17 Mar 11 St. Paddy's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Tried to talk the wife into drinking green beer with me tonight in celebration. She said beer didn't have no right being green in the first place. Well, that made me laugh the same way it did the first year we were together and she said the same thing about the same celebration. She just doesn't believe food coloring should mar her beer in any way, shape, or form. So there ya have it.

As you've heard I tried to run. Unfortunately it showed me everything that I had let just fall by the wayside. Fortunately it has me determined to not be that person. For a while I never wanted to grow old, gracefully or otherwise, as the saying goes. But lately I think growing old/er is okay. Certainly I've learned a whole lot from this life and I am quite sure the lessons are not over. But I don't want to be old and decrepit. I want to be old/er and just as full of life as I ever was.

So about the running. I was having a really hard time. No, I mean really hard. Lots of pain involved. But I also really wanted to do this. So I made adjustments. I am no longer doing the couch to 5k thing. But I am walking on my treadmill and around the neighborhood. I am at about 3 times a week right now. My goal is to do at least 5 times a week, and to work my way up to running again. I'll let you know the progress.

In other news...I have applied at a college here with the hopes of joining their Physical Therapy Assistant program. Everything is almost in place and if all goes well they will accept me. I've thought about this for some time now and I'm making it a reality instead of just something I'm thinking about. I have another test to take and I need to do some observations for the school to move me up in priority. All that is being put into place so hopefully I will make it in.

That's about it for now I think.

2 Mar 11 Running

So much stuff has been happening in my life let me tell ya. So Jeri, aka Princess, has decided it's high time we, WE, engage in act-tiv-it-tees! In the last month she has joined a hiking group, weight watchers, and encouraged/signed us up for a couch to 5K running thing. (All of which she wants me to join in on.) She also wears this thing on her shoe that tells how far she's walked. And has decided that not only hers but my eating habits need to change. Needless to say I'm kinda reeling and wondering what is going to happen to my cozy spot I've dug out on the couch?

So, being game and loving my wife I decide, yes! I will do the couch to 5K thing. I used to love to run, and this will be a good thing, you know, getting up and moving. Well! First off let me say, I think I'm gonna die. I mean not really, but good god! So I get out there on the first week and it's a run one minute walk one minute type of thing. I'm just not sure you can call what I did running or jogging, or even trotting at that point. Just maybe a pick up one foot and animate my body to look as if it were running, you know, in slow motion, or maybe even still pictures might be a better description. The fine display of cinematography in the first stages of silent pictures comes to mind as far as my movements on the track.

In reality part of me is like WTH! I used to be able to move this body with little or no effort. And another, possibly bigger, part of me is like WTH! How? When? What? And then I realize that maybe, just maybe, my wonderful wife fears for the future. Not our future of gracefully growing old together but the one where maybe one of us (me) is not around. Not around sooner than expected. I don't want to put words into her mouth but, well just but.

So guess what! My lard ass is out there humiliating myself for all to see. I want to be able to do everything that we should be doing and doing it together. I will put my pride aside to do what is necessary to be able to do everything that we want to do together. I know for me I couldn't stand that thought of losing her. I sure don't want her to have to suffer because I was the one that went first on something that could have been avoided.

(Did not re-read. Let me say now sorry for any typos or whatever could have been wrong.)