Judy P's Tickle Trunk

Mii and them: My nemesii Steph and Mike doze while I poze

I am having a love-hate relationship with the Wii. On the one hand it tells me that if I continue with my Yoga and fitness I can achieve inner harmony and balance. Well, the balance is slowly improving but the inner harmony has miles to go before it sleeps. I just think that I have a step aerobic pattern figured out when it scores a ‘miss’ and delivers a helpful message on the bottom of the game screen. That’s fine but when I shift my eyes to read the message I miss-step again and then flounder a little and then lose track of whether I am stepping sideways or kicking or just marking time. My score plummets and I drop below the top ten into the ‘unrateable’ category. Woe is me.  I am wearing out swear words by the dozen but in the end I have to admit that the Wii knows best. When it tells me that I am going too slow, I am usually going too slow. It has been telling me for weeks to work on my rhythm and I have finally started to count to four as I step and now I can get a run, albeit short, of ‘perfects’. Sigh, how I hate being told anything. And the Yoga teacher – she does repeat herself something shocking. Three days in a row she has told me that she hasn’t gotten enough sleep and that sleep in important. If I could find a fast forward button I would be ecstatic; mii, it’s all about mii, not about some two dimensional character who is skinny enough to live in a flat screen tv!!! In the meantime I am learning patience and trying not to anticipate the next move and step, or jump, or shoot too soon. Could have used some of this training back in my theatre days when I would jump cues like a cat a cat snatching a dangling fluff-ball. I suspect that I won’t find much inner harmony until I move well beyond the ‘basic’ challenges. Now lets see if I can knock a few notches off my BMI today before I wind down with a few downward dogs – yes they are on my list and I haven’t blown a brain gasket yet.

Mii

(c) Judy Parsons 2013