Resolutions
Jan. 4th, 2012 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI will admit that I kind of like the idea of making New Year's resolutions. I do it every year. I think the key to enjoying the idea is not to stress too much if you break them. This year I am resolved to find some fun new excercises.
Thing is, my gym membership expired. I normally would just have Shawn renew it as part of my holiday present package, but my gym got sold to another larger corporation and I would have to start going somewhere new and/or hassling around to get a new membership card, etc. That made it ridiculously easy to JUST QUIT. Obviously, I would like to continue to be fit in some way beyond kuk sool wan. So, what I decided to do this year is to take the money I normally would have spent on a gym membership and apply it toward fun community education classes that are excercise related (as, clearly, cooking classes are fun, but sort of the opposite of what I'm trying to acheive.)
I have already signed up for two! Starting in February, I will be taking a hula hooping class! Then, in April, I will take "Bokken: The Japanese Sword," which sounds super-awesome. The biggest trauma so far, is deciding which of the cool sounding classes to take. I had an awful time trying to decide between all the things on offer this semester. I can only hope some will be repeated the next time the catalogue comes out. The only other bummer is that most of these classes are conveniently scheduled for people with REAL JOBS, which means they're in the evening rather than during the day. I wish that more people were loser-layabouts like me so that these sorts of things would be offered in the middle of the day.
Still, should be fun. Plus, kuk sool wan is offering "topics" classes on Fridays so, I've signed up for a couple of those as well. I will meditating on Friday. When we went to class last night, I did warn Nicki Jo Kyo Nym that I meditate on a regular basis already and I have an AMAZING knack for falling asleep. Actually, I must go into some kind of sleep/meditative state because I can hear the words, "relax, close your eyes...." and then I wake up just as she's saying, "open your eyes slowly..." It's kind of amazing, because sometimes, I will wake myself up in the middle with a loud snore and be very aware that I was DREAMING, rather than meditating.
But they're also doing things like a topics class on jumping and falling another other things that are much more likely to be strenuous. :-)
I'm also resolved to be a better, more published author. But that's kind of the gimme resolution, you know?
Thing is, my gym membership expired. I normally would just have Shawn renew it as part of my holiday present package, but my gym got sold to another larger corporation and I would have to start going somewhere new and/or hassling around to get a new membership card, etc. That made it ridiculously easy to JUST QUIT. Obviously, I would like to continue to be fit in some way beyond kuk sool wan. So, what I decided to do this year is to take the money I normally would have spent on a gym membership and apply it toward fun community education classes that are excercise related (as, clearly, cooking classes are fun, but sort of the opposite of what I'm trying to acheive.)
I have already signed up for two! Starting in February, I will be taking a hula hooping class! Then, in April, I will take "Bokken: The Japanese Sword," which sounds super-awesome. The biggest trauma so far, is deciding which of the cool sounding classes to take. I had an awful time trying to decide between all the things on offer this semester. I can only hope some will be repeated the next time the catalogue comes out. The only other bummer is that most of these classes are conveniently scheduled for people with REAL JOBS, which means they're in the evening rather than during the day. I wish that more people were loser-layabouts like me so that these sorts of things would be offered in the middle of the day.
Still, should be fun. Plus, kuk sool wan is offering "topics" classes on Fridays so, I've signed up for a couple of those as well. I will meditating on Friday. When we went to class last night, I did warn Nicki Jo Kyo Nym that I meditate on a regular basis already and I have an AMAZING knack for falling asleep. Actually, I must go into some kind of sleep/meditative state because I can hear the words, "relax, close your eyes...." and then I wake up just as she's saying, "open your eyes slowly..." It's kind of amazing, because sometimes, I will wake myself up in the middle with a loud snore and be very aware that I was DREAMING, rather than meditating.
But they're also doing things like a topics class on jumping and falling another other things that are much more likely to be strenuous. :-)
I'm also resolved to be a better, more published author. But that's kind of the gimme resolution, you know?
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Date: 2012-01-04 08:37 pm (UTC)