Tiny Steps

So I caught a bug at the end of last week and spent the last three days being perfectly pitiful, BUT! Today is Monday. Start of the week. And I added goal reminders to Finch to motivate me to at least use the stationary bike, so here we are.

I dragged the aforementioned bike out of the corner of our bedroom and moved it into the living room, where it now sits across from the armchair in which I usually sit and read. I set a timer for twenty minutes, and dove into the book I have chosen for bike-reading: “The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks” by Emma Marriott. This is a good one for bike-reading, as it has little bitty sections that can be concluded quickly once the timer goes off and I can set it down without feeling like I’ve been cut off in the middle of a chapter. In my first twenty-minute jaunt, I covered Sumeria, Ancient Egypt (Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms) and the Hittites.

I followed my segment of bike-reading with a segment of chair-reading, where I reverted back to “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.” This allowed me to:

• balance my fiction/non-fiction intake for the day,

• use the foot-massager my husband got for Christmas, and

• get one chapter further invested.

I repeat: I LOVE epistolary novels. I will be really interested to go back to the Netflix series once I finish the book, not only because I like comparing televised versions to the original books, but because they set the Netflix series in England and the book is set in Connecticut.

Depending on how sore my legs are tomorrow, I may do another round of bike-read/chair-read, or I may just research rock climbing facilities or local dance classes.