I AM LEAVING THAT TITLE MY GOD I AM BRILLIANT.

Okay, so with the new job came new, normal hours.  Yay, evenings with the boys!  Boo, lost my prime walking time.  For the past 6 months I have had a hell of a time figuring out how to get some cardio back into my routine (and boy howdy, I did not realize just how much the cardio was working.  Things ( Read more... )

Women's Gymnastics Commentator: "Of the thousands of vaults [whatever the gold medalist's name is, I don't remember, maybe Natasha?] has done, this one is the only one that counts right now."

Yeah. Isn't that the case for pretty much every vault a gymnast does, at the moment she's doing it?Seriously, either they don't realize what they're saying ( Read more... )

Okay, Mr. Women's Gymnastics Commentator, I feel that you need a lesson on the following topic ( Read more... )

1. Huh. Last time I was watching the summer Olympics, it was the day or so after we'd gotten our power back on, post-Charley. I was folding laundry, and we were in the very small window between hurricanes that year ( Read more... )

And anyone else who works out but isn't a gym rat ...

Guess what???

On the hanging-foot thing? Two sets of ten!!! On Satan (aka the ab cruncher machine)? TWO SETS OF FIFTEEN!!!!

A bit of back story: when I started at the gym, I could do three on the foot-hanging thing (that must have a name, but like I know). Not three sets, just three. ( Read more... )

Once again, I sing the praises of the Therma-Care heat patch. Not my back this time, though. No, you don't want to hear about it ( Read more... )

The internet was dead this morning. Scott suggested I unplug something and reboot. I unplugged the other something and rebooted, which, oddly, did not work. Scott got home and did what he'd suggested I do, and it works. Yay ( Read more... )