A Night in a Snowglobe

I spent the night in a snow globe. This is a view from my Starbucks...listen to me...I still say "my". This is the store I used to work at. I am spending the evening here to study. I'm sitting next to two gentleman that used to be my customers, but now are my fellow patrons: Bruce (left) and Steve (right).

I'm learning lots about Old verses New Institutionalists and why Veblen and Galbraith liked one group but not the other. And how von Hayek refuted Galbraiths theory. No...I'm not using big words and unknown people to sound super smart, but to perhaps entice you to google them and learn something cool.

Anyway, the snow is coming down so pretty and I learned this really cool feature of taking a panoramic view picture that I couldn't resist taking a break from my studies to blog about it.

Ah the beauty of snow on a winter's night. [Big smile...Sigh]

Improvement!

I know, I know...I haven't updated in over two weeks. My apologies. I'm getting busier with studies and by the time I think of blogging my brain has turned into butter left on a hot stove.

I am finally noticing improvement in my knees. Two and a half weeks ago I decided to try biking instead of walking. The pain in my knees and surrounding ligaments had become very painful when I walked. So I got on the bike and rode, and rode and to my delight it did not aggravate my knees!

I did that twice and then started mixing it up. I usually start on the bike and then move to the treadmill. I also began adding in some exercise on the weight machines (which I finally found...funny story). Last night was my best night yet.

11 minutes on the bike

26 min walking

Leg extension

Leg press

Stretching

And I got that all done in under and hour...you should have seen me rushing out the door to get to my car. UCCS (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) has extremely limited parking for it's 8,000 + students. So you either have to pay big $ to have a parking pass or pay an hourly parking fee ($1.75/hour). I didn't want to pay for two hours last.

Thank you, Jesus!

I have the hardest time finding shoes, especially dress shoes. But tonight I stopped by Goodwill and casually browsed the shoes. I found TWO pairs of nice shoes, in my size AND they weren't frumpy!

[Happy Thoughts]

Slow going

So apparently my imagined "hit the ground running" expectation for training was a fantasy. It is frustrating to be getting off to such a slow start. Seven months ago I was jogging between 12-15 minutes, consecutively. Apparently just seven months can render my knees and hamstrings in such poor condition that walking 20 minutes aggravates them.
[Pooh]
I'm hanging in there and learning patience...patience with my body. Thanks for hanging in here with me. :)