Exercise Update and Other Random Thoughts

So, it's been almost 2 months since my last post.  Swimming has continued to go well.  Now that the outside, free pool has closed, I was forced to get a gym membership.  I ended up going with the Brodie/Wilson gyms on campus through Duke's Fitness Program.  It's only $17/month!!  Cheap, I tell you!!   Anyway, my membership was activated last week.  I was out of town Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesdays are no swim days for me anyway, so I went Thursday and Friday.  Brodie is nice!  It has 4 lap lanes that go from 4 1/2 feet on one end to 8 feet on the other - whew!  I'm gonna have to get where I can swim an entire lap without stopping AND learn how to do the flip turn because at the 8 foot end, I have to hang onto the pool to rest.  Then it's hard to get a good push off to swim back.  They have a nice locker room area, and I'm beginning to get a plan in place about what to take with me everyday to make my changing time more efficient.  I've had several people ask me how much weight I've lost.  They say they can tell.  I can tell my clothes are fitting differently, but the scales have not changed any.  But if others can tell I'm losing inches, then that's GREAT!  I need to set a goal for between now and Christmas.  Let's see, that's 13 weeks.   I could, conceivably, lose up to 26 pounds, but the scales just aren't my friend, so maybe I should concentrate on inches (?).  That means I need to measure myself.  And then I need to figure out what a reasonable goal would be - - hmmm.  I'll have to google that.  I'll let you know what I decide.

Other random thoughts . . .

I'm in SUCH a funk right now - I don't want to cook, I don't want to read my Sunday School stuff, I don't want to plan children's choir, I just don't really want to do much of anything.  What is wrong with me????? Maybe I need some beach time - just me and the beach!!

I got my passport the other day, and money is starting to come in for Haiti.  That still seems like a non-reality at this point for me, yet I am looking forward to it.  I want some of the exercise mentioned above to help "lighten my load" before that trip!!

I'm playing Fantasy Football again this year with a group from my office!  So far I'm 2 - 0 and it looks like after this week I'll be 3-0.  I won last year!  Oh, yes I did!  :)

I'm boring, so that's about all of the random thoughts I have for now.