Dear Santa, All I Want Is A Mini Cooper (with racing stripes)

(This is the mini I created - in Oxygen Blue - on the website.)

I don't know much about them, but they drive like a go-kart (seriously, it says so on the website), they look freaking cool, and they come with racing stripes. I love all things with racing stripes. Workout pants with racing stripes. Scarves with racing stripes. Shoes with racing stripes. There's nothing that doesn't look good with racing stripes. And sunroofs. And chrome gas caps.

Too bad it takes 6 months to deliver Minis. Seriously, 6 months (it says so on the website).

Apple is Genius

So I'm schilling for the company, but I don't care. I just downloaded iTunes new Genius toolbar which creates playlists from your music. You just have to select a song you like and it does the rest. Suddenly I'm listening to all those songs I forgot I had, and let me tell you, I have pretty damn good music taste (I swear I don't know how 3 Enya CDs ended up on my laptop). But it doesn't matter because the Genius toolbar ignores Enya. It has good taste too.

So here's my new workout playlist inspired by Sweet Emotion (inspired by Guitar Hero! Aerosmith!!!) as suggested by Genius.

Sweet Emotion----- Aerosmith
Purple Haze----- Jimi Hendrix
Money----- Pink Floyd
Iron Man----- Black Sabbath
Fly Away----- Lenny Kravitz
Crash Into Me----- Dave Matthews Band
Otherside----- Red Hot Chili Peppers
My Hero----- Foo Fighters
Livin' On The Edge----- Aerosmith
Like a Stone----- Audioslave
Sunday Bloody Sunday----- U2
Touch of Grey----- The Grateful Dead
Jamie----- Weezer
Somebody To Love----- Queen
Walk This Way----- Aerosmith
Ants Marching----- Dave Matthews Band
Foxy Lady----- Jimi Hendrix
American Woman----- Lenny Kravitz
Look What You've Done----- Jet
Soul To Squeeze----- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Girl----- Beck
Shine----- Collective Soul
Rock The Casbah----- The Clash
When I Come Around----- Green Day
Drive----- Incubus

(As you can see, Aerosmith works out too. Or uses heroin, but whatever.)

Badass at the YMCA

I WISH I was the Badass at the YMCA, but no it wasn't me. There was this guy in his 70s (think Sean Connery) wearing a black speedo swimming laps. He was there before me and he finished just about the same time I did. But while I flopped out of the pool, he jumped out and started doing stomach crunches. Badass style. Because that's how he rolls.

And now a few notes on the pool: 1) Swimming makes me happy. Happier than running laps because its more difficult to get sweaty. 2) I use this time to practice running codes in my head (you know code blue ER type codes) because it gets my heart rate up. 3) Someday through swimming and running codes in my head, I hope to be as svelte as the Village People. Then maybe I too could be a Badass at the YMCA.