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exercising my body & mind

This week was brutal. Work was really busy, I ended up going to Curves 3 days this week, got my WiiFit in and did two nights of working out that way (about an hour each time), plus 40 minutes this morning! I also went to my very first Opera at work (school).Both my body and my mind feel quite exercised this week. My thighs in particular from all sorts of lunges and wall chairs (aka air chair). I feel good about things. Better than I have in a long time.Sure, I don't particularly care for opera, and having seen this production sort of confirmed that (although I do love watching live performances. I just don't like female soloists.) but I loved watching students that I know perform and seeing why scholarship recipients are worthy of their scholarship (one guy in particular was just fantastic!).I would have gone to Curves more than 3 times this week but one day I was in desperate need to find pants that weren't torn, which mine were. I didn't have any luck but at least I got out at lunch.The one frustrating thing I discovered this morning while paying bills is that Curves seems to have made a huge mistake and are debiting my credit card TWICE A MONTH! Argh! No wonder my spending has gone up more than I thought. I didn't catch it in December because I had a bunch of online gifts on the statement, but I caught it with this new bill. I will be going there on Monday (maybe to work out, maybe not) and asking them to reimburse me the 2 extra charges or stop my billing 2 months earlier (personally, I'd like the money back to bring my balance down). I need to make sure this gets fixed before the end of next week because I'm supposed to be billed the 3rd of each month so I'd like only ONE charge to go through in February.Monday I am going to my very first Highland Dance class. I am nervous, but my friends teach it and another friend goes while her kids are being taught as well. So I thought for $8 why  not check it out? Now that I am in NO pain from these wonder drugs my Rheumatologist gave me in November I am feeling the need to be much more active. Mondays are also my piano day, so when I have piano I won't go. If I like it I'll go on non-piano days. ;)I do have great feelings about 2010, I just hope they last!One thing about all this activity and work stuff is that I am online a lot less when I am home. I think that's a good thing for me because I need to spend less time puttering away on the computer and interact with life in a face-to-face sort of way. I really want this year to be my Year of Doing Things. I am going to make a very good effort to not party poop too much.