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Thursday Thirteen: Things that make me cry

I got all teary-eyed-and choked up Tuesday night coming home from the gym when I passed by a really bad accident and saw paramedics working on someone. As always, I prayed and I hope that person is ok even as we speak. Then as I kept driving I thought about a few other times I got choked up in the car and well, a Thursday Thirteen was born on the side of the road.

13 Things That Make Me Cry

1. Car crashes. The really bad kind.

2. Other people crying. Once I was sitting at a light and the girl in the car next to me was crying and I couldn't help it. I immediately burst into tears and could not compose myself. Of course, I was 9 months pregnant and well, I was a pile of complete mush by the 9th month -- but I likely would have cried anyway even un-pregnant. I still wonder what she was crying about. I wish I could have hugged her.

3. Daddy tears. Something happens to me when I see a man crying. Especially a daddy.

4. Songs. Oh God do I cry to songs. All the time. I cry to "Cherish" because it reminds me of my childhood. The millions of songs that remind me of my husband. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" because it reminds me of when I was taking maternity photos while I was carrying Mini. "Please Come Home for Christmas" every year because it reminds me of the time I was crying in the Boston Market parking lot praying that my mom would come home from the hospital in time for Christmas.

5. Standing under a rainbow in the rain with my son.

6. The Olympics.

7. Labor.

8. When bad things happen to good people.

9. The thought of losing someone I love.

10. The thought of them losing me. And even more that they might forget me.

11. That Folgers coffee commercial when the kid in the military surprises his parents by coming home for Christmas and she runs down the stairs and yells, "Baby!" and bearhugs him. Gets me every time.

12. Great love stories. Like Romeo and Juliet. And Titanic. And the Notebook. Ghost. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II.

13. Onions.

Haha! Had to end on a happy note!

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Thursday Thirteen #11: Milestones, Moments and Madness

It's been a busy week in the O' household. Lots of little milestones and lots of little things I learned about lots of little things. Here's my list of:

13 Milestones, Moments, and Madness

1. Poops started school this week as you may have read about ~~every day so far.~~ He had to bring a plant. They're going to garden this year.

2. He didn't even bat an eye when the teacher came and took him from my car and walked him in through the gate. No "Bye!" no nothing. Which I expected. I did not cry. I am proud. But I did go park the car and watch him in class through the two-sided mirrow-window thing for a few minutes. Just to see. Of course it was only a half-day (which means one hour. Yes. I'm lame.)

3. Can you believe that was the first hour of his two-and-a-half years (besides the two weeks he spent in the NICU) that he has ever ever ever been in the care of someone else besides a family member?

4. I know. Time to cut the apron strings.

5. And that one hour must have had quite an impact on him. Because he came home, wanted a "big boy cup" (without a top), and suddenly wanted to do everything solo. He'd yell, "No! Ay Ay do dat!" when I'd start to do something for him. To which I say, ok! go for it! Mr. Independent...and by the way, how bout wiping that butt?!

6. Meantime over the weekend, Mini started really crawling (he's been crawling for months but in that wriggly military crawl). Now it's the real thing. Like it's old hat.

7. Then as if out of nowhere, he started pulling up and standing.

8. I've learned that he hates pureed green beans, but loves them whole. He loves pureed carrots but hates them whole. He loves peas, any which way. But if you slip in that whole carrot (the mushy can kind) he'll look at it, then at you like you are crazy, bang down his hand as if to say, "Excuse me? You think I am eating that?"And wail till you give him a pea. Oh, and you can add "anything he can pick up off the floor" to his favorite-foods-list too. No matter how clean my floors are, he finds that speck. And eats it.

9. I threw out our area rug this week because it's the type that holds in food and crumbs and hair and just overall grossness which Mini had been consuming entire meals out of.

10. Gag.

11. However, whilst pulling up on the side of the couch, he slipped and fell backward and at that moment I had wished there were a carpet, even of the gross crap-harboring variety, to cushion my poor baby's tiny head.

12. Poops is in a terrible phase in which he CANNOT CONTROL THE VOLUME OF HIS VOICE! And there is yelping and barking and screaming at piercing octaves and anyone who is on the phone with me at any given moment is guaranteed to ask me, "Is this a bad time?"

13. Boy kitty keeps mounting poor elderly girl kitty. And the evil sounds that come out of her mouth whilst trying to flee are enough to tell anyone she is not having it. There is growling and hissing and fighting and then chasing. And the chasing is usually me running through the house after boy kitty yelling, "Leave her alone!! Bad kitty!" My favorite time of day is when all of the above is happening all at the same time. The screaming, the pulling up and falling, the eating stuff off the floor, the mounting, the chasing, the phone ringing...is this a bad time? Nope. These are the sounds of my house.

Thursday Thirteen #8: A List of Stuff

I missed you, Thursday Thirteen. A week is not a week without you.

I've been tagged for a six-random-things-about-me meme by Danielle (hers is really funny by the way and totally random -- like loving the smell of skunks. Skunks!) And since it's Thursday, I'll add seven more and make it 13 because why not. So here goes.

1. I have a complex about my arms. I am always afraid that fatarm will get in the picture. I purposely make sure to take straight-on photos to keep fatarm at bay. I hate it when I forget and it sneaks in there.

2. I speak another language. Called "gibberish." Sometimes (often) I find myself in deep thought, and, as if out of nowhere, I blurt out something about whatever it is I happen to be in deep thought about, as if the person I am with had been involved in the conversation in its entirety. Which leaves them often bewildered and confused. Like the time I was at lunch with my husband thinking about what to make for dinner and thinking wouldn't it be great for me to make a yummy stir-fry because I have all these vegetables and chicken and rice at home when I said, "I think I'll wok the chicken tonight." Which came out, "I think I'll walk the chicken tonight." And my husband had this dumbfounded look on his face, and then you could actually see the thought process going on in his head while he tried decipher or translate whatever it was I just said. He knows me well enough now that he's actually getting pretty good at translating my gibberish (which is often completely unintelligible) because I do this all the time.

3. I love Candlebox. I'm going to see them Friday and stand in the front row like I did last summer when I was pregnant. No one seems to like Candlebox anymore. They were so 1993. But I do. I'm their biggest fan.

4. I love those candy dots that are stuck on the paper. The ones that you get like 5 long sheets in the pack. I'm convinced the pink and blue are the yummiest and the yellow is lemon, but really I think they're just sugar dots with a side of paper.

5. Speaking of candy, my sister and I love candy necklaces. We would wear them every day if the colors didn't run down your neck when you sweat.

6. I have an internal defiance machanism. If someone bugs me to do something, I mean really starts to bug me about it, I automatically turn off and do not do it, in a "you're not the boss of me" type of defiance. It's very immature and sometimes I don't even know when I am doing it. Which actually gets me into trouble sometimes when someone bugs me about something important.

7. My pinky toe dislocates. All the time. One time when I was getting ready for work at Denny's (I worked there in college -- no judging! It was good money!) I smashed my toe and hobbled around for about a half-hour before it stopped hurting. Since then, I can hit it on anything and it pops out. It even pops out when I walk in sand sometimes when the sand is so thick. It is so freakin painful! I actually have to stop and tap it back in. Yes, gross. And every time I get a pedicure I have to tell the lady that I broke my toe once and to be careful with it because it's so much easier to just say that then go into the fact that it dislocates, yada yada yada...

8. I have two tattoos. One is on my right calf and it's a mandela, a native american symbol. (Everyone says "I like your dreamcatcher!" but it's not a dreamcatcher! It looks like one, but it is not and that bugs me.) I got it a month after I turned 18. In my first semester of college. When I dyed my hair purple. The other is a symbol that my cousins, sister and I made up, we call it a "compass rose" and we all got one. Mine is "fire". My sister's is "earth". My cousins are "water" and "air". I love this tattoo. It's on my back.

9. My hairdresser calls me "Christine." Instead of Christie. This has happened all my life and I can't stand it. Everyone asks me if Christie is short for Christine and those who don't ask just call me Christine. I asked my hairdress place to stop calling me Christine but it's in the computer this way and for some reason they refuse to change it even though I always ask them to. And I also dread that message on the phone.."Hi Christine, you have an appointment tomorrow with Debbie..." ugh.

10. I've started three books and finished one. But the one I finished is a children's book and I always think, it's probably crap, so I haven't bothered to send it anywhere. The other three I got about 30 pages in before I decided I hated everything about them and aborted.

11. I love the feeling that is being showered and all lotioned up with purty-smelling-lotion (lavender or something sleepy) and going to bed in fresh sheets.

12. I love pajamas. I would like to have a separate dresser for all the pajamas I could want or buy or afford.

13. I dream about waiting tables. I loved waiting tables. Something about the customers and "anticipating the customer's needs" and meeting new people. I think that opening a tea room will satisfy that craving. A girl can dream..

OK so here are the rules:
-Link to the person who tagged you.

-Mention the rules.
-Tell six (in my case, 13) quirky, yet boring, unspectacular details about yourself.
-Tag six other bloggers by linking to them. (If you are reading this, consider yourself tagged! And let me know if you did it and I'll come by!)
-Go to each person’s blog and leave a comment that lets them know they’ve been tagged.
-If you participate, let the person who tagged you know you’ve posted your quirks

THURSDAY THIRTEEN

THE "BEFORE I WAS A MOM" THING.

Before I was a mom...I'd never thought in a million years thought I'd:

1. clean up poop, barf, spit-up, and/or any other mysterious substances without so much as batting an eye.

2. kill a spider willfully and/or vengefully as if protecting my homestead from intruders.

3. make my own babyfood.

4. wear mom jeans. Well, they're jean shorts. I just bought them because I finally feel like my legs aren't so tree-trunky that I'd be embarrassed to wear them. However, my husband just informed me they're "mom jeans". The worst part is, I HAD NO IDEA! I didn't think they looked mom-jeansy. I have always wondered when and how women turned the corner to wear such things as mom jeans and housecoats and right now I am fearing the worst. That maybe it's happening right.as.we.speak.

5. make my bed every morning. Ha! This one gets me. My philosophy has always been (and you can ask my husband), why make it when you will just mess it up in a few hours? That was back when I woke up at noon. Which brings me to:

6. Wake up at 7 every morning and feel like the day is already gone by 9 a.m. Me??? The wake up at noon girl? Ha!

7. Weigh an ungodly number of pounds both during and after pregnancy. I never saw that number on a scale before and I really hope I never do again. Post-pregnancy, that is. During pregnancy, all bets are off.

8. Care so much about another human being. I had heard things about this kind of a love. I thought when I got married that this love was the major kind. But then, the kids came. And I found that now I love so much it hurts. I mean really hurts. The bring-tears-to-your-eyes-just-thinking-about-it-kind. The kind that makes you want to wrap up your husband and two kids in bubble wrap so that not even a hair on their head gets hurt or broken because the mere thought of it just makes you want to die.

9. Want to be so close to my own parents and sister. That major love thing? Yeah. It extends to those first family people.

10. Own a minivan. Go clubbing in a minivan.

11. Not want a beer or wine or cocktail. Not that I was an alcoholic before, but now, I think about things like, I have to get up at 7 or I will have to nurse the boy.

12. Have two boys. I have two boys! I always pictured girls in my life. However, my boys have been such a pleasant surprise and I've found out that I actually do the boy thing pretty well. I don't think I'd be able to handle a girl, quite frankly. That is, if she's anything like me. I guess I could wing it if I had to. I'm pretty sure though that if there is a third child, he too will be a boy and I already have his name picked out.

13. Actually enjoy living with other people. I am a live-by-myself type a gal. I liked the studio apartment-style-living in New York and the guy-roommate because they're never home thing. But obviously, having a family and all means everyone all up in your business. Like going to the loo only to have a little face open the slidey door and start gibbering on about things like toof-payse. And completely in distress over the fact that I haven't turned on the light yet and had no plans on doing so.

But I couldn't picture it any other way. I am in heaven.

Wednesday

Thursday Thirteen: The Sky Mall Edition

I have a confession to make. I am obsessed with Sky Mall Magazine. The freebie magazine they give away on flights. It started out innocently when I fell in love with a stroller made for cats. I'd never actually buy it. But every time fly, I feverishly flip to the page where it has the little ad with the siamese kitty in the stroller just to see if it was still there. Because if I didn't look crazy strolling my cat around the park, I just might do it. (It's not in the current edition by the way -- there is a new high-tech one for dogs, but no kitty one). Anyway, since then, I've found about a zillion either ridiculous or ridiculously cool products that I've never bought but either laugh at or salivate over and have actually considered ordering. It was hard to choose just 13! By the way, half the fun of reading this magazine is the wording of the ads and the pictures. So here are:

13 OF THE COOLEST AND/OR MOST FREAKY-DEEK SKYMALL PRODUCTS

1. Cool. The Vuzix iWear. It's giant tv glasses! You plug in your dvd player and there you go! It's like watching a giant screen tv from 9 feet away. How cool is this? It's so high-tech I feel like I should be wearing my silver "future" uniform with the fins on the cuffs.

2. Ridiculous. The Indoor Dog Restroom. Exactly what the name implies. This is a little patch of turf on a grid that catches pee and poo. It "can hold up to two gallons of liquid." I can't imagine paying $150 bucks for a dog to pee on turf in my hotel room or wherever else I would need to have this, but I am not a dog owner.

3. Cool and made for me. The "Keep Your Distance" Bug Vaccuum. When I first moved into my home, it was a bit spidery. Of course, this little vaccuum might not have been big enough for the giant freaks that got into my house but we still get the little ones and I hate even those. I have seen this bug vaccuum in actual stores but I still salivate over it when I see it in Sky Mall. Love it.

4. Um? Ridiculous. The Marshmallow Shooter. While this is entertaining, this is one of those items that I like to picture the whole production process with from conception. I picture a guy coming up with the idea. Honey, what if there were a gun that shoots marshmallows!!??Patenting it. Taking it to financial backers. Then, eventually, there are a lot of people wearing suits, sitting around a large table in a conference room discussing The Marshmallow Shooter. Someone says, "This is the greatest idea ever!" And everyone in the room nods in agreement. And then they pat each other on the back and shake hands at the end of this very successful meeting over a product that will make them millions. And it goes into production. By the way, it shoots mini marshmallows over 30 feet and has an LED laser guide to help you hit your target. FYI.

5. Cool! "Walk on water with the Nuclear Globe!" It's a human hamster wheel for on top of the water!! I am having an official OMG moment. I want this. I don't have a body of water in my possession large enough for this thing because I can't picture doing this at the beach, but still. This would be on my "frivolous items wish list." For when I get my mansion with my giant pool.

6. Ridiculous. The "Slanket". OK. What to say about this. This is a blanket with sleeves. Actually, a very practical product. I could use one right now. But look at this guy! And the name "Slanket"!

7. Cool! A framed photo signed by the Soup Nazi! I actually considered buying this one for about a nanosecond. Of course, then I saw the $199 price tag and I quickly thought to myself, "No picture for you!"

8. Ridiculous. Hidden Litter Box. This is a litter box that looks like a planter with a giant fake tree coming out of the top. The planter is the litter box. Don't get me wrong. My eyebrow did go up when I first saw this and I thought, hmm. That's useful! But I can't picture actually getting it. A litterbox is what it is. You can put a bow on it or a tree, whatever you want, but it's still a place for poo.

9. Cool!!!!! The Gustbuster Umbrella! Guaranteed to not turn inside out on you! I always laughed hysterically at the little kid in the shiny yellow raincoat with the shiny yellow umbrella in the Campbells Soup commercial where he is in the pouring rain and a huge gust of wind blows his umbrella inside out. This has happened to me about a zillion times and it frazzles me every time. And I get soaked. This gives me umbrella-envy.

10. Undecided. Straps. They're just straps. But you can put them on any shoe. I am pretty sure most girls will be able to tell when your shoe has straps on it that it's not supposed to. I have mixed feelings on these. They kind of look ridiculous. But I can't tell.

11. Cool! The "Sassybax Shaper". This is a tanktop for backfat!!! This is like the most amazing invention EVER besides Spanx! It eliminates backfat rolls! I want this. Bigtime.

12. Ridiculous. "Toppik". Yet another attempt at covering up the baldness. I have never been bald so I haven't experienced the desperateness of being bald, which I imagine might be a tough feeling to overcome. This product sprays color-matched fibers over your head so it gives the appearance of hair where there is no hair. In 30 seconds. I am a big proponent of being "one" with the bald head. Shave it! Don't spray it!

13. Coolest thing ever! The "Edge Baking Pan". DO YOU SEE THIS???? It makes brownies with all edges!! It's like getting all corners! I love the corner brownies! The chewy crispiness! Oh my. I can hardly stand it.

Thursday Thirteen: The Guitar Hero Version

THE THURSDAY 13: GUITAR HERO SPECIAL

1. Why do I stink at Guitar Hero, I ask myself? I am musically inclined, after all. I was in marching band! Yes, I played the flute. It's not guitar. But it's an instrument. Isn't music like playing a sport? You can play one, you can play them all? Didn't someone say that?

2. My tone-deaf husband (sorry honey) is already on level whatever-hundred and is amazing! How is that possible? Although, if it's a video game, he can beat it. So maybe that's it. Maybe it's not the music. Maybe it's the video-gameness.

3. My character girl has pigtails. If I were in my 20s again, I'd wear pigtails. And a backpack with stripey thigh highs.

4. I have carpel tunnel from messing up over and over again on "Talk Dirty to Me" by Poison.

5. They booed me off the stage. Again.

6. My husband snickers from behind me and says things like, "Maybe there's a lag between the tv and the guitar" to make me feel better. But really he riles me up because he's always better than me at everything. Why why why!

7. I named my band "Moolay". That's French for Mullet.

8. The guitar yells at you when you mess up the notes.

9. My husband holds his ears and yells things like, "Yikes!" when I mess a bunch of notes up in a row.

10. I want to learn how to play the real guitar. I tried to teach myself guitar using the Guitar for Dummies book when I lived in a way overpriced studio apartment in New York City. A friend of mine gave me a kid guitar. It was a real acoustic guitar, kidsize. I could read the notes and make them and my fingers got all calloused. I gave it up after a while but I'd like to try again only have a real live person teach me this time.

11. My husband just got to play a Killers song. I love the Killers. I just get to play things like "Talk Dirty to Me" by Poison because I can't get past the stupid song to open up funner ones.

12. In about five minutes I will try "Talk Dirty to Me" a few hundred more times until I beat it.

13. Until then, my husband who's character looks like CC Deville from Poison is beating every single song! He even does that back-arching pose when they hold the note for a long time and completely rocks out. You'd never believe he was this much of a rockstar. He's not the rockstar type. You also wouldn't believe he does a dance to the opening song of American Idol. He'll deny that one to the grave. But it's true. I laughed so hard from it during my first pregnancy the jury is still out on whether or not it sent me into labor. Anyway, Guitar Hero is fun even though I stink. Gotta go! It's my turn! You're going down, Poison!

Thursday Thirteen

13 things I like about officially being out of a "size huge" for the first time in two years

1. Not crying in the dressing room. I cannot tell you how many times I have stuffed myself into clothing refusing to go the size huger because I couldn't bear to actually pick up that size and admit that I would fit it. (I never actually bought it though, I would choose shoes instead because those always fit.) I would get all hot and sweaty trying on clothes, my hair would be in disarray and eventually I would cry.

2. Tonight I tried on clothes for hours and in normal people sizes (not the size I want to be, but still. Not huge. And I believe in baby steps.) and I could have done it for hours more just basking in the fact that I actually fit things. I felt like Julia Roberts on Rodeo Drive. Only I didn't have a million people swarming around me helping me. And I didn't order pizza whilst trying on clothes. And I didn't have Richard Gere's credit card.

3. Did you know people treat you differently when you're in a size huge? It's true. Sometimes they're not as nice. Sometimes they just look past you. It hurts. I've never been a size huge until after I had kids, and let me tell you, what an eye opener. I like that people are nicer.

4. Or maybe it's that people are nicer because I have more confidence and I'm not all hiding in the shadows from embarrassment from my huge size anymore.

5. I am more sociable. Definitely related to the confidence thing, but I am not always thinking about how I have nothing to wear to the playground or to the zoo or to a party. Or afraid to sit on a barstool because of all my rolls. (Isn't that gross that you know that about me? Oh well!)

6. My husband sees a difference and he likey.

7. My husband still lurved me, size huge or not. I'nt he cute?

8. I like being able to run for 30 minutes without wanting to die.

9. OOh, I was not wanting to play softball while I was large because I was afraid of running to the base like a snail. But I'm joining a softball team in two weeks. I love me some softball. I don't throw like a girl. I played baseball since elementary school and softball from high school through, oh just before the kids were born. Which reminds me of a funny story. One time my husband, before he was my husband, came to NY to visit me and help me pack because I took a writing job in Salt Lake City and I was moving. I told him I had one last softball game to play and I promised my team I would go even though I had so much to do, so we took the train out to Long Island so I could play but I didn't tell him it was a quadruple header, yes, that's four games. We had to make up a couple rain-outs. So my husband-then-boyfriend sat there and sat there and sat there while we played our four games and then I got no packing done whatsoever and pulled an all-nighter before my flight out. He lurves me.

10. Wow! That was quite a tangent. Anyway. I like that my fat clothes are wayyy looser on me. Like my pajamas.

11. I like that I can sift through my closet and try on stuff I had doomed to the pits of never-fitting-again and find that they fit! It's like buying new clothes without the money!

12. I love clothes so much this is why I am obsessed with clothes and fitting them.

13. Finally, and probably the most important, I feel like me again. Plain and simple. It has been so long. I feel like I have been in this fog for two years, not wanting to see my old co-workers or old friends because I was so self-conscious about how I looked. That's no way to live. I was turning into a hermit. And I'm one of the most sociable people on the planet! Are you sick of hearing about my weight yet?

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Thursday Thirteen: Awarenesses!

There are a lot of causes this month and they all mean a lot to a lot of people. Some of them I know of because they affect me and my family directly, but if you Google "May is..." like I did, you'll find there's a lot of stuff going on out there. May is EVERYTHING month! So here's my Thursday Thirteen:

13 Things to Think About in May

1. May is Lupus awareness month. I know this because my mom suffers from Lupus. We're walking for Lupus on Saturday. Having Lupus means that the immune system can't tell what is a foreign substance and what is your body -- so it attacks everything -- including your body. It is terrible -- more than two million people have Lupus and more than 90% of them are women, like my mom. You can donate to Lupus here if you are so inclined to sponsor us.

2. May is National Fitness Month. And guess what? I'm running a fitness scavenger hunt! It's really easy -- just take pictures of stuff and post them! Yippee! Random winner takes home a $25 Barnes and Noble gift card; Most creative takes home Tommy Boy. Open to everyone!

3. May is Preeclampsia Awareness Month. I developed this disorder during my pregnancy with Poops (my first baby). He was born at 34 weeks because of it. If you've read my blog before, it was a terrible time for me. (He is now 2 1/2 and perfect. Well, physically perfect, anyway.) But Denise at A Woman with Hobbit Feet also suffered from this terrible disorder and she's walking to raise awareness. She has a very touching post about it and if you head to her blog you can sponsor her too.

4. May is also Military Families Appreciation month. I appreciate my sister, one of my very favorite people in the whole entire world because of what she does as a military wife. I cannot imagine being a military wife. If you are, I heart you. And I thank you and appreciate you. It is a very tough job that rarely gets the recognition it deserves. She just met the president, who thanked her! (You can read about that here). I wish every military family could get that kind of thanks!

5.Did you know that May is also Mental Health month? Me neither!

6. May is also Stroke Awareness Month.

7. And Older Americans Month.

8. And National Bike Month.

9. And it's Asthma Awareness Month!

10. Not to mentions: American Wetlands month!!

11. And Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Please, I beg you, wear sunscreen. I am getting my stitches out today from where I had a mole cut out (the same one twice) because of "irregular cells" that were just about to turn into skin cancer. Please wear sunscreen! Please! I rarely beg strangers but this one is a worthy reason!

12. It's also National Foster Care Month.

13. And finally (There are actually even more awarenesses out there but I am only listing 13). It's Motorcycle Safety Month. So always check your rearview mirrors and your blind spots because they hide in there! Don't forget the little guys on bikes!

Thursday Thirteen--Workout Music

Yay! My first TT since I started my new blog! Since this week's theme for my weight-loss extravaganza is music, I'm gonna list 13 random songs from my I-Pod workout playlist, no matter how embarrassing it is. Happy TT! (PSSSST! It's not too late to join the Spring Into Summer weight-loss challenge here at Baby Tea Leaves! Everyone's invited! Plus you can win prizes, how fun is that?)

1. Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall (from the Devil Wears Prada-love that movie!) Plus it's on my sidebar! Very inspirational!

2. The Way I am - Ingrid Michaelson - More of a cool-down song than a workout song, but on the list nonetheless. (Also on my sidebar! Go take a listen! (this is totally coincidental by the way))!

3. The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars - Who doesn't have a crush on Jared Leto,

otherwise known as the extremely hot Jordan Catalano on My So Called Life. Yes, you remember him!!!! Anyway, he's the lead singer. And this song totally rocks. I will have it on my sidebar next week. Another very inspirational song.

4. Kiss Kiss - Chris Brown. He is my all-time favorite dancer in all of the Hip-Hop world. Have you seen this kid??? This song came on while I was doing arms today and I thought to myself when I was trying to squeak out one more rep, "Would Chris Brown quit? No. Chris Brown wouldn't quit. Suck it up!" I really did think that. I am a dork. But sometimes ya gotta dig deep. Even if it means pretending to be a hip-hop artist.

5. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - another fun KT Tunstall song. I feel like waving my hands in the air on the treadmill to this one.

6. Love Song. Sara Bareilles.

7. Thanks Fr. Th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy - Rock on!

8. I'm Bad - LL Cool J - Circa 1988. Or something like that. All I have to say is, "Forget Oreo eat Cool J Cookies! I'm Bad!"

9. When Did Your Heart Go Missing - Rooney - This song makes me want to skip.

10. Break It Off - Rihanna

11. It's Tricky - Run DMC - Tricky tricky tricky tricky

12. Glamorous - Fergie - the first Fergie song I ever liked

13. I Don't Want to Be in Love - Good Charlotte

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