Item A is a bosu balance trainer, better known a giant blue dome of pain. I had used one quite a bit when I was working out with a personal trainer. Winter makes me lazy so I thought I'd be more likely to work out if I could do it at my house, and also whip Santa's Little Helper into shape at the same time. It hasn't worked out quite as planned. I joined a gym this week....and Santa's Little Helper detests the blue dome of pain. We made a deal on NYE that we'd both do 20 situps for every drink he had that night. Little did he know he'd cripple both of us. He was out of commission for at least a week. I recovered faster, but hey, us wanna be bond girls have to be tough. I swear we are going to have bikini ready abs by summer.....but it sure is hard to make myself use that thing when I'm already running 3 days a week, plus spinning 2. Watch out Ursula Andress, I'm going to give you a run for your money. FYI, It is excellent to do the plank on as well.
Item B is something that started out as my need for Strawberry C-Monster when I am sick, and ended up with us having 5 bottles of Bolthouse Farms juice in my fridge. I think I created a monster with Santa's Little Helper. At first he said something like "who needs juice that is $3 per serving", and the next thing you know he's bringing home GreenGoodness for us to have a taste test. I don't know what is more suprising: that a guy who used to live on frozen pizza is bringing me organic juices, or that I might actually drink wheat grass/blue-green algae juice tomorrow with my whole wheat pancakes? All I know is we have spent a lot of cash on juice in the last two weeks, having taste tests of things we'd never thought we'd drink. (mushroom juice anyone? and what is a prickly pear anyway? Thank God I own the Field Guide to Produce. We're still trying to figure out what a camu camu fruit is. Apparently its so nice they named it twice.) In case you're wondering, Strawberry Banana Smoothie and BlueGoodness rank highest with Santa's Little Helper, while Vanilla Chai Protein, and Passion Fruit are my personal favorites, but the taste test if far from over. If you know more weird organic things we should try as a part of our new healthier us for 2008, let me know. When we do something, we definitely do it all the way. :)
p.s. I DID create a monster. Santa's Little Helper suggested we make cream of broccoli soup tomorrow, as a good together project, and a healthy lunch. Who would have thought the guy who thought all soup came in cans would even think of that....and a healthy soup at that!
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