Body by Tae Bo

I have loved Tae Bo, ever since I bought my first videos in the early 90's. I enjoy the dance, martial arts and high energy levels it takes me to. I love Billy Blanks' enthusiasm. His 1990's videos kicked my butt.

The red one, instruction, is a one or two time thing. Just learning the steps. I have no idea where it is anymore. The 8-minute workout is just too short for me to even think it works.

When I started working out again this year, I started with the 1/2 hour Basic and 1 hour Advanced, alternating them. The 1/2 hour one made me sweat and the hour one kicked my patoot.

After about a month, the half hour one just wasn't cutting it, so I bought Tae Bo Cardio, a 45 minute dvd to supplement. It was good, but the one hour VHS from the 90's still kicks its butt and mine.



I received gifts cards and bought "Tae Bo Ultimate." An hour and a half! An HOUR AND A HALF!

Right around minute 42 or so, Billy gets hysterical with this hip-hoppy, booty popping moves that make me laugh out loud. I LOVE IT. He is such a positive person. How could you not like him? But again, the 1.5 hour video still does not kick my butt like the hour one.

I alternate the 3 Taebo's (having dropped the half hour basic VHS, as it does nothing for me anymore) and one other dvd my sister sent me with some big-headed lady that dances and uses a band to tone arms and legs. It's a fun video though and a little break from Tae Bo.

Four workouts = 4 days a week.

Isabel wants to work out with me, so every so often, I let her do her own thing for about 6-10 minutes before putting her to bed.

Enjoy.

Eclipse

I finished book three of the Twilight series about a week ago and sadly, I needed to go grab it again to do this review. I read all three books so fast together, that they're blurring. Not a lot happens until the last 50 pages or so. Mostly it's Edward being his usual overprotective, a little bit condescending self (still love him, but he's too protective over Bella, to the point of condescension) and Jacob still acting 16 in the body of a giant, the two of them fighting over Bella. Not really much of a fight. Not so much a Jacob fan.

The last 50 pages or so have the main action of the book and it ends fairly quickly, wrapping up one of the threads/villains from the last book. There's confessions of love for more than one person, a wedding proposal and acceptance and not much more I can remember. This book, again, feels like filler for the last one. So far, book 1 has been my favorite.

Grandma/Arlene

Get Well Soon Grandma GG / Arlene!

She Gets Bored...

Do you guys remember that game called "Mr. Mouth?"

I bought this for Jacob when he was 3 or 4, so it's about 10 years old. We have almost all the pieces (just missing a few of the "flies.")

Isabel discovered this in the Harry Potter closet a while back and loves to play with it. It. Is. Annoying. The sound it makes as it's rotating? Ugh.

But, she gets bored, and can't quite fling the flies in the mouth. So...

.....yea.

The Other Bob

Spongebob # 2 went to the Maryland after my friend saw I had made the first one and how well it turned out.

This Bob slid a little to the left in transit (you can tell from the cake board), but he was a hit at the birthday party.