So, it's October. This is probably one of my favorite times of the year. I am a libra (and an October libra at that), so I always feels peaceful around this time. I like the season, still warm, but cooling off enough to where I have an excuse to make hot tea by the gallon and bitter, hot cocoa. Pumpkins, squash, apple cider, fresh grian from the farmers market, bread. Yum. This is generally the season I cook the most. As such, it is the season I am most likely to gain weight. Of course, I don't really give a crap about that. Not in the least. I bounce between a size 6 and a size 8 and really, there is nothing to be ashamed of in that. I have large hips and I have always had large hips. Even when I ran 5 miles a day in sprints and lifted weights for an hour I had large hips. Luckyly, to go with the large hips I have nice legs. Shapely thighs and calves that are pretty muscular.

Of course, I havn't been working out as much as I should since I got my job. I have cut my daily yoga in half and I havn't been doing all the other things I should be doing. Bleh. This makes me feel a little guilty. So, I have decided what I am going to get myself for my birthday. A Bicycle and a camping trip. To be specific, a pair of bicycles. One for me and one for my husband. (He needs to lose weight, or at elast he is always complaining that he does. Well, that and the doctors said he should so he can hold of the diabetes as long as possible.) I love to ride. When I was a child, I wasn't allowed to watch television and I lived out in the bloody boonies of Arizona. So, no other kids, at least not my age. I spent much of my time alone, riding my bike around in the desert mountains. (Well, I spent most of my time doing this or reading.)

Now I live in the city so it is a different kind of riding, but I don't live far from Stone Mountain and the bike trails there. I have set a goal for myself. As soon as I get a bike, I want to ride at least 5 miles a week. Most of this will probably be done on the weekend, but it is a reasonable goal in my mind. Maybe I'll even try to ride a mile every day after work. I get home early enough now that I carpool. I want to get into the habit.

I have started doing research on bikes. Not sure what kind I want yet, but I'm fairly certain it will probably be a hybrid of some sort. It will be an adventure. I'm excited.

I love this time of the year. It is the time I can actually plan and get shit done. I tend to get into habits and keep them. I started playing Shadow Siege around this time last years and it's a habit I've kept and I still enjoy it. I also started RP Blogging around this time last year and I have been pretty dang good keeping up with it as well. Yeah. October.

Spiffy.

Posted by Utopia at October 5, 2005 07:29 AM

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