Zumbathon! among other thing

If anyone would have told me one year ago when I started Zumba classes at the YMCA, I'd be attending a 2 hour Zumbathon event one year later I would have laughed in their face. Yes, really I would have. You may not know this about me but I have zero rhythm. ZER-RO! No seriously. I like to joke that I have two left feet and one of them is broken. But my sister-in-law kept after me to come and try it out. So I did. And I kept going, and I kept going and well you get the picture. Last night is where it all got crazy. I agreed to attend a charity Zumbathon for WV Children's Hospital held in Morgantown, WV - a zumba master one at that. Erick Santana who is supposedly one of the IT guys for zumba was one of the instructors even. Yeah. Me. 2 hours of Zumba. Hahaha!

It wound up being two hours and twenty minutes. But I'm proud to say I made it through without breaking anything or hurting anyone else. The first hour and a half went pretty quickly but that last half hour (oh wait 50 minutes) really was hard. And of course, that's when Erick took the stage.

The next day was ROUGH - I felt like I had been out all night drinking. Bryan and I had wanted to leave the house around 8:00 to first head to the outlets for some shopping (FOR ME!) and then to Ikea to get some supplies for our office makeover. Um, yeah, we left the house at 10:00. Oops! I just couldn't get out of bed. But I'm happy to report I got plenty of shop on - new Nikes, new workout tank (best find of the day, $6!) and a new warmup jacket. And then it was on to the Columbia outlet where I scored a winter coat for $60 (second best find of the day!) and fleece jackets for both me and Tyler. And then *cue scary music* it was on to Ikea. Holy hell that place was a zoo! It is never a good idea to hit Ikea on the weekend but it had to be done. We got everything I went in for and then some because come on, you don't leave Ikea with just what you came in for! I am so excited to start out office makeover. This will give me something to look forward to in February aka the armpit month of the year.

Later that evening, we then went out to dinner with a great group of friends followed by a fun night at the Halfway to Jambo Party. Good, busy FUN weekend!

Back to blogging

This is now my 2nd go around to get back into my blog. maybe this will be the time I stick with it. We've been plugging along like usual. Delana's doing great in preschool and Tyler the same in 1st grade. We had a great Christmas and so far, an uneventful winter in terms of snow, thank God! We deserve a break after last winter. Of course the problem still is that Bryan and I (and by default the kids) just aren't winter people at all. So yeah, we're going a little stir crazy right now. But it's all good - we'll dream of our camping trips, watch a little football and get through it. And hey, I'll get some blogging done again.

If anyone remembers, it was just about one year ago that I set out to become committed to exercising and getting in shape. Well one year later and I'm still at it. I'm not trying to sound all cocky here but I must say I'm pretty damn proud of myself. I will admit to falling off the wagon for a week or two here or there but overall I was committed and I achieved my goals for 2010. I have lost 11 lbs on my best days and around 8 on my worst days. (LOL!) Lately I've been slacking on the weight training part of my program but I'm determined to get that back on track. Unfortunately I was a little TOO determined last Wednesday before zumba and went a overboard for my first time back. Yeah that hurt. But this week, I'm going to dial it back just a bit and take it a little easier so I can actually get weights in 3x this week.

So hope to see you on here again soon!