Month: March 2005

I think over the course of the first three days I had the pedometer I totaled 10,000 steps. So no, I’m not that close. But I think if I had been doing 10000 I would be much thinner, so it isn’t that much of a surprise to me.

Today it went above freezing and I decided to take a quick walk at lunchtime to boost the numbers. My pedometer is cool because if you walk more than 60 steps a minute for over 10 minutes, it counts them (and the duration) in a separate “aerobic steps” category. So I did 2730 aerobic steps in 25 minutes. I’ve got half my steps in for the whole day right now. I would have walked for longer, but it started raining on me and I didn’t have a hat or an umbrella. Oh well, I’m just happy I finally got some aerobic steps registered!

Until it gets warmer out, I just don’t know how I’m going to hit 10k. I hate walking in the cold, I really do. Plus we’ve still got snow in the forecast this week. Oy.

Oh man, I am not happy with Junior’s bus driver this morning. I will spare you all the details, but let’s just say that she was running a few minutes earlier than usual and as we were halfway down the driveway, she drove past us. I screamed at him to run, and we took off up the street, where she was stopping to pick up this other little girl. I screamed “Hold the bus!” to this little girl, who was staring at us, and as we neared the back of the bus, with me staring into the side rear-view mirror, the bus driver drove away from us. Now at least a dozen kids on the bus saw us running, either down the driveway (as I waved my arms) or as we trailed the bus. Did none of them say anything? Or did the she-devil bus driver ignore them all? My co-worker is of the opinion that she DID see us running in the mirror and chose to ignore us. (I ran far to the side to try to be in her view). Or else she doesn’t use her mirrors which is a bigger problem, as far as I’m concerned. What if my son had run ahead of me and was standing right next to the bus when she turned? She could have hit him.

I’m pissed. I’ll say it. I’ll take some of the blame for not being at our stop on time, but I will NOT take the blame for her not seeing us running up the street. I’m a fat woman in a bright red coat, for God’s sake. A blind person would have seen me coming.

So lets get your votes, shall we? Did she ignore us on purpose or not?

Ya, ya, it’s March. I have a calendar. The weather dudes tell us that almost every day this week should have snow showers. Faaaaaantastic.

I’m tired of winter. I snub my nose at winter. So Junior and I took one of the kites outside this afternoon while it snowed around us. I have photo evidence of a) us flying a kite and b) the snow.

Okay, my first full day with my new pedometer, and I’ve hit 2306 by noon. That’s good and bad. Good because at least it’s not 200. Bad because I have to do that three more times to hit the “10000 a day” you’re supposed to do for heart health and weight loss.

Now I know that I could take the long way around the building to stuff, and go out for an extra walk and easily hit 10k, but I’m trying to see what a “normal ” day is for me. As in, how many extra steps on top of my normal hike to the building from the parking lot, and hike from my desk to the cafeteria will I need to add to my day. I told someone I guessed I would get somewhere between 6000 and 7000 without any extra work. Now that it’s noon and I see my current total, I may have to downgrade that to 5000 because I’ve already done two of my three trips to the cafeteria for the day. And round trip that’s 500 or so steps. Add the steps back to the car (400, I think?) and either I have to make many many many trips to the printer and the bathroom this afternoon, or I’m going to have an embarrassingly low total.

Let’s see, there was something else I was going to mention. Crap, what was it? I’m sure it was something good so that Adam would put me back on the home page of Universal Hub. Ever since he canned Boston-Common I haven’t made his home page once. I need to go out and get a news story about Charlestown, apparently.

I ordered a mess of kites from the fatbraintoys.com website a few weeks back, and got them about a week ago, but obviously haven’t been able to do anything with them yet, what with all the snow and below freezing temperatures. And aside from my personal comfort, I have the nagging suspicion that kites do better in warm air than cold air. (I am not a scientist. Do not mock me if I’m completely wrong about this.)

I got a follow-up email from them yesterday saying something like “By now, you’ve probably had a chance to try out your kite, and we’d love to hear your feedback.”

Sure, throw it in my face that I haven’t been able to use my new sleddy sled kite, ya boogerheads. At this rate, I figure by April we may have a frostbite free day or two to give one a spin.