One thing I decided I want to do this fall, if I can manage not to bog down in the "oh, my gosh, I have four evening meetings this week" feeling is take yoga back up. (I do it independently, not as part of a class - the nearest regular class is 1/2 hour away). I have the am/pm yoga tapes (and may I say? Rodney Yee, I know you're proud of your physique and all, but that Speedo - the whole "package, front and center!" thing is distracting. And really not all that appealing. Trust me on this.). I've done the tapes off and on since January 2004, but it seems when I get busy I get into the situation of eating dinner at 7 - and then, if you're supposed to wait 4 hours for your food to digest, it puts yoga-time at an impossibly late hour for me. So I am going to be better about changing out of work-clothes when I get home and doing it *immediately.* And doing it most days of the week. I really don't want to lose flexibility, and I'm at the point age-wise where that could begin to happen.

And I've also started doing a few calisthenic type things. I realized that as nice as the ski simulator is, it doesn't work the abs AT ALL, and my abdominal muscles have gotten quite slack. So I've started some of those crunches that the back doctors recommend so you don't kill your spine. (And I'm embarrassed to admit how few I can do at a go, and how wobbly and weird my abs feel after doing them. But that means they're working, right?). My goal is to get up to (eventually) 100 every other day or so. And I'm doing pushups. (Again, embarrassment over how few I can do - but in my defense, I do the "real" pushups and not "knee" pushups). My dream-but-probably-impossible goal is to some day be able to do a one-armed pushup. Just because it looks cool, you know, and there's something that appeals powerfully to me to think of being a 40 or 50 year old woman who can do pushups like a Marine.