Bean's first day in Swimming School
Not that I don't love San Francisco. I am dedicated to the beauty in this city (of course that excludes the BS politics and anything opposed to said beauty or acting in complete incongruence to such)...
31.9% body fat. 25lbs overweight. No energy. Pushing size 10. Pushing 31" waist. This needs to stop: NOW.
I just had my Equifit done (yes, it's the cheeze Equinox propoganda of branding everything with a spliced "Equi" upfront). My new trainer is awesome, and my mindset is deteremined. Yes it is the first week of the new year. Yes there were a gazillion new bodies to fight through in the locker room (obviously each with new year's fitness resolutions in tow). Yes my fitness goal birthday is in line with the other self-defeatist new year new goal births.
I get it. I may fail.
It's still worth a try...and I'm off to a good start.
25% body fat. 2lbs underweight. Lots of energy. Perfect size 6. 3.1kilometers target daily goal.
Goodbye gut, your lazy ass is headed out the door.
It's funny how most of my recent web activity has been fueled by the need to understand user behavior rather than actually being interested in what I'm doing online. I would say in recent years, it's been a toss-up between two endeavors: personal novelty and professional study.
Am I becoming too immersed in this study these days? Possibly...but isn't that what is key to understanding? I find the most influential social web gurus hardly have any traceable activity online. One theory says they know better than to document any and all things truly personal. Another theory is they surround themselves by folks who do, all the while observing results from afar.
A friend brought it to my attention that my recent FB activity has been almost too self-revealing. Although I can argue the point that what I reveal still has it's borders drawn at the edge of the truly intimate details of "me," he has a point. I suppose study could be conducted under a stealth pyseudonym, but how accurate would the results be?
While usabililty tests have recently come to the forefront for me as the champion tool of experience analysis, I find that I still need to learn through experience. As Bird said, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." How funny that I am seem to still follow Bird's gospel.
Ok, so I enjoy going overboard when it comes to getting Bean "things." This past Christmas brought more trains from Thomas the Engine, Leapster gadgets and Dr. Seuss books into our toy-filled home than I care to count.
I supposed it's due to my childhood experience of not getting any of the things I wanted--I definitely know the luxury of being poor. When my parents brought us to the US, they gave up so much of their old lives to start from scratch in a new country. Although, I am definitely seeing the brat-nightmare rear its ugly head. Time to sober up with my gifting habits...the inability to accept disappointment will hurt him so much more in the short- and long-term. Hopefully this is whole will-exerting phase will pass soon. He's a strong-willed little man, and it's totally challenging for me to put up a good fight while still being proud of his independent nature.
I love being Little Billy's mom.
Been there, done that with a custom blogger...so I'm switching over to Posterous.
Good music snob.
