Sansone Short Cuts Lower Body & OT weather report

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I actually slept last night (no pain in toe, slept on my back mostly so that might have helped but I'm not sure) but kept to my plan b to just do 's Short Cuts Lower Body workout. I did it once before and thought it was too light without ankle weights so I did it with weights today. That made it better but it didn't make the workout good. It is 30 minutes but I fast forwarded during the many long instructional/yakky times when she is switching postions for different exercises so mine was 25 minutes! There are only about 4 or 6 different exercises in the entire workout I think with each one done twice on each side. Remember it is 30 minutes long and that's the only movements you make... each set is really long (I didn't count the reps but I don't think does either) and meanwhile, preaches to use more resistance and less reps to make a difference in the shape of your body! The music is the same she uses in a lot of other workouts (and not the best music either). It was unbelievably boring. I kept thinking, I have quite a few 30 minute lower body workouts, including premixes of longer ones, like Pyramid Lower Body (25 minutes for up or down the pyramid) that would be so much more effective than this and so much more fun. I love but even for beginners this is just bad. Her instruction is fine, she is wonderful but there's just not enough to it for 30 minutes worth of my workout time.

OT: Weather report! We had maybe an inch and a half or two inches of snow during the night and it was snowing this morning as the kids were getting ready for school. One or two inches is nothing for Michigan drivers but it was apparently really icy too. My house is on a curve on a main road with a slight hill as you come around the curve. Everything was fine at 6:45 when went out to catch the bus. Less than an hour later though, there was one car stuck in the ditch at one end of my circular driveway, then a 2nd on the other side, there was an accident just feet before that involving two cars (one driven by a friend of ours with his two kids in the car, everyone was fine they were all going at very low speeds) and then 4 other cars were apparently pulling over and all either got involved in the accident too or got stuck on the side of the road by our house! DH ran outside to help push people out while I got Miriam ready for school in case she could get there. On top of all that, DH said the newspaper delivery guy's car apparently conked out in front of our next door neighbor's house very early this morning and was told by the tow truck driver that he couldn't tow him until the police shut down the road. He had tried putting out triangles to alert people that he was trying to work and they kept going around them. The police didn't close the road until hours later when all the accidents/stuckages happened. When they did close it, Miriam's bus was on the other side of the blocked area and the kids waited at the bus stop for about 25 minutes for them to be able to be picked up. Our house is one house down from the bus stop and I called the transportation department to warn them what was going on and they said they were advising parents to bring their kids in on their own. I didn't tell them but if it was a choice between seeing if the bus could get through at some point or taking her myself, that we'd wait and maybe she just wouldn't go to school today! No way was I getting out in that insanity. They ended up salting the road after some of the cars were cleared out and then again a little later and the bus was able to get through. I went out a couple of hours later to run errands too. Wow!! Welcome to winter in the midwest, eat your heart out those of you in warmer climates! ;-)