I went caving with friends this past weekend and had a wonderful time. I absorb details and stories (most of them true!) like a sponge about things that are fun and memorable, so just ask me if you know me and are interested.
The kids have been on Spring Break this week, so they have been taking it easy. Today I took my daughter to shop for and buy her a dress, shoes, and other items for her prom (again, ask for details if interested--Aowin is going to be very beautiful at her prom next month). Her friend "Sharebear" and my ex helped out, thankfully as I have limited to no fashion sense. I appreciated the help, and we actually had a pretty good day where everyone got along.
I'm not one to follow fad diets or workouts, but I had ordered myself an intensive diet and workout program for my birthday earlier in the month. It is basically a fad diet/workout, but I hoped it would be useful to get me going. I was already in pretty good cardio shape given that I had been doing a lot more outdoor activities in the past several months, and I've been being careful not to injure myself, both dietarily and physically. I don't really know why I bought the program, but I did, and it rocks. I'm rounding out my second week of workouts, and my body has taken to the program like it's been ready for this sort of thing for years. I seem to be picking up more steam, and feel great. Another good thing about me, I suppose, is that I stubbornly commit to things and see them through.
One of the workouts in the program is called "Extreme Yoga", and I have to say that it has been the hardest of all the individual workouts for me. I know that you're supposed to start out with basics in yoga or you can hurt yourself, but I've stubbornly made it through two full workouts so far. I need better form, flexibility, balance, instruction, and probably less body fat to do the routine 100% correctly--it's really hard, but I've surprised myself at how well I've done by myself with just the two times trying it. I wouldn't make mention of it given that there are a dozen other varying workouts in the program besides the yoga one, but I had a strange reaction to it.
The first time through the yoga routines on week one wiped me out, but the second week I did significantly better. Something really strange happened that second time: I had this powerful full-body rush near the end of the session that felt like powerful drugs taking hold. Wow, but very unexpected. All the colors in the room became vivid and glowing, and it lasted for at least two hours after the workout. I really liked this, but I figured: either this is normal, or I have a brain tumor or something (just kidding). It was very interesting, though, and can't think of anything to compare it to really. I haven't turned up anything with Google searches yet (e.g. searching for "yoga rush" turns up many hits about a branded workout series of the same name). Next week I'll repeat the workout on the scheduled day and see if I have a similar experience.
There are many other things going on I could write about, but that's all the "blogging to no one, blogging to everyone" therapy I can muster for now.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
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