Rumination and evaluation...

[fajrdrako]

I went to the fitness club today to do weights, and thought about how my 2004 programme has deteriorated. I haven't done crunches in days; it's the first time I've done weights this week; my diet has been all over the place.

I was enjoying it all, when I was doing it properly. Time to get back on track. I signed up for the rowing class again tomorrow.

So why did I start skimping and skipping? First, because with the Simple Steps programme and the yoga and the walking and working and sleeping I was running out of time in the day. I need time to read, write and do fannish stuff (like write in the LJ and read mailing lists). That isn't even counting the occasional movie, or watching Smallville, which is essentially the only thing I watch these days, though I do want to see that show about the Medici that was on PBS last week. I taped it.

So: something has to give just to fit things into the day. And what gave was... housework, first. Exercise, second.

I'll get it right. Time to start trying again.

Meanwhile, the weights were fun.

Comments

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

"though I do want to see that show about the Medici that was on PBS last week. I taped it."

I heard from a couple of my co-workers that it was excellent. But then they aren't Dunnett readers. I myself missed it. I just don't turn the tv on enough these days to know what's happening.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Lymond had to do stomach crunches when he got older? *ponders*

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have known about it if my fellow Dunnett-readers hadn't alerted me just in time to set the VCR. Usually TV documentaries about history drive me nuts and start me griping loudly at the screen until I get too fed up and turn off the show. (This whole process from interest to annoyance to the off button usually takes about fifteen minutes.)

The shows about Ancient Egypt are the worst - I'll give them a chance for the Renaissance.

Really, I shouldn't be so intolerant of this stuff!

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Just imagine how elegantly he would do them!

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[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Haha. I give them some slack just because I get semi-excited just to see people talking about history on tv, as I don't think there's enough about it (ignoring the history channel). I would love to see you go through this process (in person). Could be fun.

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[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

That was so badly written, I'm embarrassed.

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[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Only with Lymond is it possible to do stomach crunches elegantly. Imagine the jumping jacks!

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I generally do ignore the history channel. Way too much history that isn't history, IMHO. 20th century stuff. Recent memory.

Yes, seeing history on TV is great in theory and there are some things I've loved. There was a strange British show called "The Devil's Crown" about the Plantagenets - ever see it? Great fun. Other things stand out in my memory as good, but there's so much drek....

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Swoon.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Heh. It wasn't so bad. I understood every word.

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[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it. Sounds like fun. I agree about the History Channel and their Modern Marvels, which is on all the time, and of which I have absolutely no interest. I like anything prior to 1800. I will tune in for that specifically. I will tune in for things 19th century -ish if it involves England, and possibly Dickens.

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[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

You are too kind. See, if Lymond had written that, it would have been... well, elegant.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - Lymond is a master of elegance. But if we compare ourselves to him, we'll never meet the standard!

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think my interest in history extends further all the time - maybe up to about 1920 now, or even 1925. But I regret the lack of accessible, accurate popular material on the middle ages, especially the early middle ages.