I fancied myself an economist yesterday and began debating minimum wage rising with my husband. He’s actually taken college courses, and thought I was being very uneducated in my opinion, but I gotta say, inflation being the sign of a healthy economy makes no sense to me. When you raise minimum wage, everything else goes up along with it, so the people who just got a raise are in the same exact position they were before they got a raise. When everything goes up, it’s called inflation. I call it materialism, but whatever. Has innovation helped us all that much, anyway? 100 years ago, people were still managing to live life happily. Now that we all have cell phones, we’re completely useless without them. I say innovation and inflation are part of the reason that we are all so selfish and impatient now. Marketing is all about drawing you in and making you THINK you need something, when in fact you are doing just fine without it. I guess I can’t eloquently express my thoughts on this subject, but it just seems silly for a plateau to be a bad thing for our economy. I’m tired of paying more money for the government to give away to to people who are living better than I do. If the government wants to help people who need better wages, pay for their freakin’ college tuition, why don’t ya!>!>! That will create a healthier economy.
Fitlynxx
The word that entitles today’s blog is one that I am growing to like. It is a software, of sorts, that is used on work-out machines. The Pearland Y has now acquired it on all our brand new equipment, and staff was asked to be the personal trainers guinea pigs for orientations. So, I got my own 5 digit pin number and use that to log in when I work out. There is a kiosk in the weight room that you log into, and it tells you where to go for your first machine. That machine has a little screen on it that you log onto as well. It then tells you the settings for your seat, the amount of weight to put, and it also has your range of motion set. When you hit top and bottom of your range of motion it counts your reps for you. When you’ve finished with that machine it tells you the next machine to progress to. It’s quite fancy. Oh, and you can manually log in cardio that you’ve done in just about any capacity. If you mowed the yard, it will count that! It’s pretty cool, and since I am trying out for AI, I need to drop some poundage before I go, but mostly to start some work out habits so if I end up working out in Hollywood, at least I won’t be starting at the beginning and look pathetic like I do now. I managed 28 minutes on the eliptical machine on Sunday because I was watching Braveheart the whole time. Another fabulous addition to the Y’s equipment is cable tv.
Yeah for technology.
I’ve decided to go for the American Idol thing. Mallory’s wedding is 11am on Aug. 4th, and the registrations start that day at 6am. So, we won’t even get to Dallas until 5 or 6 pm. This might seal my fate, but we will at least have tried. This is the update so far.
Seize the Day?
My husband wants me to try out for American Idol…yeah. I have all the pros and cons lined up in my head, too, but I can’t decide what to do. He’s got it all planned out; get in line, audition, WIN! Of course, it’s not that easy, but there is no detering him. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to write, either. tbc
