Some Things I Don't Understand...

Why hasn't my Nuun Hood to Coast Relay Application video gone viral? Dude...that was my ticket outta here! My husband was going to retire on the fame and fortune we were going to reap! I understand the popularity of the little girl playing with the dead squirrel, but if videos showcasing the popping of the world's hugest zit (not even technically a zit, more like a boil) and people trying to pogo-stick on a treadmill go viral, why not a video of weird, semi-softcore-esque running-and-squirting by an almost-50-year-old lady to an early 90's one-hit wonder dance tune? Hmmm... wait...don't answer that.

Why doesn't the speed with which one can elliptical translate directly to the speed one can run on the ground? Sort of late to the whole 'machine' game, I have recently discovered the elliptical trainer...and the fact that you can change the little read-outs to see stuff like calories burned (which I don't care about), total strides (holy jeez, that number is kind of scary after 70 minutes), and distance (whoa! cool!). I just wish that I could maintain that same intensity and speed on asphalt. Any physicists out there ...or whatever smart, scholarly types might know the answer to this? It probably has something to do with impact, right? Or maybe friction? I'm grasping at terms here...help me out, smart people!

Why did I buy this stupid, plastic bouncy ball? Was it because my 3-year old wrestled it out of the giant wire cage in which it was trapped (against my protestations) and then proceeded to bounce it all over the place (again, against my protestations), dirtying it all up? And why did this guilt me into buying it instead of gross me out about Target's cleanliness?

I think it was because this cuteness was irresistible.

Did you ever buy the big plastic bouncy ball? What color? How long before that sucker popped or was deemed off limits because the bouncing all over the house drove you insane?


Do you travel as fast on the real ground as you do on the elliptical trainer?


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