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July 19, 2005

Rockin' to the oldies with Richard Simons

I’ve been feeling under the weather since I got here. Needless to say, I haven’t been working out. The other day I was going to go to the local YMCA, but didn’t want to spend the 18 bucks if I wasn’t going to give it my all. So I searched around the house to see what exercise tapes my mom had on hand.

I found a workout record, I’m talkin’ real vinyl, and a few audio tapes with accompanying books. I guess the tapes were her way of catching up with modern technology. Staying at my mom’s house brings me back to high school, I really think there is nothing here newer than 1990. That’s probably a stretch because back then I thought everything we had was as old as dirt.

Just as I was about to give up, my mom gave me an unopened box containing an exercise ball with a workout video. By this time my strength and enthusiasm had waned. I only got as far as blowing the ball up. They provide a pump that is the size of a syringe so inflating it was quite a challenge. That’ll go down as my upper body workout for that day. Since then I’ve been using the ball as an ottoman and the tape as a drink coaster. Actually balancing your legs, to keep them from rolling off the ball, consumes some energy too. Hmm, that could be my lower body workout for the day.

When I’m feeling better I will get myself to the gym. Fortunately I haven’t had much of an appetite due to being sick, so maybe it’s all balancing out.

Posted by hopeful @ July 19, 2005 2:22 PM