Give me an ego boost

Sometimes when I’m feeling down on myself, I enjoy taking a kickboxing class. Sure I feel good afterward because I get a good sweat, and I also indulge in pretending I am inflicting injury upon Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar while roundhouse kicking and upper-cutting. (Meet the Duggars: 17 Kids and Counting on TLC)
But this week after returning to class from a lengthy holiday hiatus, I figured out the REAL reason why kickboxing makes me feel so damn good about myself. In fact, it’s not really the kickboxing. It’s this particular class that’s made up of the most non-athletic uncoordinated goons. I love them for their enthusiasm and earnest efforts, but mostly I love them because they trip up on the simple combos and stop for water breaks more often than I do.
This ego boost is also why I stopped taking the impossibly hard 800 calorie burning, can’t-walk-for-3-days-after class at a different gym.
A simpler way to feel good about myself would be to watch this video repeatedly, which, has still not gotten old and will probably last me well up to Valentine’s Day. PLEASE do yourself a favor and watch this:

jersey moment

Something sweeps over me when I visit New Jersey. In no other setting than speeding up the Garden State Parkway would I indulge in singing along to Britney Spears ‘Womanizer’ at maximum volume. It’s a phenomenon worth investigating. I think it has something to do with the surprisingly loud bass in my honda civic. Or maybe I just like Womanizer.

Oh no she didn’t.

Snowwwww

Since living in the Northeast I’ve grown accustomed to the phenomenon that is people going CRAZY when there is snow in the forecast. Supposedly we are going to get about 5 inches by tomorrow, and that brings people around here 5 inches closer to crossing the line into bat-freaking-crazy.
Not to mention, I work at a news station which totally contributes to hyping up the storm with 24/7 weather coverage and swooshing sound effects and flashy ‘Winter Weather’ graphics.
During the winter, my job gets substantially more annoying because it was someone’s bright idea to forward the ’storm/school closings’ phone number to my phone during my shift. So I am responsible for posting on the tv screen and website all organizations that want to close..or delay.. or have a parking ban.. or delay the first shift by 2 hours and ban parking at 4:12 p.m., what????
I have spoken to countless Superintendents, church pastors, etc. etc. in the past few hours.
My favorite has been the old man who wanted to cancel a particular evening church service.
“Sir, I only have pre-set statuses to choose from, so I don’t have the option to type that in.”
“Oh oh alright then.”
“How about I just put, ‘Closed.’”
“No. How about you have it say that the tabernacle is closed?”
“No, ‘tabernacle closed’ is not an option in my drop down list.”
-silence-
“Okay just put closed then.”
-click-

I wish it was in my power to close tabernacles…