My Least Favorite Things!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

No one has ever accused me of having a voice like an angel, or even like Julie Andrews in the movie, Sound of Music.  In fact, last Christmas my oldest daughter bought me a Karaoke machine and no one will help me set the thing up.  I begged again this Christmas and the two people who reside in this house with me told the two people who got to fly back to Oregon after Christmas to please not help me or else.  Even without my microphone, I sing everyday and I love to make up songs.  Usually, I belt them out in the morning while I am getting ready for the day.  This works well for me when it is just Fudge and Vern in the house, but on the weekends I have to sing through the pain of the audience all but throwing rotten tomatoes at me and heckling me with comments like, “will you please shut up…your voice is so shrill I think you just broke my eardrums…Hayley, check outside. Is there an animal dying?....God in heaven, make it stop.”   Oh well, all good artists know you have to keep working at your craft.  Well, last night the lyrics to my next song came to me while I was sleeping and I wanted to write them down before I forgot them.  Please feel free to sing them along with me to the tune of My Favorite Things from the Sound of Music.

 

My Least Favorite Things

 

Raindrops on muddy paws and poop bags and mittens

Bright yellow throw up and warm hissing kittens

Brown paper packages with urine samples inside

These are a few of dog things I abide

 

Cream colored messy dogs and crisp winter days

Walks in all weather and rough housing called play

Wild geese that fly above and taunt my poor dogs

Sometimes prompting my least favorite jogs

 

Dogs in all colors with their long golden tethers

Cause me to issue corrections and swear like a mother

Silver white snowballs that cling to their fur

These are a few of the things I endure

 

When the dogs fight

When the pee stains

When I want to cry

I simple remember I love these two dogs

And then I don’t ask myself “why?”

Feel free to add a stanza or two because singing really is a great stress reliever, even if you don't sound like Barbra Streisand.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Cheryl and Laurie, LOL.

[Leslie and Halas]

Just think!  We can do burpees together on the cruise!  Me in my burpee socks and t-shirt, you in your burpee socks and orange bikini.  They can't kick us off in the middle of the ocean.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

LOL...my trainer actually assigned me 1000 burpees on the last cruise. I was supposed to do some every day. I did ZERO. What could he do? I was on vacation. LOL  I might have to get a green bikini to go with my green socks.

[Leslie and Halas]

Wasn't it a 5-day cruise?  That's a lot of burpees.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Yes, he is insane :) I just smiled and thought, "ain't gonna happen." He was counting the weekend, too.

[F, Calla & Luca]

So Laurie, you are doing exercises you hate with an insane instructor so you can get yourself Photoshopped into a bikini and now just who is crazy? Please ask my brother.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Leave my brother out of it. LOL I actually do like the trainer. Just don't tell him. It makes me lose my credibility when I tell him I hate him :)

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

OK since yoga and walking my dog are my daily routine, I have apparently thankfully missed the burps trend so I wanted to see what physically fit trendy people are doing.  Here's what I found ...  

Burpees. The name's not pretty, but the results sure are!

A combination of squat, push-up, and vertical jump, the burpee has a somewhat nasty reputation for being the exercise of choice in prisons. But you should consider adding burpees to your routine for the same reasons inmates might: The burpee requires no equipment and can be done just about anywhere. 

Ready to add more body weight exercises to your arsenal? You'll find some great ideas in the prisoner workout.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Oh they can't?  Not so sure : )

[Leslie and Halas]

I can swim, but not that long.  Maybe I should wear pants.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Good thinking.

[Sheila & Finnley]

Burpees... fartleks ?? What the heck ever happened to jumping jacks, and situps? Ooooh, or that machine with the belt that went around your butt and shook the jelly out of you ? Now THAT would make Burpees and Fartleks !! LOL