She's going the distance

[discountsatori]

I was driving home from work one day last week when I saw my hero: a lean, bald-spotted man in gray cotton t-shirt and shorts, running down the side of the street while carrying an orange garbage bag in his right hand. Every time he came across any litter, he leaned over to pick it up. He had the luxury of possessing really long limbs, so bending

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[delahk]

maybe you and adam can pool your interests and take martial arts lessons together. loose, meditative ass-kicking.

[discountsatori]

That's not a bad idea!

[starlakitty]

i never knew that about boxing...but i guess it makes sense! i think boxing would be an awesome thing to get into. i could totally see that as a huge stress reliever. :)

i think it's awesome that you are able to keep up on exercising and remaining physically fit. it's not an easy thing to do...especially when it is so darned easy not to exercise and unhealthy food options abound!

so good luck if you do go into boxing...i think it would be awesome!

[discountsatori]

I didn't use to exercise very much at all. I enjoyed it, but I just didn't do it on a regular schedule. It was only when I convinced myself that it was an absolutely non-negotiable part of my day, as crucial as brushing my teeth, that I exercised regularly. And, fortunately, eating healthy goes along with it, because it's hard to exercise if you've been filling your body with junk food.

Honestly, I think you (or me, or whoever) have to be a little bit of a masochist to get into exercise... because at first it feels like torture. But after a while, you realize that you're being really good to yourself.

[greencow]

i can totally see you getting into boxing...!

[newscane]

I need to get back into walking a few times a week. I had a nice routine in college: I'd walk from my dorm to the lake in the middle of campus, around the lake twice, and back to the dorm. The whole routine would take about 30 minutes. I'd rarely head out for a walk before 9pm, sometimes even later (especially if there was something on my mind). Great stress reliever. I'm not sure why I don't walk more often now -- probably because I don't get home from work until midnight, maybe because I don't have a lake. Sometimes I tell myself that I need an iPod to take along on a walk. But I managed just fine with a CD player on walks in college, so maybe that's just an attempt at justification for finally buying one.

Are we going to find out what this "something better" is?

[discountsatori]

I love my iPod -- I have the cheap one, the Shuffle, which a lot of people don't like, but it's perfect for what I use it for. I don't care about having fifty different playlists; I just want good and constant and constantly good music while I exercise, and that's exactly what the Shuffle does. Also, if I drop it (as I have, a million times), it doesn't break, as some of the other iPods tend to do. It can hold 16 hours of music, and it was only $140 for the 1GB. Totally worth it to me. Do I sound like an ad yet?

Nighttime walks are grand. My friend/roommate and I used to go on a lot of post-midnight walks in Japan. I wouldn't attempt that there!

Yes, I shall post about my new project at work in my next entry. :)

[newscane]

I'd mainly be loading mine up with live DMB, I'd imagine. I could deal with just about anything on there, and if it was a song I didn't like, I'd just skip it. But I might miss not hearing a concert start to finish. It could do the trick. I will think about it :) You sound like you could be one of those Switch ads (in a sense)...

I look forward to reading about the new project!

[discountsatori]

Actually, to continue my iPod Shuffle endorsement, you can create an ordered playlist. You set it up in iTunes, then plug in the iPod and update it, and then, when you turn on the player, just set the little switch so that it plays things in order, rather than on shuffle. So you could listen to an entire concert, in order. Sometimes I listen to Broadway soundtracks while I exercise, and I like to hear those in order.

[eengah]

I have a very random question for you -- did you keep your last name when you got married, or has it changed?

[discountsatori]

I use both names -- on my driver's license now, it says Lauren H------ K----. But I haven't gotten used to that yet, so I sometimes introduce myself by both names, and sometimes just by my family name. Mail from family always comes addressed to Adam and Laurie K----, but it seems like all other people and entities (banks, etc.) still know me just as Laurie H. It's confusing right now. I'll be interested to see how I introduce myself and how people know me five years from now.