Holes In Thoughts

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Hiking Regularly

When I was in high school, I was a Boy Scout.

As satisfying as it is to accomplish climbing a 5.10, it's very expensive to go climbing in a rock gym: Rocks & Ropes charges $479 for an annual pass. Because my climbing partner and I are the type that hate gyms, we're going out hiking every weekend instead. We'll see if I keep any self-promises to do some basic exercises during the week to shore up the exercise.

Our first hike was last weekend, and we started quite easy with Aspen Trail, near Summerhaven on the top of Mt. Lemmon. We'd already hiked the trail almost a year ago, but wanted to start out easy. It was basically perfect weather - just cool enough to be chilly when you're not moving, but a little warm while hiking.

There’s something about trees that change color that is endlessly satisfying for a desert-dweller. Having a small lunch at the top was nice as well. Nyssa, Rachel and I actually hiked this same trail a year ago, although this time it was Nyssa, Rhys and me. I took an awful lot of photos, and we capped the day with fudge from the gift shop and pizza in a very small log cabin restaurant. I can’t imagine what teenagers who live in a 100-person town do for fun, but it was a neat little place to visit.

(Clearly, the teenagers kept jobs at the pizza and fudge places.)

I’m looking forward to doing this every week.

Labels: climbing, exercise, hiking, Nyssa, Rachel

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Monday, December 17, 2007

Climbing Up The Walls

I took today off. I needed a mental health day. I went to Sweet Tomato's with a lot of people from Bookman's (Dani, Nyssa, Nature, his daughter Michaela, Rhys, and Danielle) and Sami. I filled two plates with the cafeteria-style salad stuff, a cup of soup, a bit of pizza, and a brownie. I ate the whole thing. Given a litle more time I probably could've kept eating, actually.

Afterwards, everyone but Danielle and Sami went to Rocks & Ropes with me and Nyssa. We've been going there for about a month now. I'm now regularly climbing "8's," which is fairly challenging. I am definitely still relying on my arms too much, and my hands can't quite keep up - but I'm getting there.

Anyway, Michaela is 11 and adorable; Nature is about seven feet tall and so was able to do some pretty ridiculous climbing. I took pictures on Nyssa's camera and am still pretty pissed at myself for not bringing my own camera.

Dani also wants me to take Yoga classes from her. We'll see how good my sense of balance really is, I guess.

I needed a day like today.

Edit: Big kudos to my boss, who called me up and, basically, that he was glad I took the day off because it meant I was trying to take care of myself. Seems like there weren't many bosses I've had that had that kind of grasp on reality.

Labels: Bookman's, climbing, friends, ITP, Nyssa, Sami, work, yoga

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Blog's finished.

I've finally transferred all of my old MySpace blogs to this blog, and am especially glad of it after finding out (through Nyssa) that MySpace apparently owns copyright on blogged entries.

Yikes.

Now I can start working on my homepage's gallery, and hang a zillion things around the house.

Random thought of the day:
Did Harry Carey die because of disease, or because he was a life-long Cubs fan?
Wouldn't that be enough to pretty much kill anybody?

Labels: blog, house, MySpace, Nyssa

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Sunday, August 05, 2007

Music & Life

While it's easy to become obsessed with goals, I'm trying really hard to avoid getting so mixed up in them that I forget to enjoy all the goals I've met. Especially, I have a few friends here that are going and living life on little money, whereas Rachel and I seem to dip further into 'boring married couple' by the day.

Soon, hopefully, I'll be camping with Nyssa and Rachel and AZ. The whole philosophy is wrapped up in this YouTube video, a pairing of unlikely forces: Alan Watts and Parker & Stone, who animate South Park.

Labels: AZ, camping, life, Nyssa, philosophy, Rachel

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