Blog Brain Dump Friday Edition

I'm so proud of me! I made it to the gym 5 times this week! That's darn near impossible these days, what with my busy lifestyle and all. I also wanted to share an exercise that is rocking my world... at least it's rocking my quads, calves, buttocks, back and core! I love all in one exercises.

It's called the hip supine extension with leg curl. All you need is a stability ball to do this exercise. Rather than have me demonstrate for y'all, I found this nifty little video on Youtube that will show you how to do it. Or, you can just look at this picture and get the gist. Please do not hold me accountable if you perform this exercise and you cannot move your legs/butt the next day. I'm not a trainer and I do not pretend to be. I do know that with this exercise I can only do about 15 reps at a time because my backside is burning so bad I need to rest.

Speaking of the gym... on my WAY to the gym today, I got rear-ended at a red light. There was no damage and the girl was nice enough to pull over and at least speak to me about it. Ironically, she was employed with Progressive Insurance.

As a former claims adjuster with Farmer's Insurance, I can tell you with certainty that I saw many (many, many) "claims" of rear-ending accidents where the car had no damage, but the claimant insisted they were injured with whip-lash which required chiropractic care in addition to the "pain & suffering" settlement dollars needed to get back to 100%. (Rolling eyes... WHATEVER!) I can imagine if this accident had occurred in Beaumont by a claims shyster and they saw "Progressive Insurance" on the side of that vehicle, they would've thought they had hit the jackpot! If only I were kidding.... (sigh)

Here's a new blog to love: "My Favorite Paint Colors"
I love it because it shows the color of the paint, in a normal everyday room, with the paint color name and store where it was purchased. Okay, I just scanned this blog... SOME pictures are not normal everyday pictures. Some are clearly professionally taken, but still, I love the concept.

So, last night I served broccoli for dinner. We're not broccoli people. Never have been, never will be. But, Randy's been asking me to prepare a wider selection of fresh vegetables at dinnertime, so who am I to deny him broccoli? By the way, he loathes broccoli, yet he must be tired of green beans and corn... who knew? I can eat broccoli just fine, but I don't prefer it, unless it is boiled and covered with velvetta.

But, back to the story. We placed one SMALL piece of broccoli on each girls' plate. Elisan ate it first because she's like me... get the painful stuff out of the way first. She's no procrastinator when it comes to offensive food on her plate. Kyla on the other hand, waited to see if it would disappear on it's own. It did not.

So, she took her broccoli bite, chewed it up a bit, began crying and then spit it out into her water glass. Nice.

Broccoli. Never again. It's just not worth the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

We're in the market for a new microwave. Our current microwave is only 3 years old, but is nearly rusted completely through the bottom. And for the record.... It's a GE PROFILE model. Don't buy GE PROFILE! (Public service announcement.) So, Randy wants to buy a rust proof microwave with a stainless steel cavity. Just go ahead and tack on another couple hundred bucks for that feature.

Truth be told, we're kind of at that place where several of our appliances will be needing to be replaced soon. We're just waiting for our refrigerator to go out any day now. And our dishwasher... well, it's horrible (Maytag) and it's only 4 years old. Apparently we don't have good luck with appliances that take a beating around here.

Well, that's all for today's installment of blog brain dump. Y'all have a good weekend and wear sunscreen for goodness sakes if you're going to be outside this weekend!