befogged

My new job is (from my perspective at least!) going swimmingly - I am just as busy, but I am much more relaxed and happier about it all, as are all of my new (old?) colleagues. Plus my calendar is no longer half filled with meetings before I’ve even started the week - we just, well, talk to each other. The joys of a smaller company!

Since, as anticipated, it’s proved such a good fresh start I decided it would make sense if I try to consider it a new start in various other ways, too.

So, after years of not managing to get my hands on a Round Tuit I have actually joined a gym. And have so far been going sufficiently often to make that as cost-effective as it would be to go to the local leisure centre.  Well, okay, jogging outdoors would be cheaper, but since I’ve spent my entire adult life completely failing to do any such thing and any sort of at-home exercise has only ever been sporadic at best I might as well be realistic and consider the financial cost to be far offset by the health benefits.

Once I build up my fitness to a vaguely respectable degree (this may take some time! I have already lost several of the comfort-eating pounds I put on in my previous position, but my starting point on the fitness scale was probably a bit woeful for a 30 year old woman), there’s a pool and loads of classes, too, so I am hoping to pick up yoga again. What is it they say? Six weeks to make a habit, one to break it? Well, I’ll cross my fingers that I’m halfway to making a new one!

Which is just as well, as the gym contains showers, and thanks to a bit of an incident whereby the part of our kitchen ceiling that’s just below our shower decided that it would really prefer to sit on the floor ours is currently out of action. We do have a separate bath, thankfully, and we’re on the case with getting it sorted but for the time being I am considering the inconvenience of only being able to have a shower if I go to the gym an extra incentive to fitness!

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