Weekly Wrap-Up: May 4 – May 8
Welcome, procrastinators. Here’s hoping you came through the swine flu “crisis” unscathed. We here at The Daily Procrastinator are absolutely shocked at the events of the past couple weeks. Who would have thought that the media would blow something out of proportion? Who would have believed that Americans would swallow such an exaggeration hook, line, and sinker, and react with irrational panic? Who could have forseen that it was all really no big deal? It was truly a week of unexpected events. Lucky for you, it was also another week of fantastic content on TDP. Unless you’re quarantined with the imaginary flu, you should make SURE you don’t miss a thing.
Monday: For reasons that will soon be obvious, the 4th of May is an unofficial but widely recognized holiday–a holiday celebrated by movie fans and word-nerds alike.
Tuesday: According to wikipedia, Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Each year, Americans honor the brave Mexican soldiers by blissfully munching nachos and sipping margaritas. The holiday has passed, but TallGirl’s Cinco de Mayo party guide included recipes for margaritas and dip that will be favorites all summer long.
Cats amuse me. Zombies amuse me. This picture is extremely amusing.
Wednesday: TallGirl revealed that she truly deserves to be a zillionaire. After all, she thought up dance-based fitness programs before Zumba before was a nation-wide fitness craze!
Thursday: BigRedPoet gave a review of the Dave Matthews Band show on May 1 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX. Check out the setlist, thoughts on the performance, and notes on recording the show.
Friday: Continuing the string of wildly unlikely happenings I mentioned in the intro to this weekly wrap-up, TallGirl noted that baseball players use steriods. Can you believe it? Baseball players use steriods! Neither she nor I is amused by this revelation.
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Being Ahead of the Curve
A few years back, I owned a Pilates and yoga studio. As the child of a mother who died young from heart disease, health and fitness have always been very important to me, and my goal with the studio was to make fitness fun.
To vary the offerings a bit, and to give cardio offerings to balance out the strength and flexibility focus of Pilates and yoga, the studio offered several dance classes: salsa dancing, belly dancing and a class called ballet body, which was a lower-impact, ballet-themed workout. All three were popular, but they weren’t the phenomenon that dance-based fitness has now become.
Now, six years later, you can’t leave the house without hearing someone talk about Zumba. It’s branded and trademarked, but the classes that I’ve seen at my gym appear to be fairly basic cha-cha and salsa-based Latin dance, with a touch of belly dancing thrown in. I never would have guessed that I was so far ahead of the popularity curve with those classes.