May 17

There's this awful machine at Curves with which you are forced to squat in the manner of Atlas, sans the world upon your shoulders, of course. Instead of the world's weight, there are padded bars that you forcefully push up on every downbeat of the very upbeat music. Each quick push adds more hydraulic fluid into the resistance chamber, thus making the next push just a little bit harder.

Thank goodness you only have to endure it for 30 seconds.

Right now I'm grateful to whomever it was that stuck this cute little stuffed mouse into the apex of the squat machine for entertainment value. It makes me smile through my grunts.