{"id":3289,"date":"2014-05-23T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T16:21:45","slug":"7-quick-takes-friday-with-zombies-and-girl-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2014\/05\/7-quick-takes-friday-with-zombies-and-girl-power.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes Friday! (With Zombies and Girl Power)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It\u2019s been twelve kinds of too long since I linked up with Jen for quick takes, so yay!<\/p>\n

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#7<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have no idea if that phrase, \u201ctwelve kinds of too long\u201d, is a legit phrase or not. I\u2019ve never heard it. But I wrote it, and I like it, and I shall use it.<\/p>\n

#6<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ogre and I started HIIT training last Monday. So this is the end of week 2, and incredibly, I am still so sore I can barely walk.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not exactly an exercise novice. I ride that train like Lane Frost rode a bull, ya know? 8 seconds on, two months lying in the dirt, crying and eating Ben and Jerry\u2019s. But in all the time I\u2019ve worked out, I have never done something that has kept me almost as sore on day 10 as I was on day 1.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s just sprints (although the Ogre is throwing in some squats and push-ups and pull-ups and calf-raises and ab work, because he hates me). As it turns out, I can throw myself into sprints way more enthusiastically than I can any other kind of stationary exercise. So enthusiastically that I\u2019ve nearly thrown up almost every single day.<\/p>\n

#5<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe that my success in this endeavor can be directly tied to my awesome imagination. See, we sprint on this soccer field by the playground near our house, so the kids have to wait patiently by the fence until we finish our sprints, then we let them go play on the playground for a half-hour.<\/p>\n

Early on, I realized that I was going to have to find some way to distract myself from wanting to die, so I constructed this neat little scenario to spur me on to even faster sprints. When I\u2019m sprinting toward the kids, I imagine that there\u2019s a walker shuffling slowly toward them, close enough that I have to haul ass to get there before they get eaten. When I\u2019m running away, I imagine that there is a horde of zombies right on my tail, and I have to run as fast as possible for as long as possible to distract them from my kids long enough for my kids to get away.<\/p>\n

#4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alright, fine, sometimes when they\u2019re being exceptionally difficult, I\u2019m all, \u201cyou guys are great zombie-bait, so I better run while I\u2019ve got the chance!\u201d<\/p>\n

Then I have guilt and have to have a come-to-Jesus moment with Jesse Eisenberg.<\/p>\n

I know, my imagination is a frightening place. Full of zombies.<\/p>\n

I kind of like it that way.<\/p>\n

#3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking of kids and awesomeness, Sienna had to build an invention for school this week. If you\u2019re friends with me on facebook, you no doubt witnessed my angst over her desire to build a \u201crainbow detector\u201d and then my total mental implosion as my facebook friends started covering my wall in science.<\/p>\n

She ended up going with my idea, a gate that doesn\u2019t allow you to enter the front door unless you hang your backpack on the hook, thereby raising the gate. (Come on, you know you want one for your kids too!)<\/p>\n

She and the Ogre built it last night out of Legos, and it actually worked and everything, because they\u2019re Lego ninjas.<\/p>\n

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#2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then the Ogre showed her this, which is so awesome that I wanted to punch things afterward. (You know, victory punches. Or something.)<\/p>\n

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#1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry, but I gotta go watch Zombieland<\/em> now. Happy weekend! Go see Jen <\/a>for more quick takes!<\/p>\n

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