G, B, U and Then Some

THE GOOD - 

I LOVE my Wii Fit Plus!  It is such a silly little machine but I find it delightful.  It cracks me up to have it give me advice like "Soak in a lukewarm bath before bed to ease muscles" followed by "Of course I don't do that myself because it would be bad for my circuitry."  It waves to me.  I wave back.  I get up and Wii every morning.  I can't do the running in place games (b/c apparently it takes more coordination to run in place than to run forward through the world - who knew?) BUT the rhythm boxing, yoga, and strength training rock my socks.  (I have yet to be able to finish the push up, side plank x 10 exercise.  Zero points for that one!)  I love that it keeps track of my time, that I can customize my own routines, and that there are games to play for improving balance.  It is amazing how much I'm learning about keeping my core stabilized by playing games.  The boys have all made Mii's (= the Wii word for avatars).  So every morning my teenage boys (who would rather be smothered by spiders than go to a step aerobics class) are right there on screen bopping along with me.  Iain gave himself a blond beard and ski cap, Sheumais has red dreads, and Angus is sporting cool sunglasses - while they clap along and jam out to the cheesy Wii step music.  I TOTALLY LOVE MY Wii!!


THE BAD -

I'm swamped.  School was either delayed or outright closed all week until today.  It was super having everyone home, but I got terribly behind in my work and my studies.  I feel like I'm totally in over my head today - but it's so much better than any time I've ever felt this way before.  I look at my "to do" list - and everything on it is something I want to do!  (Welllll - total honesty here.  I really should run some errands but I punted that off the list before I even wrote it down because no way am I voluntarily going out in this crappy weather.  Other than that, I love everything I have to do!) 

THE UGLY - 

OMG!  What is this scary little picture all about?  It is an ad on my Facebook and I don't get it.  At all.  Who is this poor creature and what on earth does it have to do with credit card debt or recession relief?  I absolutely will never, ever, EVER understand marketing.  Does this picture make some people want to click?  (Please, oh please, oh please - don't let me meet those people.)  It makes me want to run screaming.  Is this a photoshop wackjob?  Is it real?  And heavens to murgatroyd, if it is real - why, oh why, oh why would they put it in an ad?  On my computer?  Where I could see it?  I just had a horrid thought - you don't think that the computer somehow chose that ad specifically for me based on something else typed on the page or in my profile, do you?  Egad - if targeted cybermarketing came up with this for me then I am over the internet.  OVER IT. 

TODAY I LOVE:  Talking to my Wii when it talks to me!

 **EDITED TO ADD**

I had to do something to get that ad off my Facebook page but when you click the X to close it, nosy ole FB wants to know why?  Why didn't you like this ad?  Grrr.  The click down menu did not have "Ads with trolls for no reason scare me".  My options were things like misleading, offensive, irrelevant, uninteresting, and repetitive.  So I clicked "offensive" and this is the ad they replaced it with:

Apparently only June Cleaver types are offended by scary little human-pig creatures that have no bearing on the advertisement posted.  Sigh.  I think I'll go check on the roast I have in the Crock-Pot.  (I wish I were kidding.  My edge creds are SO in the toilet.)