It's All In A Good Night's Sleep

I tape a lot of programs during the week and try to watch them on the weekends. I finally got around to watching an episode of Oprah last Sunday night. This episode dealt with dust mites - ugghhh!! Maybe I've just been walking around with my head in the sand but I never realized that you needed to change out your pillows every two or three years! I had six full size pillows on my bed - all of them were at least 10 years old and two of them (my favorites - feather pillows made by my grandmother) were much older than that! Shoot - according to the program if you can bend the pillow and it doesn't pop back on it's own it is time to replace them. To me that was the point where I'd finally got it broken in!! But I digress - I watched this episode Sunday night - after all the stores were closed! I couldn't sleep with the pillows knowing that there were millions of little mites coming out of the pillows at night and crawling up my nose and down my throat!! I've been super busy at work so I haven't had a chance to look around for new pillows. So for a week I slept without any pillows. Yesterday I finally purchased two new pillows (good pillows are not cheap! So it's going to be a while before I replace the other 4). I slept so good last night!

On the exercise front - I checked out a Tai Chi DVD yesterday at the library. I'm so uncoordinated that it took me an hour just to get the six basic moves down but I'm on a roll now. Of course, it was so gentle that I don't feel that I've exercised at all. I'm counting it as an exercise because it's listed on FitDay but I only counted 1/2 towards my daily exercise total. Tomorrow I'm going to the advanced moves - gotta love those of us that have no grace! :)