Some day, someone should calculate the caloric expenditure involved in the effort of leaping and swatting around a room in pursuit of an insect that weaves and bobs like a drunken gnat. Just saying.
Exercise du jour: Today, I'll be smart (she said hopefully). 50 minutes of running first. Then attack the weeds. Yesterday I weeded for a couple hours and was wiped out.
Update du 1:40 pm: er... have you seen my motivation anywhere? I could've sworn it was lying around somewhere. I'm sure I saw it last night. I've either got to find my motivation or else find some realllly convincing excuse not to exercise. (Well, I suppose I could run without motivation. Or I could try. Fake it until I break it? Something like that anyway.)
Done! Took awhile to get into it, but what the hell. After 40 minutes, the foot pain came back, so I ran much slower for the last 10.Photo courtesy of rjg329.
Actually, if you then give up and let the mosquito bite you, I think you might lose a few calories in blood too! Though probably NOT worth it.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the phlebotomist on fri wasn't as persistent as the mosquito.
LOL! That was my thought too -- how much energy would that mosquito expend trying to find your non-existent veins? Do you suppose they've developed a 30-day fitness plan based on you? Do they log on to your home computer and blog about it while you're at work?
ReplyDeleteI hate mosquitoes. But they just LOVE me. No one else seems to get bitten, just me. I swear, they come from a radius of five miles away the minute I step foot outside onto the deck.
consima: mosquito code name for the conspiracy to drink Merry's blood
It's good to feel wanted... unless it's by mosquitoes or the IRS.
ReplyDeleteDamn but I feel smugly virtuous having run despite realllly not wanting to do it!