Oh shit. I have a cat on me.
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'Sleeper'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Sep 07, 2015 5:20:48 am PDT #4897 of 30003
Sheryl - Sep 07, 2015 5:25:34 am PDT #4898 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Ugh. Woke up a couple times with stomach/abdominal pain. It seems to come and go. My back and legs hurt as well.
Connie Neil - Sep 07, 2015 5:38:28 am PDT #4899 of 30003
brillig
It would appear that the big obstacle between me and gym-before-work is needing to get dressed twice
I hate changing clothes, especially for a short period of time. I have a fat, ungainly body, which is amply demonstrated as I flail around covering it up for public non-consumption.
-t - Sep 07, 2015 5:47:38 am PDT #4900 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I cannot pin down why deciding what I'm going to wear is such a chore for me, but part of it is that I have to consider, at least a little bit, how other people are going to perceive me.
Once I am dressed and out in the world that hardly ever crosses my mind.
Kat - Sep 07, 2015 6:33:22 am PDT #4901 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Swam my mile today. -t, I totally agree. The only solution for me is to put both sets of clothes aside the night before.
I woke up today without having done that and was 15 minutes late to the pool.
aurelia - Sep 07, 2015 7:02:54 am PDT #4902 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
-t, if you limit the options would that help? If the gym clothes were all the same? Like a gym uniform.
-t - Sep 07, 2015 7:03:53 am PDT #4903 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, putting out clothes the night before makes so much sense, but I have not figured out how to make that work for me, yet.
-t - Sep 07, 2015 7:11:08 am PDT #4904 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It might, aurelia, but cute workout clothes are a joy to me. I have toyed with stacking my gym clothes so that I can just grab a thing from each pile and wear that without thinking about it, and that kind of works, but accounting for temperature and activity requirements is tricky. And then there's shoes and socks which are a whole kettle of fish on their own.
Zenkitty - Sep 07, 2015 7:18:21 am PDT #4905 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
It would appear that the big obstacle between me and gym-before-work is needing to get dressed twice.
The biggest obstacle to my plan of hitting the treadmill in the morning is having to get dressed before coffee, feed the cats, breakfast, shower, and getting dressed for real. Note that the treadmill is right here in my office; I don't even have to dress for other peoples' eyes. But instead of just throwing on a robe, it's bra-panties-shorts-shirt-socks-shoes. It's weird, the little things that can throw you off a perfectly good-in-theory plan.
Kat - Sep 07, 2015 7:30:06 am PDT #4906 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
-t, I read The Power of Habit a few years ago and it totally helped me get into the gym before work routine. The gist is that the brain notices a cue-action-reward scenario. Instead of viewing the clothes out as onerous, I began to think of it as a cue. In other words, I put the clothes out in advance as a promise that I was going to swim in the morning. I was also certain to reward myself each time I did it so that the workout became the action in the cycle and there was another reward for the workout. Eventually I stopped needing the reward to go.