Things you didn't know about me! - Page 6

hutchibk · 07-13-2009, 07:16 PM

I just bought a hula hoop.

'lizbeth · 07-13-2009, 07:23 PM

Hutchibk - a hula hoop? I love it! And how is the hula hoopin'?

Believe51 · 07-13-2009, 08:46 PM

'lizbeth, I knew it was your birthday, yeah, yeah....I thought you wanted to keep it a secret, ah..that's right, yeah. Yeah, I thought you wanted to keep it quiet, that's the ticket. (rotfl!!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART!! Your secret is out know but atleast I am not the blame (lol)

hutchibk · 07-13-2009, 09:25 PM

I think the hula hoop broke one of my ab muscles. Ha ha. No really. I'll let you know after I recover.

Henny · 07-14-2009, 09:28 AM

If I had a hula hoop I'd have to use it in the bathroom or garage with the door closed-NOBODY should see me hooping it up (or it falling to my feet over and over as I work on the hip twist thing)

'lizbeth · 07-14-2009, 10:07 AM

I'm not good at keeping secrets. LOL

Not like Marie

'lizbeth · 07-14-2009, 10:08 AM

Maybe I should buy a hoola hoop. I'd like to be narrower around the middle.

hutchibk · 07-14-2009, 04:04 PM

That's what I bought it for. It is awesome ab work. It burns about 250 calories in 30 minutes. I can only do about 10 minutes right now. It has to be the proper size for an adult. The plastic ones for kids at Walmart or the grocery store don't work for adults. Mine is 40" and weighs about 2.5 lbs. It's about the best "core" workout you can do. It takes some practice, but practice itself is a great workout. Mine ends up around my feet after about 30 secs or a minute, but I pick it up and do it again and again... also, you have to teach yourself how to do both directions. One of my directions is broken, apparently. Ha.

Bill · 07-14-2009, 04:11 PM

When I was a kid, I wanted to buy one of those plastic fake ice cubes that you see in the back of comic books, but my Mom said no, so I made my own out of real ice and real bugs and kept my little secret in the freezer on the bottom tray of our stack of four trays of ice cubes, and then when my Mom and Dad had a Christmas party at our house, I offered to ice everyone's drinks. Boy, was that the greatest idea ever, at least for a few minutes. Justice was swift and immediate!

Bill · 07-14-2009, 04:16 PM

You know, Hucklebuck, if you hold a few small hand-weights in your hands as you twirl around inside that Hula hoop of yours, you can call it "cross-training". Maybe a pound or two.

sassy · 07-14-2009, 08:02 PM

When I was in college I cut tobacco to help a group earn money.

Believe51 · 07-14-2009, 08:57 PM

All of my closet friends in my daily life I have had for 20+ years.

And the friends I have made here, I feel like I have had them for 20+ years. Love ya.>>Believe51

juanita · 07-15-2009, 03:06 PM

i am left-handed.

hutchibk · 07-15-2009, 04:17 PM

I am right.

hutchibk · 07-15-2009, 04:17 PM

Oops, did I leave a word out of that last sentence?

Jackie07 · 07-15-2009, 04:20 PM

I am right handed. But I can play basketball with both hands. And I can write with my left hand also - having practised it 20+ years ago while tutoring a 10-year-old boy who had lost the use of his right hand because of a car accident.

My Sister-in-law is left-handed. She uses her right hand for most tasks except 'writing'. She plays piano and organ very well. She's a nutrition professor and a RD, PhD.

All the left-handers I know are smart people. The best athlete in my high school and college years(we played on the same team for 7 years) is a left-hander. She's top student of her class [in the top college in Taiwan]while on both basketball team and track team. I think it might have something to do with having to exercise both sides of their brain.

The percentage of modern left-handed presidents is very high - another proof.

Bill · 07-15-2009, 05:19 PM

If you notice, there are more and more left-handed people about these days, both men and women. It used to be somewhat rare to see a left-handed woman, but now they're everywhere. Left-handed people are taking over the world, one generation at a time.

Jackie07 · 07-15-2009, 05:36 PM

Don't be paranoid, Bill. You see more and more left-handers these days because children are no longer forced to use their right hands any more.

So more and more people are going to be the 'smart' left-handers who can use both hands well. (Look at the percentage of left-handed presidents we've got in the last twenty years. We are headed toward the left-handed Aquarius Age

Sheila · 07-15-2009, 06:16 PM

I am Left handed...well actually ambidextrous...I had a teacher in 2nd grade who did not want a left hander in her class...I was made to feel like there was something wrong with me...anyway, I never learned to write with my right hand, but I eat right handed, bowl right handed, iron right handed, pitch right handed, use scissors with my right hand...however, I write, swing the bat (baseball) and golf Left handed....I am just plain weird! (all thanks to my 2nd grade teacher)

AbbyDawg · 07-15-2009, 06:21 PM

I write right handed but am left-hand dominant ... which provides much entertainment for neurologists. So, as some of my editor friends say, I am "amphibious."

Another source of amusement for neurologists is that I am 6' tall but only wear a size 7.5 - 8 shoe. I'm an endless target of tip-over jokes for them ... and for countless friends to threaten to use me instead of going cow-tipping!

PS - Most folks don't know that neurologists have a sense of humor!