The Damage Control Master Formula Office of Doom

Taking it out of the office this week, I went stair climbing.

There’s a long staircase weaving up a hill where I live, it has 174 steps. I had plenty of time to count. I decided to jog up and down the stairs as many times as I could before my heart gave out.

Let me tell you, for a woman of my age, 174 once is about enough for me. I could barely make it to the top!

At least going down was much easier.

The only problem with going down, though, was I parked my car at the top of the steps, so I had to go all the way back up one more time to get to my car! I believe it took me 20 minutes just to climb the stairs the second time, and there was no jogging about it. I was trudging up those steps like an old biddy without her oxygen tank.

Today I’m sore and sore, and then some. But I feel great, and because I’m such a masochist, I’m going back to the steps in a few days, and I’m going do go up and down them twice, and nothings going to stop me! Maybe next time I won’t look like such an old biddy, or if I do, maybe six or seven times more and I won’t look like such a biddy. I know one thing, I’m taking some best multivitamins before I climb those stairs the next time.

Also, I’ve really launched myself into the primal nutrition way of living, which means mostly meats and vegetables. I’m not looking for washboard abs, but a nice flat stomach would be good to have.

I’m blogging from work right now. I’ve been websurfing in between assignments and I found several interesting health blogs and how to guides about general fitness and exercise.  The two best I’ve stumbled across so far are both vitamin blogs. One is about the best multivitamins on the market, and the other is a sort of send up of the vitamin shop.

Anyway, I saw this viral video for a medicine claiming to cure “restless leg syndrome.” I thought the commercial was a parody, but it’s not?! Knowing the commercial and product were real made me laugh even harder. I started to make a list of more possible syndromes this pharmaceutical company could cure:

1. Uglinox, for Ugly Face syndrome: It doesn’t make your face prettier, it just makes you care less about the people who think it’s ugly.

2. Definol, for Screaming Baby Syndrome: Medication temporarily induces deafness on an airplane for people with severe allergies to screaming babies.

3. Fuxit, for overachieving syndrome: Makes you stop caring.

And most importantly…

4. Metapil, to be taken in order to more easily swallow pharmaceutical industry lies.

I can’t wait to fill my prescription.