Thursday, December 1, 2011

Forget gyms just EXERCISE!

Just because I don’t belong to a gym doesn’t mean I’m averse to exercise, it just means that in MY typical mental state I am not allowed to operate HEAVY machinery. No to stay fit, I want to get my ‘juice’ the old fashioned way by skulking back and forth between the refrigerator, recliner, and the litter box near the roach motel. I used to be in a lot better shape when I was young but once they invented zippers, TV remotes and the devil’s utensil – the ‘spork’, I got a little lazy and a tad flabby.

Oh sure since I type a lot and know my way around a can of aerosol cheese, you probably have guessed that I’m a world class athlete from wrists to fingerprints. Sadly it’s just the rest of my flesh that flaps and flags furiously in a stiff wind which makes me pause, not with concern, but to catch my breath. Apparently my wife worries about my cold, stiff, body too, since she routinely tells me where to ‘go’ to warm up, and she wants me to get off my coffin to increase my activity level and exercise routine.

Even during frigid times of the year I try to appease the spouse with a brisk walk together over the dark and cold Midwest tundra to Taco Bell for dinner. I don’t mind following carrots as long as they taste like tacos, and anyway you’ve never lived until you boot your way through recently thawed permafrost into a two inch layer of muddy ‘Mr. Ma-GOO’! Who needs a hot, expensive & sweaty gym when the great outdoors will suck off your shoes and offer-up 10 pound ankle anchors for free? After all bulky Hulks like me need all the help I can get, to lift and separate my Frankenstein gate, and enhance my already cartoon-creature image.

Like satanic thoughts, most of my daily fitness routine is thrust upon me involuntarily anyway, as I try to keep up with the stuff that makes trouble, breaks double, or takes a fall on top of my ‘un-loved’ Amityville shack. Inside this cavern, there is always a cold darkness stalking me, but that might be because I’m just ‘bats’ by pulling the shades and setting the thermostat too low? When it comes to graveYARD work I am taunted by millions of demon leaves and howling, windy, tree-things which need bunching, crunching, and perpetual decomposition. Now you can see I don’t really need to be banished to a gym to get in shape - I just need to be regularly EXORCISED!

8 comments:

  1. I'm with you but now what do I tell my Zumba and Yoga teacher!

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  2. Oh I need to get back to the gym.....but why?

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  3. I keep my jaw in shape by eating as much as I can.

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  4. You are so entertaining! I wholeheartedly agree that zippers are the downfall of us all.

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  5. Thanks for stopping by today. I was wondering where you been! Hey, I get my exercise going up & down the stairs doing laundry, then shopping, carrying bags in & then putting everything away! Now that's a job in itself! Cooking & Washing Dishes I know you're just standing there, but at least I'm not sitting on my duff! Hey, I belong to the health club, but I haven't been there in a while do to a few probs. Had a bad reaction to some medication, but I'll be going back because water aerobics is fun. Well, is your tree up? There's some exercise for ya. Go put your lights up outside! Happy Holidays my friend & come back soon! It reminds me to come over and put a smile on! Have a great week.

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  6. "from wrists to fingertips", is that what you said? :-) I, too, have the kinds of hands built from too much typing and not enough beer-bottle opening...

    Pearl

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  7. Henceforth, I will refer to the spork as "the devil's utensil". Love it!

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  8. So you're saying you don't Jazzercise?

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