11/1/10

Fall Festival




Every year my family has the awesome tradition of getting together and celebrating the fall.  Some people call that Halloween, but as a collective group, we dislike Halloween imensly.  Why?

Here are a few reasons.  Family, feel free to chime in with any additions to the list.

1. Its a secular and unholy mess
2. Masks
3. Never coming up with a costume  idea until 2 weeks after Halloween every year sucks
4. I'd rather not participate in a holiday where women dressing up as things such as slutty babies, slutty hand weights or slutty hair plugs

Any which way you cut it, we are not huge fans of Halloween.  So instead we got together hung out, made cookies, ate stew, carved pumpkins and enjoyed the sweet boys!  Here are a few pictures of the gang. Enjoy!











10/4/10

Jazzercise... it still exsits!

In my never ending search for ways to burn calories in ways that don't feel like working out, I decided to check out one of my mother's old favorites.  Jazzercise.

That's right. I did Jazzercise. And I didn't even have to use a time machine.

My friend Jennifer's mother is aaaaaaamazing.  She is such a sweet woman and is always helping me in my fat-loss journey.  Regardless, she invited me to ride with her to jazzercise at 6am on Monday.  That's right. 6 am. If you know me AT ALL you know that I am conscious for one 6:00 a day, and only one.  So I got up at 5:30 and rode over to my friend's house. Once I got there we jetted across town to the studio.  After signing in the sweating began.

Now don't get all pius thinking that just beucase I am fat, I was sweating and you and your size 2 tush would do anything else.  No no no.  This was a great class!  Most of the music is actually on my running play list.  I was so surprised!

At the end of the club-like dance session (minus male stares and shots of sugary liquor) there was a session of weight lifting.  This is what separated the women from the senior citizens.  I'm lying. I used the same weights as the 75 year old in the corner.  It was 6:00am!  Leave me alone.

Regardless, it was a fun and a was calorie burn. I would recommend it for all ages and physical fitness levels.  The only thing I don't recommend is going at 6:00 in the morning.  In fact the only thing I recommend at 6 am involves rapid eye movement, snoring, drooling and accidental flatulation.

:)