So let's talk Yoga Ball.

Yoga balls. Big ol' rubber thing that looks pretty useless, right?

Oh so wrong.

I purchased one of these useless pieces of rubber, and thought "is this shit really gonna work?" Guess what people, I'm in love.

See, my issue is, I have a bit of a belly, and just about no upper body strength. When I work out, it's mostly cardio and leg action, so the areas that I really want to tone and work on get just about no attention whatsoever. That all changed though.

See, I can't do a push-up worth crap. I hate doing sit-ups because they make my back hurt. I used to do them because I knew I had to, but my life just got so much easier.

With the yoga ball, I can sit on it while watching TV and do my crunches. No back pain involved. No slamming my shoulders on the ground, no rolling my tailbone into hardwood floors, and I even get a bit of balancing in trying to stay on top of the thing. I friggin love it.

Push ups? Sure, I can still only manage pansy ones, but it's so much easier doing them. I just put the yoga ball under my hips, stick my legs out so that they're not touching the ground, and go to town. It's more of a declining push-up that way, but at least it's doing something.

I've used that little sucker every night for the past 3 nights.

I'm also on a mission with Dance Central. It has this workout mode where it tracks your calories, which is nifty, but DDR also used to do that. What I love about Dance Central though, is that because it's with the Kinect, your whole body is moving. It actual makes me feel like I'm doing something. I even sweat! Which then makes me even happier because then I really know I'm doing something, and working hard.

The mission though is that I'm trying to get gold stars on everything. The stars are how well you score, and you can get five stars, which is really good, but when you really nail a routine, you get 5 gold stars. I literally spent half an hour  this morning working on getting the gold stars for Jay Sean's "Down." Loads of fun. :)

I also went on a walk to day. Can you tell I'm in a happy chit-chatty mood? Endorphins on overdrive.

Srsly though. It was sunny, and beautiful, and 77. Unheard of in Rochester in April, therefore, I took advantage of it. I had my tunes, I had a smile on my face, and then it started raining.

Now, normally, people go running home when it starts raining, but it was just a nice, light trickle. I mean, they were fat drops of rain, but it wasn't complete downpour. Exactly my kind of walk. I was so smiley and happy, I'm still beaming from ear to ear.

Summer is just around the corner, literally. Friday is my official last day of exams, and then I have a whole week off before I go back to work. Knowing all the things I have available to me this summer though, and knowing I won't be so stressed out with school, I'm stoked.

It's going to be an amazing summer. :)