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[opabinia]

On my way home from work today, just before I turned onto a lonnng stretch of crowded, one-lane road, I noticed that an 18-wheeler was turning in a couple of cars ahead of me. This meant a significant increase in commute time (perhaps 6 minutes), because trucks like that always get slowed down, and they slow everyone behind them down, see? Anyway, I saw this happening from the Bitch Red Neon, and I had no power to stop it. I threw my head back and waved it back and forth, Grover-style, saying AAAAAaaAAaaAAAaaAAa!!. When I looked ahead again, I noticed that the middle-aged woman in the beige Volvo in front of me was laughing her ass off. She had seen my reaction, and understood it perfectly. It was pretty funny. You had to be there.

Work's been good. I've had a terrible time making myself work out, though. I'm starting three weeks of PTP this week... Um, tonight, I hope.

Eh, I feel like crap, for the flimsiest of reasons. Let's focus on the positive: I bought pants and socks. With mmmmmoneyyyy! *arms flaily*

Comments

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

Why the Bitch Red Neon again? I forget why you're driving that. And whatever happened to the Brick?

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Neon's a rental. Civic's still in the body shop. The Brick was sold to a vivacious Mexican woman, a friend of my mother's.

[xenoglaux]

Are you DLing in your basement or at a gym?

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Basement.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Here's a quandry you might have as well.

Do you find yourself blowing off workouts to hangout with people? Do you feel bad for saying "I'd like to have dinner, but I have to lift tonight?"

Reconciling working out with being social is becoming troublesome...

[anechoic.livejournal.com]

My solution is to be neither fit, nor social.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I choose C, "none of the above." :)

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

I've rescheduled workouts to fit social stuff, and I've scheduled social stuff to fit around a particular regimen. It's context-dependent. Either way, I haven't really had a problem: people understand the importance of consistent exercise, and the body can deal with the occasional skipped or shifted workout.

[alonewiththemoon]

I have that quandary with dance practice/pilates--not with scheduled classes rehearsals, but the dancing/exercising I do at home by myself, which is about the equivalent of going to the gym (if I could afford it, I'd rent studio space, sigh). It is hard to say no to friends (especially if one's mate is going to go out and have fun), but on the other hand, dancing is part of who I am and part of my self image, and getting better at it is a goal and achieving that goal will make me happier with myself. So if you think of the working out as something that contributes to who you want to be, it becomes a little easier to prioritize it over/equally with the socializing, because what is socializing if you can't be there as the person you want to be?

And there's always "I'd like to have dinner, but I have to hit the gym--do you want to meet for drinks/dessert later?"