Checkout line trickery!!
Now, let me just throw this out there–I had/have waaay too much energy right now. I just got back from Walgreens, which freaking rocks BTW…especially the 24 hr ones. Anytime anything is open 24 hours I’m instantly attracted by default. Plus, Walgreens has a little bit of everything and they know how to blast some good tunes through that joint….another tactic by the “higher ups” as well, I’m sure. I fall for it every single time. I’m still trying to figure out how exactly I find myself there 1/2 the time…last thing I remembered was jamming out on the vespa scooter and visualizing the dance routine I was gonna bust out with after I win my next rap battle at the VFW. Hahaaa….You are dead meat tomorrow night, Mr. Purple Heart man!!
So, anyways after I was done wandering around and accumulating more and more cool sh…errrr..stuff I didn’t need,I get in line. The fam was against my proposition to start a massage train going, so I looked for other stuff to entertain me. Quite frankly, I didn’t want to touch the dude in front of me either, but I was willing to take one for the team and not cry about it….whatever, STUPID FAMILY!! I was forced to look to other forms of entertainment…Oh, what is this I see beside me? Conveniently placed at about the same level as an 8-year old’s eyeballs (or the eyeballs of a crazy chick in the middle of a checkout line squat) was the coolest thing I’d seen all day. Do the words “American Idol Light, Music Guitar and Bubble Gum” mean anything to you!!? Yeah, well I had to have it. Do I watch American Idol? No. Should I be on American Idol? Yeeees
I picked a cool hot pink guitar…it plays music and has bubble gum shaped guitar pics yo. It was still playing the song when the high school kid put it in my bag, lights flashing, people staring….did I laugh and look like an idiot? Yeeees
Why?…..WHY? …..trickery, friends…strategic checkout line trick trick trickery
Other needless items I picked up: 2-in-1 body wash/shave stuff which I’m sure is really a lie, some shiny spray hair stuff with sunscreens (next MythBuster experiment), 8million yards of dental floss….oh, and a giant spoon. A GIANT SPOON!!! I really needed one….
Now, onto my workout for today. Just one session today due to involuntary stops at every Twenny-Fo hour Sto within a 12mile radius of my house.
Went to a nooner spinning class, as planned. What I didn’t plan on was forgetting to take my Cytolean!! I can get by w/o it, but to ensure a good workout I was gonna need some good music ok. No “Who let the dogs out” BS. Hmmm. I just couldn’t trust that the instructor would be on my same level, so I wore my ipod just in case. It is ridiculous how on top of things I am!! I gave her music a chance..she let me down. Apparently she was in an 80’s kinda mood. Not a song or two….the whole class. Yeah, it’s true that I march to the beat of my own freakin drum ok….ipod ON! I would have been cool with it had it been like some Bon Jovi, Aerosmith…even Michael Jackson. But NO!!! What followed was a bit of what I call “fancy leg spinnin”…
Normally, on a normal day, with a normal mix of cycling tunes, my legs are like a crazy human metronome to every song’s beat. Today, however, was a different story. Naturally she blared the tunes, which is cool when it’s good music. So I had my ipod going and at the same time could hear the 80’s in the background. My legs were confused on which cadence they should follow…example #1—Gimme That…or You Can Dance if You Want To. “Cuz your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance well they’re no friends of mine”….Oh, god, as Susan Powter would say, “STOP THE INSANITY!!” All I know is that the next time I go to a club they better not be playing some funky remix of Chris Brown and Men at Work b/c my poor legs will be so confused that they may just fall the hell off my body.
TRAINING
cardio/abs
spinning 45 min
seated crunches– 3 sets of 50 (one set to the front, one to the left, one to the right)
cable crunches….which are my new favorite…. 2 sets of 75
hip thrusts– 2 sets of 20
..then a final set of cable crunches — 1 set of 75
It is pretty late now and I’m still not quite sure what I’m gonna do tomorrow for my workout. I’ve had a few ideas, but haven’t made a final decision yet. It will include a bit of cardio for sure….I don’t know if I can handle intervals tomorrow. Or…there’s hot yoga at 9:15, but may wait til the weekend to do that….OMG! So many choices…..I’ll be up all night thinking about it, weighing the pros and cons…way too much energy going on right now….
January 25, 2008 at 12:12 am
Gotta love the Walgreen’s, not so sure the American Idol guitar would have caught my eye, but does answer my question, "Who buys this stuff?"
I could imagine "The Safety Dance" being a hard song to cycle to, let alone listen to. Once again, another good Blog Entry, which starts my day off in the desert to a good start. Thanks and hope you have a great weekend. Take care.
January 25, 2008 at 3:35 am
wow. sorry to hear about the arrhythmic nooner. but at leat you made off with some sweet pick-shaped gum. totally makes up for it! lol
January 25, 2008 at 4:09 am
Try working there "at the Wal" as Dane Cook would say. I typically bee-line it for the door after work so I don’t end up with things, unlike my husband who inevitably meanders down the toy isle–typically meaning a new Hot Wheels or random Star Wars toys. Why does Walgreens have the cool ones!?!
January 25, 2008 at 6:08 am
You need to write a book!!!
January 25, 2008 at 7:16 am
I agree wtih ^^^LHS. Write a book. DanicaX’s bodyblogs for good porcelein reading! no really! If I read on the toilet, I would SO have a good laugh while pinching off a log. Ok that was gross. Forgive me.
My gym is 24 hours. When you come over to Chicago to beat up my counselor, you can be drawn to it!
And of course I’m open 24 hours too. so yeah. Now you have another reason to come over..
Alas, you talk a LOT yes, but I…. don’t. I am very quiet…. it’s just when those DANG 6th and 23rd personality take over… you know. The one who thinks he’s GILBERT Godfrie…. OH that’s a good one Jafar! Reall good… NOT!
Anyway, I was watching him on Netflicks. I think you’d enjoy it. He goes for an hour telling dirty jokes. And he ends it with his rendition of "The Aristacrats!" Don’t know what they are? ok FINE! Get the movie… or get the "The Aristacrats" movie. That’ll suffice. OH And tell the king of the marmalaid’s brother I said hi.
January 25, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I’ve been victim of those last minute items, too! Somehow, I end up REALLY needing Uno cards, a pack of 5 lighters (I’m a non-smoker), Tide bleach stick, and Bubble Yum (nostalgia)….
January 26, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I don’t even mess with the rest of the store I just shop the check out aisle. I have enough lighters, handy wipes, and Purell to last for decades. Yeah go ahead and laugh but when the apocalypse comes You all will be walking around in the dark, unable to cook your food and with unsanitized hands. I on the other hand will have fire and hands that are germ free!!
January 26, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Okay, my Walgreen’s weaknesses? Lipgloss, fingernail polish, and a pumice stone. I probably have half a dozen pumice stones around here that I can never find. But I tell you what-Walgreen’s is the bomb for those last minute gifts. I don’t know how many glass chess sets I have given, but that’s the bomb gift to give!