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.

How the Wii Sucked Us In

After a little vacation from the blog due to a nasty virus/trojan infection, I'm back! (Thanks to the good folks at bleepingcomputer.com who graciously offered their freeware to rid the internet world of another infection.)

So here's what I did with my free time: Guitar Hero! Aerosmith version!!! (As modeled by Joy).


Joy's so obsessed that she bought Guitar Hero even though the Wii was only on loan. And now she's going to buy a Wii. Nintendo doesn't even need to advertise anymore, just let people borrow a Wii for a week and the credit card numbers will come.

UPDATE: In the interest of truthiness, Joy wants me to clarify my post. 1) I have played more Guitar Hero than Joy (true). 2) Joy is obsessed with the Wii, but then so am I - I just don't have the money to buy one (true). 3) I'm a better Guitar Hero than Joy (very very true). 4) As Joy pointed out - no one reads my blog anyway, so none of this matters (not true, but she's jealous of my Guitar Hero prowress).

Christmas Decorating for Apartment Dwellers

So my tree is just slightly bigger than my television and has to jockey for space with our entertainment center, "dining room" table, and our bikes, but I think it looks fabulous. I finally figured out what to do with all those cheesy things I buy while traveling: stick them on my tree! I've had some great reminisces while decorating this year.

Name Obsession

Just because it's a work night and I'm totally exhausted, I'd thought I'd link to something I found interesting. Those who know my family know that we have a few favorite topics of conversation, one of which is totally awful baby names and creative spelling. The other of which is "when is Aunt Kelli moving back to Utah?"

So anyway...here's a look at names. I especially like the Dutch names.

Fun Fact

So I read this really cool article about teaching people CPR. Apparently, if you do CPR to the tune of Stayin' Alive, people remember how to do the procedure with the correct compression rate and depth (100 times per minute, 1.5 - 2 inches deep). One of the paramedics at the hospital told me that her instructor taught them to the tune of Another One Bites the Dust. I think that's unnecessarily morbid.

Someone helpfully created a video for You-Tube. Best line: "Feel the ribs a breakin, you gotta keep your faith and keep 'em alive, keep 'em alive."

Makeover!

Since I will probably never make it to What Not to Wear, I decided to do my own Christmas makeover. Well here you have it: what I look like with makeup. And a Sarah Palin wink.

(Bonus - I also learned to dance!)