Thank You for My Patience?

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Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (Happy, up-beat music. Lalalalalala.)

Just for fun I thought I would see how many paragraphs I could get in while on hold with Sears' new improved customer service line. (AKA: Your response to my call will be monitored by my blog post. Thank you for making me hold. Your bill will be payed on time and without delay, so I can avoid your exceptionally high interest rate. Lalalalala.) I will type the exact number of "Thank you for your patience...etc" that it finally takes before the next associate answers my call.

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (Same happy, up-beat song. Lalalalala.)

Typing that repetitive line is good for me too, because I have been in a bit of a writing funk lately and just the act of typing on the keyboard gets my creative juices flowing a bit better. 

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (This happy song goes on forever. Lalalala whatever.)

Same with beginning an exercise regime, in a way. You can sometimes get in a real funk with your body - as in, "I REALLY don't want to move this body of mine. It is SOOO comfortable on this big cushy chair and this book I am reading is really getting good. I will exercise after I finish this chapter."

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (Way to get someone to hate a happy song. Lalalalala please stop.)

 Or, "I will begin my exercise regime tomorrow. I am a morning person and now it is the afternoon so I am done for. Won't work." Or perhaps you're like my husband: "I will begin exercising again after (pick any one of these imaginary starting points: "my business gets off the ground; 

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (I am totally not listening to the happy song anymore.)

the Olympics are over; hockey season is over; the kids begin summer holidays; my wife finishes her next race; after allergy season is over; when I have more time." ETC ETC ETC ad fin item. 

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (--------------------------------------------- not listening, not listening.)

Yes I do tend to roll my eyes and tease my husband about his "start date" for getting back into exercising. He does work very hard at his business and also volunteers as a manager for ours son's soccer team. 

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (Could they not have more than one tune? How is this an improvement?)

When he worked downtown years ago, he had to get up super early to avoid traffic. Being very routine-oriented, he got himself into a great exercise routine whereby he would leave the house at, like, a ridiculous a.m. hour so he could work out at a gym near his office first, and then still be the first guy at work. He was in great shape back then. He's not in bad shape now, but he knows he could stand to lose some weight around his middle. So he's now in the "As soon as" funk.

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (F..... No. I promised myself I would not resort to F-shots on my blog. Yet.)

It happens to all of us. Because I have been doing more cross-training than running lately, I actually almost dreaded what it was going to feel like to go on a long run last Friday, but I did it anyway, assuring myself, "Even if you have to walk, just get out there. (Like the magazine, Get Out There. Good reads.) Just do it (do I have to credit Nike for that one?)." Turns out I had the stamina for 16 km. Once I got going, I got the groove back. And it felt good.

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (Unbelievable, really.)

You have to be persistent. I have read that it takes 10 days in a row to make an exercise activity a habit. Sounds pretty do-able to me. Perhaps it works for writing a blog as well. All I know is that it's easier to come up with a whiny excuse than to actually do something that you know will make you feel better about yourself. We humans are so....weird and whiny when we want to be.

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (My patience and one happy song x 10 and counting...)

Our first trail run of the 5 Peaks series is this Saturday. My ankle still hurts from when I rolled it last July. I am told by my physiotherapist that the nerves there may have a permanent tendency to feel pain a little quicker now. So I have a "wussy ankle" as I've come to call it.  

I could choose to avoid the trails altogether, and blame my ankle. But I like running trails. I am not great at it yet, and maybe I'll just go from fair to good. That's okay. But I'll try to be persistent. My ankle will just have to be happy with some KT Tape and/or a compression sock.

Speaking of persistence:

Thank you for your patience. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available associate. (Eleven times. Lalalalalala. Maintenance appointment finally booked!)