Things I love...

Welcome to a new feature of this blog called Things I love...


I love my new Cudos shoes. They're water shoes that I wear when doing my water aerobics classes. These shoes are the first I've found that actually fit. They even have great support for all that bouncing!


I also love ice cream cones from Chick Fil-A.


And Donna Summer's new song Stamp Your Feet. Totally age-inappropriate so just try not listening to the words too much.

Dog Park Heaven

Blossom had a great visit to an enclosed dog park in Annapolis for Memorial Day. She liked playing with the big dogs and the not-so big dogs. What she didn't like is the other beagle giving me attention.
Nikon D300 - f/13.0, 1/200, ISO 200

Wii Fit

My blog seems to have a Wii slant (ha ha) lately, hope you don't mind.

Luckily I pre-ordered Wii Fit from Amazon the first day it was available. It arrived when I was out of town but I got to play it as soon as I got home last week.

The first thing you do is take a test. You get weighed, do some balance tests, etc. so the game can decide how you look and your BMI. It can't really calculate your BMI since it doesn't know how much of your weight is muscles. Very evident when I saw my fat self on the screen there. I am down from a size 38 to a 32 and a lot more muscley (is that a word?). I tried not to take offense.

There are many different sections of games you can play, the first being yoga. Well I do yoga almost every day but this is nazi yoga. Not only do you have to do the pose correctly, but if you aren't almost perfectly balanced, the game knows and tells you. Talk about a work out.

Yoga is of course only one of the sections. Skip loves the running game and I always know when he is doing the hula hoop game because I hear the laughing coming from him.

This is a fun, fun game. Even the people that aren't playing enjoy the experience. Come over and try!

is David......Ahhhhhhhhh!

People are upset because the American Idol finale ran late and their Tivos didn't always let them see which David won. If memory serves, American Idol finales always run long. Someone taped what her Tivo recorded along with her great reaction...

Snow!

Can't believe I haven't posted this yet...

Last week when I was driving to Pittsburgh I drove snow for about 10 minutes on the top of a mountain! There wasn't much traffic so I actually stopped and put my window down to do a little basking.

The life of Blossom

When I'm home I sleep like a mummy. Blossom is under the covers, pressed up against me from the right side and Lucy is pressed up against me on the right side. Rolling on to my side takes a bit of planning to not squish anyone. When I'm gone, evidently they both sleep near my pillow and actually sleep close to each other. I have never seen this phenomenon myself but Skip got a picture. Blossom actually takes her fluffy (the blue thing) and pulls it up to my pillow and sleeps there. This picture is the only time I've seen the two of them actually touching.

I'm not sure how she does it, but yesterday when Skip picked up Blossom from day care, she was on top of a dog house. The workers told him that Blossom likes to get up there but then only lets her friends up with her. I am not sure what is happening, as I did not raise her to be an elitist snob. As long as she votes for Hillary and doesn't hurt anyone or anything she can do what she wants.

Vindication

Remember how much I worried about the movie Hairspray?

Well I was right, it was awful. Just putting famous people in a movie does not make it good. John Travolta was just awful, Queen Latifah was even worse. The whole spirit of the original movie/musical was just thrown out the window to make a buck. And that new song they added, "Ladies Choice"? Horrendous.

Harvey Fierstein (the original Edna) recently did an interview where they asked what he thought of the movie. His reply...

[Looking nauseated.] It was hard to watch - I think they missed the point. I'm very glad it made $100 million, or whatever it was. I'm the ghostwriter, so I get the checks. Send me the checks, John Travolta!

Things Younger Than John McCain

Like the Hindenberg disaster. This is too funny! Not the disaster, the web site.

I've come around

I used to think that the comic Brewster Rockit Space Guy! was pretty stupid but I've come around.  It's actually pretty intelligent and funny.

Today's Mother's Day strip is especially funny.  Check it out.  If you read this after Mother's Day, click on Archive and pick 05-11-2008.

Can't Speak French

Every once in a while a song grabs you on the first listen and your brain just gets a little more mushy for having heard it.  Can't Speak French by Girls Aloud did that to me recently and I can't stop listening to it.  Here is my favorite version of the song and here is the video.  Pure poppy goodness.

Worn Down

Life is wearing me down.  I'm going to Pittsburgh almost every week now, leaving Monday morning, coming back Thursday night.

While I'm in Pittsburgh, my days are something like this:

5 am - wake up

5:30 - 6:30 am - gym

7 am - at work

6 pm - leave work

6-9 or 10 - eat out/talk about work with co-workers

11 pm - bed

And of course in there is the fun of dealing with the client.

Weekends are a exercise in hurrying up.  Hurry up and get the bills paid, laundry done, bag packed, etc. all to get ready to go again.

It's not like I just started travelling, but not sure why it's so tiring these days.  At least I still make time for the gym.

Weight - 194

I Know My Kid's a Star

I don't get into many reality shows but I have been sucked in by I Know My Kid's a Star.  Having performed through my school years, having gone to a Performing Arts High School and then having done performing arts Sign Language Interpreting, I find this show extremely interesting.  The delusions, the egos, the Moms wanting to make up for their broken dreams, all so dramatic.  The kids with obnoxious mothers actually are pretty cool and know what's going on with their Mothers and at times have even tried to stand up to them.  The Moms of course don't want to hear it.  Only one girl has any sort of talent, of course, but now it's all about the drama between the Moms.  I can't believe I watch a show hosted by Danny Bonaduce.  Ugh.