How do you cure a TV addict?

Most people I know hardly ever touch their TV sets. And yes, this includes those who have Astro channels at home, too. I, on the other hand, am just the opposite. I don't even install Astro at home and yet I'm occupied most nights glued to the TV.

On Monday nights, I watch CSI and Ghost Whisperer.
Tuesdays will be Without A Trace, Simple Life and Desperate Housewives.
Wednesday nights are the only nights I find nothing interesting on.
Thursdays are interesting with Commander in Chief and America's Next Top Model.
Friday nights are Friends and Survivor.

All in all, I spend 8 hours watching all that in a week. Quite a big waste of time but hey, I'm an addict. How do you pull an addict away from the idiot box? The only way I could think of is to wait for all these series to come to an end. But then again when they do, maybe the new seasons of Smallville and Alias will be on to take their place...

Oh my gosh... Listen to the addict talk! Unstoppable!

I wanna learn some moves

On Saturday night, we went with J to Little Havana because J had wanted to do salsa. Not knowing what salsa really was, we accompanied her to the salsa club and it wasn’t a complete waste of our time even though we didn’t hit the dance floor.

We watched and admired some good salsa dancers, learned the names of various other dances that we normally could not differentiate one from the other, and even thought maybe we should learn some salsa moves for the sake of doing one dance during the wedding! But no, I don’t think that’s happening because with just about 3 spins and twirls, I would’ve blacked out from feeling dizzy.

Earlier in the day we were at The Curve and Fitness First was running a campaign on their Group Exercise classes. I watched in fascination the Body Jam session and was immediately inspired to take it up. It’s been years since I did something as vigorous as this. My last “dance” was some 3 or 4 years back doing line dancing with a bunch of colleagues. I thought that was fun too but Body Jam seems more dynamic and definitely a better and proper work-out. It's about time I pick up my lazy bones and make them work.

Anyone out there who’s currently doing Body Jam and ready to spare me some advise?