THRILLER

The past couple weeks at work we have been teaching the Thriller Dance during one of our aerobic classes. We had a great turn out about 50 people each time. Last night was the Finale Thriller Party. We had a costume contests, dance contests and prizes. I decorated the whole room and dressed up like a Fitness Instructor Zombie. Some Tech students had a Zombie walk on campus before the party and ended at our Thriller Party. It was a lot of fun. But only about 15 people or so came back to do the thriller dance and contest. There were a lot of others zombies and people watching, but I wish more of the people who learned the dance wouldn't of come back for the Finale Night. It was still a good time though. I do have a pretty awesome job!

Richard Simmons comes to Tech (not really)

In the spirit of Halloween, one of my instructors thought it would be funny to dress up like Richard Simmons last night for his Cardio Boxing Class. He bought this costume and took a lot of time on it. Made a back drop and put up 4 posters. Now the posters did say Richard Simmons Comes to Tech. Wear you best 70's and 80's workout gear.

Well apparently a lot of people have had the life long dream of meeting Richard Simmons. The idea behind it was just suppose to fun and playful to encourage people to work out and have fun. No malice was in our plans. Well we had quite a few angry people. Like 60 or so. I guess people really believed he was coming. Now we should of put a disclaimer on the bottom of the sign. But we really didn't promote this. It was just 4 signs and he told his class it wasn't really Richard. Well word got out though and a lot of people really thought he was coming. When Blaine came out in his outfit the faced went from excitement to "what'" and about 60 people left. He still had a lot of people in his class and those who stayed had fun.

Today we got a couple angry emails. I understand they were disappointed but some of these emails were quite rude and they made it seem like we ruined their lives and that we were horrible people for playing this joke. It wasn't a joke it was just suppose to a fun workout event. I just thought with it being Halloween week people would have a better attitude. So just FYI don't tell people Richard Simmons is coming if you can't provide him, he has a bigger following than I thought and those fans don't mess around.

Tonight we have our Michael Jackson Thriller Party; Good think I didn't tell them he was coming :)

Layers

I down loaded this neat new program paint.net. You can edit your pictures in fun ways and layer them on top of each other. I love creating new pictures. Here were my first trys.

Lady Bug Cake

Last night I finished the birthday cake I made for our good friend's little girl for her 1st Birthday. I also made a little pink cake just for her to dig into. I really enjoy decorating cakes because it is a creative outlet but doesn't take to long to see the finished product. Other artistic things frustrate me because you can work on them for weeks and still not be done. I get bored easily so I need something that keeps me interested. If I only had someone to bake the cakes and clean up all the messes and just let me do the decorating it would be perfect. I need my own Crew. Gabe helps out by eating all cake tops I level off and any mess up cakes. What a sweet husband. So if anyone has a special occasion they want me to make a cake for let me know, the only catch is you would have to pick it up in Lubbock TX. I don't deliver! :)