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hathycolWent out on Thursday night and caught up with Fiona. As we chatted over beers and waited for our food, she raised an eyebrow at me.
"So, how's the running going?"
"I... don't hate it," I confessed. She and Richie shared a glance. "Actually, there were two minutes this morning when I enjoyed it. Until I giggled at something on Night Vale and it threw my breathing out."
"I knew it!" she crowed.
"Your brain is rewiring!" Richie joined in. "You like exercise!"
"No!" I protested. "I just forgot I was running!"
"That's the whole point of exercising, when you forget what you're doing! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!" The food arrived. I ate my chips mutinously.
I briefly got that zen where I forgot what I was doing today as well. It is... quite nice. I may even have had more zen was it not for an email from Steve Carlsberg making me laugh. STEVE CARLSBERG! *shakes fist*
I think it's all linked in with fighting winter blues, mostly, as I'm not exactly a natural runner. I don't think that exercise is the panacea that occasional people try and claim it is, but it's working for me. I suspect this is not the exercise itself, though; it's getting 40 minutes a day completely to myself, down some quiet side streets and on the way to the marshes, a podcast I'm enjoying, no pressure or to do lists for work/the house/Christmas running through my head. This year the blues have been less awful, thus far. This is also through making sure the house is clean (it means cleaning more often but having less to do on the weekends as I can't relax in a messy house), having nice smelly candles to burn, nice bubble baths, and taking five minutes every day in work to hide in the quiet room and just breathe.
Also, I have three days off work next week. So I just have to work Monday and Tuesday and then I can switch off for a bit. Richie and I have cleaned the house today so I don't need to stress about that. Also, Fiona loaned me the next three volumes of Saga so I will be diving in them tomorrow and on my days off. Bliss.
I feel I should write about other things that I have done in the last few weeks but I am really quite dull at the moment. The great Run Up To Christmas When I See Pretty Much Everyone is starting next weekend too, so I will be interesting again. HONEST.
"So, how's the running going?"
"I... don't hate it," I confessed. She and Richie shared a glance. "Actually, there were two minutes this morning when I enjoyed it. Until I giggled at something on Night Vale and it threw my breathing out."
"I knew it!" she crowed.
"Your brain is rewiring!" Richie joined in. "You like exercise!"
"No!" I protested. "I just forgot I was running!"
"That's the whole point of exercising, when you forget what you're doing! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!" The food arrived. I ate my chips mutinously.
I briefly got that zen where I forgot what I was doing today as well. It is... quite nice. I may even have had more zen was it not for an email from Steve Carlsberg making me laugh. STEVE CARLSBERG! *shakes fist*
I think it's all linked in with fighting winter blues, mostly, as I'm not exactly a natural runner. I don't think that exercise is the panacea that occasional people try and claim it is, but it's working for me. I suspect this is not the exercise itself, though; it's getting 40 minutes a day completely to myself, down some quiet side streets and on the way to the marshes, a podcast I'm enjoying, no pressure or to do lists for work/the house/Christmas running through my head. This year the blues have been less awful, thus far. This is also through making sure the house is clean (it means cleaning more often but having less to do on the weekends as I can't relax in a messy house), having nice smelly candles to burn, nice bubble baths, and taking five minutes every day in work to hide in the quiet room and just breathe.
Also, I have three days off work next week. So I just have to work Monday and Tuesday and then I can switch off for a bit. Richie and I have cleaned the house today so I don't need to stress about that. Also, Fiona loaned me the next three volumes of Saga so I will be diving in them tomorrow and on my days off. Bliss.
I feel I should write about other things that I have done in the last few weeks but I am really quite dull at the moment. The great Run Up To Christmas When I See Pretty Much Everyone is starting next weekend too, so I will be interesting again. HONEST.
