Day 3

[susandennis]

Better.  I paid attention this time.  Still 10 minutes at 2.  My hip(s) started hurting about 4.2 into it.  Not really hurting but I could feel them.  They felt like they do when I sit crosslegged with the laptop on my knees for more than a couple of hours without getting up.  Anyway... I did another minute and a half and then I ratcheted up the speed to a whopping 2.5 and tried that.  Better!  Seriously.  No hurting for the last 4 mins.  No hurting on the walk home.  I'm healed!!

mtgirl gave me a suggestion about stickers on a calendar. I do keep a really pretty Seattle wall calendar here next to the desk.  So yesterday I got stars stickers.  And now I have one on each of three days.  It's fun to get a sticker!  I may be closing in on 58 but some of me is still 5.

Now I have about 45 mins until time to leave for Susan's and my chore is to figure out how to restore my right mouse click menu function in IE. Works in everything else.  When I right mouse click in IE I get the menu but nothing is 'hot'.  I cannot live without my right mouse clicks and I have no idea how to get them back! 

Comments

[pisceandreamer.livejournal.com]

It's fun to get a sticker!

It IS! It's nice to know I'm not the only one that is that way. :)

[susandennis]

It's addictive, too! Which, in this case, is a very good thing.

[artisanal_xara]

It's fun to get a sticker!

I was reading a parenting book recently that advised giving stars to your toddler for doing certain things. At first I kept wondering why a kid would care about a sticker, but then I remembered.

When I was somewhere around 5 or 6 Mom was trying to get me to do some chores and bought this little sitcker chart. If you did the sweeping you got a sticker, if you put away dishes you got a sticker, etc. If you got so many stickers in a day or a week you got a prize. I cared enough about getting the stickers that I remember that chart 25 years later. Stickers are apparently a powerful tool.

[susandennis]

See??!! It's one powerful tool. I am kind of surprised at my reaction to it. Sure is a simple enough thing.

[nt.livejournal.com]

I think it's awesome that you are doing this, and I look forward to reading about your progress over the coming weeks and months.

[susandennis]

Thank you!!! It means a lot to know I have good LJ friends out there following along.

[teasdale.livejournal.com]

I meant to tell you yesterday that I love your little hamster icon. :)

[susandennis]

thanks! He cracks me up.