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Spent all day Friday back at Cedar Sinai (hospital). A friend tripped and took a face plant cracking the bone going around his eye socket and had to have plates put in to get it to heal right. So I took him, of course. This is the same friend who had back surgery recently. This has not been his year. I just hope if or when I ever have a health issue there's someone to take care of me. He's quite a bit younger than me and said he'd drive me to the old folks home someday, but I told him at the rate he's going with injuries, he'll be there before me and I'll end up driving him there too! ha.
Now that I'm walking everywhere and only get in the car every 10 days to 2 weeks lately, I use my headphones all the time to stream music on my iPhone - especially at the gym and on my 4 mile walks home (and sometimes even both ways now when I have a lot of time). But I hated the newer "ear pod" form factor of the Apple earphones because they wouldn't stay in my ears, so I used the older ones I had that are round, but the volume got so low that I could barely hear out of them. I thought it was the phone, but dug out the newer ones and they were loud and clear. I think what happened to the old ones was just getting the cord caught and pulled too many times.
So . . . what to do? I ordered a bluetooth set from Amazon on Monday. Until until they get here, I needed to get by with the ear pods, so I was messing around with them yesterday and realized I was putting them in wrong the whole time trying to stick the long part in my ear. LOL. Once I figured out how you are supposed to wear them, they stay in pretty well! And I have two sets so it looks like I didn't need the bluetooth ones, but that's OK.
Derek Hough was at my gym last week. He's in such great shape, so I tried to discreetly stalk him to see what his workout routine was. That's how I initially came up with a routine that worked for me. I'd discreetly watch what guys did that looked like I wanted to look, and Derek Hough definitely has the kind of build I admire and I thought I might pick up something, but he spent so much time chatting it up with his trainer that I finally gave up and left. Oh well.
I'm solidly in the low 140s now (142-143) and I'm not trying to lose any more weight, but it's still coming off little by little and my shape has defintely changed to where my waist continues to get smaller. Been digging through my old skinny clothes and I can wear lots of stuff I loved but thought I'd never be able to wear again. I have this funky blazer-style winter coat with a built in light grey hoodie I almost gave away because it was so fitted. Now it fits like a glove again and I (almost) want to go somewhere cold so I can wear it. :-)
At this point, I'm just sort of on a maintenance program. Getting back in shape again was definitely a challenge that seemed pretty overwhelming getting started, but maintaining is pretty easy once you get there, especially following Kinobody where you only work out 2 to 3 days a week for about 45 minutes to an hour doing resistence training. I love the resistance but hated the cardio, so I don't do any cardio there anymore - just my walks to and/or from walking (fast). My friends think I'm crazy, but I actually love the walk and I'm usually drenched after.
But by far the most fulfilling part this journey has been that about 4 people have told me seeing my rather quick transformation back into the old me has inspired them, so they are hitting the gym and changing their diet. That's pretty cool. :-)
I've also been feeling profoundly happy lately. I remember walking around in San Francisco one day a couple of years ago. It was a beautiful day in a beutiful city and I just found myself feeling so profoundly UNhappy and wondering if/when I'd ever feel real joy again. Now I'm there, but I'm trying to live much more in the moment (more Kinobody philosophy). I know the day will come when I may have to have to go up north again for a prolonged period of time due to the parental situation. But instead of dreading the thought and dwelling on it with worry, I just try to enjoy the here and now and be thankful that time hasn't come yet.
Have a friend coming up from San Diego tomorrow for the weekend and bringing his dog. Can't wait to have a dog in the house again! Told him we can only go somewhere for dinner that has a patio so we can take her with us, and the weather is still great for outdoor dining. Although I've noticed in the last week that there's something about the sky and the air that makes you know we're getting into fall, temperatures are still like summer (80s during the day and 70s in the early evening). Gotta love that.
Oh, saw Leslie Jordan at Trader Joe's yesterday and he started chatting with me a little. Not sure why, but strangers often just start talking to me sometimes. Even my dad has noticed it when we're out somewhere and it also happened again when I took my friend to his follow-up doctors appt on Monday. He was like, people just start conversations with you! LOL. I like that though. Anyway, he's such a cute little guy (he's really little!) with a great laugh and smile. :-)