January 24, 2008
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A Day in the Life
For several weeks now, the light on the women’s side of the gym has been going, since Christmas in fact. At first I thought it was funny… you know, hiding the unsightly flab of the holiday cookie massacre, but yesterday as I sat down at a machine to start working out, the lights went out completely! I mean, how am I supposed to exercise in complete darkness? I ended up going out into the larger gym and using the equipment there, but boy am I feeling it today. Maybe I should just stop using the lady’s side of the gym altogether and work with the machines that make me feel it more. Still, it kind of bothers me that they still haven’t fixed the lights in the women’s gym. Much of the gym itself is devoted to men’s equipment and some uni-sex, but that doesn’t mean women should be treated like their exercise needs are less important. It’s nice that they have a private gym for those women who may feel self-conscious about their bodies, but sometimes I feel like having women in the gym annoys the men.
Sometimes I get a really bad vibe from the place, but that may just be because so many people have a negative self-image. No one’s been rude to me, but sometimes when people are waiting to use equipment, or I am waiting to use something, I get the feeling that the people there are really very angry that they have to share. Then I feel anxious and I just want to leave, forget about finishing my workout. I am not pleased with my body, but I’m not ashamed of working out to improve it, so my anxiety has nothing to do with my self-image. I wouldn’t even say that my self-image is all that bad; there’s just room for improvement.
I am beginning to think that a gym may not be the best place for an empath. I wish I had the room; I’d buy one of those all-purpose home-gyms that can be adjusted for many different activities.
It has also seemed like the last few weeks… okay the past month… everytime I had the time to clean, something happened… I’d get sick or have a headache, etc, etc. So today I planned to clean, and wouldn’t you know it, I had a headache. I took some painkillers, which dulled it a bit, but didn’t kill it. But I persevered. Some of my plants have been crying for a while now, so I pulled them out of their pots to transplant them. Poor babies! They were so root bound! I had no idea. I only just transplanted them about a year ago. They shouldn’t have been so root bound as all that! So I found some larger pots than I had intended, but then I didn’t have enough soil, so I had to go to Kmart.
They only had little bags of soil because they kept the larger bags outside. Apparently they had gotten wet and frozen together! Well gee! Imagine that, bags left outside getting wet and freezing together in the winter. lol They had two kinds of soil indoors. One was a Jiffy grow thing that weighed hardly anything at all when I picked it up. Yeesh, why would I buy a bag of peet? It’d just wash away as soon as I watered. The other bag said it was for violets, but I figured it would be okay. It was still much lighter than I would have prefered, but my plants don’t seem to mind it. If I had been able to get one of the big bags of potting soil (the ones that weigh about the size of a small child), I probably would have looked into buying some more large pots and repotted all my plants. As it is, I repotted the four worst. The others seem happy enough that they can wait till spring.
At some point, my headache disappeared. Maybe it was all the dirt I inhaled while repotting, but it always seems like if I can keep active and get my mind off it, I can usually kill a headache through neglect. If I sit and bemoan my “affliction,” it just gets worse…. like it’s my new pet and I’m giving it treats it likes. That’s why I take off from work so seldom if I have a headache… if I can get to work, the headache will usually disappate after a few hours of hard labor. If I’m so debilitated that I can’t get myself to work, there’s nothing to do for it but go back to bed and hope to sleep it off. Working the headache off just works better.
Now I am really very tired (though it’s only 6:30pm) or maybe it’s just the alluring call of my pile of comic books which I picked up yesterday and have not yet dived into.
January 24th
The Cornish Tinner’s and Seafarer’s Day is an old Labor Day celebrating a new season of sailing and mining.
The 10th day of Pamenot is the Day of the Coming of Thoth.
The Alpha-Carinids meteor shower begins now and ends on February ninth. It is a little known southern hemisphere shower. The best viewing occurs on January thirty-first.
Comments (4)
lights keep going off around me as well. it’s not the same light every time though. we have one outside that has worked ever since the house has been ours and this year at the end of summer it desided to act freaky. then stopped all together. then there was the ones downstairs outside that started we got them working again and the one in the front of the house blew a bulb. then last night my bedside lamp blew a bulb. it’s happening so often it makes me feel like their some cosmic light problem around me.
i use to go to the gym it’s been about a year now that i stopped. every time i’d go i’d get sick. usually stomache or cold symptoms. i figured all the doctors from the hospitols were bringing the illnesses and having them concentrate there with all the equipment everyone would be touching. i finally stopped going and stopped getting so sick too.
I got a graphic novel and a school book at the library today. Enjoyed an early breakfast with my hubby, unexpected free lunch at work, and a stupid dinner with no gymming. I agree about the headaches. If I forget about them, they tend to go away. And water – water always helps.
I have been having a similar issue, but with sounds… starting with the woodpecker that has made it’s home just on the other side of my bedroom wall, the smoke detectors that continue to make noise even though I took the batteries out (to replace them, of course).
As you know, most people are impatient in the winter. Maybe we all have SAD?
Here’s hoping you are headache-free!