Sometimes all it Takes is a Change of Scenery

Lately I cannot get myself motivated to go to the gym. There once was a time when I would go every day, for two hours, without fail. Now, I can barely make myself go a few times a week. And even that is usually followed by a hiatus of some sort. It’s a constant internal battle.

Yesterday I took a new step towards breaking out of this routine: I enrolled at the brand new World Gym in Cheektowaga. It’s so new the doors aren’t even open to the public until next week! Closer to my work than my current gym, I think it will be easier to stay committed. And I signed up with my girlfriend! New gym buddies are always a plus!

I’m really pumped to get in there and start working out. They have a huge layout of cardio equipment including the new Adaptive Motion Trainer (AMT)!! This machine is made to move more with your natural body movement than a restricted back and forth motion. It’s an Elliptical, Treadmill and Stairmaster all in it! And I’m pretty sure each piece has its own built in TV as well as multiple TVs on the walls.

I can’t wait until they open their doors next week to try everything out! Another new perk is their spinning classes! I have never tried one before and it’s at the top of my list! There is a basketball court that doubles as the aerobics room and I hope they will have all my favorites! OH, and the sales guy made sure to point out their complimentary shampoo and body wash in their lockers rooms as well. SCORE!

Sometimes all it takes is a change of scenery to get you excited and motivated. There will be new faces, new classes, and new routines. Bring on the sweat!!!

Happiness Instead

Tonight I wrote a very long blog for you that did not save. Instead of cursing up a storm, I will go to bed and try to recreate it tomorrow...

Instead I leave you with this...


And speaking of happiness, please don't forget to check out my little girl as happy as can be with her "first kill."

Happy Labor Day!

Fall Preview

At work yesterday we all gathered in the psycho deli (our kitchen for those of you who work at boring places lol) and were privileged to watch the fall lineup for channels ABC, CBS, NBS, FOX & CW. Here are my top recommendations of shows I will definitely watch the first few episodes.

CBS:
$#*! My Dad Says: Based off the Twitter sensation and starring William Shatner as the dad. It seems like verbal spew will just be coming out of his mouth 24/7! Funny!

The Defenders: with Jerry O’Connell and Jim Belushi – another lawyer drama set in Las Vegas, but Jerry and Jim looked to be quite funny together!

ABC:
Better Together – I don’t remember much about this one but circled it to watch the first few episodes! LOL I believe a couple breaks up at the altar but then still have all the same friends and continually run into one another.

My Generation - "My Generation" is a faux-documentary about a group of high school students and where they are in their lives 10 years after they graduated”

No Ordinary Family – A family of 5 survives a plane crash in some unordinary water that they realize later has given them special powers.

Mr. Sunshine – Matthew Perry stars as the manager of a second rate San Diego sports arena, under his highly erratic boss

NBC:
The Event – “The American Conspiracy Thriller” The Event follows Sean Walker, a man who, while investigating the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée, ends up unraveling the biggest cover-up in U.S. history; a cover-up which shapes the very core of mankind as a whole, whose implications are life changing.

Undercovers: This one reminded me of True Lies. A married couple turned civilians, are recruited back to their previous lives as agents. It seems to have great potential to thrill and excite, and I even hope they go a little “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” on each other! LOL

Outsourced – This show looked HYSTERICAL!! Kind of your next Office of Modern Family series. When a call center is outsourced to Inda, an American manager must go manage this group of misfits. C’mon, who doesn’t love comedies with India accents and jokes!?

School Pride – An Extreme Home Makeover type of show but instead they are renovating and building schools. The preview made me tear up so it will definitely be a tear-jerker just like Extreme Home Makeover!

We all did ballots to see which show would get cancelled first, which show would be the best rated drama and which would be the best rated Comedy. I picked Detroit 1-8-7 for first to get cancelled, The Event for Best Drama and Outsourced for Best Comedy! :o) We shall see!

Other we watched that I was either unimpressed or uninterested by included: Mike & Molly, Hawaii 5-0, Blue Bloods (except I do think it has Donnie Wahlberg in it!), Detroit 17, The Whole Truth, Chase, Law & Order: LA, Outlaw, Raising Hope, Running Wilde (although it does star Keri Russell). I was iffy on Hellcats and Nikita, both on the CW. We’ll have to see about those two.

Fall is coming soon if we’re talking about new show premiers!!

Pulled Pork Sundae

Isn’t this a novelty! A concoction of pulled pork made to look like an ice cream sundae!! It’s called Pork Parfait! Don’t you want to try one!?

Read more about it here!

Speedy Catch Up

Boy am I behind!! Here are the highlights of the past week-o-fun!

Two Fridays ago, Mom and Dad and some of their friends came up and stayed at my apartment to go to the Johnny Lang concert! We pre-gamed, took the subway downtown and partied outdoors for hours jamming to Johnny Lang!! Afterwards, we came back to my apartment and spread out all the way from the living room, to the deck! Imagine seven of us drinking, dancing, and having a good time! It was the best time and I was so happy to host everyone!

Speed up to last Wednesday, the Black Eyed Peas concert... which meant I missed my championship softball game (yes we won, thank you!). The concert was alright, it was my first arena concert in YEARS. The speakers were kind of jacked up to the point where you couldn't hear the words clearly. OH and some "older" people sat all around us telling us to not yell or sing! Um I paid my $20 too and HELLO PEOPLE, YOU'RE AT A CONCERT!! The BEP were encouraging us to sing!!! They are a fun, upbeat, energetic band!!! What were you expecting!? That kind of put a damper on the evening… Should have went to my softball game... damn! I don’t think I’ll do an arena concert again for awhile. I’ll stick to the great outdoors of Darien Lake, thank you!

That brings us to this past weekend where my college best friend married her boyfriend of the last four years! One last wedding drive to Massachusetts! Friday we all got together for mani-pedi’s and then a relaxing swim before the rehearsal dinner. The food was fantastic and Lindsay gave us the prettiest earrings and bracelet to wear with our dresses! Saturday morning we got up early for hair and makeup, and before we knew it the flowers arrived and then the photographer! When the bus picked us up it was real, and before I knew it I was walking down the aisle! It was a very joyous and happy time for me, to not only be part of, but to see my friend happy, in love, and marrying a man that was good to her. She was gorgeous in her dress and hard to take your eyes off of. I cried plenty of times... seeing her walk down the aisle, the vows, my speech, their first dance, their childhood slide show, the father-daughter dance. It got to be disgusting after awhile! Not really, I tried to cry "cutely."

When all was said and done, the evening was magical and perfect. My dress was gorgeous, my bouquet was beautiful, and my hotel room fantastic. My best friend was happy, married and off to her honeymoon in Cancun shortly after! Success!

I Hope You Had the Time of Your Life

The Green Day concert was by far the best concert I have seen all summer! Not only did they start early, but they played (and entertained us) for three straight hours!! There were people of all ages there partying with friends, parents, kids, etc. At one point the stage was filled with a whole group of different ages that Green Day had encouraged to climb up there and just dance their freaking hearts out!!

Apart from the great music that made me dance all night, the show itself was entertaining with two different displays of people being pulled from the crowd onto stage. The first was an mid-30’s gentleman who didn’t know any words and kind of made himself look a little foolish, but what was even worse (for him, great for us) is that he was followed by a 12 year old boy who rocked out ALL the lyrics and kept singing verse after verse after verse!!

But not even he was the young wonder of the night!! The leader singer Billie Joe started pulling members out of the audience, one by one, to replace band members. First they found someone to play the drums, second they taught bass cords to another teen, then, the icing on the cake, was Bille Joe bringing up a young girl to play main guitar. The taught her three chords to play, then started up the band and began to sing. And this young girl didn’t miss a beat!!! Billie Joe even had his arm around her at one point singing the lyrics right by her ear!! At the end she got up on a speaker and jumped off, really rocking it out. We were going CRAZY in the crowd!! I could not believe his young girl just ROCKED OUT a Green Day concert!! Then Billie Joe gave the girl his guitar and we all yelled and screamed and cheered even louder!!!

Another one of my favorite parts is them performing the Buffalo Bills “You Make Me Want to Shout” song. They would start it up, do a few verses and then stop playing, just so we’d scream and tease and beg for more!! When they were singing the softer part, and we all got down low, he stopped and teased us again until no one’s knees could hold them that close to the ground anymore!! Being from Buffalo you need to believe that we were all going “buck wild!”

Of course every song was great, every song rocked us out (my knees can prove it from jumping up and down all night) but the best was the finale to “I hope you had the time of your life,” and yes Green Day, we did! Thank you and have a GOOD NIGHT BUFFALOOOO!!!!!!!!