Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Music always makes exercising more pleasant

Sure many of you have had those Walkman type listening music devices, I never did.
While accomplishing my exercise routine I felt the need for me to talk to whomever was next to me while on any and all of the tortuous equipment that was endured in the process of becoming healthy and slender for the over four years I went religiously five days a week to Gold's Gym and the other one that closed, sadly I cannot recall its name and I wrote an item on it way back when.

Although, my music to exercise was a boom box prior to that when teaching my seniors Aquatics class. I used tapes of old favorites as well as a nice repertoire of dancing game songs, like the hokey pokey that had turned 100 while I was still teaching at South Port Square retirement village in Port Charlotte way back when. We also did the chicken dance that many do at weddings on dry land and a few others that I am forgetting now.
Basically we had fun, even listening to the PBS easy listening stations via the local college, which most all loved, quite relaxing in between.

Years ago our son's girlfriend gave Hubby a Sony portable radio/CD/cassette player in blue for Father's Day. I do believe it was in 2003 or there about, we still have it and she bought it for our then new boat that did not have one, a radio that is, and we still have that boat too, oddly enough. 

Any-who, as I have done from time to time too, when I remember, today I brought it outside to be played on an oldies FM radio station while doing my now daily pool exercises, it always makes the time go just right, not faster per se but nicely by...Along with my musical accompaniment I also found my yellow band to attach to the pool stair railing to accomplish my shoulder strengthening exercises given to me by one of my many physical therapists over the years, I have different colors which represent strengths. Placing your shoulders under the water as with most other body parts makes the exercises appear more gentle to one's body part. Although, for some reason even so, at times at night I seem to feel my body part rejecting that thoughtful concept, ya know?
OUCH!

Anyway, it is all good for me, oh sure...

Moving on...

And thankfully at this time we as Floridians can consider ourselves very fortunate weather wise.
Even with next Monday starting the official beginning of hurricane season due to El Nino we appear to be in luck with very few major storms predicted for this year from June 1, 2015 to November 30, 2015 the count is 6-11 named storms and 0-2 category 2 or greater making landfall, but as we all know it only takes one to devastate. 

And as I watch and listen to the news nightly about the un-named storms hitting and flooding Oklahoma and Texas with nineteen plus deaths and so many more missing that all seems to make the above predictions useless, a storm is a storm and can create havoc no matter what. All we can do is try and be prepared for whatever the emergency management people tell us to do, but then there is always that unexplained situation that comes with or without being prepared, and then we have got to learn survival skills. Some news stations are telling us how to help ourselves in flash floods, basically what to do and we should all listen whether we think it will happen or not, since it is just another way of knowing we are prepared when the unbelievable happens!

On that note of praying for you all to please be safe folks and keep your ears and eyes to the news stories around you to know what to do in any possibility, and we shall all be better for that, now allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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