Have I really survived???

Ok, let me bring you all up to speed.

Thursday night I decided to take the air mattress off my bed. Early Friday morning (and I do mean early) I remembered WHY I had the air mattress on my bed in the first place. First off, when I bought my mattress about 5 yrs ago, it was a firm and cheap. To make a long story short, my back hurt so bad after the car accident I had on 12/09/2005, that I thought I’d give the air mattress a try until it was sliding all over the place. Hence why I took it OFF the bed. I only had it on my bed for a couple months at this point. Friday I ended up taking the day off and by afternoon I put the air mattress BACK on the bed with the flocking face down. I will never stray again…

All the way to Wednesday again… Ms. Peppy took a well deserved day away from the workout and I’m not going to rag her on that. HOWEVER, Ms. Perky gave us a workout to work off all that pent up perky energy she has as her upcoming wedding approaches in lightning speed. I managed, again, to miss the stairs thing. From what I hear it was much higher than the 6th floor I still struggle with…* happy dance *. I’m so upset that I missed it. Hear me crying? Boo…. Hoo…. Wait, wait… I feel a tear coming on!!!… Never mind it was just sweat.

I finally got into class with about 20 minutes to go. The current exercise was with the free weights for the upper body. My arms still flop around but they are getting better. That is, if you count the movements that you’d see gorillas make with their arms. Not too bad… I think they’re getting longer, too. All the better to move around with… Just drag the knuckles. All the fans were on so it was nice and cool. I was even in the back as to not scare anyone with my big butt. Brought a towel and all.

My dear, sweet husband had free weights he’s been traveling with (read - moving all over God’s green earth with) 3 lbs and 8 lbs weights. I took the 3 pounders to take with me to class. Is it possible to have 3 lbs weights feel heavier than 5 lbs?? My bag was so heavy… UGH! The weights are now nice and safe at my desk. I wonder if they will see any action before next class.
As I stated, Ms. Perky was working us hard. Ok… I was working hard and she was grinning all over the place. After the arm thrashing, we got on the ball (I love those, they are sooo comfy), rolled down to have our mid-/upper backs supported and started doing crunches this way and that and leg lifts. You’d think that the leg lifts wouldn’t be too hard. Let me tell you…. Balancing on a ball, lifting up one leg, extending, back to 90 degrees, down WITHOUT touching the floor, and using your hands only for balance is a really neat trick. Maybe I’ll learn how to do it when I’m 100. Heck, I just hope I’m mobile when I’m 70… I just rolled all over the place…

Roll up to seated, and then rolled back down. I actually made it this time. I was very proud of myself. I did almost rolled myself OFF the ball a few times. (Sorry, C… Didn’t mean to run into you.) Crunches… Roll up, roll down… Leg lifty/balancey things. I swear it was 50 MORE TIMES!!! I’m going to die.

I’m not really sure what order these things went in, but dang… We did those seat thingies against the wall. You know, the ones where you lean against the wall with your back, and then sit on the invisible chair? 15 seconds… Hey, I can do this without much effort… COOL!… Next one 30 seconds… Ok… umm… ouch… Next one 45 seconds… I’m thinking evil thoughts about Ms. Perky… I’m also hearing the wall (it has a mirror on it) crunching itself…. She better hope that her temp replacement doesn’t have it in for us while she’s gone. Next one 60 SECONDS… She hates me… I swear! The mirror might, too. I’m sure it will brake one day with my heavy buttocks stuck against it…

Now that I have my air mattress back on my bed, I’m doing ok. My back hurts not because it needs adjusting (which it really probably does), but from the back exercises… * sigh *… Ms Perky even gave me a paper indicating why you shouldn’t stop working out just because you have a day off or something. I fully intend to use it… Maybe for scrap paper, I don’t know.

Now I just have to manage to keep up with the temporary Ms. Perky. The question is… Will she be just like her??? Let the new evil thoughts begin…