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Friday Fun: Forrest Gump Summed Up in Internet Time

Why rent Forrest Gump when you can get your entire cup of feel-good in this one minute clip shot in one take. This video is truly entertaining especially if you're just watching the clock tick-tock until it's happy hour time. Happy Friday!

The Driver's License Photo Experience

Yeah, this pretty much sums it up.

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iJoy that Turkey After Glow

Hello my sweeties! Still recovering from the Thanksgiving partaking? Well, no worries, it's a brand new week, and a whole new opportunity to get back on the balanced track.

Just a quick note, I'm feverishly working on some new stuff for you all and was hoping to get it done for today, but alas like a Thanksgiving dinner, my eyes were much bigger than my stomach. So, tomorrow it will be.

In the meantime, if you've been looking for a white elephant exercise gift, I think this iJoy "Effortles Exercise" Ride fits the bill. It's supposed to work the core, but this man looks waaaay too happy just working his abs. Perhaps it's all that yawing they speak of. By the motion of the iJoy, I'm thinking he's enjoying something else. Please to use your imagination :)

Update: If you're at work, you don't need sound to get the humor in the video. Just look at the guy's face. In fact, it's probably funnier without the sound.

Friday Fun: Guess which one of these things Steph wasn't

For some light Friday fun and to get to know a bit about my past, I thought we could play a round of that drinking game where you have to guess something that someone was not. If you guess wrong, you have to take a symbolic drink. Please no boozing til at least Happy Hour. It's Friday so you know what I'll be doing. Woo-hoo!

So okay then, when Steph was in high school which one of these things was she NOT:

• Student Body Officer
• Cheerleader
• Homecoming Court Attendant
• Officer of the Girls Jock Club
• Member of the Math & Science Club

Right answer after the jump...

Fit Flashback: Move Your Jazzercise Boogie Body

This Jazzercise video clip is from 1982, and I sware if no one told me this was real, I woulda thought it was some SNL fitness spoof skit because of the spandex outfits, bare feet, and the seriously cheesy lines. The 80s workout outfits are a great last minute Halloween costume. Uh-huh!

The most hysterical part is at 1:30 where the ladies do "the circle." zOMG! I snorted the ice tea from my nose I laughed so hard. If one circle isn't enough for you, at 3:10 they circle a second time with a twist.

Another amazing thing is that in the entire 3:56 minutes, they don't lift their feet once, not once. It's quite remarkable especially for some Friday, "why the hell not, I'm killing time til I can go trick-or-treat" amusement. Enjoy!

For Halloween, here's how to be Don Draper

I love Mad Men! Wasn't that some season finale on Sunday?

In case you missed it, Jon Hamm, was on SNL last weekend, giving satirical tips on how to pick up women as his deliciously naughty yet ad brilliant Mad Men alter ego, Don Draper. No doubt that there will be a many Don Drapers tricking their treat on Halloween tomorrow, so learn from the master. Step #4 is THE best! This skit was hilarious, and yet scarily kinda true.

Fit Flashback: Alyssa Milano's Teen Steam Workout Video

Back in 1988, a 16-year-old Alyssa Milano came out with her Teen Steam Workout Video. Remember this? I'm sure betting a grown-up Alyssa is hoping that we all forget this video cuz it's really cheesy and slightly jail baity.

I'm not sure what is worse, the Corey Haim picture by her bed side or the fact that she was a teen TV star with zero training experience except running around looking cute on Who's the Boss. Nonetheless, this flashback is some good mindless Friday entertainment!

Flashback: Remember When Jane Fonda Did Aerobics Videos?

Boomers and Gen Xers, remember way back when Jane Fonda did those aerobics videos in the 80's? Her videos were so popular.

Watching this video clip reminiscing over all the really cheesy workout clothes had me laughing on the floor like the leopard print leotard, leg warmers, and who could forget the terry cloth head band to hold back the big White Snake video rocker chick hair. Aqua Net made a mint back then!

I'm so happy we got practical with the pony tail look.

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Internet Giggles: Naming Your Baby

No doubt, someone will do this for real. I'd like to name my next pet cat Flickr...lol!

Two Left Feet: The Dodge of Aerobic Grapevining and Cha Cha-ing

Confession time. I avoid any aerobics type class where the instructors utter the words "Grapevine" or "Cha Cha." Those two words strike terror in me. I sweat with anxiety whenever I hear, "Alright, in 3 do the Grapevine!" I get like deer in headlights or more like a squirrel who knows they are about to become road kill in 5 seconds.

See I have two left feet. In fact, my feet can only behave in linear formation like in running, biking, kicking, or ellipticaling. As soon as any kind of step over, cross over, or moving of the hips in synchronization of traversing feets is involved, game over, I'm falling on my ass or I start looking like a drunk sailor.

And forget about the step. No way Jilly Mae. I trip EVERY single time I'm near a step. For me, step = tripping like Pavlov's dog. And worse, like clock work, the aerobics instructor will come over to me during class to "help" me which just fuels my already flaming embarrassment.

Along with Grapevine and Cha Cha, we can add Salsa and Meringue type moves to the Steph-no-can-do mix which means, yeah, no Zumba for this gal. For those of you loving the Zumba, good for you. I'll be on the treadmill where it is safe, and I can't knock over anyone in class.

For the life of me, I have absolutely no coordination when it comes to anything that requires me to move one foot over the other, especially if we have to add on the jiggy of the hips. What's weird is that in this amazingly creative brain of mine where the ideas do gymnastics, Cirque du Soleil acrobats, and Gregory Hines type moves, my feet cannot. It's just not happening. Scarily I can do the "White Man's Overbite" quite well. I know. It's a horror perfect for YouTube mockery.

What's really sad is that I am Filipino, and I'm supposed to be born with the Cha Cha gene. Have you ever been to a Filipino wedding reception? Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE gets up and does the Cha Cha because Filipinos are famous for their moves, but not I. Oh no! Somehow, I am the only one in my very large Filipino family who cannot slide, sway, or shimmy. Indeed, I drown my sorrows with Lumpias and Leche Flan as I am Cha Cha impaired.

But, it is okay. I may not be able to bust the Grapevine moves but there are plenty of things I can do for cardio. I love running, and kickboxing. Overall, I do better at the fighting like moves than the dancing moves and that is just fine. What matters is that we do what we love and work the heart and lungs.

So, are you like me and have two left feet in aerobics class? Let's hear it for the linear foot movers!