I know, from experience, that exercising on a regular basis will make me feel more energetic, improve my mood, and generally make me feel better. I'm trying to keep that in mind, because frankly, it's not doing a whole lot for me right now. I felt pretty darn dreadful after my workout yesterday, and continued to feel dreadful for most of the day.

Still, I think things are looking up: I increased the length of my workout by 5 minutes today compared to yesterday, and I feel less dreadful today than I did yesterday. (I think maybe I didn't drink enough water yesterday. I'm being more careful today. It seems to be helping.)

My triceps and my deltoids are sore enough that any motion that involves lifting my arms feels weird.

However, one significant benefit of exercise does seem to be kicking in - I'm sleeping better, falling asleep earlier, and having an easier time getting up in the morning. I'm hoping this lasts - usually the reason why I drop out of the habit of exercising is that my sleep schedule gets messed up and I can't get myself out of bed early enough to have time to exercise and still get to work at a reasonable hour.

The other reason why I tend to drop out of the habit of exercising is that I get bored. I'll have to go over to Audible.com and grab and audiobook or two to keep me occupied. Maybe this weekend I'll check out the audiobook selection at the local library.

Speaking of audio, it's exceptionally loud in the office this afternoon, and it's driving me batty. Everyone's all chatty today for some reason. I'd better fire up the iPod and see if I can drown them out and get some work done.