Today is the day that I meet with my team for a manditory work out. I felt pretty good after going to the gym with Lyndsie yesterday, and planned my time to leave the house, down to the minute. I probably don't need to tell you that it didn't happen as planned. And here is the reason, I slept in....just a little bit...just enough that I was a few minutes late to meet up with the group.
The best thing about morning work outs...(mine was at 11:00 by the way so it is almost afternoon, but lets not quibble about the details shall we)...is that you don't have to dress up! You don't hardly even have to get dressed! A little deodorant, comb your hair, wash your face, and brush your teeth, and SHAZAM, you are ready to go! I had my sports bra and t-shirt on and was ready to finished getting dressed, when I realized that there was no possible way that I could leave the house. Somehow during the night, while I was asleep, I had grown a beard on my legs!!!
Now, I have to explain a few things about my family. God love us, but we are a bit on the wooly side, tip to toes! If you have a weak constitution you may want to skim over this part, because really, you may never be able to get the mental pictures out of your mind. ANYWAY...somewhere back in our family tree we are related to either Sasquatch, old Abominable, or possibly Michael Jackson's chip Bubbles, or Barney, or BoBo, whatever. We are blessed with....hair, and LOTS of it. I, of course, believe that God made us, but I also believe that at some point we had a female decendent that had a beard, uni-brow, and chest hair. Our clan is made up of some hardy stock and we had to stay warm somehow during those long winters. Fortunately we don't have such a brutal existance anymore, but no one told our hair that. For some of us, we shave in the morning, and by night time, 5:00 shadow, which (finally) brings me to the problem at hand. Shaving! Did I mention that I love my husband Mark? Very much?
Because to tell the truth, there are times when I don't shave for a little bit of time...usually NEVER longer that two weeks, and almost always at LEAST once a month...sometimes my ENTIRE leg, thank you very much. By now you may be experiencing the whirly, swirly feeling, like when you watch the boat part on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", the original - not the "Willy Wonka.." one with Johnny Depp when he smiles a lot, and for this I am sorry. It's almost over.
I went to get dressed and realized that there was no way I was going to the gym where actual people may see me, so I had to shave, really fast, right now! I went into the bathroom thinking that a quick shave to the knees would be alright, and by the time my wild imagination took over, I saw myself falling somehow, and having the paramedics having to cut my new workout pants up to the thigh, and there I would be, all hairy thighed and embarrassed. GAAAA! So rather than take a chance, I shaved both legs all the way, and even managed not to make it look like the scene from "Psyco".... thank goodness.
I made it to the gym, met up with my team and trainer Ron (he used to play pro-football by the way) and had a great work out. I ate a bowl of cereal before I left the house so at one point I felt like I was going to throw up AND I put ice in my water bottle so I would get a brain freeze when I would take water breaks...nice right.? One exercise he had us do was to bounce the weighted ball, easy peesy...nope! I didn't know it was weighted so when he said to bounce and catch the ball 20 times I thought "hooray! I can do this"...nope, not a first. I bounced the ball thinking it was like a dodge ball and it rolled away..it was heavy and you really have to slam it down for it to come back up at you. Ron said for me to really get mad and throw it down, hard. So I did, nope...rolled away...Ron frowned at me...so I chased after it again, and this time I slammed it down and it bounced back. Son of a gun! After three cycles of doing this I was real good at bouncing the ball and catching it. It seems pretty lame when I write this, but I'm all about baby steps.
Tomorrow we have a work out at 2:30 with the entire HCC group. I am looking forward to it.
Kelly
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