Fun is... jogging?

I jogged today! A whole twenty minutes of continuous jogging. I realize that before, when I was reluctant to run, I never got over that initial out-of-breath-I-think-I'm-going-to-die feeling that I get when I first set out on a jog. It happens about a minute into it, when my body and lungs seize and I feel like I am going to need someone to give me oxygen. That feeling does pass, though... I just need to brew through and get to the next level. Then I can run fine, and I do. Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it running. I used to run on the treadmill way back in the winter, but now all I can do is a leisurely jog. But whatever! I'm out there, it feels good, and if I keep it up I may even get back into running. My goal would be to do the Manchester Road Race. I think it's too late for me to run it this year, but there's always next year. Maybe Dedham has a road race. I'll have to investigate.

In other news, I am SUPER excited to go to Slater Mill this Saturday. I dreamed up this trip this morning as I was thinking of ways to get me through the rest of the week - this trip is my dangling carrot. Last night on Ghost Hunters the crew was investigating at Slater Mill. They got some interesting results on the K2 meter, and also some creepy EVPs. Doug and I are looking to investigate the mill ourselves (i.e. take some photos and look for orbs or something minimal like that), and I am very excited to get out and see an historical site. Hopefully the thunderstorms will keep away... although maybe that would make the trip more ghostly!

Also on Saturday I get my haircut. I'm trying out a place in Norwood. Why not just go to the place I usually go? It's not like I moved far from Newton. Well, it's because the last couple of haircuts my hairdresser in Brookline gave me didn't turn out so good, so I started to go down to the lady at Shampoo One in East Hartford (yes, Connecticut) whenever I happened to be down that way, which was often. I'm not really often down that way anymore, so I figured I should just try to get someone local. Let's see how this goes. I'm always tempted to just grow out my hair, have it be long again (it hasn't been long in years), but I get tired of waiting for it to grow and want a change, so I just cut it off. We'll see how the mood strikes me on Saturday. Oooh, but here's a good question... If I had to have celebrity hair, which celebrity hair should I have? What would be a good cut for me? This is something I'd be interested in hearing about...

Am I really that lazy?

So I haven't really exercised on a regular basis since my wedding in February. After that day, my stomach started to get really bad and I was on that stomach medication, I fell into a very dark, depressed period where I was seriously wondering whether I would be committed to the McLean Hospital in Belmont, and had some major mental crises with work. And now there's the house, which I'm using as an excuse, but that really isn't an excuse on some days. Take today, for example. I wanted to come home and jog for about 20 minutes (that's all, just 20 minutes!), but I came home famished at 7pm and cannot run after just eating. So I had a snack, changed my clothes, made the bed, put laundry away, put a new load of laundry in the washer, cleaned the cat boxes, and now here I am at 7:41pm, blogging instead of jogging. I've now lost my momentum for jogging. Will I ever join the Curves that is right down the street from me, literally? It would be stupid not to. I am so close, and I had such a good experience at Curves (until I got bored and decided to join a traditional gym). I don't have time for a traditional gym now during the week, though - there isn't one close enough to my house to make it worth while. Who wants to get to the gym at 8pm, get home at 9-9:30pm, start dinner, and eat around 10-10:30pm? That's not my idea of a good or healthy evening. I just have to really make myself either jog or join Curves. This weekend I can jog. Curves is on my hit list next week, when hopefully I can leave work a little earlier one night.

In other news, at the grocery store this weekend I saw the reissued Hydrox cookies. I have been reading about them in the food news alerts that I get at work. Apparently the public has been begging for Hydrox to make a comeback (they have a following like Moxie), so Keebler, which now owns the brand but discontinued the manufacture of Hydrox in 2003, reissued the cookie for its 100th anniversary. We bought a package, and I do agree that they are better than Oreos. They are the same design - chocolate sandwich cookies with a white creme filling - but are not as sweet and do not leave a film on your tongue after eating (am I the only one with this problem when I eat Oreos?). I hope that Hydrox stick around, because I certainly would add them to my grocery cart every once in a while.

Hmmm, I just realized that I lamented my lack of exercise routine in the same post that I discussed buying and eating cookies. Until I get better with the exercise, maybe I should leave the Hydrox reissues at Star...