Typical day at work. Nothing special. I even left early and was home by 3:00 today. When I got home I did my usual web surfing and then sat on the couch to read. I checked my pedometer when I got home and I had only walked a little more then 5 miles during the day. Feeling like a slug and feeling guilty for just sitting on the couch reading, I decided I would go downstairs to the treadmill and walk a few more miles. I put on my walking clothes, grabbed my iPod Mini and my book and headed downstairs. Luckily there was no one in the exercise room and I had my choice of the machines. I chose the one with the best view of the door so I could see who was coming and going. I cranked it up to 3.5 miles an hour and began reading. One might be wondering what it is I listen to while walking. Well, I’m not your typical gay man who gets into dance or house music. I’m actually a geek when it comes to background noise while walking. I prefer something without words so I won’t sing along thus tearing me away from the book I’m reading. I usually prefer something very soothing and quiet. Believe it or not, I listen to John Tesh while walking. His music is somewhat monotone without drastic highs or low volume lows. It becomes simply background noise. Something to drowned out the hum of the treadmill but not loud enough to distract me from what I’m reading. It’s typical new age crap but it’s just right for walking on the treadmill while trying to read. I enjoy it. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I listen to John Tesh but what the hell, it works for me. I actually have some Yanni in my iTunes library as well but his music is all over the place and would cloud my attention to the book. So while listening to John Tesh this afternoon I really got into reading my book and wasn’t really paying attention to how far I was walking. When I looked up I had gone 3 miles! I felt good about that and decided to finish the chapter I was reading and stop. After the walk back to my condo I checked my pedometer and found that I had walked a total of 8.43 miles today. That is VERY good for me. I feel very good and proud of myself for doing so well. Now if I could just see a change in my weight. I hate waking up, stepping on the scale and seeing the same 180 everyday. It seems like it takes me forever to loose a pound. I’m really watching what I’m eating and increasing my cardio (obviously) so I should see a change in my weight soon I would think. I’ll stick with it. It took me 3 years to loose 50 pounds. I can wait a little while longer to loose 10 more pounds.

On the topic of music, I downloaded a bunch of songs from iTunes a few days ago. One I downloaded that I’m really hooked on is Jessica Simpson’s With You. Click on this iTunes button to take you right to the song at the iTunes music store. I know it’s typical bubble gum top 40 kinda music but I like it. I put it on a CD with others I downloaded and listen to it in the car. I keep hitting the back button to listen to it over and over. I’m weird. I know.