Shakin’ My Groove Thang
August 21st, 2009
I have exercise ADD, that’s no secret. The one thing I love to do is walk and/or run depending on the current cardiovascular shape I’m in. (That’s Karinese for how fat my ass is at any given point in time.) However, here in the desert it is approximately 23476235o32486714p5987349718531 degrees which makes it just a tad too hot to go outside for any real exercise and I hate the fucking treadmill with a passion larger than life.
I have countless exercise DVDs, a WiiFit and Wii My Fitness Coach and I still get bored so I thought I would try something a little different. While I was channel surfing the other night, I pulled my hand out of the Fritos bag long enough to stop on FitTV. There was a show on called Shimmy. It’s a belly dancing class on TV. Oh.My.God. You mean I could shake my booty right there in the comfort of my living room without anyone else around to watch me jiggle? AWESOME! This could be me! 
Except I have waaaaay better hair which should distract you from the fact that my stomach is slightly rounder than this chickies.
So I recorded an episode on the DVR and tonight I turned it on.
*blink*
*blink*
I have no explanation for what my body was doing in response to the instructions. I could see myself in the mirror and in my head I was following the instructions to a T. In reality, not so much. Arms were flailing, hips were moving in two directions at once, my spine does not bend at those angles. There was no actual “dancing” happening up in this piece. Seriously, I made the Night at the Roxbury guys look like Baryshnikov. I’m just glad we don’t have video cameras in our living room.
I’m going to try again tomorrow. Watch out belly dancing, I’m going to make you my bitch.
This is the exact reason I could never do aerobics. Everyone would be moving one way and I would be moving the opposite. Keep at it, it sounds like fun, I know you’ll make it your bitch and rock that bitch out!!
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One of my best friends teaches bellydancing! It sure is something to watch. I find myself wiggling in my seat every time I see her or her troupe perform.
I also tried one of her classes and ended up feeling like a complete ASS! I’m not sure what it takes to move your body in so many different directions at once, but I definitely DON’T have it.
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“I pulled my hand out of the Fritos bag long enough to stop on FitTV” — LMAO!
We don’t have cameras in the our living room? Really? Are you sure?
Loves
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I wish I had FIT TV – this sounds so fun. Of course I told you about the Bollywood dance exercise dvd I ordered. It comes in today!!!
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If you hips were moving in two directions at once, I think it means you are half way there… eh? Does your husband or LW ever get to see you do this or do you lock yourself in a room?
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OMG–Coke Zero just came out of my nose!
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So, Rob hasn’t shown you the
*scuffle*
*scream*
*dragging sounds*
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Ha ha ha ha I was channel flipping the same night an saw that same show…Aww hell no, I kept wonderin’ what the sheik of Araby found sexy about that dancing.
Of course I called the wife’s attention to it and instructed her to give me a little shimmy as I sat on my Persian carpet reclining on my overstuffed pillows.
When she was done stomping my ass she shimmied her way back to what she was doing…she also put the Disney channel on and took the remote with her.
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