How Do You Make Chores Fun?

By Crabby McSlacker

It's not exactly a shocking confession: I am a foot-dragging, excuse-making, pathetic, whiny chore-hater.

So the title question "How Do You Make Chores Fun?" is not just a rhetorical question. I'd really like some advice!

And yeah, I have some tricks that I use that help a lot that I'll pass along, and I've gotten way less lazy and petulant than I used to be.  But I still dread most forms of manual or clerical labor and make a huge melodramatic production out of it when I'm forced to do any.

A brief search of the interwebs was not much help: I kept finding pretty much the same small handful of ideas I'd already "invented" myself.

So I'm hoping someone has some thoughts?

Yoga-Avoidant? Try this Freakish Yoga Alternative

photo: James Vaughan

By Crabby McSlacker

Having recently written about my twisted take on walking meditation and aqua-aerobics, I'll now confess that I've been messing around with yoga too.

I struggled with what to call this bizarre stretching/modern dance/meditation combo I've come up with. Yogatation? Crab-Chi? Dork-Fu?

But considering all its various components, and especially how weird it looks, allow me to introduce the shiny new Massively Mortifying Mindfulness Movement Meditation Method©, now available absolutely free!

Yeah, that's "Mmmmmm©" for short. Because "Mmmmmm" is kind of how you're supposed to feel doing it. At least I'm finding it pretty yummy. But then we've already established I'm a little odd.

Disorderly Conduct: Go For It!

By Crabby McSlacker

image: wikipedia

This is just a quick post about making a public spectacle of yourself.  Being an ass where people can see you? It's a highly underrated weapon for anyone looking to stay fit and sane for the long haul.

Plus, if you hang in there, it's also a totally gratuitous excuse for a picture of attractive butt-naked men! There are more than enough gratuitous pictures of naked women on the net, so I feel it is my civic duty to try to even up the ratio a bit.

Three Annoying Questions for... Roni Noone!

photo: the unquiet librarian

Interview By Crabby McSlacker

This time, our "Three Annoying Questions" are directed at the amazing Roni Noone!

I first started following Roni at Roni's Weigh, but she's also added a couple more great blogs, Green Lite Bites, and The UnWorldy Travelers. Plus she's been heading up an online fitness community, Blog to Lose, and putting on the fitness blogging conference FitBloggin'.  Oh yeah, and she's written a cookbook and started a media company and a twitter movement and raises healthy kids and does all kinds of athletic things like marathons and Tough Mudders, and I believe she's won several Nobel prizes and has been to the moon and was recently named ambassador to Albania. Or something like that. The woman does not seem to sit still for long!

And yet... she always comes off as warm and real and down to earth without any big-headed superstar diva attitude.  What's up with that Roni?

Anyway, you can find out more about her health and fitness empire at RoniNoone.com; meanwhile, please stay tuned for her answers to 3 Annoying Questions! --Crabby

Barking up the Right Tree

By Crabby McSlacker

 

So as I mentioned, my knee is kinda fucked up lately and I've been doing less of the huffy-puffy type exercising than usual until I can see the doctor.   This means lots more walking, and, unfortunately for you guys, more meditation-like activities and more thinking about all this psychological stuff and how it affects us.

Lately the blog has even sort of unofficially instituted a new feature I could call "Mindfuck Mondays!" But then if  did that, my own contrariness would pretty much guarantee that by next monday I'd want to blog about hemp milk or bog snorkeling or something totally different.  So, fear not, there's no new official monday thing.

But meanwhile, somehow this post seems to be about brains and bark.