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About CrazieTown

Crazie Town is my take on what it's like to live in my large, dysfunctional, loving family. I hope you enjoy your visit!

Sweating Like a Glass of Iced Tea in August

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I’ve been working with a trainer for about a year.  Before I started, I had a long conversation with him about how I’m not motivated by yelling.  So, I really love him because he’s very sweet and gentle with me.

He’s the same one my niece goes to, but we’ve always gone at separate times.  Yesterday I went with her to her session.  What? The? Heck? was I thinking?

We bounced around from leg lifts while lying on a pool noodle to kettle bells to a contest to see which one of us could hold plank position the longest.  While my niece sang along to Madonna, I was huffing and puffing and sweating like a glass of iced tea in August.

At one point, as I balanced on the end of a weight bench doing a billion crunches, I looked up at my sweet, gentle trainer and said, “I hate you.”

Evidently, in trainer world, that’s the biggest compliment you can give.  It also means that the evil exercise gets added to my workout forever.

I’m Too Old To Have a Puppy

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A few months ago, Husband and I went to Wayside Waifs and picked out a cute little lethargic puppy that we named Orlee.  Just as we were checking out, they mentioned that she had a teeny tiny cold and to keep her on antibiotics for two weeks.

By the end of the two week medication period, the cute little puppy had grown legs as long as Usain Bolt and charged around our house and yard just as fast.

At this point, Orlee is 58 pounds of pure speed and muscle.  When she jumps up on me – which is every damn day – her paws reach my shoulders and she looks me in eye as if to say, “I’m in charge now.”

Yesterday, as I was in the yard on all fours weeding a flower bed, a Mack truck hit me head on.  I hurtled backwards, glasses flying and somehow, landed in a seated position, where staring at me from her own seated position was Orlee.  She wagged her tail, dipped her head and took off running in a wide circle ready for round two of the funnest game she’d found since she moved in with two old people.

Help?