On Demand

I'm babysitting Cori today.

No worries about Belle with kids. The first few times the kids came over, Belle was very hyper. Now, Belle knows them so she can be calm around Cori... when she lets him. But let me tell you, the amount of abuse that girl inflicts upon Belle, that Belle patiently takes, makes me realize that Belle will be just fine around kids.

Ever seen Tiny Toom Adventures with that little girl, Elmyrah, I think was her name, and how she "loved" all the animals and she would "squeeze them and hug them and kiss them and make them all her own..." yeah, Cori could have given her a few lessons.

No kidding, Cori's hands are all over Belle's snout and Belle just lays there, with a kiss now and then.

And when Cori gets so overwhelming, Belle just goes upstairs to lay down for a little bit. Its awesome.

In any case (subject change!!!), we just swapped out our satelite for cable. Cable or Satelite, don't care much, but they do have some side effects.

The bad news? Tivo has been demoted to the upstairs bedroom for the time being. I miss my Tivo, but I know it is only temporary, and I promise my Tivo that I will visit upstairs occasionally.

The good news, we get a DVR that records in hi-definition, and that can record two programs at a time. (When the new Tivo box comes out, we will bring Tivo back downstairs, most likely, unless we fall in live with our new DVR, which I don't really see happening. Tivo is my second love.)

The other good news is that Cable has "On-Demand," and it includes "On Demand Exercise," which has a whole unch of diferent exercise programs - short ones (10 minutes) long ones, cardi, aerobics, kick boxing, yoga, pilates, dance, you name it. Its really cool!

So today, I decided to play around with it. First, I picked a cardio dance mini (10 min) work out. (I thought Cori would like dancing with me.) The workout itself was challenging and fun and I enjoyed doing it, but Cori wasn't into it so much. But she was occupying herself torturing the dog, so after I finished the first workout, I decided to do a mini yoga workout.

Again, I enjoyed the workout... and so did Cori! She was more interested in doing the yoga with me then the other one! Well for a while anyway, until she decided to just come and sit on top of me while I finished the workout. Yeah, the extra weight helped burn more calories, I'm sure!

Anyway, I know its weird, but when its so easy to access the workout (just like picking a show to watch on, sigh, tivo...) I am more motivated to do it... if I can sit from my lazy ass and click it on, rather then have to get up and walk all the way over to the dvd case, set up the system to play a dvd which involves pushing, you know, like 3 buttons, putting the dvd in, sigh, what a pain (stop laughing!!!)

Plus its new stuff, and so many options, so I can try new stuff each time!

It is pretty cool!

Anyways, Cori is on the other room screaming, "Belle!" and Belle is in here pleading with me with her big brown puppy dog eyes...I best go intervene.