Spinning class.

In honor of the Donald-meister, I took a 60 minute spinning class this morning, except for the fact that I don’t think my gym bought the Spinning TM bicycles, so they call it a cycle class. I walked into the class and it was clear I was not prepared. Everyone brought little gel seat protectors for their butts and water bottles and had bicycle shoes and little towels for mopping up their sweat.

I fiddled with the bicycle and I got on and realized that the person in the previous class had set the resistance so high that I couldn’t move the pedals at all. So I set the tension way, way down and then spent the class going up “hills” and crusing the “open road” pretty funny.

Jeremy is home!

Vince went to his first birthday party yesterday at Diamond Gymnastics. It was pretty funny. They had pizza and cake and a moon bounce. The whole place smelled like sweat.

Spending the night at the in-laws.

On Wed morning, Martin picked up Vince to go to school and then Jeremy and I enjoyed a little web-cam action (!) and I packed and packed and got ready to spend the night at KiKi and Capa’s house. I ran with Edda to the gym and did a BodyPUMP class, which is incredibly difficult and then picked up Vince from Bright Horizons.

Then we went to McDonald’s where they are giving away really lame stuffed dogs as the prizes in the Happy Meal. I did cave in and eat an extremly delicious Big Mac, I’ve been eating very lightly all week and after 2 days of aerobics I was needing some beef. I have to buy 2 happy meals these days as Edda eats her fair share of French Fries.

Then we got to Bard and waited for Josh and Jared to come over. They are cousins who live in Woodstock. Josh is a funny, funny man. During the years from 1994-1997, he was an extremely successful musician in Europe. I mean a record label with EMI, 3 number 1 albums, girls throwing underwear at him, limos and posh hotels, etc, etc. He had recorded a dance song for somebody and it became really, really popular. But he really is a blues, jazz kind-of guy. So it came and went and now he lives in Woodstock with his mom who has dementia and he has a charming 5-year-old boy named Jared who loves bikes.

We had pizza and we stayed over. On thursday, I went to the Rhinebeck hospital where their weekly playgroup occurs on Thurs mornings, we went and had a pretty good time. Went back to Bard for lunch with the in-laws and then home. Bob and Katherine are going to be gone for the weekend, so I have 4 children by myself tonight (Trudy, Ruby, Vince and Edda) and unfortunatly, Ruby has the runs. Smelly.

We had a playdate with Sammy and they have 2 TVs and TiVo! Hooray! I got to watch Oprah today. It featured a lady who is in jail for running over her husband after she found out he was having an affair.