Mind and Body

It is the day of my birth (as well as the Revered Martin Luther King Jr's ... but we will celebrate that on Monday) and I am really sick this year. Its sort of sad on a few levels ... its my sweet sixteen + ten (thanks kelly for the great phrase) and I am going to the doctor. Awesome. But that is not the only thing I am bummed out about (do people still say that? bummed out? oh well, its my birthday - I am saying it) ... I am bummed out that I missed my cycling class this morning. Yes ... I said it. I am sad that I didn't get to sweat for an hour on a stationary bike ON MY BIRTHDAY. I know, I am an exercise junkie. What's it to ya?

This is the evolution ... I started doing this in August 2008:



And then I started doing this in October/November 2008:




I still do that activity above ... but to mix it up (because I think that it is important to change your work out routine and your meals ... otherwise you get used to it and get bored and then might stop AND I think your body gets used to the level of intensity of the activity so you gotta jump start it again ... but those are just my theories) .... I started talking a class at the beginning of this month using this:


I am mildly obsessed with it. I say mildly because I have only actually done it a few times. But I think I am going to really really like it.

Oh ... and these occupy a lot of my time too ... sometimes against my will ... but the thesis must get done - somehow: