Strange Notations From a Laborious Life

 Boy, what a day! It’s beautiful outside. Spring has sprung in the most perfect fashion. The birds are singing and playing in the trees outside my window, the sun is shining with only a few wispish clouds about, there is a pleasant spring breeze and a lovely moderate temperature to enjoy.
 I have a large window in my bedroom which I know I have mentioned before and it’s nice to just sit here on a day like this and enjoy  the sunshine. I’ve been doing a bit of work out the back but today I am just going to let the day take it’s course without doing anything too complicated around the house before grim reality takes it’s toll around 1pm and I have to get ready to spend the best part of the rest of the day residing in the “dungeon”!
 It’s not all a wonderful utopia here though. My shoulders seem to have decided to protest against the little bit of hard work I had to do on Tuesday and are causing me a bit of discomfort. I was moving some furniture around at my sister’s house and a couple of the heavier pieces required a more strenuous effort than I have been use to lately and my right shoulder in particular is reminding me of how out of shape I am. Either that or I have been sitting in front of this computer too much and moving the mouse around with my right hand is causing problems with my shoulder. That is telling me something too if true!
 Actually for the first time I am starting to feel my body ache and strain a little. I have always been very healthy and taken some pride in my ability to keep my fitness at a reasonable level even when I haven’t been doing very much exercise. I have actually felt better in the last couple of years both physically and mentally than I ever did in my twenties but perhaps it is time to realise at 41 years of age I need to start being a bit more active and take some more care with my health rather than relying on a healthy lifestyle that I may only be kidding myself that I keep.
 I’ve gotten lazy. I use to laugh at the Vietnamese people I work with who would go out at the tea break and move their cars closer to the entrance of the mail centre once other shifts had gone home so as they didn’t have as far to walk when they finished work for the day. I always derided them for not wanting to walk that extra 50 metres but now I find myself trying to park as close as I can to the front door at work and I have even moved my car closer during a break so as I don’t have to walk as far at knock off time! Proof of my deteriorating capacity for activity! I use to take pride in walking to the end of the carpark and putting others to shame but I have become like everyone else.
 So I am making an effort to be more active. I have retrieved my cycling rollers from my father which are basically a tool for stationary riding and I am about to go out and do 20 minutes on them. Anymore than that will bore you silly but it is a start.
 Bad elbows and wrists and knees and other creaking joints are starting to annoy me so I need to get proactive and get fit again. Let’s see long this new found enthusiasm can last! Seeya.