Wii Just Dance

I've been going to "work out" with my friend Casey Jo on Monday nights at the Methodist Church in Sullivan. Let me illustrate this a little more clearly, which will explain the need for quotation marks around the term. The first week we went, we were greeted with Richard Simmon's smiling face circa 1982, for sure. Casey and I sweat to the oldies with a fun group of about 12 other women, ranging in age from 8 to 60. We spent most of the time laughing our butts off (misson accomplished) and our laughing got so out-of-control our stomachs also got a work out. I just couldn't get over Richard's amazing legs and the amazing job his camera/makeup/wardrobe crew did hiding his... well, when he's doing high-kicks and pelvic thrusts in shorty-short-shorts, you have to ask the obvious question: Where is it? So that search became the primary focus of our "workout" and it resulted in quite a few fits of collective laughter.


Casey couldn't get over the fact that one of the back-up dancers was surely Felicity Huffman in her pre-Housewife Days, and we all wondered how Big Suzie had already lost 126 pounds. It was actually so much fun, and to top it all off, the 8-year old told me she liked my moves. So that was pretty awesome.

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As awesome as dancing with Richard was, the next time we went, we decided to mix things up a bit. The 8-year-old previously mentioned (whose name happens to be Claire) decided to lead our class. (You can start to see the need for quotation marks, yes?) She brought her favorite Wii game, Just Dance. Let me pause for a moment to endorse this product. Because if you thought sweatin to the oldies seemed like a good time (really? you did?!), you have no idea how much fun you can have with this game! It plays a bunch of popular songs and choreographs your moves. Sooo, basically it's sweating to the oldies minus the oldies and minus an occasionally inappropriate Richard Simmons. (In the Wii game, he's been replaced by cartoon-Pixarish characters with only a bit more clothing.)


When "Hammer Time" and "Step by Step" came on, I couldn't help myself from pulling out the stops with the Roger Rabbit and Running Man moves I've been kept hidden for oh-so-long... Casey and I were transported back to our middle school dance days and began laughing, again...


So imagine my suprise when chaperoning my Middle School Dance on Friday, as the cafeteria filled with kids playing Just Dance! Annd before I could yell "STOP! Hammer Time!" they were all doing the Running Man in sync! Naturally, I had to join in, and before long, we had a fierce competition going on between some of the teachers and twelve-year-olds. Good times.



I can't wait to see what the ladies have in store for us Monday night...