Motivational Inspiration

OK, so you read the latest Twitarded post, right? The one TexasKatherine thinks she'll regret? If not, go now, we'll wait. ... How is everyone else? Good? Good. ... OK, everyone back? Alright, let's get down to it. Obviously, TK looks great in the pictures and they're beautiful photos. I read that post and had a similar reaction to everyone else, I'm sure, but then inspiration struck.

This seemed appropriate.

Now, I know you're on the edges of your seats. What was I inspired to do? Did I go to the gym? On a diet? On an eating binge, in despair that my ass won't look like that without 1200 lunges every day? Well, dear readers, I did none of those things. I read TK's hilarious, beautiful, more-than-soul-baring post, and I decided I needed to clean my house.

No, seriously. I think it started because I was making dinner and thinking about TK's ass (what? You weren't?) and my ass, and how to get from the latter to the former, and I remembered that cleaning is supposed to burn a bunch of calories. And then I saw my kitchen counters and started moving appliances and cleaning under them while dinner was in the oven. Then I remembered my pile of Christmas detritus shoved into the corner of my closet, so I started cleaning that out and putting things away. I took a break to actually eat my dinner, and went right back to it. This was serious, ladies. I steam-cleaned the pergo. I vacuumed my stairs.

I threw in the towel (into the laundry basket, that is) shortly before TH got home from his late night at school and work, about an hour ago. I'm not sure why I was inspired to deep clean, although the house needed it, and I feel pretty good now. But I thought I'd share my little Monica Gellar spaz moment with you.

I do think I'm going to try to start doing yoga again. Lately I've been feeling pretty good about the state of my body (and I'm getting no complaints from TH), but I would like my ass and arms and stomach to all firm up / tone up / flatten down, and yoga's a great way to accomplish all of that at once (and you know I love efficiency being lazy), plus it has the added benefit of helping me destress, which I totally need. Work has been kee-raazy lately, now that I'm doing the work of almost three people. Fan fic helps me escape, of course, but yoga will help me relax. (I hope.) And if I lose the 20 pounds I'd like to while I'm relaxing, all the better!

So tell me, have you been strangely motivated to do something seemingly unrelated to that which did the motivating? Let's hear all about it...