- Exercise
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It's that time of year when I shake off the icy doldrums and get amped for spring. I don't need no XS, honey, I'm revved enough.
And when I'm in the mood to move, I move! Just joined the fitness center at my alma mater. It has who-knows-how-many square feet of fieldhouse and pool, with approx. 2.4 billion machines that you can do anything on. And enough basketball courts so I don't have to hang at the edges waiting for the horde of men to tromple down to the other end b4 I can sneak in a shot.
My DD is 14 and finally interested in exercise, so we go together and boy, is that fun! Secret agenda: Get her interested in all the opps. available to the college-bound, shake her loose from the grip of this materialistic cohort she hangs with who think ain't is in the dict., and had went is, too, and that high-school graduation and MySpace are just about the pinnacle of any smart person's career. <: - O
Like most kids, DD will try anything and that makes me reach beyond my comfort zone. The classic youth/age dichotomy. And I hear it from myself that nanosecond after it escapes my lips: Wise old person speaks from the summit of experience>yawn<.
For the last year she's been trying to tell me, sometimes not so subtly, it's time to make way for this young duckling. She's gonna cross that road -- bcs it's there. I can chase her up and down the sidewalk all I want to, but eventually she's going over, no matter how many cars are coming.
I guess it always comes too soon, long before you can imagine you're done inculcating your values.
Good thing exercise helps with stress management!