Okay, so on the exercise front, I have absolutely nada since
Monday’s workout with my trainer, Samy, to report. Boo!!!
I had planned on an hour treadmill run this evening, however, I procrastinated. I had the time to load the audiobook that my
wonderful friend Mark downloaded and sent me, I just didn’t do it. But, in my defense, once I had it downloaded
to my computer and then attempted to put it in a useable way on my phone…oh my
goodness…can we say complicated? Okay,
so, for starters, I decided that I was going to go to Fry’s Electronics and buy
a non-Apple MP3 player. They had some
for $30, but the guy mentioned maybe going with some Bluetooth earphones after I
explained to him that my main problem was that the earphone jack in my phone is
crap and cuts out constantly (this seems to be a Motorola issue because the
exact same thing happened to my other Motorola Droid phone...around the same
time too…just over a year since I bought it is when they both started having
issues with the earphone jack). So, I went
over to the earphone section too. I looked
at the $30 Bluetooth earphones and decided I’d rather go that route than the
whole new MP3 player route.
So, I get the new earphones home and attempt to sync them to
my phone. Uhh…wha? It took me about 5 minutes to figure out how
to do this. I eventually stumbled into
the Bluetooth settings section on my phone, turned that on and then searched
for available devices and it popped right up!
Yay! It synced (quite quickly I might
add) and I selected Google Music and slipped the earphones on and hit
play. The sound is fantastic! And they’re so lightweight I almost couldn’t
tell I was wearing them. And they’re
really comfy too!
I had downloaded the 3 audiobooks that Mark had emailed me
earlier in the day, so now I just need to load them onto my phone and set them
up each into their own playlist, right? Right. Easier said than done. I load the first book into the music
folder. After it’s done copying over I open
up Google Music but can’t find it. What the
heck? So I get on Google and search for
how to listen to an audiobook and the search brings up audiobook players. Huh. So,
apparently, audiobook files aren’t the same as music files and you need a
specific app to listen to them. Okay. Then I go to the Google Play store and search
for audiobook players and find a free one that looks decent and has good
reviews and download that. I get it
downloaded and open it up and then am immediately stumped as to what I’m
supposed to do.
I again get on Google and search for how to use this
particular app. The guy is Russian or
something and his English is very broken and odd. After watching the first segment like 4
times, I finally catch that he says to create a new folder on your phone for
the audiobooks and to copy the books into this folder. Okay, great.
So I do this aaaaaaand nothing. What!?!?!?! I Google something else (by this time I’ve
Googled so much I’m going cross-eyed and can’t remember what I’ve Googled
anymore) and it tells me that some apps can’t function when the phone is in USB
storage mode (aka-plugged into the computer).
So, I unplug the phone and hit the scan button again and voila! Everything pops up! Success!
I click on the new audiobook folder and it loads the book up and I hit
play and IT PLAYS!!!! Of course, by now,
it’s like 2+ hours later. Sheesh.
I am now set for doing long runs on the treadmill! So, that hour run I had planned to do
today? Yea, here’s to hoping I do it
tomorrow after I complete (and hopefully pass) my concealed handgun course
tomorrow.
Well, totally unrelated to anything fitness related is that I
paid off and picked up my new TV today!!!
It is H-U-G-E!!! I mean,
seriously huge. I’m going to have to
rearrange the things I have on the wall above and around the TV as a result of
how huge this thing is. Hahahaha! But, you know what? I’ve been wanting to rearrange the stuff on
that wall for a long time now. Now I have
an excuse to do just that. But, the new
TV came with its own set of technical frustrations. I couldn’t get my U-verse remote to program
to the new TV. I tried all 4 of the “regular”
TV codes that AT&T had on their list of program codes for Sanyo, but none
worked. I looked under their list for
HDTV’s and there were NO codes at all for Sanyo. Really?
So I had to call tech support and a very nice and patient lady helped
me. It took about 10 minutes, but we
finally got the right code and now I don’t have a future filled with use of 2
remotes awaiting me. Well, technically I
do still have to use 2 remotes…the 2nd one is for my DVD/Blu-ray
player. But, you know what? I wonder if I can’t program that to the
U-verse remote too. Hmmm. I’m not tackling that tonight. Maybe tomorrow. Or next week.
No rush.
Oh! Another thing…my
friend Mark’s work is starting a Biggest Loser challenge, starting on January 5th. He has asked me to help him. I am more than happy to do this for a couple
of reasons. First, I absolutely LOVE
helping people in this way. It is a
passion of mine, really. Second,
motivating someone else motivates me…that’s my payment. By helping others, I help myself. I haven’t gotten so far as to type up any
actual weekly workout schedules, but I have come up with 4 cardio workouts and
3 strength training “types” that we can mix and match for him. I also bought him a copy of the Shred Diet
book and some containers for Christmas to get him started. I’m so excited!!!
I had already decided that I needed a reboot on my own
journey. I have about (at least?) 20
pounds to go until I reach my goal weight.
I will start this new leg of my journey at the same time that Mark
starts his challenge at work. We’re
going to do this together. He’s going to
get a membership at my gym, so it will be way easy for me to tailor workouts
for him with a WIDE variety of equipment that is available at my gym. I’m hoping to do at least 1 workout per week
with him (on Sunday evenings). If we can
get in a second one, that will be great (it would be Saturday morning if we can
swing it…all depends on the overtime I’m working at work). We’ve also set a goal race for him. He really wants to run and, more
specifically, run with me. I have plans
to run the Capital 10K at the beginning of May and then I was going to run the
10K distance at the Schlotzsky’s Bun Run at the end of May again, however, that’s
a good time frame for a 5K goal race for him.
Well, guess what! The Bun Run
also has a 5K distance. So that’s our
goal race for him!!! And I will run the
whole thing with him…at his pace! We will
cross the finish line together! I think I’m
going to see if I can talk him into starting his own blog…he has a lot on his
plate already (he’s going to school on top of working full time and trying to
lose 13% of his body weight in 3 months), but I’ll try! I think he’d really benefit from keeping an
online accounting of his own journey.
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