Museum, Mindy, and Sore Muscles

[abka]

Sunday Denis and I drove down to Hartford to visit the Wadsworth Atheneum. I'm working on it for my museum's paper, plus they have a great Marsden Hartley show that I wanted to see. Denis was very patient and we got to spend 3 hours there (and then go out for lunch/dinner/a meal at 3:30pm). The museum has a lot of wonderful things, but is a little wierd, they just kept adding on buildings, so it's easy to get disoriented and hard to figure out exactly how to get from one place to another. They're planning a massive reconstruction project, the plans look a little odd.

Mindy called last night! Yay! It was so good to talk to her and hear about her post-grad. plans and how the house is doing. It's been a long time since I've talked to anyone on the phone who hasn't been a parent or a telemarketer.

I also decided to start exercising again this weekend. I'm trying to follow one of my magazine programs which is 3 30 min. cardio sessions and two 20 min. strength sessions (plus streching) a week. It seems reasonable. So far I've done 2 cardio sessions (both exercise tapes) and one strength. I hurt all over, especially abs, hips, and butt. I'm hoping to make it through the sore period this week without quitting.

My parents are coming to stay the night tonight on their way from Ohio back to Maine. I think they're bringing us a bedframe, moving it into the house should be interesting. It started snowing again, so the ground that was so recently browish green is again white. Blech, I thought winter was over, what happened to "out like a lamb"? Have to be off, Denis forgot his lunch so I have to bring it to him, good little wife that I am.

Comments

[coffman.livejournal.com]

Also, congrats for starting up an exercise routine again. I think it's really smart to set realistic goals; I know that I've definitely ruined many a well-intentioned beginning to an exercise routine by thinking that I was going to go from doing nothing to exercising for hours every day. =) Oh, and if it helps, I definitely have extra liverjournal codes if you want to start up a separate livejournal as an exercise log, like jade_phoenix and darhoratio have done with jadexercise and fitmonkey.

[abka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the congrats and the offer for codes. I think I'm going to see if I can keep it up for at least a month or two before I post things online. I am keeping a paper log. I've kept logs for the last couple years (I have at least 5 different logs from just last year's failed exercise attempts). So they're not as motivational for me as I would like them to be, but they do help me keep track of what I've done.

[coffman.livejournal.com]

I keep a paper exercise log too rather than an online one.

I think that with online logs, where the idea is that the pressure of your readers will keep you exercising, you start feeling the motivation right away. But with paper exercise journals, I think that there's a point that you have to pass before it becomes a motivational tool - at least for me, the motivation is mostly that, "wow, I've already filled up x weeks of this calendar, I shouldn't stop now" - as time goes by, the more the weight of what I've accomplished (and flipping through the pages provides good tactile feedback for those prior accomplishments) motivates me to keep going. But it didn't work very well when I only had a week or two filled out. But I think that there's a point that you pass over where the paper journal can become motivational too. Again, I hope that you're able to keep up your good work!