Leveling up

I've always been a bit of a geek, but before I met One, it was mostly channeled into books. I loved books. Actually, that's a lie - I still love books (One bought me a Kindle for Christmas and I swear I have read at least 60, if not 70, books since he gave it to me early - yes, I got it in October. Moving on).


But, since I met One, my geekiness has been channeled into pathways matching his. We play video games together (I am playing Skyrim at the moment; he is mostly playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword). We buy presents for each other from Think Geek (my favourite is the beaker mug he bought me - not only can I drink tea out of it, which is another post, my love for tea, but it speaks to my science geek side too). Every Tuesday night our friends come over to our place for dinner and a nice rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons. 


So it's not really surprising that when I decided in May to get serious about this getting fit and losing weight thing, I decided to treat it as leveling myself up. Okay, I admit to possibly being somewhat creatively inspired by this xkcd comic. 


And now I can actually treat it as leveling up. Instead of just charting my exercise and weight loss in my spreadsheet (er - one  of my friends at work asked me how I was staying so motivated and I told her about the spreadsheet and then she made a joke about how it's always easy to tell when scientists decide to lose weight), I can track it on a website. Here, in fact.

And they're right. It's addictive. 


Today already, One and I went for our usual run this morning, but this afternoon I went to the gym on my way home, and then, because it was such a beautiful day (and I may or may not be addicted to filling in forms on websites and earning imaginary points), I walked most of the way home. 


Um. At least (so far) it's a positive addiction?