Warning: germs are bad.

Yesterday I took the plunge back into my private teacher-led pilates class. I dropped out at some point last winter and started going to the gym and doing a dvd at home instead to save myself some time. At that time every moment I was breathing air I needed to be finding something to post at Flogging Baby. I didn't have a full hour to focus on my abs, 30 minutes was all I could give.

But now I'm trying to be more balanced in my life, so I'm giving a full hour over to my abs and the most ridiculous faces I make when trying to make my abs perform as they're supposed to in pilates.

I bring up pilates because I have had a little cold since Monday and now I'm left with a dry hacking cough. If you get a dry hacking cough and you just did your first pilates class after a long break, you're going to cough and it will feel like someone's punching you all over your ribs and stomach. And it hurts.

While you're coughing you might be thinking how all of this could have been prevented if your kids would just wash their hands already.

Ironically, it's also National Handwashing Week, what better way to celebrate? Hacking up a lung while clutching your torso and cursing kids and their inability to keep their germs to themselves. Heh.

Don't let this be you.

Comments

[DinerGirl]

At least your cough is dry and hacking. My coughs are producing chunks of what looks like one can find in the frying pan of Semi-Homemade's Sandra Lee.

[ali]

ah...i love pilates. you've totally inspired me to go back and do them again.. :)

[hello insomnia]

30 minutes of ab attention is about 30 minutes more than I've given since I gave birth in May. I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

[CrankMama]

Kids are germ bags. Good thing they're cute (most of the time).

[kelley]

One of my absolute worst pet peeves is when my husband walks in the door from work and directly proceeds to reach his unwashed hand into the freezer for ice. We don't have kids yet, but I'm sure he harbors enough potential disease for a whole family.

(Whew..it took me over a year of reading your blog to work-up the courage to delurk, and hey, that wasn't so hard! Hi, Melissa -I'm a huge fan!)

[Candace]

So, do you find the pilates to be beneficial? I mean, obviously you wouldn't do it if you didn't, but I'm just wondering. I need to do SOMEthing to get this body of mine back in some semblance of "shape", peferrably one that doesn't resemble a pear.

[Melissa Summers]

I hate all exercise. All of it. I do it only so I don't get any fatter. That is all.

[Susan]

Damn kids and their damn germs. I'm supposed to be at a swank fundraiser tonight but an industrial size box of kleenex really didn't go with my outfit.

Pass the Nyquil, please.