Let's Get Moving - Day 5 of DBW
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 8:01AM
Friday 5/14 - Let's get moving. Exercise . . . love it or hate it? Do you have a regular exercise routine? Or do you have trouble finding your exercise motivation? How do you manage your insulin and food to avoid bottoming out during your workout? Today is the day to tell us all about your exercise habits, or lack thereof.
Exercise? Well I don’t have too much to say about it. Every time I try to start exercising I have a terrible low which makes me angry and not want to try the next day. It is bad enough just getting motivated but then to have diabetes show up and cut your workout in half sucks, royally.
So what I want to tell you about is the last day of my vacation, and yes it does actually tie in.
Those of you who read this silly little blog know that I recently went on a trip to Minnesota (the Holy land to Lutherans) to hang out with my buddy Scott. I was dreading the flight home not only because it meant the end of vacation but I cannot afford 1st class and my ass, is a first class kind of ass. In other words, the seats are snug and I hate feeling like Kevin Smith. Luckily the seat between me and the lady at the window was empty. The only empty seat on the plane! SCORE!
When I got home my buddy Matt picked me up from the airport and we grabbed a bite to eat before he took me home. When I got home I was surprised that my wife was already off of work and the kids were home too waiting to greet me. Man, I missed them.
After some quick greetings my wife asked me to help her move something out to the garage. I didn’t even think about how weird a request it was at the time but when I opened the back sliding door it all made sense.
My garage door was open and inside was “The Slimmons Gym.”
Remember last year when I told myself that I was going to clean out the garage and set up the gym, well like most things I got sidetracked, overwhelmed, and gave up. But over the weekend that I was gone vacationing and relaxing, my wife and kids cleaned, organized, and set up the gym.
The recumbent bike, treadmill, punching bag, and weight bench were all sitting on a great piece of gray carpet with boxes and stuff organized in the shelves all around. And get this, every box was CLEARLY marked and labeled. It was an OCDer’s dream! LOVE IT!
So now the plan is to begin an exercise routine as soon as Cinderella is over. The Musical is next weekend so my life outside of work is pretty much spent working on the show. But after that I will have no excuse.
This is just another example of the awesomeness that is my family. I do not know what I have done to deserve them in fact, I don’t think I do. That is what you call, Blessed.
Reader Comments (9)
I was so excited to hear about that (AND the empty seat on the plane - SCORE!)!
It made it that much less of a bummer that vacation was over. :-)
Wow! Jasmine and the kids are awesome. What a wonderful surprise. I guess they'd like to keep you around for awhile...
That is awesome!!!
George,
My ass is a first class kind of ass too! OMG that had me rolling!!!!
Oh I am so glad you blogged about this George. I saw some scattered tweets about the above, but didn't get the full picture. This is so amazing! What a fantastic surprise! Isn't it funny how that request to help your wife seemed perfectly okay at the time, but completely conspicuous in retrospect? Another "yay" shout out to Team Ninja!
What a great family and what a great gift!
Assercise is spreading like wild fire throughout the D-O-C!
Kelly K
So funny....if my husband and kids did that for me I would immediately meet with them with a retort of "What are you trying to say, I'M FAT????" Of course it would immediately be met with remorse and sadness sending me into a fit of chocolate and beer. So sad...
Your family IS awesome.
WOW! They hooked you up! Jaz and he kiddos rock! beside every good man is a great woman standing beside the both of you are 2 wonderful kids. You are truly blessed.
Oh how I love that your family set up the gym for you and surprised you with it!!!! They ROCK!!!