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cretak and kazulrw!
tonight at summersings: mozart's requiem! $4 to listen, $8 to sing along, bring a fan and a water bottle. i didn't have time to bake this weekend, but there will be snackies, regardless. old south church, 645 boylston st, doors at 7.bitty and bubblebabble and hyounpark and perhaps luminaepona will be there - will you? :)
object lesson of the weekend #1: oh dear GOD, i'd missed kayaking. this is something i need to be doing far, far more often. (even on the rumored pollution of the charles? maybe some of the lakes around here do boating and rent kayaks?)
object lesson of the weekend #2: yours truly is out of shape. like, limp-as-udon arm muscles out of shape. this is not helpful when one is moving this month. this is not helpful in general. you have 5lb weights sitting in your living room. it's time you use them. (any of you ladies who do free weights recommend any particular routine or series of exercises for strengthening arms in particular? time to put the humiliation to work so i can be paddling up in front next year - after eleven years of doing it every summer, i certainly have the knowledge of how to do so, just not the endurance to do it for four hours, which is the humiliating part.)
before that, zuania had her graduation party friday; hooray for yummy indian food! and salsa dancing afterwards. introvert h seems to be holding up okay as i run him through the social gauntlets of my friends :) sorry honey, they haze because they love!
question of all y'all: updating my calendar for the remainder of the summer and the fall, and: is there anything i need to be saving the date for? birthday parties, housewarmings, concerts, the like?
and finally, goodbye, dancing apple. you were the face of news for many, but my favorite memory of you will always be you bopping around onstage in a gigantic apple costume at the zumbyes concert.
cretak and kazulrw!tonight at summersings: mozart's requiem! $4 to listen, $8 to sing along, bring a fan and a water bottle. i didn't have time to bake this weekend, but there will be snackies, regardless. old south church, 645 boylston st, doors at 7.
bitty and bubblebabble and hyounpark and perhaps luminaepona will be there - will you? :)object lesson of the weekend #1: oh dear GOD, i'd missed kayaking. this is something i need to be doing far, far more often. (even on the rumored pollution of the charles? maybe some of the lakes around here do boating and rent kayaks?)
object lesson of the weekend #2: yours truly is out of shape. like, limp-as-udon arm muscles out of shape. this is not helpful when one is moving this month. this is not helpful in general. you have 5lb weights sitting in your living room. it's time you use them. (any of you ladies who do free weights recommend any particular routine or series of exercises for strengthening arms in particular? time to put the humiliation to work so i can be paddling up in front next year - after eleven years of doing it every summer, i certainly have the knowledge of how to do so, just not the endurance to do it for four hours, which is the humiliating part.)
before that, zuania had her graduation party friday; hooray for yummy indian food! and salsa dancing afterwards. introvert h seems to be holding up okay as i run him through the social gauntlets of my friends :) sorry honey, they haze because they love!
question of all y'all: updating my calendar for the remainder of the summer and the fall, and: is there anything i need to be saving the date for? birthday parties, housewarmings, concerts, the like?
and finally, goodbye, dancing apple. you were the face of news for many, but my favorite memory of you will always be you bopping around onstage in a gigantic apple costume at the zumbyes concert.
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National Aerobic Champions (NAC) Body Parts
Kathy Smith's Lift Weights to Lose Weight 1 or 2, Secrets to A Great Upper Body, Secrets to a Great Lower Body
Weight Training for Dummies
Tamilee Webb's I Want Those Arms (also has I Want Those Abs and I Want Those Buns...exercise videos are not known for their non-cheesy titles)
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funny story about that church. years ago... i think it was 1992, we were in boston for a bit of a vacation. anyway, we were having lunch at the legal seafood. parked the car (carefully noting the intersection) and walked to lunch. while we were eating, the sky opened up and started dumping buckets.
we walked back from the restaurant, getting soaked along the way, to where our car was. or where it was supposed to be. there was no car. mom and dad then got into an argument about where exactly we had parked it when a really nice priest (minister?) poked his head out of the church door.
"are you folks from ontario?"
uh oh.
apparently he had seen the tow truck come by no less than 5 minutes before. he took us into the church and let us use their phone to make all the necessary calls to track down where the car was.
nightmare. it was lucky he was around else we would have had absolutely no ideas.
Arms o' steel
Of course there are the age-old goodies (if you don't know one/some of these let me know and I can give instructions):
bicep curls (standing and sitting)
Arnold press
tricep dips
upward rows
tricep kick-backs
lateral raise (for deltoids)
And here's an upper back/shoulder set of exercises (http://www.shape.com/getfit/7798) from Shape.
Re: Arms o' steel
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Additionally,
Hyoun