Welcome to my first blog! This middle aged prairie girl has made it through some muddy waters and emerged, well, muddy. But happy muddy. With God's help, my youngin's are on their own and I am wondering what to do next. This being my year of 'fiscal and physical' fitness, I thought I'd bring my inner Laura Ingalls Wilder to the party and journal the excitement and self deprecation. Hopefully, my honesty will inspire others to put their vanity on the shelf, take a good look in the mirror and say, "Damn - I can do better than this".
So yesterday was my first day at the gym. Again. Oh how many first days there have been! But I am determined to make this the last first day. I felt like a big doofus as soon as I walked in. Surely everyone else new what they were doing, and looked better doing it. I know it was just my self-conscious paranoia that made me feel like every single person looked at me and thought - OH GOD - who let HER in? I made it past the mirrored walls, thinking.... that cannot be me. I might as well have been standing in a string bikini. After getting past the frustration that I failed to color coordinate my shirt with my new shoes, I looked for my 23 year old daughter, who would be joining me. I have her to thank for getting me in the door. Darn her, she looked so cute. And her shirt didn't match her shoes. But her anklets did! Note to self, get new anklets.
After proceeding to screw up the programming on the recumbant bike, stairclimber and eliptical machine, a spot opened up at the treadmills....with the tvs~ I hopped on and plugged my ear buds in. Dang.... CNN, Fox news and Sports? Please - no more Tiger! Lucky for me the sound didn't work. Not wanting to let on that I didn't know what I was doing, I settled on Two and Half Men with captions and discovered I'm not good at running and reading. I hobbled off to ask the guy at the desk 1) how to put the ear buds in and b) how I could get Bones or Law and Order on the tv. I now know that you do not put the ear buds in the back with the screw hole thing... but right there in front - by the symbol of the head phones! I was making it too complicated - the story of my life. And I can request TNT or USA before I get on board.
So I walked out, sweaty and proud, feeling like I needed Patti LaBelle playing in the background. "I'm feeling good from my head to my shoes. Know where I'm goin and I know what to do. I tied it up my point of view, I've got a new attitude!" Stay tuned for Day 2 of the rest of my life. And thanks for coming along for the ride!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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