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My Saturday – How Was Yours?

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Ching under Health, Life.

Brian was a good sport and went to the Party Hearty Zumbathon at Genesis East Central with me. Did I mention that he is the best Zumba hubby ever?

We were a little late to the Zumbathon because I insisted on going to Jenni’s 9 AM step class in Andover. It’s my absolute favorite group fitness class of all. So we arrived late and had to leave early too because of our dental appointment.

I wish we could have stuck around for the rest of the fun. Oh, well. We get to do it all over again today at Genesis West Central, so no biggie.

I wanted to stay for a couple more songs, but Brian just has to be early to everything. We arrived at the dental office 15 minutes early. Blech.

Above is a photo of Brian in the waiting lounge. Below is a photo of him in “the chair.”

We had a lot of fun with the dental hygienist, April.

I think we were her craziest patients of the day. Hopefully, the most entertaining also. I don’t know why people don’t like going to the dentist. It is so much fun!

This is Brian waiting in the corner when it was my turn in “the chair.” BTW, just between us (and the rest of the interweb), I think Brian was a little disappointed that his hot dentist Dr. Begnoche was off yesterday. Don’t get me wrong. Dr. Pierson is handsome too — but Dr. Begnoche “third degree burns” hot.

We had to swing by the leasing office to pick up my floral delivery on the way home. Brian was a little jealous at first, until he realized it was just from my boss. I guess he thought it was from one of my lovers or something. 😉

We had to come home and wash our clothes so we could wear them again today. I really wished that I’d have bought two of those Go Red AHA Party Hearty tank tops so I wouldn’t have to rush home and wash mine. I needed to give it enough time to air dry. Brian’s red shirt was fine in the dryer, but I didn’t want mine to shrink.

We barely had enough time to run errands (picked up a bottle of Datu Puti for Chad, since he liked it the last time he was over) and didn’t even have time to pick up the house before the Dills arrived. We didn’t have time to make anything so we just picked up some Papa Murphy’s. I tried their Chicken Bacon Artichoke pizza for the first time yesterday and really liked it.

We had several bottles of wine to go through and the pressure was on.

No, this is not Jay’s mukhasim face. We didn’t make him drink some of the Datu Puti. Although, that would have been really funny to see. Asking him to drink one of the wines achieved the same result.

I bet he was wishing that he picked a different bottle moments earlier.

Chad and Becca posed for a picture.

Before we started Machete, we were already three bottles in. That was probably a good thing because I don’t know of anyone who could have watched that movie sober. That’s two hours of my life that I’ll never be able to reclaim. LOL.

At the end of the evening, we wiped out about six bottles. Brian really liked the Hob Nob wine that Jay brought. Chad brought a Beringer moscato that I didn’t get to try, but he said that it tasted a lot like the Barefoot moscato that I’d been drinking.

We’d drank so much wine that by midnight, we were all really sleepy. LOL. After Chad and the Dills left, Brian and I realized how drunk we were and both agreed that we were glad we were already home. All we had to do was negotiate the stairs and make it to bed. So glad we didn’t have to drive anywhere!

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Gina Ann’s Zumba Class

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Ching under Health, Things to Do, Zumba.

I’m posting this here to get you in the mood for the upcoming “Party Hearty” Zumbathon charity event this weekend. Hope to see you all there!

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Go Red!

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Ching under Free Stuff, Health.

Thank you to Wesley Heart Health for our Go Red AHA shirts! Like them on Facebook and pick up your own FREE shirt.

We picked up ours at the Health Strategies on Hillside at lunch today.

Speaking of the Go Red campaign, don’t forget about the upcoming Party Hearty Zumbathon events at Genesis Health Clubs next month. They’re having it at both the East Central (on March 5, Saturday) and West Central (on March 6, Sunday) locations. I’m attending both. See you all there!

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DanActive Probiotic Dairy Drink

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Ching under Health.

Since we can’t get Yakult around these parts, Brian and I have started drinking DanActive in the morning.

I had my doubts at first, but it is a lot like the Yakult that I grew up drinking. It’s supposed to be good for both your digestive and immune systems.

You guys should try it. You’ll get hooked!

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So Far, So Good

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Ching under Health, Things to Do, Videos.

I’ve been able to sustain a five-day workout week the last couple of weeks. Zumba on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and then Advanced Step on Saturdays. I really want to workout on Sundays also, but something usually comes up that prevents me from doing it. (Becca does Zumba at North Y at 4:00 PM on Sundays and I’ve yet to try it.) I leave Fridays open for Salsa night at Suede, but that’s a workout in itself.

Step was particularly awesome today. There were only five of us. Six if you count the instructor. The small class size actually made it better because we were all regulars. We only had to break down a couple of sections and were able to get through the entire routine. Something that we’re not able to do usually when there are a lot of new people in the class because then we have to break down every segment. There is one part that we learned for the first time last week that kept tripping me up, but otherwise it was a fantastic workout. I finally got it on our last time through. I absolutely love Jenni’s Step class. It is the best Step class ever!

Zumba was good on Thursday too. Amanda likes throwing in seasonal music so we had two Christmas songs. We’ve done Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” and also Ricky Martin’s “Ay Ay Ay It’s Christmas” for a couple of weeks now. I think it’s awesome that she does that.

Although, I realized that stopping by Panda Express on the way to the gym the other day was a very bad idea less than fifteen minutes into my workout. LOL. I didn’t have a choice, though. My 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM training earlier that day ran long. It actually ran so late that we had to move the 1:00 PM training class to 1:30 PM, which meant I didn’t get to take a lunch. Lucky for me, they had bagels in the room from the training class in the morning so I just snacked on a bagel while in training.

By the time Brian picked me up at 5:00 PM, I was starving. Misty opted out of Zumba so we didn’t have to swing by her house and pick her up. That meant I had a little bit of time to eat before class. I would have had more time to eat, but we got trapped in East Kellogg traffic because of four-car pile up. I pretty much just scarfed up my food as quickly as I could. Not something that you want to do anyway, let alone do right before aerobic activity. I was so hungry, though.

I managed to make it all the way through Zumba without puking. I even had enough energy left over for another epic racquetball match with Jay. At one point Brian asked the score and we told him 7-4 (in my favor). He was like, “All that running around and you’re only at 7-4?” It was so intense, we wouldn’t let each other score. I think we were at 0-0 for at least five minutes. LOL. That’s pretty much how my racquetball matches with Jay go, though.

I always blog about my wins so I think it’s only fair to blog about my losses as well. I lost to Jay 15-11. Last week we went into overtime. Jay won that one too, 17-15. I was in the lead for a long time during that match and the tides turned when we hit 12-12. I seem to have a real problem with closing the game. Something that I’ll need to work on. Anyway, I think Jay is probably my most favorite racquetball opponent. Even though he did hit me with a fast one square in the center of my back the other day.

BTW, did you know that the Guinness Book of World Records is going to be in town on New Year’s Day to witness a record-breaking Zumba class at the Farha Sport Center? I think they’re going for 1,111 participants. Too bad we’re going to be in Las Vegas. Otherwise, I would totally do this! You all should definitely do it, though. I’ll be with you in spirit. 🙂

Here’s my current favorite Zumba song to get you in the mood… Enjoy!