Hide and Seek

Had a thought for a blog tonight and when I signed on I reread my "wart" posting and noticed a typo. Figured I would go in and fix it (seeing as that is an option) and TA DA I found the lost blog. Hooray. So I've decided to share it.

Yesterday I headed off to the library determined to pick up a couple of books to help support my weight loss and my search for a more meaningful life. It was the perfect library type day...overcast and raining just enough to make you scurry from house to car, from car to building, avoiding an outbreak of duelling umbrellas as you went.I hit the computer first thing as I searching specifically for a book by Teresa Tapp's that has info about exercise in 15 minutes a day. I like that concept and figure if I can spend 3 hours futzing around on the computer surely I can take 15 minutes to invest in my own well being. No books by Teresa Tapp in our library so I look up exercise and fitness to get the the Dewey numbers that will put me in the right ball park and off I go to the 613 section

I have to say in an aside here that while I love the speed and flexibility that is provided by the computer terminals I SO miss the old wooden drawers with their typed 3x5 index cards that you had to stand and leaf through. It does shine a light on my personality type since if I found a misfile I just had to fix it. I love filing....well I used to love it.

So I'm in the 613's with my head bent at the appropriate angle to read spines. My eye is caught by something with "15 minutes" on it. Turns out to the 15-Minute Pilates by Lesley Ackland. Hmm says it is "to make you longer, leaner and stronger" so it gets to start the pile. I keep looking and I see "8 Minutes Real Shapes Real Sizes". Hey, hey! even better, I can spend that extra 7 minutes working on my blog! I add Jorge Cruise to the pile and keep looking. Nothing else jumps off the shelf so I go back to the terminal and type in "working in retirement". Interesting results that have me looking in the 331 section (whatever that is). I pull a book entitled "Encore - Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life". It sounds perfect so onto the pile is goes. I then hear the call of the magazines and stroll over to those funky shelves getting lured in by Money Saver, Psychology Today, Photography and House Beautiful. What can I say except I'm trying to expand my horizons. Off I happily go to check out, only to discover that three of my magazines are the NEW ones and cannot be checked out, zip, zip, zip off the pile they go. FINE! I put my books in the bag I remembered to bring and head out the the door only to set off their buzzer system. Gad, everyone looks at me as if I have a diamond necklace stashed in my pocket and one of the girls scurries over with an outstretched arm just in case I'm going to make a break for it. Oh well. They rescan the books, I go home and somehow fritter away the rest of my day trying to manipulate old photos on the computer (another blog).

Next day, again it is overcast and rainy. The only thing on my calendar is to wait for a delivery that is scheduled to arrive between 12 and 2. Sounds like a reading morning to me so I settle down with my second cup of coffee and the 8 Minutes in the Morning book (you're NOT surprised are you). He's got the usual self analysis sections, the why we overeat stuff, charts, graphs and empowerment phrases, but he has some good stuff as well. For the eating he does the divide your plate thing, 1/2 veg, 1/4 protein and 1/4 carbs....but I've been doing that for ages. The beginning exercises are very low key, and if I pick anything out of the book it will be some of the exercises he introduces later on. Apparently he has another book out but this was specifically noted as being for people who want to lose 30 pounds or more. That's me!!! I'll check out the other book another day.So I pick up the Money Saver and have a look through it....quite frankly it's all over my head so that didn't take long...well, longer than I thought because I fell asleep while reading it. I jumped awake thinking the delivery guys had come, but it was only 11.30 so I picked up the Encore book. It was actually quite depressing as it had lots of suggestions for people who had been executives, or doctors, or health care executives who all went on to be advocates for the homeless or social entrepreneurs etc. Only one guy seemed to be sort of on my level and his second career was a Walmart Greeter. Yikes....I admire people who can do that but I'd rather be clerking or cashiering. So disappointment reigns supreme. Ended up not doing any exercises today, and overate marginally at supper (probably depressed). The books are neatly stacked and waiting to go back to the library.

Oh, you think I forgot the Pilates book? Nope apparently I already have it....bought a couple of years ago and it's on the shelf in my sewing room. (insert hardy laugh here).