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37.42 – Time out. Time out! TIME OUT, DAMMIT!

Ha, yeah, I’m watching the replay of the Steelers game.  OMG I just threw up in my mouth.  They just showed across the bottom that NOW, they just found out that Tom “pretty boy” Brady played the entire 2010 season with a stress fracture in his shoulder.  Dude, seriously?  I could take the x-ray myself, develop the film, read the x-ray and see the fracture with my own eyes and I’m still calling BS and saying that you’re making excuses.  Ugh.  The.  Worst.  Ever.

Wait, I have to post this….

Okay, had to get that out there with that first part.  The rest is just me rambling as usual.  I was going to title this post “Sliding into home” because that’s almost what I did pulling into the driveway after work today since we got some more snow.  Standing out in the front, under the streetlight, just watching the snow fall was pretty damn fantastic.

Just thinking I should have DVR’ed this game so I could watch it again to get pumped up for the game on Sunday.

That’s all I’ve got today.  Wait, one more thing.

Dear NFL,

For the Super Bowl, please take each team’s local announcers to call the game.  Whichever team gets the ball first has their home commentators call the first half.  Other team, second half.

Thanks,

Me.

37.32 & 37.33 – Zumba

It’s late, I’m tired.  There you go.

That up there is all I had to say last night when I got home from the Nuggets game. I was too tired to even push publish.  But now, I’ve had some sleep and I’m ready to give an update.

It started snowing yesterday in the wee hours of the morning.  That’s never a good sign.  I started thinking that maybe we should take public transport to this event, but we opted to drive instead.  By the time we got downtown at about 4, the roads were already getting not so nice.

Regardless, I trudged through the snow to find the right building where rehearsal was being held.  There was a LOT of Zumba love going on in that room!  Everyone was super friendly (which basically falls right in line with Colorado in general) and it didn’t even matter that I didn’t know anyone there.  By the end of the night, I had made a few new friends.

We rehearsed for a while, talked about what would happen, smiled, laughed, joked, took pictures, and just basically had a great time.  My photographer forgot to turn on the flash so some of the pics came out blurry, but no biggie.  I’ll share the clear one and the one where I don’t quite have my eyes open, lol.

My face looks very, uh, full, lol.  Ah well.  Here’s the halftime show:

Truly a blast and I look forward to doing it again next year.  It’s also inspired me to, oh, maybe work on putting a class together so I can teach once in a while.  I mean, that’s why I did this in the first place and someone always needs a sub.

The roads were NOT GOOD on the way home.  But, driving in the snow with a rear-wheel drive vehicle never is good.  We made it, though, all in one piece, even though that piece was pretty frazzled.

Now that the Zumba excitement is over and done, it’s time to move on to the next thing I’m looking forward to:

STEELER FOOTBALL!!!

Oh, mama, I’m in fear for my life from the long arm of the law……..

37.25 – AFC North Champs!

Yes, yes,  my friends.  The beloved Black and Gold has secured the AFC North.  Now we rest.  We rest and we focus on the tasks ahead. So let it be written, so let it be done. *bangs a gong*

I hope that you’ve all (or all of you who had it) enjoyed two short weeks in a row.  I know that I loved it.  It’ll be quite some time until I have another short week (well, MLK day that I’m taking without pay, Black Power) but after that, it’ll be a while.  All of my time off/vacation focus is on Mexico right now.  I’m thinking about it.  I’m planning it in my head.  If I try hard enough, I can picture myself there with the smells and everything.  En Junio, mis amigos.

It’s time for my Facebook friend of the day.  Today’s lucky winner is: childhood friend and up the street neighbor, Shirl.

Now, mind you, this isn’t a story about something Shirl did, she was just there when this happened.

Back in the day, I’d say when I was about 10, no matter how much it was forbidden, we loved to jump on the bed.  Jump, jump, bounce, bounce, seat drip, front flip.

*sidebar – Who would’ve ever imagined that when it comes to flipping on a trampoline, it’s actually easier to learn to flip backwards than the forward flip that most of us grew up with?!?!*

Well, as Shirl, my brother and I were taking turns jumping on my bed (parents: putting your child’s bedroom downstairs means you don’t hear them jumping on the bed), my brother took a wrong bounce and hit the wall. With his head.  Leaving a round dent in the drywall.  I’m sorry, at that very moment, it was scary, but as I think about that almost-hole in the wall right now, I’m cracking up laughing.  I bet that dent is still there.

I know that isn’t much of a story, but that little nugget makes me laugh.  I mean, I also crashed her trike into a tree and almost broke my thumb off, but that isn’t as fun of a memory.

It’s once again time to run with a random exercise program.  I’ve done Hip Hop Abs (loved it), Zumba (loved it so much that I got licensed to teach it), P90X (OMG so hard but I looked fantastic for my wedding), and now, it’s time to return to Shaun T and try Insanity.  It’s about a three month program.  I’ll time it just right to finish just as I pay off all of my credit card debt and for Lovey’s birthday.  Go me!  Of course, I’ll have to do it back-to-back to be in the proper Cancun mindset.  Six months of work to eat every single thing I want for one week.  Ev.  Er.  E.  Thing.  I’ll take pictures.

Well, I have talked to you until my champagne glass is empty.  Could I refill and come back to you?  Sure.  Will I?  No.

See ya tomorrow!

Eat’n Park – an institution

If you don't know about Eat 'n Park, I'm sorry.  You're missing out on some damn good shit.  Depending on where you live, you may think of something like a Denny's or Shoney's or Black Bear Diner.  Eat'n Park is only closed on Christmas and Thanksgiving.  Which is why I found this article to just be plain awesome.

With locations mainly in Pennsylvania, it just shows how serious the Steeler Nation is about this game!

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