It’s back to school season, and for the first two or three years after (finally) graduating college I could smell the three ring binders and pencils in the air. But its been a long time since September has meant change for me. Summer comes and goes as I go about my usual routine never noticing the sale of spiral notebooks at Target, don’t need one, don’t want one.
But this September is different. I too am starting something new. With the end of summer, for me came the end of Jacki Sorensen’s Aerobics. For the past four years I have been going to aerobic and step classes three times a week. I had a wonderful teacher, Diane, who had a wonderful assistant Jeanette, and a class full of wonderful women. It was wonderful. But I felt as though I plateaued in my fitness goals, became complacent, got stuck in a routine. Hence, a time of change…
I now belong to the North Albany YMCA. It’s a lovely new facility about a mile from my office. Diane’s not there, no one cares but me if I come or go, and I have NO IDEA why all the machines are flashing at me. But I’ll get it. Eventually.
Fitness will continue to be a priority in my life. It will be harder now to set my own schedule, harder to learn new routines and machines, harder because I will miss seeing my friends every week. But it is my goal to work harder too. So it sounds like a good fit for me, for now.
I think this change will be good for you, Liz. You’ll challenge yourself, and you’ll do it because when you decide to do something, you get it done!
Good for you Liz! I need to get myself back to the Y too,so I will be thinking of you:)
hmmmm….dirty feet get more comments than healthy living.
No school for me this year, either, for the first September in 3 years, but thankfully I am leaving Huge-ton and returning to Chicago where yoga studios don’t close on Saturday afternoons so that everyone can start eating BBQ earlier. (This reason was not exactly posted on the door, but that’s my assessment as a presumptive “Yankee.”) In the words of an (joking, I keep telling myself)Australian intern, “Wow, you’re like the snobbiest type of American; you grew up in New York and were educated in Boston.”)
It appears that I will be returning as a substitute teacher for yeat another September. If the principal says yes. Some things never change.
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
So I’ll say this:
With that attitude, you are correct. Things won’t change.