Category Archives: Misc
Trauma, Drama, and challenges this week… …wish me success!
Morning Trauma
I can’t find my Omron Pedometer. It is gone. And I’ve gotten used to wearing it every day.
In fact is now part of my “morning routine” to put it on. Which is a problem. What I’m doing in this “Journey to Health & Fitness” is one, by one, setting up good habits, rituals, routines, replacing old patterns of behavior with new, better ones.
And to do that requires repetition. Lots of repetition. And until the “new” becomes “habit” and the “habit” becomes ironclad rock solid do-it-without-thinking-about-what-you-are-doing type behavior, any deviation can be deadly and devastating.
And it bugs me. A lot. — I’m actually AMAZED at how much it is bugging me. I’ve rouned up all the usual suspects and put them in the line-up: under the edge of the bed, under the edge of the desk, under the edge of the kitchen cabinets, inside the pocket(s) of the clothes I wore yesterday.
I’ve even canvased the neighborhood (literally) — I went out on my balcony and the bridge that crosses the court yard and looked at the sidewalk and the stairs to see if I could see it lying there.
2014.05.03 4.50 AM — My Come to Jesus moment
In a bit I’ll put on shoes and go look in my truck to see if it fell out of my pocket yesterday when I went on an errand. And I’ll check the laundry room to see if it fell out there while I was doing clothes.
BUT IT bugs the crap out me that I am not wearing it!
Recording that little number into the spreadsheet each morning from the day before was an act of validation. It is/was actual numerical quantifiable proof that I was indeed MOVING my body!
siiiiiiiggggghhhh
I hope I find it. I don’t want to have to buy a new one. Buying a new one isn’t in the budget.
Doctor Drama
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I did it again! Almost too pooped to type but…
I friggin’ DID IT! — AGAIN!
You may recall that yesterday I was all a twitter about having done 45 minutes of exercise — also known as – domestic duties.
Today, mere moments ago, I DID IT AGAIN!
On my “to do” list (we will NOT discuss just how long it’s been there) is to “sort, shred, and file” as appropriate, years of accumulated paper, old bills, photos from dance events, score sheets from dance events, certificates from dance events, dvds and videos from dance events, more bills, more statements, more…
well you get the idea.
So… facing the inevitable and not finding ANYTHING else to distract me, I proverbially girded my loins (anyone know how to gird? — what is “girding” anyway?) but I digress…
I was ready. the moment had come to START… just START, finishing will be weeks away, but to START that particular project.
So, I put on a new podcast from my favorite DJ “Mr Andi Mik” and got to work…
I just reached a stopping point, and turned to pause the mix and was SHOCKED!
FABER-gasted!
Flum-FLUXED!
AGOG!
AGHAST (well I wasn’t really Aghast, but since agog and aghast have such a nice alliteration I thought I’d throw that one in just for fun)
Eeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy Way….
I was well and truly AMAZED-ed.
See I ur a colludge grad-u-ut! I knows some BIG wurds.
So… the timer on the pod cast read 3 minutes left, 58 minutes played.
FIFTY-EIGHT FRIGGIN MINUTES of…
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Let’s hear it for the boy! It’s a miracle!
I’m making progress..
I promise that this is going to be the shortest post I’ve ever made… My version of a “Tweet” LOL
I just realized something for the SECOND day in a row that needs to be shared.
Yesterday I did a bit of housework which a month ago would have left me gasping, and I did it with no problems. Sailed right through it as a matter of fact.
Woot! Yeeeeeeeee Haw! I actually tweeted about it and put it on my Facebook page.
Why I’m doing this post as well is because:
Just moments ago, I finished up 45 minutes of activity around the house concluding with rotating my mattress on my bed.
I will confess that the mattress did me in. I had to sit down and I was breathing heavy. BUT… when I went to update my activity log (more about that log in a future post) I saw that it had been 45 minutes from the last time stamp!
OMG!!! 45 FRIGGIN MINUTES!
Now it ain’t as if I had run a marathon or anything but we’re talking 45 minutes of non-stop activity
- making some phone calls
- sorting laundry
- spraying it with pre-wash
- pouring some enzyme cleaning drain-maintenance stuff into the drains in the bathroom
- pulling sheets off the bed
- stripping all the pillow cases
- spraying THAT with pre-wash
- finding the clean sheets and bringing them to the bedroom
- and then…. rotating the mattress
which pushed me over the proverbial edge. I needed to sit down.
So… I do believe a round of applause is in order!
All kidding aside, this “revelation” proves to me that the approach I’m taking this time is working, and will continue to work.
See ya on the dance floor!
(with clean sheets — LOL)
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FAB-u-LUS updates to my AWESOME blog… ;-)
ok, ok, maybe I should cut back on the coffee… LOL Eeeeeneeeeee way…
Just a quick post to let you know of a couple updates / changes to the site:
- The navigation menu has been dramatically redone — I think it is much better. You guys let me know what you think.
.. - I added two “oldie but goodie articles to the Hall o’ Fame
.. - I updated my “Shop” page
— PLEASE check it out. It will give you the 411 on all the items under the “shop” option on the navigation menu.
.. - I updated my “Schedule / Calendar” page
So, that’s it for now.
See ya on the dance floor.
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Updates to the site — An, uhmm… “update on the Updates”
Just a quick post to let you know of a couple updates / changes to the site:
- Slowly but surely (surely needs an “h” in it! — it makes sense to type it “shurely” — English is weird)But I digress… Slowly, but SUREly the website is being revamped. The latest update includes a “Gallery” in the menu up above. Right now it only has an old post of my “dance videos” (which needs to be updated… *sigh*) but soon, very soon it will have
- Tales of skinny-ness and fat-ness past (picture in other words of me as I gained and lost and gained and lost and…)
- and whatever else qualifies as a “gallery” Haven’t quite decided… maybe my favorite “dance” photos Yeppers! That will DEFINITELY be there! Woot! Watch for it in the coming days
- For some reason my my really cool map with all the dots (look over to the right hand column . . . See it? Cool. well, it stopped working. So I had to put new code in the box and BAM, all the 108,000+ visitor’s dots that were there are now gone. The good news is that enough time has now passed since the “reboot” of the map that there are quite a few dots.
.. - Two additional menu choices up top:
- Tony’s Take on… will take you to an archive of my “review posts” where I give you my opinion on various fitness and health products or just general “stuff” that I use and thought I’d review. 🙂
- Tony’s Tips will take you to an archive where the short “tip” posts that I’ve started doing are archived.
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- SHOP has been updated. I added links to:
- My “online garage sale” I’m doing a bit of “spring cleaning” in the fall — In complete honesty, I need the cash folks. The truck payment and insurance is due!
- My eBay auctions — where I’m selling some of that garage sale stuff…
- TxCowboyDancer Designs — my custom-built “I did this” storefront for my Zazzle.com store is now ready for prime time… you’re probably wondering why go to Tony’s storefront when you could go directly to Zazzle? Two reasons:
- — By going to my “store” then buying something not only do I get the royalty if you buy one of my products, I also get a referral credit for sending you to well my own product. And the referral credit is actually MORE than I get from the royalty! Wierd
- — I have spent HOURS paging through THOUSANDS of really BAD graphic designs on Zazzle. Trust me there are a LOT of people out there who THINK they are a graphic designer. Well not to pop their bubble.. POP! or anything like that but THEY AIN’T! Their stuff stinks!Then on the other hand, there is some REALLY AWESOME designs on Zazzle. So on my site, I’ve selected what I think are the best designs in the categories which interest me. THUS saving you all that time. You can just go to my site and see FABULOUS designs instead of wading through all the crap on Zazzle to find those awesome designs.
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- COMING SOON:
- Featured Articles Menu Option– where I highlight some of the best posts from this blog’s past. Things that are as good today as the day I first wrote them.
So, that’s it for now.
See ya on the dance floor.
5-6-7-8 Dancing My Way to a Healthy Me! 