The good...

Thanks to the greatest walking motivator of all, my pedometer aka the thing I manage to drop most often of all time, I have been walking everywhere.  I live very close to a giant man-made lake (it used to be an estuary, where all the creeks and streams would meet and flow into the bay) which I have been walking around every day that I am not working.  I have been working (and will work there for the next week also)  somewhere where I can walk and bart. So far my track record is pretty much as I suspected it would be.  I can walk both directions any time other than the very early morning, when I can barely get up early enough to take the bus.  (Big surprise.) 

This week, I'm working a change over; which is pretty much me walking around, picking things up, carrying them somewhere and putting them away or somewhere else.  In a past bout of pedometer wearing, (I think it lasted a week) I had worn my pedometer during a tech day when I was working Deck crew and thought that was a lot of steps (maybe 12,000).  Yesterday, I walked 10.75 miles or 24,337 steps and I only walked home one way.  Yeeesh, no wonder I was so tired yesterday when I got home.  I am so curious to wear it again during a tech when I walk to work and walk home. 

In my walks around the lake I've been spending time visiting my local library.  I have been taking out DVD's of all of my favorite movie musicals as a kid.  I think I am in heaven.  I haven't watched many of these since high school, as they were all taped on VHS off of PBS.  (Who has a vhs player these days anyways?)  I am amazed by how theatrical some of the lighting is.  I feel like I am learning a lot about old-fashioned cinematography.  Who knew that they some how put gobos in a follow spot, so that the beam edge has a hard star like shape?  I've even been singing all the songs and dancing around the house.  Perhaps I am returning to my five-year old self.

Thanks to the pedometer, I had a good week of exercise and I had a good week food wise, so I've gotten to -6lbs!

Ridiculous picture of the week.

I forgot to take pictures in my clothes I wore to the meeting, so these are my work clothes. I tried to pose like all the celebrities do with my ankles crossed.

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Inspiration comes in strange forms

I don't know if I have mentioned this on the blog yet, but my sister is getting married (to a wonderful guy) in June. I have known pretty much since the announcement that I would be in the wedding. I learned this week that I am going to be the maid of honor. GASP. I have to be in even more pictures. I mean I get to be in even more pictures... YAY! (I have been unhappy with the pictures of me at other family weddings and I want to be happy in the wedding and in the pictures.) Time to get some exercise and eat more veggies.

The past two weeks I have been quite busy working a normal person schedule, (working from 10am till 9pm,) which I had to drive to and I got free dinner. Some days I even worked another show after I left the first job and when I got home I way didn't want to go for a walk, nor did I want to get up early and go for a walk. I didn't even wake up early to go to Weight Watchers.

Yesterday, thanks to our change to daylight savings time I got an extra hour of sleep, managed to get out of my warm bed and trudged down the street to WW. I was kind of downhearted at the idea of weighing in. I lost a tiny bit of weight. (I'll take anything I can get.)


Here is me showing my UCSC pride. I wore knee high socks with my cropped pants because it was cold and I kind of looked like a real runner. kind of.

Now that I am back on a normal for me schedule and I have a reason to exercise. I think I am addicted to my pedometer. My new daily goal is 10,000 steps. I am enjoying trying to best my record. I am getting competitive with myself. I want to get the steps. I want to wear my pedometer. This week I am working somewhere where I can take Bart. So far I have actually walked to Bart and walked home three times. It is kind of awesome. Today, I walked 21,755 steps approx 9.61 miles. I get all these steps because, I work on the third floor of a building. I have to walk up and downstairs a bunch of times before I am done with my work day. Normally I take the elevator half of the trips because it is an option to me. Now I am choosing to take the stairs.

My sister sent me an e-mail with a bunch of possible bridesmaid dresses. There is one that I love, love, love. It's very pretty without being too sexy and it has pockets! I want to wear that dress and be happy with how I look in all the family photos. I am going to print out a picture of it and put it on my mirror so I look at it every day.

This week I am going to eat more fruits and veggies! I am going to track and I am going to walk when I have the option to.

Here is to a fall full of walks!

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This is a special action shot of me getting chased by a giant invisible squirrel (and you get to see the infamous pedometer.)