Great Exercisations

Day 63:

When I came home today I had intended to spend a solid 45 minutes on the elliptical machine out in the garage. I had a couple of hours before I’d have to head to Crew and thought today would be a good day to reengage my exercise efforts. I had it all planned out; I'd elliptical to an episode of Heroes and then take a stab at my abs while catching up on The Daily Show (I love Netflix and Hulu).

Approximately 13 minutes into my session my phone rang with a request that I come in early – I finished out 20 minutes, but my cardio was cut short.

A similar thing happened to me the other day.

My Mrs.’s birthday was on the 12th, so while she was out with friends I spent the afternoon of the 11th grabbing some grub to make her breakfast in bed on the morning of her day. I went off to Crew that day before she got home and I wanted her to think nothing was up on my end, so I hid the grocery store goodies, along with the flowers I bought her, up in the rafters of our garage (yes, I put the flowers in water).

On my way to the 2nd shift I was pleased that I had accomplished my checklist between gigs, and especially glad I didn’t delay because now it meant I would not have to go to the store in the morning…or so I thought.

At 5:35 on the morning of her birthday, the Mrs. cough was back in full force. I felt so terrible for her; after all, it was her birthday. To top it off, we were out of cough syrup. So at around 6 am I was off to the store to grab some meds and on my way there I thought how funny it was that I had tried to get everything I needed done the day before so that I could avoid this very drive.

I do not share my going to the store for Mrs. on her birthday to establish a ‘woe was me’ situation. I’m simply sharing it in conjunction with how today’s great intention of exercise was suspended, I'm trying to point out how things don't always go as we want them to.

Today I learned that sometimes it doesn’t matter how hard we plan and prepare for something, (or in the case of the Birthday Bug, how hard we try to avoid some things) sometimes things just aren’t meant to be.

Today I also learned that this possible outcome should not mean we shouldn’t try.