I am now the proud owner of an exercise mat and two twelve-pound dumbbells. I went up to Fitness Source (on Yonge south of Lawrence) and bought them and took them home on the subway. I also bought new running shoes yesterday.
Important safety note: if 12 pounds* is a convenient weight for one hand to exercise with, two such weights in a shopping bag become awkward when passing through a subway turnstile, especially if you have an exercise mat in your other hand, and you need a third hand to swipe your transit pass.
Now I can exercise and stretch in the morning before I go to work. 
And it’s another step in reclaiming exercise and my body from the shame that Phys Ed covered them in for me. If only they had had something like the gym I go to (with its weights and machines), as a class in public school, instead of team sports where you were expected to know what was going on already, I would have been in a lot better shape through my life. As it is, I’m still catching up, at age 44.
Next purchase: a bike tuneup. Don’t know when that will be, but my trainer has recommended a bike shop on Jane south of Dundas, so during the next few weeks, I’ll check it out.
:: goes off to compose email reply to a certain Scots/Irish redhead ::
:: and then to tidy and rearrange the apartment ::
[sub]*Yes, weights on our exercise equipment tend to be marked in pounds. I suspect that this is because most of it comes from the States. Electronic indicators and such tend to be switchable between US Customary and some form of metric. To be really rigorous, metric weights should be marked in newtons, but I suspect that metric weight bars and plates are marked in kilograms. I know Russian kettlebells are marked in kilograms.[/sub]