The Best Suggestion I Got This Year

Not all my blog readers know me or know that sometimes I write things in jest.  I often get some helpful suggestions to rhetorical questions.  I am never put off by these kind responses to my writing, but I do wonder when I write about some insane idea that is clearly a joke to me if my serious readers think I am just a fool.

I put this blog in the Diet Comedy Blog Category, a group which is very small since most information about dieting is way too serious/boring/or dry.  No professionals in the weight loss world are actually allowed to be funny because no one wants to be laughed at about being fat.  Luckily I am neither a professional nor employed in the weight loss world.  Now, I have known a few funny trainers in my day and they are the ones who have figured out that if you can keep a client’s mind off the torture you are inflicting on them by keeping them laughing you will have clients who will keep coming back to work out.

Sometime this summer I wrote a blog about wanting to be able to walk around and needlepoint at the same time.  A college friend, Christy, who is a professional trainer with a good sense of humor, suggested I get a walking desk and sent me a link to the website.

I studied the videos, read the testimonials, searched out reviews then told Russ it was what I wanted for Christmas.  Russ is a well trained husband and not only does he actually get me what I ask for, but if it is an appliance he gets me something else that is more personal and fun.  I won’t go into those great gifts, but Russ could give husband gift giving lessons for money.

Anyway…three days before Christmas a tractor trailer pulls up to the house and puts a pallet with two giant boxes in the garage.  Last night at 8:30 I convinced Russ that we needed to disassemble my whole office and install my new walking desk since we needed the garage for a party today.   It was a big job because I had to take apart my sitting desk and move two thirds of it to other places.

Russ is good at reading instructions written by people who don’t talk to humans and was able to put the whole new walking desk together with just some lifting help from me.  By 11:00 PM I was walking and working on my computer at the same time.  My office is a big mess and I am not going to be able to reorganize it while walking on the treadmill, but I certainly think that I won’t have trouble getting in my steps everyday now.  I read the mail and paid some bills and got 1,500 steps just for that busy work.  When I checked my fitbit last night I had gotten 14,159 steps yesterday.  Next thing I need to help keeping me moving is a flat screen for over the fireplace in my office.  I can’t wait until Valentines Day.