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Man!  Do I feel like a stiff board!

My sister came over to the house the night before.  Since the kids were doing homework, her and I decided we should do something instead of sitting around doing nothing.    

“Why don’t we exercise?”  My sister suggests.  

“Exercise?”  Ugh!  I hate exercising!  But after giving me this look, I say, “O.k., I guess we should.”  

Oh, oh!   I can feel them coming…. Yep, here they come…!  

“Our old treadmill broke so we got rid of it.”  “The stationary bike is downstairs in the basement but it’s too cold and too boring!”  “I don’t know where any of my exercise videos are.”  

“Boy you are full of excuses aren’t you?”

“Well, I do have cable.”  “They have exercise programs on “Demand” channel.”   Me and my big mouth!  

I flipped to the channels to look for a good exercise video.  We came across “10-minute workouts”.  My sister says, “Let’s try that!”  “10 minutes sounds good to me!  That should be easy!”  I said.  We moved our living room couch and the table aside and began with our 10-minute workout.  

Before the end of the 10 minutes, I was ready to give up!  “Come on!”  “Stop being a wimp!”  She yells at me.  “Alright!” “Alright!” as I’m huffing and puffing.  We finally finished the 10 minutes.  “That was the longest 10 minutes ever!”  I said, barely breathing.  My sister just shakes her head.

She suggested we do another 10 minutes.  This time we worked on our “abs” (or more like our big guts!)  I hated seeing those skinny girls on t.v.   But hey, they work at it.  What do I do?  Nothing!!!!

“Stop hating and keep moving!”  My sister again yells at me.  Gosh!  What’s gotten into her?  

We finished that part of the routine and continued on to the next.  We did a 10-minute work out on our “buns” (or more like our wide loads!)   Man, why does it have to be so hard!  

And just as I started getting into the routine, my sister begins to complain.  I can tell she was getting tired but it was my turn to yell at her.  “Oh, no you don’t!  You’re not giving up on me now!   You started this.  Now let’s finish it!  And after this, we’re working our arms!”  

I couldn’t believe that we actually completed 40 minutes.  I checked the channels and we came across belly dancing.  We looked at each other.  Hey, why not?  

So here we were trying to do a belly dance.  We had to move our hips in the form of an eight.  Then we had to thrust our hips and bellies back and forth and every time I tried doing that, my butt would giggle like Jell-O.  No, not J-Lo, Jello!  We kept looking at each other and couldn’t stop laughing.   In the end, it was quite a work out.  I was amazed at how much effort it takes to do a belly dance.  

And for the grand finale… we did 10 minutes of yoga.  My sister was not too comfortable doing this part of the exercise.  I thought it was great.  In fact, it felt good!  I was completely relaxed.  I need to start practicing yoga!

Yesterday, I was beginning to feel a little sore and my husband told me I should exercise.  So… I ignored him.  

Today, I’m having a bit of trouble moving.  Every time I try getting up from my chair, I feel like an old lady.  Ay! Ay! Ay!  It hurts!  I could actually feel muscles that I didn’t know I had in my stomach and butt!  Ouch!  

You would think I get my big butt to exercise today.  Hell no!  I’ll have to put it off until tomorrow.

Yeah, let’s see…