Physical activity
In January I was feeling a little depressed. Mostly because I was stuck at home, sick most of the time, unable to do the semi new year's resolutions I had made. I've been feeling a lot better lately. As soon as I was less sick, I started working out several times a week. I am now officially playing baseball. The past few weeks I've been practicing with the Brewers. It's a pretty high competition wood bat league, with a lot of former college players. My coach actually used to pitch for UCLA alongside Zito and Prior. Cool stuff. I've also been playing frisbee with more regularity again. Practicing, working out, and playing frisbee has meant activity almost every day. I feel motivated and healthy.
Jane and I are doing no desserts for pretend lent. It hasn't been terribly hard, though the thought of a moist chocolate chip cookie is more tempting than it is when I can have one whenever I want. I'm not sure if it's the physical activity, not eating desserts, or eating less meat but I appear to have lost weight somewhere in the past 6 months or so. I am 128 right now, as opposed to 135 that I have been most of my modern life. Because of baseball and my need to bulk up my pitching arm, this is no good, and so I've been bumping the meat intake back up (but not on Fridays, also due to pretend lent).
Those are the main things going on for me. Elections have been exciting, but that's dying down. I had friends come to the Harris ski cabin again, which was fun as always. Isaac and I went to a start/stop freeze flash mob a couple weeks ago. We had food with us, and one of the freezes had me midbite with my banana. It was only 30 seconds, but lots of saliva was produced. I warned Isaac about this. Then I was next to him for another freeze for a few minutes and people kept taking pictures of us. When it was all over I turned to see Isaac with his mouth open over his apple and a gigantic pile of drool on his jacket. So there must be some pictures of Isaac drooling all over himself on the internet. We haven't found them yet, so let me know if you do!
Aaron Butler is coming in a few minutes to stay for a few days, so I should probably head out. I'll try to say more later.
Jane and I are doing no desserts for pretend lent. It hasn't been terribly hard, though the thought of a moist chocolate chip cookie is more tempting than it is when I can have one whenever I want. I'm not sure if it's the physical activity, not eating desserts, or eating less meat but I appear to have lost weight somewhere in the past 6 months or so. I am 128 right now, as opposed to 135 that I have been most of my modern life. Because of baseball and my need to bulk up my pitching arm, this is no good, and so I've been bumping the meat intake back up (but not on Fridays, also due to pretend lent).
Those are the main things going on for me. Elections have been exciting, but that's dying down. I had friends come to the Harris ski cabin again, which was fun as always. Isaac and I went to a start/stop freeze flash mob a couple weeks ago. We had food with us, and one of the freezes had me midbite with my banana. It was only 30 seconds, but lots of saliva was produced. I warned Isaac about this. Then I was next to him for another freeze for a few minutes and people kept taking pictures of us. When it was all over I turned to see Isaac with his mouth open over his apple and a gigantic pile of drool on his jacket. So there must be some pictures of Isaac drooling all over himself on the internet. We haven't found them yet, so let me know if you do!
Aaron Butler is coming in a few minutes to stay for a few days, so I should probably head out. I'll try to say more later.