Stability Ball was a bad idea

Trading my chair for sitting on a stability ball while I work turned out to be a mistake. Yes, it would definitely appear that sitting on the ball makes your body work, but my hips and saddle muscles are not used to the stretching. So now I'm sore through the straddle, as it were.

I have joined an 8-week Diabetes Challenge over on Sparkpeople.com. I'm looking forward to going through the program, and I have made a couple of buddies with whom to go through the program. They both have at least 100 pounds to lose as well, so I don't feel so alone with that.

Today I walked 1.73 miles. I would have walked more, but my stretched-out hips were complaining. The DVD's I was waiting for have arrived, and I couldn't do one today, which was frustrating. I don't know whether to wait for my hips to settle down or whether to keep pushing forward with the stretching. I'll take some ibuprofen and wait to see what happens in the morning.  I am consistently getting distances over a mile, so next week I think I will make 1 mile my new daily minimum. I'm also experimenting with resistance bands.

Tonight was Adult Forum, so I made some shrimp dip and brought some wheat thins. We were discussing Song of Solomon, which is a book that will make your feet sweat if you read it right. It's playful and sensual, which are 2 words you don't readily associate with the Bible. It was a lively discussion, and once again I find myself plainly amazed to have ended up in the company I have found at Ascension. It is an interesting trip from agnostic to believer, one that I am still in the process of making, but I have found such good company here along the way.

I am lucky, so very lucky. Every day is better than the one before. I am growing and changing and finding my way in the world. I am finding the beginnings of friendships. I am kind of scared because things are going so well, and I fear what it will be like when something goes wrong. But I can't control that. All I can do is cope with it when it happens. I need to just enjoy the way things feel right now, at this moment, because this moment is all that we really have, anyway.

And so it goes, another day gone. It was a pretty good one.