Lauren is doing good well

Inspired by the new year and the new president, I have embarked on a quest to better myself, or at the very least make myself a few degrees more awesome. I don’t do resolutions because, really, I don’t need the guilt, but I suppose I’ve set, oh what do the lady mags call them… goals?
I guess they’re not so much goals as nebulous ideas of what to accomplish, so I will call them goalishes. (Not to be confused with goulashes, the adorable but ridiculously-impractical-in-Arizona rubber boats.)

I know there are probably thousands of these kinds of blog posts floating around this time of year (though by now many are probably long gone and broken), but I suppose putting them out here for my two-person audience makes me more accountable? Ok, there, I justified writing about this.

In that theme of completely uncreative I present the “work out more” goalish.

Progress so far: I’ve actually done pretty decently. I’m doing yoga at the YMCA, where I prove to myself on a weekly basis how inflexible I am. However, I am up there with the little crazy dancer girls in the class when it comes to balance stuff. Wee! Look at me on one leg! I also have made it to two (count ‘em TWO) classes in a row for BodyPump, an uber peppy weightlifting class full of Scottsdale moms. Doesn’t anyone wear soft, larger T-shirts from a past event/school anymore? No one will know that I was in Irving’s orchestra or that I went to Las Vegas if I am wearing a matching tank top outfit! Oh well, I just huff and puff in the back and slip out when they are talking about their kids.

On a side note, Saturday mornings must be when YMCA kids’ basketball games go on, because the place is a tiny sea of purple and orange (go Suns!) jerseys when I’m leaving. And I must say, it’s pretty cool to see how many girls are there attacking the treat table after their game. When I played for an awkward year in the YMCA league, I think there were maybe two other girls who played. So hurray!


(I realize that posting an LOLCats pic is also uncreative, but I like to keep things consistent!)