so my cousin has started training for a 13k run later this year. i wonder if this might be the encouragement i need to start a good routine up again so that we can be accountability buddies. i was talking with another friend about that last week too so maybe the three of us can keep each other going. it’s sad because my husband is great about these things but i’m just never going to have the dedication he’s got for exercise and he’s never going to have the motivation that i need (you would really think that living at the beach and being in a bathing suit 70% of the time would be motivation enough to slim down but i guess i’m just not that easily motivated – i have the tendency to just wallow in depression instead). that’s the only thing i don’t like about living in orlando because i know if i were there, my cousin and my friend would make great exercise partners and we would really be able to help each other. well, at least i got myself to the gym yesterday. that’s a start, right? could even happen again today since i am more rested after getting an extra hour of sleep this morning (no, i wasn’t late for work; i switched schedules with a co-worker today so she could get off earlier to celebrate her half-century birthday).

update15:07 – two days of lunch gymming in a row. go me! i did another fifty minutes on the treadmill. can’t do a full hour because it takes a few minutes to get down and back up the elevator and my lunch hour is strictly an hour now. maybe if i can keep it up i’ll be able to cut back to forty-five minutes on the treadmill and use the stairs to get down there and back up. that would be pretty ambitious though. it’s been a while since i’ve done the stairs but those 18 flights killed me every time i did them.