Yoga - Ex

Well, what was meant to be a day full of life was just a day of good intentions. Kind of.

It started off well enough. I woke Jared up and encouraged him to come exercise with me. He followed me to the basement and sat watching while I started up YogaX. He decided to join me at one point, though he quickly got bored and moved on. I was getting bored too and ready to move on. Especially after I realized that the video was still an HOUR and TWENTY MINUTES to go!!! aye yie yie!! My arms were tired and I just wanted to quit. I stopped the video and debated. I checked the pamphlet to figure out whether I should keep going or not. I started it again and went another 10 minutes. I checked the clock. Finally I decided I was done. I didn't want to spend another hour exercising. Especially yoga exercising. It was intense in its own right. It was amazing to just sit and watch their flexibility, stamina and strength.

I am not sure how I feel about quitting the video. Part of me did not want to quit because that could make me feel like I had permission to quit other regimens (especially when our schedule is about to get shaken up anyway with Matthew's return and the start of school). I think the biggest reason I did quit was the time commitment. Had I realized that it was a much longer video, I would have either started earlier or skipped it today. I wanted to finish it and even thought maybe I'd go back to it later in the day (didn't). It was really hard on my arms. They were feeling the burn. I recognize that it won't get easier if I don't practice it though.

I got showered and dressed fairly quickly after going back upstairs and then something happened. All my energy deflated. Perhaps it was because I had chosen to take a meal to a family who'd recently had a baby but there were corn allergies to contend with it. After doing some research on google, it was really overwhelming to think about catering to such a demanding allergy. Corn is in EVERYTHING!! It turned out just fine and it was probably the simplest dinner I'd made for an occasion like this, but it just sapped my energy and will power. Before I knew it it was 1 pm and we hadn't even had breakfast :/ Thankfully I had to take the dinner otherwise I don't think we would have made it out of the house today. We didn't even ride bikes. This was a first (not counting Sunday but it was raining).

Tomorrow is running day. Big running day. From now on there are no more walking breaks. I've got this covered though, right? right..... positive thinking (she says as she lies in bed knowing she should be asleep because its going to be a L-O-N-G day tomorrow and she already has zero energy)