Bahamas here we come!

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This is the phone call I got at work today: 

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"Babe, I won a trip to the Bahamas!"

 Me: "Say what?"

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"Yeah, they just called and I got a free trip to the Bahamas"  

Me: "Who called?"

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  "Majestic ~ they pay for everything, except for the flight there. They need our credit card number for that."

Me: "Hold on a sec, they said you won a trip and then they asked you if you had a credit card?"

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"Yeah, why?"

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I used to wonder WHO falls for these type of scams.

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 Now I get to sit beside him on the couch every night.

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This is good for me?!

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New year's resolutions and all that... someone finally convinced me to take up Pilates. Not that this is a new phase or anything, I know it's been the "cool thing to do" for a while now.

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After all, it's all the rage for the Sex and the City stars, so it must be THE workout to try. I have been hearing the same advertisement coming out of people's mouths: "It elongates the muscles, it lengthens the muscle, you get a lean long muscle...bla bla bla"

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Enough already. When my work decided to throw a Pilates class pro bono in our lunch hour, I thought I may as well try it.

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Let me be the first to tell you, Pilates sucks! 

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There's absolutely no grace to doing Pilates. I see these women in infomercials - smiling from ear to ear as they effortlessly hold their pose. 

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 Nobody informed me that Pilates moves at the speed of snails going backwards. That's right. Everything is in slow motion. It should be for senior citizens only. 

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Except for that other part that no one informed me about: Pilates is really tough!

 I'm no biker chick, but I thought I could tough out one class of working out. Turns out I was wrong. Holding those crazy poses, for what seems like forever makes me sweat and puff like the magic dragon himself. 

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Oh yeah, I totally took a beating. And the kicker ~~ After all this talk about elongating and lengthening muscles, I just checked, and it totally didn't work. I'm still 5'3". 

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So not going back.