Okay, so I’ve been doing the wii fit for a week. Let’s look at the results! The blue line represents my weight.
What the… ARGH! This wouldn’t be so frustrating if I hadn’t laughingly programmed in a goal of one pound in two weeks, just to see how the “goal” feature worked, when we first started it up. Now I have to lose 1.8 pounds. NOT HELPING!
At right: I blame my personal trainer, whom I am now calling “that b____ Casey.”
Okay, I might have done the horns. And the tail. But she is a b____.
Anyway, I did the Couch to 5K week one along the Little Sugar Creek greenway this morning, and it was great. So bite me, Casey.
As I posted yesterday, we’re getting rid of our treadmill. One of the reasons for this is that my father got us an early Christmas gift – a Wii Fit! The funniest comment I’ve heard so far was from someone on Ravelry – they said they weren’t getting one because it was too hard to turn into a clothes rack. Heh.
Wii fit review.
We’re selling our treadmill! It works just fine, but as we try to de-clutter our house, we’re simply not using it enough to justify the space it takes up.
It’s a Pro-Form Cross Walk Dual Motion Cross Trainer. It looks almost exactly like this one.
We do not have the pulse earclip that it originally came with. It has an ACCUSMART motivational fitness monitor that reads time elapsed, speed, calories burned, and pulse (pulse obviously won’t help you without the earclip). It has the ability to incline. It comes with a safety shut off key, which is missing the clip to hold it onto your clothing. I say tie it to a clothespin or chip clip and you’re good. It supposedly folds up for easy storage under the bed, but we’ve never done that as our underbed area is taken up with bins of yarn.
Move it out of here yourself and we’ll let it go for $100. Contact me at heather at jaynehat dot com for more information or to snap up this baby!
Another preemie to small newborn size hat, this time using Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sport Multi, 100% machine washable soft wool. It’s the same pattern – size 3 needles, 48 stitch caston, but this time with a little i-cord nub at the top. This is modeled over a large apple, and you can see it has to stretch a bit to fit over it.
I bought this yarn at Haus of Yarn in Nashville a few years ago on the way through Tennessee to St Louis for Simucon. It’s not my color at all, so I’m not sure why I got it. I last used it for a tiny pair of baby socks. It’s perfect for these little hats. I’ve got another pattern I want to write up, and I think this yarn will do just fine for it. When you’re making tiny little clothes, one skein goes a long way.
Coming with me to the yarn swap tomorrow. Bin o’ Debbie Bliss Cathay, with some Karabella Aurora 8 mixed in. Got these when the Sewing Bird closed down… two years ago, maybe? I’m kind of feeling like if I haven’t used a yarn in two years, I’d rather have the space than the yarn.
I’m thinking $4 a ball, or 2 for $7. This stuff’s so pretty. Shiny and drapey and so, so pretty.
Still rooting around for more stuff.
Fellow Charlotteans, could you please be on the lookout for a lightly sloping parking lot or grassy hill? We’re wanting to help Em learn to ride her bike, and this method where you remove the pedals and lower the seat and start them off learning to balance seems to have good reviews. It’s gotta be better than the “run alongside method” which was causing my shins such damage.
Thanks!
