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It was zonk time for both Risa and me. Risa doesn't usually take an afternoon nap nowadays, but once a week or so it catches up to her. This morning she wanted to walk to preschool, which takes about 25 minutes at her pace. While she was in school, I decided to check out the gym in the community center. I haven't been to a gym in years. All I had to wear was a t-shirt and old running shorts while everyone else was decked out in Lululemon, a Vancouver sucess story, I might add, but I wouldn't be caught dead in it. I did find it funny that I own $500 in bike gear, including $80 Sugoi bike shorts, but I have nothing to wear for the gym. Nonetheless, I haven't seriously exercised in almost a year.

I did about 20 minutes on the treadmill (running shorts perfectly suited for that), then I did 20 minutes of upper body weight training. I'm quite stocky in build and would probably have made a good weight lifter. Then it was grocery shopping. I didn't take the rolling shopping cart with me, since there's still snow on the ground and I wanted to go to the gym and had Risa in tow, I didn't want to have to lug the cart with me. But I should've brought it. After preschool we had lunch and then it was another 25 minute walk back home with upper body weight training lugging the groceries on me. A good excuse for an afternoon nap.