Feel the Pain

This morning I went to the gym and stepped outside of my comfort zone. I did a Zumba class! I stayed in the back of the class and thankfully didn't hurt anyone else with my flailing body parts and have to say that it was quite fun. There is always one class or another going on when I go yet I have never been able to work up the courage to participate, until today. I should point out that this fear has much to do with my complete lack of flexibility, coordination and overall ability to dance. Yet, I tried, liked it and promised myself to go again next week.

In other news, Michael came close to losing his controller challenge this morning due to a VERY sour and grumpy attitude. Oy vey! This was not a strong morning for waking up with a smile. Unfortunately he seems to have inherited his mother's hatred for waking up early. Mike and I decided that, in all fairness to the tolerance of a 7 year old, to give Michael one "get out of jail free" pass each week. So as a compromise, and to try and enforce some lesson or other, I gave Michael the choice of 1.) keeping his weekend video game time today but losing his controller challenge, or 2.) Lose video game privileges for today and keep on target with the challenge. Wisely he chose option #2.

One more item, for those of you lucky enough to have caught my post about flaming raisins (which I believe amounts to two people), I found this in my cupboard:For those not lucky enough to have "enjoyed" the post -- the other day I naively believed Mike when he told me that golden raisins were flammable. He put a few in a bowl and lit them on fire. I thought it was pretty cool as the fire danced around for a bit (looked like Bananas Foster when lit on fire) so I wrote a small post about it only to be told later that night that Mike had tricked me and that the raisins were in fact NOT flammable, yet had a little help from some 151 Bacardi rum (aka Death in a bottle). Hmm. Fool me once. So I erased the post along with the comments that I had received. Yet somehow flaming raisin reference keep reappearing. So there you have it. Have a good laugh at my expense.