Breaking habits
Jun. 15th, 2004 07:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringI've known for a long time that the best way to lose weight is to exercise before breakfast, but breaking long habits is difficult. I usually get up around five, make myself a cuppa and check my mail and online communities. As most participants are American or British and they are active while I sleep, that usually takes a while. Then I read the paper over breakfast before my wife gets up.
Going out in the cold winter air or hopping on the exercise bike ain't that attractive, especially when I have to change into outdoors clobber.
But I've recently gone up a couple of kilos from a weight that had been stable for years, so there was an incentive. Put on a leather jacket and my boots and set off around the block earlier, thinking of the Tasmania chapter which I'll write a bit later on today. Nobody else walking the streets and very few vehicles. Had to open up a bit as I was cresting the incline towards the end. Good to see a bit of rain had fallen during the night. Even better that I'd cleared the clothesline yesterday arvo.
Got ripped off at Revolve yesterday. I used to be able to get a crate of excellent books for five bucks, but a few too many bookdealers like me caught onto this and first the price started going up $10 or more for a box of mainly picked-over stuff, and yesterday I had to go into the "Better Bits" shop, where they charge five dollars a book, as I found out. One of the four books had a loose cover, I later discovered. Oh well, I got a new Michael Connelly book in good nick, and realistically, the five Aussie dollars charged is about my minimum price of $US3.
Won't do it again unless I find something really good.
Ooops. Seven AM. Must wake up the daughter for more prac teaching. Keen she is.
Going out in the cold winter air or hopping on the exercise bike ain't that attractive, especially when I have to change into outdoors clobber.
But I've recently gone up a couple of kilos from a weight that had been stable for years, so there was an incentive. Put on a leather jacket and my boots and set off around the block earlier, thinking of the Tasmania chapter which I'll write a bit later on today. Nobody else walking the streets and very few vehicles. Had to open up a bit as I was cresting the incline towards the end. Good to see a bit of rain had fallen during the night. Even better that I'd cleared the clothesline yesterday arvo.
Got ripped off at Revolve yesterday. I used to be able to get a crate of excellent books for five bucks, but a few too many bookdealers like me caught onto this and first the price started going up $10 or more for a box of mainly picked-over stuff, and yesterday I had to go into the "Better Bits" shop, where they charge five dollars a book, as I found out. One of the four books had a loose cover, I later discovered. Oh well, I got a new Michael Connelly book in good nick, and realistically, the five Aussie dollars charged is about my minimum price of $US3.
Won't do it again unless I find something really good.
Ooops. Seven AM. Must wake up the daughter for more prac teaching. Keen she is.
