A year ago my wife bought a DVD called Jillian's 30-Day Shred, an exercise burst of about 25 minute's length, for my Christmas present. I've used it every other day for the last year, and have lost 16 pounds, and tightened up a bit. About three days ago it stopped working. I told this to my fifth grade daughter, who said I should wash the DVD in warm water, and that it will return to working condition.
I did this, and to my amazement, after thirty frustrating attempts to get the thing to load, the washing did the trick. First time it loaded. Let this serve as a tip to my readers. Never say this blog is superfluous. We provide handy tips, too, from fifth graders, who are the future of America. Wash your DVDs in warm water (not hot, not cold), and dry them carefully.
A DVD is a kind of halo, and it needs to be re-baptized now and then.
By the way, the tattoo on Jillian Michaels' ankle is of her guardian angel.
21 comments:
that woman is not only deceptive she is dangerous
i'd say stay away from here and don't let your kids go near that dvd
jh
stay away from her
you can visit here
anytime you want
wycliff jean (he's the guy i was trying to remember) he says 2 million people need to migrate from haiti
i say give them all the new hotels in new orleans for a few years
kirby i've discerned that almost all this body focus stuff is soft porn like figure skating and synchronized swimming - it is an overbearing emphasis on appearances
and i think quite destructive of moral fabric
i mean is it that much different than the pics curtis displayed which at least pretend or presume to be "art"
this stuff is just garish and superficial body appearance stuff -- very delusional
jh
JH there is a health component. You live longer if you are slimmer and in shape.
BMI is very closely correlated with longevity.
So yes it's very very different than the pics Curtis put on his blog last week of underaged children in provocative poses.
Being in shape is healthy.
Even trees and plants need exercise.
But kids don't need to be looked at in that way. It's unhealthy.
but suggesting to people especially children that there is some sort of ideal shape or look and you can attain to it and thereby be happy is a horrible illusion it's like republican politics in a can
sarah palin could do the same pose and a lot of people would find it disgusting
what are we to think
to me these hyperinshape women are the living expressions of amazons they throw spears and shoot arrows they even shoot guns now i don't know if eventually they cut off one breast in order to show their true prowess but they are dangerous
and it's really unnecessary
if you really look at the socially acceptable ways in which womens'bodies are portrayed you'd have to conosider the possibility that it is porn it has a has a thin wrap and it is marketed with zeal
naked is not in itself a bad state
yet i agree that
it should be a very private and personal state
it's what i detest about cameras in general
their pervasiveness i find it nauseating
my eyes are sick with modern imagery
jh
trees get their exercise from dancing in the wind
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Mr. Olson, you can also clean your DVDs or CDs with Windex or a similar cleaner. Remember to wipe from center to edge with a soft cloth, and get all dust and debris off before you wipe, or rinse off with warm water and let it sit somewhere to dry.
If it gets really bad someday, you can get a cd/DVD cleaner that basically uses rubbing compound and a wheel that does the radial rubbing for you.
Please do keep exercising. Ignore JH.
Paul, this is quite helpful. Is it dirt that gets on them that makes them non-functional, or is it a spiritual malaise that gets into the DVDs?
God did this weird thing where he linked being healthy and looking attractive. So it's good to live healthy, and therefore look hot.
It is not, however, good to use shortcuts/unhealthy practices to Appear good-looking by using technology or longtermishly dangerous shortcuts.
That's why, as consumers, we have to be smart and well-educated and eschew get-hot-quick schemes.
Sometimes, legitimate practices sell themselves as get-hot-quick schemes just so people will buy them, because people are silly and stupid and don't like to think much.
It sounds like the program you follow, Kirby, is just that - a healthy thing that has to sell itself, so it promises to make you hot fast.
But it seems like it's just a long-term, medium-impact workout that probably makes you healthier and happier (yay endorphins!)
Bottom line is,
If you eat well, exercise, and maintain good hygiene, you will look better. You will also be happier and smile more. So exercise just makes you more attractive all the way around...Yay!
Brett, I've been hovering at 170 for about six months. I decided to drop to 153 during my sabbatical, just to see.
Tonight I ate only a 100 calorie bag of popcorn and a cup of yogurt.
I think I should slip back into the 160s tomorrow morning for the first time in ten years.
I think it's marvelous.
And I wouldn't be afraid of Jillian , JH. she's a hard-working Italian Catholic with an angel tattoo.
By the way, are tattoos theologically defensible?
Do Popes and Bishops, generally, have tattoos?
Of all the ministries in all the 1200 Christian denominations in America, which one is most likely to have ecclesiastical authorities with tattoos?
I would guess it's the Episcopalians or the Unitarians, but I could be wrong.
Not knowing you and not wanting to let you know too much about my family life, I will not say something like "it's careless, stupid people who leave the damn things out on the floor or on top of the TV where they can get scratched instead of handling them properly and returning them to the *&^%ing case they belong in."
Yes, I cleaned my vinyl after every play back in the day :-)
As for spiritual malaise, I am a scientific materialist, so I don't know what that means. I have trouble believing Jillian could ever have a spiritual malaise anyway.
Good luck on the road to 160.
she looks like a lesbian to me
not that i would know actually what one looks like for i've never in all my 53 yrs met a lesbian that i know of but this chick looks like what i expect most lesbians must look like
and as far as i can tell they're ruining everything
brett there are happy people in all sizes and shapes sad ones as well
the national council on health now includes obesity as top shelf health concern
mental illness has no status whatsoever
the nazis believed that an ideal body shape was not only possible but imperative for the health of the master race...they did massive propaganda
here in good ole ahmuhrikah we do fascism with a smile...it's all quite innocent really
more time for leisure
that's what this country needs
more peter paul reubens girls
that's what we need
jh
Exercise makes you happy. It releases endorphins. It's not necessary, or sufficient, but neither is playing the banjo.
Though playing the banjo does add to ones happiness.
Just like exercise.
Of course, exercise as part of an activity - skiing, hiking, playing basketball, etc. - includes a lot of other happy-making variables. But straight exercise fits into American lifestyles more, and helps you get more enjoyment out of play activities.
Exercise also makes you live longer and look prettier.
the young men coming into the monastery are sporting tattoos these days...i think it should be verbotten...but what the hell do i know
i wrote a song once that alludes to a tattoo a very specific one on a woman which i was never permitted to see i only can dream a litle dream only the lonely got them lonesome heartsick blues
i notice everyone is washing their hands these days constantly all this hand washing purell at every entrance the puritans are behind this i think they want to purify everything perhaps it's the only things the repubicans really ever accomplished soemhow the got the whole nation to start rubbing their hands with purell at every turn and they're interested in E D or so i hear isn't dole the international spokesman for ED or is he just on the dole what a pineapple that guy thick skinned yellow on the inside but sort of sweet if you can sink your teeth into what he's saying i mean how could you mistrust a guy like that
maybe what obama should say is
you know i want to be up front with you people i want you to know i am not in control of anything and nothing is determined by what i say or do i am simply a monitor i watch what's going on and that's all anyone can do i can make statements but who listens the world is in a top spin hang on it's not near as bad as it was 4 yrs ago but it is spinning
the world is up to you folks the world is up to you folks to do what is necessary to make life good for the people around you
with that in mind i'm starting to invest in large horse ranches in eastern colorada wyoming and montana which will be run by haitians and in a matter of 5 yrs we will return to providing mail service by way of pony express and we are desgning high tech wagon trains for people to move about in by real horse power and everyone will grow their own garden and the fuel produced by the pony expreess and the wagon trains will feed the gardens and the haitians will become the new cowboys and cowgirls of the west that's the new policy bring 3 million haitians to the midwest and mountain west
country music could use some help these days i'm thinking it may come from haiti
i'm babbling
or
could you tell
long walks
everyone should just give up on time constraints and take long walks
instead of watching dvdeez of vibrant and bouncy sexually suggestive health smiling tyrant amazons
people should get out and walk
and none of this sporting the big stride butt improvement walks either - no - leisurely walks that take all morning or all afternoon or all evening
seems like a lot of girls are very butt and boobs and abs conscious these days
i find it all intimidating
and grotesque
plus now they're all kick boxing too so
i don't even venture to say hello to women who look very physically fit anymore for fear that i will get their foots in my teeth
carpe diem
jh
Horses are dirty - in rural areas, fine, but don't use them to deliver mail to population centers, because their shit will run in the streets and things will smell like shit and everything will be dirty and dangerous and unhealthy like it was in the old days.
The invention of the automobile was one of the great turn of events for sanitation, hygiene, and human health.
Otherwise we were walking in living in breathing in shit all the time.
It was disgusting. Of course, fossil fuels are better but not good and we should all be driving high-tech things that don't use much if any gas and have 0 emissions.
But everywhere used to be choked by shit...now, it's just places with crazy high population densities and hyper car usage clogged by smog.
Like L.A. You can't see the stars in L.A. You can see movie stars, and music stars, and stars on the ground in the walk of fame, but you can't look up and see stars stars. The only stars that exist are around and beneath you. False Gods created because we've blocked out the awe-inspiringness of real stars. Stars that make you think, 'whoa, I'm immeasurably small.' When the only stars you see are People walking around, you say 'whoa, I can be that, I can be a God if I only get enough or am popular enough or am pretty enough or sell enough records.'
No wonder people don't believe in God over there.
Make LA clean, and you make Hollywood clean, and people in the entertainment industry will see stars again and start believing in God and then movies will be better and thus so will our country.
There must be a delicate balance when it comes to handwashing -
We had Voldemort flu at camp this year, but the nurse at my unit was crazy obsessed with purell and lysol and handwashing...and none of our kids got sick.
I don't think we were designed to be exposed to pathogens and germs from so many people at once...a school with 1500 kids, a ballpark with 100,000 people.
So what we need to do is, in those huge-numbered environments, be real strict and conscious of handwashing and purelling...
And then when the kids get home, let them roll around in the dirt.
http://www.jumbojoke.com/shit_happens.html
169.8 this morning on the scale.
This is the first time in about 13 years that I've been in the 160s. It required a week of not having dinner.
I did it in solidarity with the Haitian People.
And with them, I am going to continue to shrink, moving down into the lower 150s.
But I'm not sending my extra cash to them, because I don't trust ANY of the pipelines, and my government has already sent them 100 million, as well as the army and navy and much else.
I'm sending my money to the Lyme foundation in Lyme Connecticut.
All five extra dollars, again.
They're getting rich off of me over there.
brett i'm all for endorphins
i've been swimming again recently
and after 800 yds or so i feel rather high and i sleep much better
(after i get out of the pool that is)
that's the main thing
are we sleeping well
so bring on the endorphines mama
i likes 'em
jh
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