the laanba blog

10,000

I bought a pedometer (a new gadget, yay!) I haven't really been walking like I want to but I bought one anyway.  I want to be able to track my walks (when I actually do them) and the popular Run Keeper app wasn't working for me.  It would track my walk sort of but it massively overinflated the distance I traveled.  I guess the GPS had a hard time tracking me.

I decided to instead track my steps with a pedometer.  The number that is all over the internet is that you are supposed to walk 10,000 steps a day.  Today was my first day with the pedometer and I clocked in 5910.  That is actually better than I thought it ws going to be.  I really thought it would be 2 or 3,000.  Being a music teacher helps since I am constantly on my feet.  And now I have a goal in front of me.  Get to 10,000.  I'm going to get there a little at a time.  Goal #1 is to get to 6,000 on a consistent basis.  That should be easy.  Or easier on weekedays that is.  

Walk, walk, walk.

Walking Discoveries

I went for a walk today (yay me!).  Also yesterday.  Two whole days (yay me!).  Three random thoughts from today.

1.) It must be funny to all those regular dog walkers and joggers and walkers to see the sudden glut of people that appear the first few weeks of January.  I've heard that the gyms get really crowded too with all the people working on their resolutions.  I wondered if people thought about that as I passed them.  And well why shouldn't they?  I *am* one of those people.

2.) I had to make eye contact with people while I was out walking and even small talk.  It's funny because I usually make that a resolution and did not this year.  And boom there it was and I had to do it.  

3.) Day 2 and I've already abandoned one of my resolutions.  Well abandoned isn't the right word.  Modified.  Sort of.  I wanted to take a photo and post it to Instagram, but I had already set it up in my mind that it was only going to be for the color wheel and the subject wasn't red.  But I did it anyway.  So now since I've broken that one I'm not sure what I'm going to do with Instagram.  I feel like it needs to have a little bit of a purpose otherwise I won't use it.  I'm going to let it shake out over the next week.  It could be photos from my walk or a photo a day or ... I don't know. 

This is definitely an area I am going to have to work on.  Perfection.  I start and restart projects all the time because they weren't perfect from the beginning.  That may seem mad, but it is who I am.  I need to accept the idea that many of these projects that I'm doing are going to evolve over time.  They aren't going to be perfect all the time.  I need to embrace the rough edges.