LJ stuffs

[jedusor]

There's this study I read about recently that found that people are happier overall if they think about good things that happened during the day while they fall asleep. I tried that for a few days, but I kept either forgetting or simply crashing as soon as my head hit the pillow (in case you haven't noticed, I've been busy lately). So instead, I created a new LJ, happypurpleone. Every day, no matter how shitty it is, I'm going to think of good things that happened and list them there. I don't expect anyone to friend that journal; the items on the lists so far are mostly pretty mundane, and I'll post about anything interesting here. Just letting you know it exists.

I also joined rawr_comm, an exercise community mostly consisting of NPL members. Puzzling and exercise; why not? I do karate twice a week, and that usually lasts about an hour and a half, but Sifu is really cracking down on us for not even stretching on the off-days, and I should exercise more than twice a week anyhow. I used to jog, but that required me to set a good chunk of time aside, and my shins started really hurting, and shin-splint stretches weren't helping at all. So I'm going to start stretching every day, doing crunches on a regular basis (because they're easy to do; no equipment or planning necessary), and pulling out the DDR mat more often. No, it's not going to prepare me for a marathon, but hey- I'm not trying to run a marathon. I'm just trying to move around a little more.