Hey remember how we chatted via my blog yesterday about how I wasn't going to let things get me down and I was going to get out and enjoy all that life has to offer?
Um, perhaps not all in the course of one day?!
At least that is what I felt like last night after retiring to the sanity of my old familiar bed.
Old, older than dirt, old.
I mean feeling every bone in your body ache kinda old.
Old like you should start slow and work you way up slow, old!
The day started off brilliantly (Sounds like a line from a Harry Potter film, I can hear Ron say Brilliantly to Harry, sorry)with a great cup of coffee. We started things off slowly and didn't rush to get to making plans on our day. It was going to be a sort of challenge to just take whatever opportunity passed our way and say YES!
Well we decided if our kids were taking their roller skating lessons, we would join them for a short two hour skate afterwards. It has been about 5 years since I skated, loved doing it at the beach and something I loved since I was a teen in high school. Hubby hadn't done it in about 10 years, pre-Kailee days and our last memory of that was roller blading at the beach.
Sorry but I am a fan of the old quad wheels not inlines. My ankles and coordination skills aren't that great much less balancing all my extra weight I now have that I didn't when I was a teen.
Age kinda does that to you.
Well our kids were just tickled pink with that idea of watching mom and dad skate with them. I must say we weren't the only ones about 5 other parents were there and a bunch of kids that could literally skate circles around the things we did back in my high school days.
After about an hour we sat inhaling large quantities of water and wheezing in and out, trying to rest between a game that was in the works of being started.
I looked at my watch, then at Steve and said, "You know, we've only been doing this for an hour?"
I think he seriously stopped breathing and his eyes enlarged in his head, as bead of sweat continued to roll down his neck. "Your kidding right?"
"Nope, we still have an hour left!" I said wiping my own sweat from my forehead and fanning myself with my hand.
I think we both at that moment in time questioned our sanity but threw caution to the wind anyway.
Fast forward to the end of the night, once gravity takes control and time begins to wear thin at those muscles that haven't been put to good use in way way too long. Oh, man! Were we ever sore!
Sore, aching, plagued with enormous pain, racked with agonizing muscle aches. I am sure you get the picture.
It wasn't pretty, but we both looked at each other before toasting over water filled glasses and muscle relaxers, "It was fun wasn't it?"
"Yup, want to do it again?"
"Absolutely, if we can manage this about 4 hours a week, we'd have exercising just down pat."
"Cheers to next week. I'll call the pharmacy and refill these before we run out."
Ah all in a day's work and just loving life even if it feels like it's going to kill us.
By the way, Steve only fell once on his inlines and I managed to avoid the floor! Guess we aren't so old after all!! :)
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