Hi everyone--
This morning I did Flextrain (56:36). It felt good after two days off.
Wow, Lori, you look terrific in that bikini! Va-va-va-voom! It must have been hard coming back to bitterly cold weather, even though it was really only one day. It's mild again here. Great pics.
Deb, I have had days like that, although maybe not so expensive.
Valerie, glad you are discovering what your Ipad can do. Deb's advice is good for starting out with an exercise program. One of KCM's 30 min. weight workouts might be good with three sets of dumbbells--5s, 8s, 12s. Combine that with a 3 mile walk at a good pace with some intervals of upping the pace is also an easy place to begin. If he can't go outside, there's always Leslie's walking dvds, and many of them have little jogging intervals.
Judy, you really did a great job on STS. I remember feeling so pleased with myself the first time through.
Happy birthday Josie!
I went to 4 films in two days in Chatham NY. I liked the last two quite a bit--an Icelandic film titled Rams about two feuding brothers with sheep herds hit by a devastating disease, and 45 a British film about a couple (played by Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling) on the eve of their 45th wedding anniversary. They are rocked by the arrival of a letter telling the husband that the body of a girlfriend who fell into a glacial fissure in the Swiss Alps 50 years ago has been recovered due to the melting glacier (global warming). The film felt very much like an Ingmar Bergman film because the husband had never really told his wife about this girlfriend--that she was also pregnant and they were planning on marrying. It really touches on how fragile even the oldest most intimate relationships can be. The first two films I thought were very confused in tone--especially Mia Madre, which couldn't make up its mind whether it was comic or elegiac--and Louder than Bombs, which had some great actors (Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg, David Strathairn), but I found irritating because I didn't like any of the characters. Huppert you see only in flashback because she has committed suicide. She plays a photographer who frequently leaves her husband and two sons to photograph wars like Iraq, Syria, etc.
I had a great time with my friend. We went to the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay and took a walk on her estate with little postings of her poems along the way. The mini-hike leads to her gravestone and her husband's. She was quite beautiful and something of a rock star in her heyday (who knew you could fill up Hollywood Bowl with a poetry reading??). Her poetry IMO is a bit treacly and cloying, but I guess it worked for people in the 20s and 30s. It probably helped that she was very beautiful. We also went to Hudson and into all of the antique shops. I found a great doorstop--a funny frog lying on his side with a sly smile. It will replace my 15 lb. kettlebell. I wanted this dog, but the price was 300$. The shop owner said, "Roll the dice," so I said I will give you $100, to which he replied, "Too aggressive!" to which I said, "I want a doorstop, not an antique."
Enough blabbing from me. I had fun.
. I will train with Karina later and then go visit my DD and hang out with her and her roommate for the rest of the day. Tomorrow I plan to do a spin class and maybe go to the movies.
