Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

It struck me recently that we have relatively low-key cars, my husband and I, even though we both work, and could probably spend our money on something a bit more flashy. But we don't choose to spend our money on that. By my reckoning, we spend our money to buy time and experiences. We buy time by spending money to have someone clean our house and mow the lawn so we don't have to spend the weekend doing it. We get back time that we can take the kids to the movies (or just be lazy if we choose). We also spend our money on experiences - each year we spend a weekend with each of our kids alone, so they have special time with a parent and then alternate (one year I will have one kid, the next year the other). We don't have to do anything fancy - it just has to be alone and special (like going to the movies, Chuck E Cheese, ice cream or a park). But it could be fancy - like Seaworld! Or a family vacation - maybe camping. We are blessed to be able to afford to d

So, you know how you can't remember your phone number or anyone else's because it is in the phone and you press a button (or use a voice command) and it calls? And how you can't recall anybody's birthday exactly, because you know you put the reminder in Outlook and it will remind you in time to get a gift/send a card? It's the kind of atrophy and decay that sudoku and Lumosity is supposed to fight against. Well, I found myself in a bit of a situation regarding my ipod nano. So I've started exercising and use my ipod to listen to music while I do, but my pants don't have pockets for it. So I started using an old ipod shuffle that has a clip, but it was so frustrating to use it because the shuffle would die on me all the time. Anyways, I went around and around in my head about what to get, use my phone and forget the ipod, continue using the shuffle? Buy an elastic armband to hold my ipod? Or one for my iphone? (Lord knows there are enough i-accessories o