Mi vida

My new exercise program, snow, and my secret shame

The above items seem to have nothing in common but I am about to change all of that. First of all, I need to tell y'all about my new exercise program. It is a wonderful program that helps you burn calories without even breaking a sweat!! I exercised for 4 hours straight and was able to sit on my butt the entire time!! It's a fool proof method that allows even the laziest of people to burn calories. Y'all have to try it. I'm going to call it the Shiver System. Here's my secret : The heat in my car does not work!! I drove from Philly to New York (for 4 hours) in 20something degree weather. I was able to burn calories while shivering in my freezing cold car. I was able to burn even more calories when it started to snow and I had to turn the air conditioner on so I could use the de-froster. It was amazing!! I probably was able to burn off the calories in at least one candy bar, if not more. Just think of the calories I will burn off when it starts to get bitter cold!! I don't think I can lose with this exercise program. I did some research on the internet and found out that you burn 2-4 times as many calories when you are shivering versus just plain cold. Very interesting!! :). So on my drive up North I got to experience my first snow of the season. It was just a dusting but it was still snow!! It reminded me of the many drives through those mountains when I had scary driving conditions. I was driving from Philly to New York once (or on my way back???) and hit complete white out conditions. It was very scary. All you see is white snow and nothing else. I also remember times when there were accidents every couple of miles due to horrible road conditions. I have definitely had some of my scariest driving experiences on that road (Route 81 through Northern PA). So I have tied together my new exercise program and the snow. Now it's time to let you in on my secret shame. I was perseverating on my secret shame during a time of almost unbearable cold in my heatless car. It helped to occupy my time for a little bit anyways. There were many lanes closed due to construction on my trip. This is my secret: I have always wanted to knock over one of the cones/dividers that separate the two lanes. I feel like it would bring me a little bit of joy to see one of those orange menaces topple over. I was on 476 (the PA turnpike's NE extension) and it was completely deserted. I was planning
on knocking over my construction thingy and stopping to take a picture of it knocked over in the highway so I could document it for y'all. Well I lost my nerve around the same time that I lost my opportunity. Why did I lose my nerve you may ask? It's not like I would be doing anything illegal or anything. This is the reason I was nervous: I actually had a friend cause a few hundred dollars of damage to her car because she accidentally knocked over a cone and it got stuck underneath her car. I've also known people to knock over those cones and nothing happens to their cars. So apparently there is an art to knocking them over. I assumed at the time that I would be the one to get the cone stuck underneath my car or some random thing like that because that tends to be how my car carma works. I weighed my options and decided I better not push my luck because nothing has happened to my car in over a month (Although I did run into a stop sign the other day, causing my bottom light to pop out of its socket :)). So I chickened out although I did find myself with no cones in the road to knock over. After my mind was occupied by this nonsense for quite awhile, I returned to thinking about my freezing cold state. This made the miles and minutes seem endless (especially when I watched the mile markers go by at tenth of a mile intervals!!). I ended up stopping at a gas station to warm up and thaw out my fingers :). So I should go because this post is very bizarre and it is pretty late.

posted by Ninita @ 2:52 AM