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(that would be zumba)

so today is my day off, since i had a meeting i couldn't miss yesterday. so today is the other half of my weekend. so i spent the morning at the gym. i know this could not sound worse to some people, but i love it. i have so many classes to choose from to break up the monotony of working out inside. i started out with some pilates. i've never been a huge fan of pilates, but i wanted to give it another chance. well. i did. and i'm still not a huge fan of pilates. give me some yoga please.

then i had about an hour to myself. also enjoyable.

as i made my way downstairs for zumba i hear a loud chatter coming from the area right outside the studio. wow! zumba at 11am is popular! who knew? it was full! but so fun. i used to take zumba at a community center in mexico city last year when i first got there. ($10 pesos for one class or maybe 15...regardless) there were quite a few changes this time around, but the essential: fun was definitely still there. difference #1 the instructor was a male. i was like i can move like that because this is just the way they dance in mexico. so i pretended to be confident and didn't look in the mirror. i just smiled and laughed at myself when i'm sure i looked ridiculous. i looked around the room and my buddy who was on my relay team in a different class was there. there were three of us on the team and we won every single race. he carried our team.
there were a couple spanish songs, which i enjoyed attempting to translate as we moved along, but really it was just a fun way to start the day. would i only take zumba and call it a work out? probably not, even though for a part of one song we were literally jumping, touching the ground and jumping as high as possible, but i still enjoyed myself.

errand time. and i was ready. after spending the majority of the day sunday with a group of my friends, which i definitely needed, it was time to get things done for the week.

friday i think i'm going to get the day off because i'm way over on my hours for this pay period, after having several late nights last week, so i think i'm going to make a trip to the shedd... i haven't been there since freshman year.

yesterday started out rough, you know how life can be sometimes. i stood on the el and closed my eyes with my music and tried to talk myself into a good mood before work. i was sort-of successful, but then i got to work and decided to check my email and had an email from my friend, which just made me laugh out loud and totally made me feel better. then i was ready for the big meeting and ready for the day. thanks nez!

so my tv is still not in service. i'm not a big tv watcher, i didn't have a tv at all the whole year in mexico, but i have noticed i've had time for other things without the tv functioning. i finished a book in pretty record time. i'm listening to more pandora: matt & kim please. and the library seems to know and 2 movies i requested came in this week. not so bad. and my parents dropped it in the mail yesterday so maybe i'll get it thursday. just in time for comedy night =) and laundry night.

wow what a jumble.
i'm going to make it even more jumbled. this is a fun little video.


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