Space Story
I call this post Down to Earth because Bill and I just went to see The Martian in downtown Lexngton, Virginia! I kept thinking of Star Wars but the new space ship captain was a woman. Well, even at my venerable age, exploring other planets still inspires rapt attention and arm-gripping suspense, particularly when the hero punctures his own space suit to create uncontrolled propulsion.
Get Up and Move!
Earlier in the week I went to an exercise class. Well, that is a slight exaggerastion.
I went to a luncheon lecture on “Exercise as Medicine.” It was part of a Carillion Clinic Health Education Luncheon Series. My idea in attending this event was to receive inspiration (while seated) (and while dining) by osmosis. The lecturer was a lithesome young highly educated beauty. This immediately left me slithering down in my seat and happy to have worn a loose fitting top which allowed for relaxing abs! There was no escape however since she made us get up and do squats and wall pushups before indulging in a grassy luncheon. There was cheesecake for dessert but I was too proud to partake. What did I learn? Well,
After the age of 30, you lose 5% to 7% of your metabolism per decade!
At that rate, no wonder I feel like “death warmed over.”
Resistance Movement
In a feeble effort to resist exercising, I have taken up the crochet hook again and found a pattern that automatically makes curly scarves. In a happily mindless state of mind, I have now accumulated a pile of curly scarves to give as gifts for the next few years. While I realize knitting and crocheting curtails developing one’s “core body strength” you can still categorize it as movement can’t you?
Limping Around
Having successfully avoided exercise this week it is difficult to explain why my left foot feels stiff and swollen. It doesn’t look particularly swollen but I have been walking around like BIG FOOT or the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Such has been the week of exercise – or no exercise as the case may be.
Is it time to come back down to earth yet?
“The lecturer was a lithesome young highly educated beauty.”
I hate to be a pendant, actually, I probably like it, but heres the deal.
That lithe well educated whomever should sit in her seat, respectfully, shut up, and listen to all that youhave learned, in all the since you were a young, lithe, well educated, beauty.
You could run stiches around her, and she wouldn’t even know what you were knitting.
You rock Dor.
At least when I was young I took oral histories from old people. I knew they knew more than me.
Of course now that I am old, I am not so sure about this.
But maybe that is the wisdom of age…….
If you are young and well educated, you are not that smart if your don’t realize this.
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Sorry for the typos. WP only give me a super small window now for comments so I couldn’t see what I wrote………
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Oh dear me Dora ,I know the feeling Its no good , we will just have to get another dog won’t we, just to give us that guilty feeling about walking. John and I bought a treadmill, you know one of those excersize machine’s but never seem to use the dam thing. ,I think maybe because its boring. In other words nothing to look at except the wall its up against. My doc say’s go swimming well I might think about that next summer. Good luck anyway with your effort
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Oh Dor, how your blog makes me smile :). You always find a way to laugh at life, and that’s what I love about you. There’s not much we can do about aging, and I have reached that point where I am really struggling with my weight. However, I am drinking way more water, doing a wonderful stretching exercise routine every morning (well, not weekends, that would just be ridiculous), and I and trying to make healthy food choices, but I’m not being crazy about it because life is too short not to enjoy it right? By the way, we saw The Martian too and loved it!
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I understand that even thinking about exercise can give you a sore muscle. I like your approach to it. Listen to it. Think about it. Then go do something else.
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Talk about “rockin”, you have made the grade way before growing old, and for one so young and accomplished, you know the value of acquiring “the wisdom.” Thank you Cindy for running out of recognizable comment space….. I think I will save your words, typos and all, for real inspiration. 🙂
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Bahahahaha! 🙂
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We too have a treadmill that occasionally calls to me, but not often enough. It faces a t.v. so I have no excuse at all. Getting a dog makes sense but Bill tends to take over that task and there is so much room to run here the dog doesn’t need to be “walked” anyway. Ah well.
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Blahahahaha! You are a blogger pal who “gets me” Cindy! Having gone through gyms, starvation diets, treadmills, a trillion weight loss books, inspirational lectures, and “a total body vibration machine”, I will now try drinking more water and stretching! But I fear I will be on a diet right up to the happy ending. 🙂
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Hahahaha! That’s it Kate! 🙂
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Me too :).
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Before the weather gets too cold, get out there and walk, Dor. You have such scenic paths. If I were there, I’d drag you out kicking and screaming…sore foot and all! ❤
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I find it depressing that we’re always in a state of deterioration. Phooey.
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I keep thinking I will magically achieve lost youth. Ha! And yes, “Phooey.” 🙂
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Yes, I need you here to drag me out kicking and screaming Jill. Hurry! 🙂
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I love Kate Grimmins idea of, think about it, listen to it and then go do something else. Great !!
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I just loved that movie, didn’t you Dor?! And your story about an exercise presentation over lunch?? LOL on that one!!! I must admit I’m an exercise addict but only because I’m a food addict and if I DIDN’T exercise I’d weigh a zillion pounds! So my mantra is “I eat, therefore I exercise” – just don’t get between me and my plate!!!
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If we can have ‘reverse mortgages,’ why can’t we ‘reverse bodies?’ 😉
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Delightful. In my book, humor is more precious than exercise. You have it in spades. Yikes! Spades suggest real work! I apologize for bringing the subject up.
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🙂 Thanks Anne! Sounds like you have that humor too – “in spades”.
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I love your diabolical thinking Eliza! 🙂
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The Martian was great Tina. I know this because I never got bored and it was a long film. As for exercise, “I eat, therefore I am too full to exercise.” And of course, the sad truth is, it shows. 🙂
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Kate has some fabulous comebacks and a great blog!
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I figure it this way, as I get…ahem…more mature, if I can still move at all, that’s exercise, right? 😉 As always, my funny friend, this post made me chuckle. I figure I’m working my abs while I’m laughing at your witty humor. So see, exercise! Voila!!
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Bwahahaha! Great thinking Cindy about using our abs to laugh. Now that’s the best exercise of all. 🙂
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That’s a first! I’ve never been to a meeting like that.
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It was a first for me too. 🙂
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You are such an adventurer!
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I have fantasies of being lithe and active, running for “pleasure,” and then I wake up to my hobble!
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Sounds familiar…..
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I agree with Cindy! She is most wise and I liked her inspiring comments.
The young, highly educated ones view the world from their learned lens – but forget that not all sizes, or all foods or all exercises fit all. (Hrmph, I know – I was like that once. But I learned…. ) So my learned self also discovered that our attitude is more of a factor in our health and longevity than your DNA. So crochet away and tell your tales. Your attitude sparkles and shines.
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Kate – I love your comments and your take on life. I shall continue to crochet and devote my life to achieving an attitude! You and I shall live forever! 🙂
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