Eye of the Tiger

Stop me if you've heard this one before. I woke up this morning, stepped on the scale and sighed. That's when I finally realized I might be a tad overweight...

Or more likely, I'm fat. I could blame an inactive childhood, a thyroid problem, mommy didn't love enough me enough, or Haley's comet on this problem, but the truth is, I am a damn lazy person when it comes to exercising. I *loathe* it. I would rather do almost anything that actually do some kind of physical activity that reminds me I'm exercising. Sure, I like to play softball, golf, and other sports. But running? Biking? Walking? Crawling? none of that for me please.

Until today.

I restarted the Couch to 5k program. My goals for it are a little different than the goals of the actual program. They want you actually sign up and complete a 5k. For me, it's not about distance, it's about time. Stamina if you will. I want to be able to jog for 30 mins. It may be a slow jog, but damn it, it'll be a jog. And at the end of this jogging period, I don't want to collapse, or puke, or anything else.

This should carry me through until at least the winter time, when I'll have to figure out something else to do. I'm going to run, but to hell with running in weather that causes boiling water to freeze in a matter of seconds. If anyone has any good ideas for exercising inside, (barring a treadmill, I really hate those things) I'd be happy to hear them.

As far as the rest of the day, I was sort of productive. After another day at work and running, I got my finances up to date in quicken, with another vow to never let it fall behind again. I've opened up two ING Direct savings accounts, and I encourage everyone to check them out and move long term savings to them. At 1.4%, it blew the water out of my .025% U.S. Bank Savings account. I've set them to automatically withdraw money at the 1st of the month so I'll never see it or miss it. I also am setting up to automatically put money into my Edward Jones account to start investing (in addition to the 401k I have at work) Maybe I'll actually have money when I retire?