I did make it out to meet up with a friend today, but winter is here in earnest and my house is seductive.
Life closes in with winter. I
know I’m not alone. A very sociable friend of mine, after I’d extracted her
from her house for lunch, turned to me and confessed that she thought she might
be developing traces of agoraphobia. She confessed she was perfectly happy at
home, shuffling around in comfy fleece, and felt no great desire to get out.
I
found it hard to argue. Right now we have 35 mile an hour winds, and the
temperature refuses to rise above 24 degrees. The weather isn’t even trying to
lure us out with deceitful rays of sunshine; it’s been gray for two days. The
fact that I’ve had a cold just plays right into this.
Lately, nirvana for me is a morning on the
computer (blog, email, and the ever present Spider Solitaire), lunch in my
recliner with the morning paper, the afternoon in a different recliner
with the current book, and time before dinner in front of the television
(Property Brothers, Alaska the Last Frontier, DVR’d episodes of Doctor Blake).
Fix dinner
(everything I reeealy want to cook in the winter is beige: pasta, rice,
potatoes, more pasta), and you guessed it, TV in the evening.
I’m
no fool. If I lean forward from my recliner, I can see the handwriting on the
wall. That’s why yesterday at 8:00 am
I left for the Y in 14 degree weather, my swimsuit under my jeans and
sweatshirt.
And yet this morning instead of heading to the
Y’s treadmill, I lay in bed watching the trees outside swaying ominously back
and forth, idly wondering which one would be the first to fall into the
bedroom. Then I had a brainstorm. I could go right downstairs and do some floor
exercises. No need to drive all the way to the gym. Yessir, I could get the
same workout right here.
The reality? The
sit-ups remain un-sat, the toes remain un-touched, and not one plank was
constructed.
I probably should
have paid more attention to the cautionary tale offered by the movie Wall-E.
Winter covers me and I am the last to appear in the spring.
ReplyDeleteI could never motivate myself to exercise. Someone else has to tell me to do it. Sometimes I consider how I must bore them, and don't show up.
ReplyDeleteIt IS hard to exercise in cold and windy weather. However, I tell myself if I don't use it, I'll lose it. We have very long winters here in the mts of CO - I could turn into a hermit if I waited for the weather to improve!
ReplyDeleteBed, computer, recliner, different recliner, TV, bed.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the perfect day to me.
Mine are unsat as well. I just made a really big pot of soup yesterday, but tonight I want macaroni and cheese - beige indeed.
ReplyDeleteLOL -- well, hibernation is natural at this time of year, isn't it? I feel the same way here!
ReplyDeleteI drag myself out to the Y whether I want to or not, because I know how tough it is to come back after a break. Plus my instructor is so used to seeing me, if I don't show up she wants to know what my excuse is. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm with you sister. Sitting down and sleeping and eating..yup.....that's winter.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame you a bit though it's not cold that keeps me from going out...it's humanity.
ReplyDeleteAt least the cold keeps some of that humanity indoors, too.
DeleteI feel your pain. Right now it is so slippery outside (no snow, just ice)that I don't dare leave the porch even to go for the mail. I just don't bounce like I use to. I have a treadmill in my guest house but don't want to risk torn ligaments trying to slip and slide there. Don't like being house bound but I do have a stationary bike inside which I will go crank up while watching the latest episode of Alaska the Last Frontier. I really like that show. So all is not bad.
ReplyDeleteOh, Patti. I'm totally hooked on that show!
DeleteMy thing is carrying food from window to window...eating and staring out a window. This morning we have it all, sleet, freezing rain, and snow. I need to be raking leaves and burning off calories.
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