New addiction
Ok - first of all, yay for me. Every single day during the thanksgiving holiday I did a 4-mile walk. Woohoo. It was awesome. I walked in the rain, mostly, but it still felt good. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And accompanying me on my journeys was my new 3G iPhone. The 3G phone doesn't have a recessed earphone jack which means that I can ditch the extender that I had purchased so I could use my favourite earphones with my old iPhone, and instead am now able to plug my earphones directly into the iPhone jack. And this means that my music doesn't cut out on me with every third step. And so I've started listening to music on my iPhone again. And so I've started walking more. Not that I couldn't or didn't walk without listening to music. But it's nice every once in a while to have a bit of a distraction.
Ok - second of all, I just got back on the elliptical this evening for the first time in what's felt like forever but has actually been about a week. But this time, when I got on the elliptical I had my 3G iPhone with me. And on that 3G iPhone I've downloaded and installed "Tap Tap Revenge" - kind of an iPhone version of "Guitar Hero", and free to boot. Yes, I could have installed this on my original iPhone. Only now that I have a 3G network downloads are much MUCH faster, and so I've downloaded a LOT more stuff. A lot of stuff. And so the new thing for me to do is to veg in front of the TV playing games on my iPhone. Games like "Tap Tap Revenge". And downloading free apps. Tim and I sit there, we two, and try and be the one that finds the coolest free app and download it first. It's really quite sad, in a way. Or maybe "pathetic" is a more appropriate word.
Anyway... tonight on my elliptical instead of watching the Daily Show, or listening to music on my iPhone (which is what I had intended to do when I brought it downstairs with me), I started playing "tap tap revenge". Probably not the safest two things to do at the same time, and yes, I almost fell off my elliptical at one point (but I caught myself - and didn't miss a beat in the game either!) but the 30 minutes went by like *that*. In fact, it went by so fast that I kept ellipticalling well after the clock had run down. It was amazingly fun and distracting.
Man, I am totally the target market for the Wii Fit. It'd probably be safer too :-)
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Mike bought me Dance Dance Revolution for our Wii for my birthday. It has a Workout mode, too, but I haven't used that part yet. But it does get your heart rate up.
I totally want a Wii fit as well though. So, if you and Bobbin see Santa at the mall anytime soon, maybe ask her to put in a good word for her favourite Aunt, too. ;-)
Posted by Sarah on December 2, 2008 1:46 PM.