Fantasy Fit-Ball

One thing that's just about guaranteed at our house. If we have a weekend day with nothing going on, then, well, we're going to do as little as possible. And not feel the least bit guilty about it.

Of course, we had to get some things out of the way first -- like the snow we got all day Friday and into the night. I let hubby fire up the snowblower and handle that while I did my normal Saturday "chores" of sweeping, dusting, vacuuming, etc. I'm not sure what Carter did during all this, but he somehow deserved to go to the batting cage when we were done.

This time I went with to check the place out. Basically, our next-door neighbor has two "cages" set up inside the pole building that serves as his shop during the week. So Daddy threw pitches and Carter hit a bucket of balls, then they'd play catch and then hit some more. I just sat in a lawn chair and watched (yes the building was slightly heated).

Afterwards, we settled into a lazy Saturday. Stopped for a little lunch at the Sportsmen's Bar & Grill down the road, then came home and did some laundry and played cards while Carter watched a movie.

At some point, the neighbor called to see if Jim wanted to come over and watch the Packers-Falcons game. I guess our neighbor the Packer fan was willing to open up his home to Vikings fans if they were toting Bud Light.

So Carter and I stayed home to watch the game and decided to make up for our lazy day. (Plus it's hard to watch a game when we want BOTH teams to lose!) So we invented a new "fantasy fit-ball" workout regimen -- based on matching letters and scoring.

Altanta = Abs (1 sit-up per point when TD is scored)
Packers = Push-ups (1 per point when TD is scored)
Field goal = Flight of stair running (3 per field goal)
Penalty = Pull-up (5 per penalty)

The challenging part was that we had a running total. So when the Packers scored their first touchdown, we did 7 push-ups. when they scored the next one we had to do 14, then 21 and so on. All totaled, we did 147 push-ups (ow), 42 sit-ups and 6 flights of stairs. Carter was the only one doing pull-ups and they got enough penalties between the 2 teams, that only lasted until halftime.

The "fantasy" part of this is that we'd actually get fit in one game's time! When in reality, we did so many push-ups, I'll be lucky to be able to lift my arms up to type tomorrow.

Just one more reason for me to dislike the Pack.