I worked out to Cindy Crawford today.  Back in the early nineties she made two workout tapes.  Her first one I used to do three times a week for years (particularly during high school & early college).  She's fun to work out to because she seems like a real person - she drinks water, sweats, and sometimes needs to catch her breath a little.  Oh, and in her first tape, she still does girl push ups.  But, don't let that fool you - the workouts are intense.  They tend to be heavy on the lunges, which is great, becuase you're working large muscle groups.  Lunges burn mucho calories and really get your heart pumping.  ^_^  (I drink a lot of water during her workouts.)  The music is great, too.  I always found the trick to picking out a good workout tape was to pick one done by an instructor with a similar body type.  That's how you get the best results and find routines that you will stick with.  For instance, I'm the type who can easily gain a little strength in my legs (and I can do ab work forever without really tiring) but it's hard for me to gain much (if anything) in my upper-body and arms.  Cindy Crawford (at least back in the early nineties, I really don't know what she's up to now) is the same way.  (She's also not really super-anorexic skinny, either.  Another plus in my book.)  And, since the routine was taylored for someone like that it works well with me.  I did have to be careful with anything arms because I'm still injured.  For that, I did a lot of modifying.

I also remember really liking some of Jane Fonda and Claudia Shiffer's tapes.  Those, sadly, because they are VCR tapes hadn't survived long into the 21st century.  The Cindy Crawford one is a bit newer in my collection because I bought a fresh copy back in 2004.  (I remember I had to hunt all over for it!  LOL.)

Speaking of workout videos, there's this Qigong routine that was advertised on PBS that I would really like to do.  They played some extended clips of it a couple Sundays ago and I followed along.  It felt great.  I'm not sure how to describe it.  I suppose the word would be centered or maybe that I felt more balanced.  It definately did something.

I saw Jane Austen Regrets on Sunday's Masterpiece theatre.  It was interesting.  I'm not sure how much of it was fiction, but I could imagine her being a person like that.  I also recorded All Creatures Great and Small.  I can't wait to watch it.  Sunday I was visiting with my brother & his wife and today I was also busy.  (Well, I could've watched it if I wasn't taping SG-1 during dinner.  LOL.)

Oh, and did I mention my post-workout shake is banana creme flavored?  Yum!  It makes for a nice breakfast.  And, it does tend to inspire me to workout first thing in the morning.  If I don't workout, I'll just have to have something else, most assuredly non-banana flavored.  And that just won't do. 

I just solved today's word jumble.  It felt more challenging than yesterday's.  It had six words (plus the pun jumble), two more than yesterday, but that's not really what made it difficult.  It's just me - maybe I have an automatic temporary block on the last word when I do these puzzles.  There is no logical reason why the last word should be any harder than the first few words.  I was stuck on that last word for few minutes, then when I realized it's prying, I felt silly.  Jeesh.  I'd even solved the joke before hand, again, so I had the knowledge of the two letters that belonged in the circles for said word.  The joke was pretty funny, if a bit corny (as per usual).  "What the drill sergeant concentrated on at the dance."  4 letters, 5 letters, 4 letters.  If you'd like to try a jumble and don't have today's paper, you can go to jumble.com and do puzzles online.  I just went and did another puzzle  (It's different than today's Sunday paper.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.  ^_^)  My score was 1480 out of a possible 1650.  It's more like the ones they publish during the normal week.  If you want to see if you can beat me, the puzzle I did online was about the airconditioning salesman.  (I hope that wasn't the one that is going to be in tomorrow's paper...)

I saw Northanger Abbey tonight.  The actress who played Isabella Thorpe also played Sally Sparrow, the best companion the Doctor never had, in the Doctor Who episode Blink.  (Um, yeah, I can list the title of every episode of NuWho in order, just off the top of my head.  Total geek/nerd, me.)  It was good.  I'm thinking I may look up some of those gothic novels Cathy and Isabella were reading.  I bet they're on gutenberg.org and I can just read them online.

As it turns out, All Creatures Great and Small is a television series.  I ran a total of seven seasons with three Christmas specials.  The next episode in the series airs February 2nd at 8 o'clock.

Today I went to the Fire Station for breakfast.  It was lovely.  They served pancakes (blueberry, chocolate chip, or plain), bacon, & sausage.  My grandparent's friends kept telling me how beautiful and charming I am.  I felt very flattered.  It was a bit of confidence boost.  I had this lock of hair that kept falling in my face.  I thought I might accidently eat it.  But, yes, I do like to hide behind it, sometimes.