Exercise or lack of it

Curso de Instructor de Pilates (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am so lazy. I know I should exercise but somehow I manage to get through the day without much. I walk the dogs every morning and sometimes at night. However, a Yoga place has opened near my house and I have been going there a couple of times a week and to my surprise I really enjoy it. Not enough to do it at home by myself mind you but in the class with someone pushing me I will do it. I feel really good afterwards. I also go to Pilates once a week but find that isn’t as enjoyable as it seems a lot harder to do. I told you I was lazy.
I very rarely eat junk food, or soft drinks or fruit juice etc but still can’t lose weight even with all the extra exercise. I need to lose 5 kg which isn’t a lot I suppose but it’s still enough to put me over the 90cm limit on the waistline, which is supposed to be very bad for cancer, heart, strokes etc. SIGH!!!!

Older Drivers

Saw an item on the news last night where they said that older drivers were 60 – 80% more likely to be the cause of their own accidents. What really annoyed me was they didn’t give statistics about any other age group. When you see the amount of young people killed on the roads every week usually involving high speed, alcohol or drugs it makes you wonder doesn’t it? The news seems to get skewed to make it whatever they want to make it rather than based on truth and fair play. I am not an older driver but I was incensed by the unfairness of it all. How about a bit of commonsense?

Funny Dogs

Last night we were sound asleep in bed when we heard lots of noise and voices coming from downstairs. We raced down to see what was going on and there were the dogs sitting on the lounge with the television going. One of them must have stood on the controls and turned it on. It was only motor racing thank goodness and not porn they were watching. We did have a good laugh.

Irresponsible Parents

Yesterday we took the boat over to one of the islands and I was amazed how many children were in boats, and on the island, with no hats or sun protective clothing on their bodies. With all the publicity about skin cancer I wonder how these parents can do that to their children. I have just had a very dear friend die of melanoma and he went through hell. So many operations and drug trials and finally succumbing to brain tumors. I wouldn’t wish his type of death on anyone. Shame on those parents and grandparents who should know better.

Some days are like stones

I forget who sang the song might have been John Denver. I am not having a diamond day anway.  I should be grateful for being healthy, having someone to love me etc but sometimes things get you down and they don’t even have to be big things. I am doing a BA online and it’s hopeless. We are up to week 10 of this semester and the lecture notes only go up to week 4. Two of the lectures so far have no audio so they are useless to external students. On the ones that do record the tutor talks to the students who are there but we can’t hear their answers. Then they ask the tutor a question and we can’t hear the question. It’s so frustrating.

I have no one to ask to help me and the tutor has just taken over this particular course and doesn’t seem to know much about it. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

However, when the external students sit the same exam as the internal students, and we have the same assignments during the course, they have the advantage of tutorials and being able to ask other students. Yet we are expected to do the same work without help and get good marks. I don’t mind doing the work and I study hard and get good marks but it would be nice to have a bit of help.

Anyhow that is my bitch for the day. I am off to my yoga class to try and calm down.

have a good day!