Wow, what a way to get out of bed.

I’m laying there, maybe half asleep but maybe not even that, when suddenly I hear what sounds like my father falling down.

Crap!

So I jump out of bed, I throw my pants on, and I run into the other room. There’s my father, a-OK, sitting in his new scooter chair wrestling with the door. Turns out that what I had heard was just the chair making it over the door jam while thumping into the door (a couple of times quickly).

:major deflate:

Maybe if I was awake I would have realized what had really happened..

Geeze. I bailed out of bed so quickly that, at that point, I could only open my eyes half way. They felt grainy and the world was very blurry, and I slumped over the back of the chair with my heart beating nearly twice as fast as it ought to.

:yawwn:

Well, buddy, that’s one way to wake up.

Good morning?

Heh. . . sheesh.

Here’s a quick update on the health front.

What I’m doing:

• Treadmill for 30 to 40 minutes.
• SLIM IN 6’s Slim & 6-Pack [Amazon.com]
• Sun tanning (when there’s, you know, actually sun. unlike today)

What I want to do is complete these three every day of the week, but so far I’ve been hitting it six or five days per week. I figure that that’s not bad, but it’s also not where I want to be. On the other hand, I’m pretty comfortable with what I’m doing. This is definitely not a collection of healthy habits that I dread doing.

The worse part about this exercise plan is that it requires about two hours to finish, mostly because of the sun tanning. The treadmill is done in 30 to 40 minutes and Slim & 6-Pack requires 10 minutes. That’s pretty much an hour right there. Toss in sun tanning and you have another 40 minutes (20 minutes front & back).

The excellent news is that I can now occasionally jog about half of my time on the treadmill. That just rocks, especially for a guy like me who’s had problems with asthma.

My diet is typical for me, but I’m leaning more towards a better diet. For example, my dinner today is going to be orange roughy [Wiki] and this delicious spinach stuffed with cheese and more bits of spinach. It’s similar to ravioli only with out all of the unhealthy stuff.

edit: Well damn, I didn’t know that this fish was nearly endangered. Blast it. :-/ (I just read the wiki)

I’ll have to get the correct names later, but it’s a nice, healthy dinner that’s not terrible on the taste.

Anyway, that’s all from this rambling health nut for today.

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