I had an apostrophe!
I mean an epipahny. Truly. Lighting struck my brain.
It happened as I sat at my desk the other week, for the umpteenth hour on end (my rear end, that is)... feeling my bum go numb and wanting to stretch my legs.
Then I thought back to the glory days, when, if i do say so myself, I had a cute butt. It was a brief second in history. Yessirree I thought about it and thought to myself, Christy, that was in the days of Cruise ships and four-hour nights of sleep and running twelve flights of stairs eighteen times a day.
*DING!*
It just so happens that I work in a building with (Gasp!) STAIRS! I know right? Kind of amazing.
And it just so happens that this building has 23 flights of stairs! Can you believe it? It's incredible, I tell ya!
So, now. Whenever I get that numb-bum feeling, I get up and run up the stairs, panting and wheezing, until I have to stop. Then I make myself walk up one more flight just for good measure, before I head back to my desk (walking, so I don't come back to my desk wheezing and disheveled!).
I'm up to seven flights.
I thought to myself again, Christy, dear, this stair climbing business became a lot easier after the first week on ships. Now that you're (Gasp) thirty, it may take, possibly, maybe eight days instead of seven. So on I plug. Now in my fourth day of stair determination.
What do you do at work to keep yourself non-numb?
AND, another word on Cruise Ship Stairs:
There are two types of staircases on ships: The passenger stairs. The ones that are lovely and carpeted and have padding under the carpet and wooden hand rails and look very grand. And then there are the crew stairs. Those are the ones my fellow Club HAL gals climbed all day long. (Except when we deigned to ride the elevators - we weren't supposed to!) Those stairs are not plush, nor padded. They are not carpeted or wide and have no wooden railing. Have you ever walked up or down the steel staircases in parking garages? That's kind of what Crew Stairs on ships are like. Steel, slender affairs, usually painted off-white with yellow and blue stripes on various steps to mark landings and lookouts.
And the smell. Oh the smell. It haunts me to this day. Passenger areas on Ships smell lovely. Crew areas (the main hallways mostly, the ones that the garbage carts roll up and down to get to the garbage "dump") smell of oil paint mixed with rotting fish and yogurt and some industrial strength cleaner mixed in for good measure. Yummy, right? Yah. You get used to it.
And, funny things passengers ask about the stairs on Cruise ships (for real):
-Do these stairs go up too?
-Will those stairs take me to my room?
I mean an epipahny. Truly. Lighting struck my brain.
It happened as I sat at my desk the other week, for the umpteenth hour on end (my rear end, that is)... feeling my bum go numb and wanting to stretch my legs.
Then I thought back to the glory days, when, if i do say so myself, I had a cute butt. It was a brief second in history. Yessirree I thought about it and thought to myself, Christy, that was in the days of Cruise ships and four-hour nights of sleep and running twelve flights of stairs eighteen times a day.
*DING!*
It just so happens that I work in a building with (Gasp!) STAIRS! I know right? Kind of amazing.
And it just so happens that this building has 23 flights of stairs! Can you believe it? It's incredible, I tell ya!
So, now. Whenever I get that numb-bum feeling, I get up and run up the stairs, panting and wheezing, until I have to stop. Then I make myself walk up one more flight just for good measure, before I head back to my desk (walking, so I don't come back to my desk wheezing and disheveled!).
I'm up to seven flights.
I thought to myself again, Christy, dear, this stair climbing business became a lot easier after the first week on ships. Now that you're (Gasp) thirty, it may take, possibly, maybe eight days instead of seven. So on I plug. Now in my fourth day of stair determination.
What do you do at work to keep yourself non-numb?
AND, another word on Cruise Ship Stairs:
There are two types of staircases on ships: The passenger stairs. The ones that are lovely and carpeted and have padding under the carpet and wooden hand rails and look very grand. And then there are the crew stairs. Those are the ones my fellow Club HAL gals climbed all day long. (Except when we deigned to ride the elevators - we weren't supposed to!) Those stairs are not plush, nor padded. They are not carpeted or wide and have no wooden railing. Have you ever walked up or down the steel staircases in parking garages? That's kind of what Crew Stairs on ships are like. Steel, slender affairs, usually painted off-white with yellow and blue stripes on various steps to mark landings and lookouts.
And the smell. Oh the smell. It haunts me to this day. Passenger areas on Ships smell lovely. Crew areas (the main hallways mostly, the ones that the garbage carts roll up and down to get to the garbage "dump") smell of oil paint mixed with rotting fish and yogurt and some industrial strength cleaner mixed in for good measure. Yummy, right? Yah. You get used to it.
And, funny things passengers ask about the stairs on Cruise ships (for real):
-Do these stairs go up too?
-Will those stairs take me to my room?
HAHAHA!!! When I read the title of your post I immediately thought if ship stairs! Ha ha!! I COULDN'T do it now, but 3 times a day I would climb 12 flights with the kids on Disney! I lost 35 lbs that summer.
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