The girls have been at my inlaws this week attending Vacation Bible School (aka free day camp with Jesus) with their cousins. I’ve missed them, my husband has missed them, and even Jack the dog curled up nightly on the floor by Miss C’s bed.
Still, when your kids head to the grandparents for a few nights and you realize you’ll have the house to yourselves there’s a little bit of Risky Business dancing around the house action that ensues. It’s like you’re 17 again and your parents announce they’re going out for the night and you’re in charge of the household. In reality you’re 40 and you’re just excited about the prospect of cleaning your 5-year-old’s room and tossing the 2.5 million gumball machine and fast food toys she’s collected over the past 6 months.
You’re also thinking THANK YOU JESUS I can just make myself coffee in the morning and get myself ready for work and not worry about refereeing the short and sassy people for a few days. You can also eat your 5-year-old’s beloved Cheetos, although you must always remember to replace the bag before she returns home.
On a more productive note, one of my must do things this week was to do a little extra working out. I’ve got to burn off those Cheetos!
I dusted off my Shred DVD yesterday and about two minutes into it the sound started cutting off intermittently. Not wanting to lose my momentum (I have fitness ADD and pretty much anything will distract me from exercising…oh look a squirrel on the patio!), I continued to do the workout without stopping the DVD. I’ve done it often enough to hear Jillian Michaels in my sleep. While I’m dreaming of Cheetos.
I got to the first abs segment and the sound came back on just as Jillian was looking intensely into the camera and saying, “You know that pooch you guys get that you don’t dig?” and pointing to one of her cohorts in torture’s ridiculously toned abs.
All I could hear her say was, “You know that pooch you guys get that I will never have MWAA HAA HAA HAA SUCKERS!”
Suddenly it occurred to me that working out to her DVD with the sound muted the entire time was nothing short of brilliant.
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So next time mute her and turn up some tunes!
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Ugh, I can recite that DVD. And I hate that “pooch” comment.
Congrats for getting back into it…better you than me 😉
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Let us remind one another that darling Jillian hasn’t carried a watermelon internally and then delivered and nutured it at any point in her life.
Good luck with the Shred, and enjoy the “free” time!
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The music is pretty generic elevator-esque on the Shred! Wonder if any of her other DVDs are any better? I actually have turned it down before and played the Black Eyed Peas.
Today will be my fourth day in a row of doing it. I can really tell a difference in my abs since I started doing it back in February I think it was. I just need to lose about 10 pounds of baby weight and I’ll be SHREDDED as Jillian says.
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Haha, I thought you were going somewhere else with “the kids are away and I feel like I’m 17 again…” line. 😉
But yeah, the Shred is hateful to the thighs.
It seems like everyone I talk to says that the Shred is great except for Jillian’s voice. If I ever stop being lazy and decide to do it I may just have to turn down the volume.
My oldest just got out of school. I wish I felt like I was 17 again lol
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Go girl!
My Shred DVD has disappeared! I need to find it again.
Desperately need to find it again.
I can definitely see the benefit to doing it with the sound off 😉
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You should try Hip Hop Abs. Lol. I think that video exhausted me just 10 minutes into the program. Never tried it again after 3 takes 😀