philosopher

In the first days of autumn all I want to do is sleeping, and yes if we sleep side by side, the longer the better - it seems more like catatonia than sleep, because nothing can apparently bother us.
Anyway, at 9 o’ clock this morning I was out of my car seller, to have my car fixed, and I walked back home: 1 hour and 2,5 miles after, I took my bike and went to school, and logged during the afternoo another couple of miles.  I’ll have to walk a lot during the following days: unfortunately, my car need a big fix (half my salary…sigh) At least, I’ll got agreat bun.

Yesterday, I was finally back to muscle toning. I put my weight out of their closet, selected an old video and happily realised that I was in really bad shape if I was out of breath doing push - ups with my knees down! I have practically no strnght ithe arm, and I should do something for my upper body every single day, I know - specially because I tend to store fat in my upper arms, so ugly. In forty minutes I was sweating and was happy to hit the shower afterward. This morning I woke up feeling heavy. Very heavy. It was a long time I didn’t feel my muscle sore ( well, after a hike, they are sore, but it’s different, soreness is related to a specific body part - this was a total body muscle soreness.) I was very satisfied, and realised, also, that If I want to meet my fitness goals (to have some fitness goal, I should say), I have to work (not out) less.

The truth is, I can’t manage two jobs and two homes and my husband and myself. I’m afraid that the money even if useful, is not enough ( in every sense: what I get is right for paying my holidays, but the payoff is not worth my well being - there is a lot of pressure in it too).

Leaving my job number two won’t be easy … because I’m not assertive enough.

Some of you, my friends, have asked me  to share some of the photos taken during my recent vacation in Austria.  So have a look on my photos in the blogroll, and you’ll see some view of the Grossglokner (well, it’under the clouds…) along with a funny picture of Francesco and a glimpse of me (thanks to my husband)

Holiday are like a Carnival, when you leave behind your usual way of life, and there is always an excuse (It is so delicious, you have it only once in a while, we are goung to hike/walk/doing sports today etc..) But just like after the real Carnival there is Ash Wednesday, when you go home nothing comes unrelated. I put on weight (But not my husband). Going back to our normal routine is tough, especially if you, at the very same moment, have to come back to our usual routine of work, errands, and troubles from your ordinary life.

Yesterday my husband said that, with autumn incoming, what really matters is us embracing and our kitten to keep us warm. And this counts

Hi, everybody, I’ m home again. Not thinner, not fatter (I hope). I had a wonderful time, in every sense, and we stayed longer than we had planned. Food was wonderful and for us was a sort of Carnival, even if we are now much more careful about what we eat than before. The problem is not only how much you eat, but what you eat. Eating out, in restaurants and hotel doesn’t give you control on how a food is cooked, how much fat is used, what kind of fat. Sure, in the mountains we hiked and walked much more than at home: I even lured my husband into climbing  to the highest Krimml Fall, but this can’t counteract 11 months of immobility.

At home we are back to our (almost) healthy  eating habits, but we are also back to work, which means less time to exercise (like today)

oh so serious…I said I had fun, well, I will share something with you in the days to follow