10,000 Steps

The only toy I bought myself (other than a lovely Greek dinner and a long-needed oil change) for the new year was this: a $12.99 pedometer from Target.

I guess you could call it my low-tech version of exercise. No machines, no trainer, just an information device -- clip it on and away I go, right? See where I am and see just slowly and logically see check out those 10,000 steps everyone's always talking about.

Well, in the four days I've had this thing on me non-stop, I've never gotten above 2,500 steps. YIKES! Now that's LAZY -- and it includes all the dog walking I'm doing with Nero here in Hollywood this week. Geez -- it looks like all I'm doing is walking up and down Franklin (his toilet) and walking back and forth to mine. Hm... and this week my back has even bothered me a little.

I need new workout shoes, I know that's part of the problem. But for once, I'm not worry about it. My appetite weirded out when I was up north with the folks (depression? bad cough? too much Filipino breakfast food?), I kind of like the small amounts per sitting I'm eating. Like Andrew, the Dynamic Fitness guy (and my former trainer says), small meals/more often feels better.

So we'll just make sure I increase the step account a tiny bit at a time, and get up to 10,000. I'll never be obsessed about moving around, but I can get better... I want to get back into my skin, this year. For real.

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Edited 4:54 am

Just saw Kenneth Branagh a minute in ago in a scene from the TV movie Warm Springs where he's playing the Franklin Roosevelt after he contracted polio and couldn't walk. He was doing his physical therapy with a therapist in the pool and nearly jumped out of skin with joy when he got to five -- count 'em FIVE! -- steps.

I immediately needed to mention here that I AM GRATEFUL, dear God, GRATEFUL for those 2,500 steps I've taken each of my few days. And I'm humbled.

Hey There Astrology Classmates!

I told ya I give y'all a shout out — Viv, Kim, Louise, Mia, Elizabeth and Ms. Heidi!

BTW, here's a picture of of our dear Esoteric Astrologist herself, Heidi Rose, after her "The Alchemy of the Heart" talk last month. (You look MAH-VELOUS, dahlink!) Anyone out there in the blogsphere want an insightful, supportive esoteric astrological reading (in person or the phone) Heidi is the person for you (we all ALREADY know how fab she is)!

So, gals, after class, I was way too wired to go home to face the computer work (missed ya, Viv)... so off to the bookstore I went to buy The Alchemist. It's been on my mind lately... I'd read it before, but quickly and don't remember much. But for some reason, I think Sergio Mora ("The Contender") said he read it and boom, there I am in Barnes and Noble.

Grabbed it at 11PM and off to the coffee shop I went, highlighter in hand and munching on zucchini sticks until 2:25 AM... what a great read it was again, especially about one's own Personal Legend! And now I know I won't forget it... there was so much talk of the HEART, which is what Heidi talks about in her talk... hell, I didn't even realize people even COULD be full of HEART until I saw The Contender, when these rough-housing, full out boxers talked about each other having a lot of HEART. Soften the heart, listen to, strenghen it... Ahhhhhhhhhhh What does it all mean?!?!

Guess I'll find out at her workshop on the 11th. Can't wait.

Oh, BTW, fellow bloggers and classmates, take a gander over at THIS GUY'S blog! It's Heidi's husband, Andrew and his Triathlon Journal. He just put up his journal which is a great read -- send him a comment or two to encourage him to get back on the blog!

[Oh, and you can leave me one too :) See ya Monday!]