my first blog post

i've only done one blog before, and that was to describe a surgery i had; before-photos, after-photos, post op stuff, etc. hopefully this one won't have bruising as a topic.

so, where to start? i'm 45, a dentist in downtown raleigh, have identical twin boys (matisse and enzo) turning three soon and brother/sister rescue dogs. my kids' dad (luciano) is italian--off the boat from sardinia about 15 yrs ago--we eat a lot of really good food at our house. i graduated from indiana university school of dentistry, also 15 years ago.

moving on.

i got a wii for my birthday a year and a half ago. i was able to get on it again this past weekend for the first time in 413 days (the wii fit tells you how long it's been since you've exercised. it doesn't sneer or anything when it tells you it's been over a year, but you still feel guilty). how did i have time? long story involving our old tv dying, getting a new hi def plasma, and of course needing the particular blue ray dvd player that the local best buy didn't have in stock. luciano evidently couldn't wait for it to come in the mail so he drove, with the boys, to rocky mount. that meant that i had 2.5 hours to kill.

i was feeling pretty good about the 45 minutes of yoga and strength training i did, so i looked around for more fun stuff. there's a game where a virtual you 'heads' soccer balls being kicked at you by a team. if you get hit by a shoe, you lose 1 point; get hit by a panda head (don't ask me), you lose 3 points. the balls come at you faster and faster for a minute. it's scored so that anything under 100, your character falls down, pounding the grass in shame. after that is 'amateur' level, and i don't know what it takes to get past that level, but i know it's OVER 184.

when you're in your mid forties, you should NOT succumb to pride and try, for almost an hour, to get past amateur level. it was like having whiplash for 2 days. my hygienist, kassie, laughed non-stop and head-bobbed at me the whole week. thank god for aleve. i'm better now, so i think i'm ready to try again this weekend, if i can come up with another electronic component that we can't live without.