anto's Journal: Outch Outch Outch

Its been a week of new things (well the first two days) I have actually been pretty much working full time (not only *being* at work all the time but working my butt off while I am here), on top of that I tried a new ?aerobics? class yesterday - I sucked up all my macho weight lifting pride and dragged my carcass into a yoga class.

As it turns out it was quite enjoyable - although it did trick me into sweating without me realising I was actually likely to do so. The moves wern't *desperatly* hard although there was much thinking involved, and I can't say I have spent as much time staring at carpet (let alone face down smelling it - and my gym has pretty funky carpet, sadly not in a good way) What was interesting is that it obviously worked quite different muscles to thoes I normally excerise (or at least in a different way) since I was pretty damm sore - hence the title - by the time I managed to get home and to the nearest comfy couch.

Luckily I get to go off and do a nice (manly, tough :) boxing class tonight to get all that girly deep breathing, streching & relaxation out of my system...

Now time for the rant:
Wht on earth do we congratulate people that are going to get married - if there was some kind of competition to marry as many people as possible (as I am lead to believe exists in certin US states :) I can see it being something that should be congratulated - hell running really fast down a track for 100m at least requires an amount of effort. As I have been lead to believe by tv pretty much anyone can get married - there appear to be very few requirements. In fact there are pretty much none - we get to witness people marrying someone 60 years older than them to get their money, people marrying others to get revenge.. etc el etc.

Jeepers congratulate them when they actually tie the knot (at least they survived the planning etc) congratualte them when they are still together for a year - but please leave it alone til then....

Or mabee I'm just turning into a grumpy old man?

why we congratulate the happy couple.

[Em Emalb]

Well, as far as this goes, I think your just getting grumpy in your old age :)

I personally congratulate people that are going to get married because for the most part, it's a good thing. Hey, not everyone can find someone to be with. Those that do deserve our congrats.

Exhaustive, OMG you're getting married shreaking, foo-fooey chick-like congratulations are not in order at anytime though, and should be moderated -1 troll in my opinion. But a heartfelt (or not) hey congrats is in order and good taste.

Anyhow...