All in all, I absolutely hated it. The only thing that prevented me from bitching the entire sad 4 kilometers was the wind shoving air into my mouth every time I opened it. I guess I'll give it another shot next Monday but between you and me, I don't think I was born to run. Burning ears, shin splints, and lack of aerodynamism would suggest that I'm more of a walking animal.

life as a bum who tested the waters of P90X this morning

Round 1 - Time Elapsed: [2:00]
Guy on TV:"Let's do squats!"
Doremish does squats.

Round 2 - Time Elapsed: [2:45]
Guy on TV: "let's do easy single-footed-pushup!"
Doremish: "Hmm... let me try do my pushup from the knee until the next round"

Round 3 - Time Elapsed: [4:00]
Guy on TV: "let's start this banana-back-flip-squat-pushup!"
Doremish: "Alright... let me try and do some more knee-pushups until the next round."

Round 4 - Time Elapsed: [6:00]
Guy on TV: "let's do this running-while-turning-around-banana-sideways-pushup! YEAH!!!"
Doremish: OK **** this.

eHow just shattered some twinkle of hope

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Stupid back fat roll, so easy to get, so hard to get rid of :(

on that forgotten resolution

I don't know if anyone remembers (I certainly have forgotten about it for a bit), I've decided to be healthier in general this year, sometime during new years as a resolution. Until now I haven't really done anything substantial or taken any steps towards that goal. Last week however, I have started taking the baby steps.

I am proud to announce that I'm going towards a low carb and no coffee diet - I hate to call it a diet, because that sounds so temporary. This is more of a permanent thing. Gone are the days where I pig out on Mckey Dees! Eventually I want to become one of those people that work out regularly, and look fit and happy.

I recently joined a recreational beach volleyball team via my friend J, and yesterday was my first game. Although i thoroughly enjoyed it, it was all in all a sometimes sedentary sport. I'm a stereotypical Taiwanese girl in that the only sport where I'm willing to run for hours for, would be badminton - unfortunately I'm not particularly good at it nor played it in ages, and there doesn't seem to be any affordable resources to play it in Toronto. But that is not all - Saturday mornings are now dedicated to hot yoga, and Tuesday afternoons are brisk-walking sessions. That's quite a bit of exercising compared to my prior life as an amateur channel-changer.

One of my biggest fear is experiencing a difficult child birth, and also subsequent to that become a pudgey mom... hopefully the baby steps are going to lead me to a healthier lifestyle from now on and throughout my life. Besides, I also want to be all dopey from those endorphins and become one of those eternally chirpy people that annoy the feck out of others in the office. Why be the annoyee? I'm tired of being the Annoyee. I'll talk your heads off during watercooler chats and elevator rides! Raaaaarg.