so what about that teaser challenge?

Teaserme was actually started as a challenge to myself -- to be able to do a teaser by the end of the summer. The action/blog challenge was inspired by another interesting challenge: Trash Talk to carry one's own garbage for 2 weeks as a way of building awareness of how much garbage you really generate and the simple things we can all really do (yeah, I know, blah blah, Al Gore, blah, but it's true) to reduce our waste.

So while the Trash Talkers' challenge has helped them come to terms with their wastefulness and perhaps inspired them to make some truly lasting changes that may contribute in a teeny tiny way to the global environmental crisis we are facing... what has my pilates challenge done or the world? In a word, nothing. And what has it done for me? Again... not so much.

I'll plead busy: Work has consumed me this summer. And bad weather: The coldest winter anyone ever spent was a summer in San Francisco (global warming anyone? They say it'll just put us under water - and possibly make it even colder here. Lose lose, people.) I'm not sure why bad weather has prevented me from teaser-ing, but there must be an excuse in their somewhere.

That said, I'm rededicating myself. I got that first glimpse of fall tonight on my way home. It was 7 pm, but there was something about the light that made me think of wool sweaters and blister-inducing back to school shoes. The summer is almost over, and I have not made enough progress. I call my weekend swims waterlates, but let's face it, I'm just splashing around hoping I'm burning off some Pinkberry.

I'm going to class on Wednesdays and Fridays. And home-practice one night per week, plus swimming on weekends. I've always been the procrastinator and somehow can pull these things together in the last few days of the term... I'm counting on that ability this time. I will teaser.