(Kick) Mambo No. 5
Lets discuss my coordination. Specifically: my lack of. I decided to take a step class tonight, thinking that maybe, JUST MAYBE, my coordination would come back.
HAHAHAHAHA.
Oh, I wish I had a funny story to go along with this, like I broke my foot, or took myself out, or knocked myself unconscious against the step. But no, alas I managed to stay upright and not kill myself, although I did come close.
No, I just found myself standing aimlessly scratching my head wondering what the fuck just happened and how i ended up here? (seriously, how DID i end up here? It was in a part of the gym I NEVER KNEW EXISTED. And i’ve been going there 2 years. Who knew?) That ever happen to you? Where you get so lost and you’re just kind of flopping around like a fish out of water while the woman with the microphone is screaming out bogus words that mean nothing to you? Like kick mambo, or over and turn hop. (i could NEVER get that one)
Then I got the brilliant idea to take yoga right afterwards, because my coordination was so stellar in this class, I figure why not add in my spectacular balance moves?
Oh yeah, I have none of those either. I did much better than I did at the step class, but I also was the rockstar who was falling over all the time. I was being watched by the teacher the entire time and I just know she went home to her boyfriend and is right this minute talking about that clumsy girl who was in her step class AND her yoga class.
Dumbass.
But I’m proud of myself for doing two hours at the gym tonight doing two classes i’ve never done before and while I looked like a prize idiot for those two hours, I certainly won’t be able to walk tomorrow and I sometimes like that feeling.
Don’t worry, tomorrow I will be ruining all work I’ve done today over tequila shots and margaritas with Max to celebrate the fact that I DONT HAVE CANCER WOOO!! (insert big happy dance here) ANNNDDD the fact that me and my blog swap partner, who is beyond awesome btw, are going to totally rock this blog swap. I just found her and she’s pretty much all that and a bag of chips. Why does this involve drinking tequila? YOU WILL SEEEE!
WOOOOOO! for no cancer!!
YAY! FUCK COLPOSCOPIES! NO CANCER WOOO! And GIRLFRIEND, you are speaking my language with the margaritas – tequila shots all around!
Congrats for trying new things. Don’t let other people’s opinions damper your enthusiasm. Live to to the fullest.
NO CANCERRRR wooooo…yes definitely lots of margaritas just for that
ps. I’m not much into step class, it made me looklike an idiot too.
I too am too clumsy for words. I think it’s genetic, seeing as my mom would fall off every chair she ever sat on, too. SAD.
Excellent – yay no cancer. I go through those tests too and I know the relief that comes with it. I’m also the clumsiest… Fun times.
Step class is the hardest class I’ve ever taken. I used to think that I was super coordinated with my kickboxing, but yeah, I’ll never do step again. And YAY for an awesome day with awesome news!
Hooray no cancer!
I went to a club for a couple of years and it was only on one of my last visits there that I found a ’secret room’ on the second level, that everyone else seemed to know about. I don’t know where I’d been, but it obviously wasn’t on the same planet as everyone else!!
Yay on the no cancer front! I’m sure that’s a relief!
I’m also incredibly clumsy. The boy cannot figure out how someone so athletic so be sooooo poorly coordinated. I tell him the adrenaline of sports gives me coordination because really, I’m good!
And good for you for trying new classes! Going the first time is always the most awkward, then after that it’s always an option.
i’m so glad to hear your test results came back ok.
and yay for new exercise classes!
ha, i remember when i first took step class – forced into the whole thing by a friend who would be teaching the class. i was AWFUL. he said he appreciated that i always did the “beginner” steps, so that other people could have someone to watch…. maybe because i couldn’t master the “advanced” class, grr.
fast forward to 5 years later, when i totally twisted my ankle in step class(bad, too). god damn, i’ve taken classes while drunk/hungover for how many years and NOW i sprain my ankle? but that’s the beauty of step – any time you take a break or find a new teacher, you get to look like an idiot! =) but i look even worse in hip-hop cardio…
and yay!! on the no cancer news
Um, video??
come on! We all wanna see the mambo skills!
Hurray! Congrats on a clean bill of health!
If I have Lou Bega stuck in my head all deay, so help me god…
Why would you ask why it involves tequila? Doesn’t everything?
SO glad your test came back negative!! And I’m super uncoordinated too, but I love taking classes at Broadway Dance Center!! So much fun.