A Life Less Ordinary

Dedicated to My Parents

by Helen

I sprained my ankle today while hiking.  Everything is fine, it just made for a somewhat painful 2000 foot decline from the mountain.  

But afterwards, Adam went to get me an ankle wrap and ice.  Here is the conversation we had while he was wrapping my ankle:

Adam: I think it takes a medical professional to make sure the wrap doesn't wrinkle.  You don't mind if it's wrinkled do you?

Me: I don't know if I mind or not...I've only ever had my ankle wrapped by medical professionals....

Silence in the room followed. 

Snowboarding

by Helen

Recently I tried snowboarding and I was of course terrible at it. The lift and I did not get along (it hit me three times of the three times I got on it).  However, once I figured out how to get up toe side up as opposed to heel side up, life did get a little better.  Luckily I had a helmet - otherwise I think I would have gotten a concussion or two.

Regardless, the moral of the story here is my instructor kept telling me to relax and not to tense up.  He finally asked "are you a stressed out person?" Let me think about that one for a second...yes! I mean I don't think anyone would think that I am the epitome of relaxed.

So in order to defy my personality and my limited world view, I am going to continue trying to snowboard so that I can prove that you don't have to be laid back to snowboard.

But I am still trying to think of a single up tight person I know (other than myself) who snowboards. I don't think I know any.

Motivation

by Helen

I'm a total group person/joiner.  My boss is very into fitness and talks about it a lot which is great because it makes me think about it and reminds me to work out.  I have been meaning to get back into morning work outs because I feel that they make me more productive.  So lately, my boss has been doing spinning classes, and the joiner that I am, I decided to take that up too.  Luckily for me, my gym has those classes three times a week at 5:30am.  So today I went to my first one. 

It wasn't so bad. My instructor was awesome.  She showed me how to adjust my seat and adjusted it for me and kept checking in on me throughout the class.  There were five of us total.  I definitely worked hard, but I think I could have worked harder.

So in order to keep motivated, here is the list of reasons why I am going to work out at 5:30am three times a week:

-Free up my evenings to work on b-school apps
-Get more energy throughout the day (this is more of a long term plan i think)
-Look good for Hawaii in November
-Give myself more time in the morning to get ready
-I will feel like I am more organized and together if I work out in the mornings

Here is to hoping that I can sustain this!