How super-strange things can be.... Sometimes, when you are trying your most super-hard to make a living and keep the washing ticking over and the fruit bowl full - you might just find yourself saying to the people that matter, things that you don't really mean.
For instance - "Just go upstairs while I finish making this apron - and I'll bring you your lunch super soon" When it should be "Oh sweetie pops you ARE starving - let's see what's in the fridge! Aprons can wait."
Or we can try "No we can't go and see KungFu Panda today.. I have to finish these wallets and it's super important". The translation of which is "Sometimes we need to have fun - get your Crocs on".
Perhaps you might have dealt with "Can we PLEASE collect all the sticky tape up because i have a lot of taping to do" (the reply to which was - the sticky tape is in the shop and you'll have to wait until the shop is closed because we need it in there) - perhaps you might already know the correct response would be something like "It's YOUR sticky tape too! You're in this family and they can wait!!! They won't mind. They are very NICE customers!"
The point is... it's a lil crazy around here at the moment - but I've got out my special dictionary which can translate English into Human and I'm going to get on top of it, I reckon. Truly.
Something else I thought of today:
Day One of my 20 minute walk a day program (Advised that it takes 21 days to form a habit) - When do you know that it's okay to start running..? For instance.. do you go "I'm just going to walk up to that tree and then start..." or do you go... "I'm putting the IPOD on.. and when it gets up to Destiny's Child's 'I've Got a New Way to Walk'..i'll start running then?" or do you just walk and walk and walk for days on end.. and then when the burning feeling goes away you start to sort of do a bit of a jerky jog then? Who knows?
The point is that at that point.. when you stop walking and start jogging... I just start laughing.. and then I have to walk.. because I look stupid running through the park and laughing. They'll bring out the straight jackets. The park is RIGHT NEXT TO St Vincents Mental Health Unit. It's probably FULL of mildly curvy people who are just making the cheery transition from walk to jog - and the peeps in white coats come over with a people-sized net and scoop them into the Mental Health Unit with one fell swoop.
You know what that makes me think? I think I may walk for ever-more. For my own mental health, of course. And in fear of the people-sized net (which may chafe).
xx Mikes
You are too funny! I'm glad i don't live near that place, i'd have been scooped up ages ago.
ReplyDeleteI say never bother with the running thing... it's bad for your ankles and knees anyway and will make your butt bigger! ;) Seriously though, walking is way better for you and much more natural. And you can always just speed up your pace and swing your arms some more. Good luck with your new habit!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the awesome too. I haven't said hi, but I've been lurking for quite some time now, I just realized. :)
Hahaha! "Mildly curvy people...scooped up with a people-sized net" still has be laughing.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm with Kristena Marie -- running is for the birds. Well, maybe not birds...
Girl, you crack me up!
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you try the Nordic Walking with "skiing sticks", it really is efficient and looks totally ridiculous until people get used to it.
ReplyDeleteThere is a You make me smile -award for you in my blog!
I think you'd be scooped up in a flash if you Nordic walked around your hood!
ReplyDeleteWalk, walk hard until you can walk no faster then maybe...just maybe it won't seem so funny.
Pip, you are so funny. You had me imagining all these leunig-esque curvy people squirming about in a big net.
ReplyDeleteThanks !
oooh - I know, I know, I know about those little sentences that pop out of a busy working Mum's mouth, and need to be re-thought.....
ReplyDeleteI have a two-year-old doing "very important work" and I have to wait because she's "very busy". It saddens me to hear it mirrored back at me. Today we're going to have a fun outing of HER choice... IKEA!!!??? (Really! I asked her and that's where she wanted to go!!).
i say ride you bike.
ReplyDeleteBike riding is faster than running!
You can smile and wave and make a quick get away from that super sized chafing net if it does come close!
And it's not so hard on your knees either!
xoxx
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Pip, I hear you, I testify on all fronts. Leo tells me he's too busy aswell, and the other day we nearly had muesli bars for dinner, that's how immersed in work I was. Plus I'm trying to jog more, but I have been a jogger and it's meant to be a hard habit to pick up, tres bad for the ol' knees etc. I'm with Brooke, ride a bike, you can go further and do that velocouture thing! Cart wheels are good to, or maybe we should all get together and dance vigorously, anyone keen?
ReplyDeleteCan I borrow that English into Human dictionary? I'm in search of a decent translation for "can I stay up a bit later?". The answer to which is usually, "sweet jesus, NO. I'm off to the craft room."
ReplyDeleteAnd WHAT a conundrum on the physical fitness front. I would pursue the psychosis angle: wear an eclectic mix of suck-in-the-tummy-undergarments as outergarments, your best and brightest striped polyester and watch them leap out of your way. The park will be yours and you can practice the 100 yard dash as the mental heath nurses chase you through the flower beds.
PS have you seen Mike Leigh's new film 'Happy Go Lucky'? - the main character reminds me of you.
x
pippylala - if some one is chasing you with a net - it will MAKE you jog/run! Also, this post made me think that you need this lovely poster:
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hey.... making the transition to jogging is not so bad... i've done it many times! haha.
ReplyDeleteI have used the "couch potato to 5K in 12 weeks" program on Itunes...It is free! there is also Suz's program which is similar but with hip hop instead of techno music. the programs make it seem really easy and almost fun! Itunes. so wonderful.
all best, tara
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You go girl. I started running about two years ago and run five times a week. I am smaller than I ever was, even as a teenager, and lost 20kgs (size 16 to 8). I never ever ever thought I'd be a runner, but there you go. I started running around our block (meaning I could pass by the house, check for noises of children fighting or the TV up to volume 100 and keep going). I started walking one side, running one side (of the block) and so on. I did that once. Weeks later I ran all sides. Weeks after that I did that twice. I got to a point where some kindly supporters came out during my nightly (at the time) "run" and spurred me on when they could see I was getting slower on the third and fourth time around. I built it up from there and now run around two suburbs (about 5kms) for about a half hour five times a week. It does become addictive. Just imagine my cheer squad spurring you on when you get a little slow. You'll get there.
ReplyDeleteI love your post. I can so see those people sized nets. I live in fear of them myself!
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I did this awhile back and really need to do it again, but walking for 5 minutes then jogging for 2 minutes then walk for 5 minutes then jog for 2 minutes. This really burned those calories. You are supposed to walk for 5 minutes then alternate 2 minute walk/2 minute sprint, but I was never capable of that, and the 6 minutes joging in bursts with the walking really worked for improving fitness for me. Of course, the first time I did it I thought I might die my heart was going so fast!
Thank you for making me smile.
Tam
:-)