Friday January 28, 2011

I was checking my blog today and I was surprised to see that my last two entries that I had emailed had not been posted!

I am going to have to investigate what happened to them because they were supposed to be on there :(

Anyway I will add them after today's post. So, even though I hadn't shared with you about my walking in the last two posts I am going to share with you today how my walking is going.

This week I have been walking with my mom around the block. Well, it would have been the big block that is 2.28km, but mom wasn't feeling up to doing that so we have been doing the smaller block that is 1.23km.

Even though I had been sick for a while and was starting off slowly, I was kind of sad when the walks were over. I know that I have to start out slow and not push myself but I think I am wanting to go further that the small block we have been doing the last few days.

To mix things up a bit, I have been taking my mom down different streets on our walks, it keeps things new and fresh and doesn't make it monotonous. The walks are still the same length but on different routes each time. One day we will go one route and then the next day we will walk a different route or walk the reverse of the route.

Walking with someone is good because you can talk about things and the walks seem to go much faster than walking alone. There is also safety in numbers especially when walking at night or in an area you are not familiar with.

I like to walk alone most days so that I can listen to my MP3 player and catch up on either some of my favorite Pod Casts or an audio book. It doesn't take long to get behind in your reading or pod casts, so I now combine my efforts and kill two birds with one stone. I have also taken to recording my stories and then listening to them as I walk and see if there is anything that needs to be edited out or changed.

I love to write and I love to walk, so combining both of them I can get more work done on time and still stay healthy. Do you have any audio books or pod casts that you like to listen to? You can find them free on the Internet if you don't have a favorite or don't have any audio books.

Here are some web pages to check out for free audio books:

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/home

http://www.audiobooks.org/free_book_list.html

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

Pod Casts can be found at:

http://www.podcastdirectory.com/

I found that there are lots and lots of pod cast listings on the above site, and I am sure you could find something on there that would make your walk enjoyable. I headed straight for the comedy section and found a few to load onto my mp3 player for my walk tomorrow.

The only problem I have found when listening to either an audio book or pod cast that has comedy in them is that you tend to laugh out loud and usually people cannot see the ear buds in your ears so they walk a BIG circle around you. I have no problem with that and it is really funny to see their faces when they see you laugh at 'nothing'.

Well, keep on walking and having fun getting healthy. Tomorrow I will have more tips and tricks on making your walking fun.

Keep on Walking!!

©2011 7Ladybugs

January 28, 2011

My Most Memorable Vacation

In July we went on our annual family camping trip with my parents to Osoyoos, B.C. The funniest part of the whole week was my mom getting onto the floating chair, which Jason had brought with us.

He had been floating about without any problems, keep in mind he is 6"3 his legs could stretch out and reach the end of the lounge chair, his arms were long enough to reach over the inflatable sides to paddle himself around.

Now, Mom is 4"11 but wanted to try the chair so as to stretch out and not have to hang on for dear life, as with the inner tube she was using. She couldn't get on to it in the deep water so Jason pulled it close to shore for her. He showed her how to get on and said if she shuffled back it wouldn't tip over.

Mom stepped over the footrest thing and launched herself onto the chair. WHOOSH! The chair saw mom coming and shot like a bullet out of the way; she ended up on her butt in the water. She decided to give it another shot but with Jason holding the chair this time.

All was well as she launched herself backwards onto it. She was on it until Jason let go then it tipped her off into the water. By now the whole beach was cracking up laughing, as is my mom. She cannot stand up because she is laughing and Jason can't help her because he is laughing. She decided that the chair was possessed and went back to the inner tube.

This time she decided that she was tired of lying on the tube and I suggested she put it over her middle like the kids do. I should mention that my mom is a larger lady. I could not help her as I was laughing because I knew what was going to happen.

Jason came to her rescue and pushed it down over her head only to get it stuck on her boobs. She eased her boobs on top of the inner tube and was a happy camper. Now you can imagine what happened when Dad said it was time to start supper and we had to get out of the water!!

Picture this... a large 4'11" 60+ year old lady walking into shallow water with an inner tube around her. Mom was killing herself laughing because she realized that though the water was shallow, her inner tube was still up around her boobs and she was in ankle deep water. Once again it was Jason to the rescue and he pulled it up over her head.

From then on every time we went to the beach Jason would pop the inner tube over Mom's head and she was happy for hours. The lake, the fun and the laughter made that .

©2011 7Ladybugs

January 27th, 2011