I started watching The Price Is Right (TPIR) when I was a little girl. It’s always brought me joy and I have been a loyal friend and true for many, many years. Many a hot, summer day my Paw Paw and I would watch it in the basement and see who could come closest to the actual retail price. When I had Logan, I suffered through 24 hours of NATURAL back labor and finally took an epidural. When the pain subsided, I noticed it was 10 a.m. and immediately said, “someone turn on TPIR.” You can hear the sweet tunes of TPIR playing in the video. When I nursed Logan for a year, he always had a feeding during the show and then he finally got old enough to watch it himself. During the past few years, I’ve re-organized my training schedule to make sure that I am on the treadmill while it’s on because it’s my favorite morning show. To this day it is one of the few shows I will even watch.
So you see, TPIR has definitely played a big role in my life. It has seen me through the fat years and the skinny years. I found myself run an extra 15 minutes countless times just to see who will win the Showcase Showdown. My first lesson today is do what you love when you exercise. I love TPIR so it made cardio less boring and more enjoyable. And, yes, I’m the crazy girl in the gym clapping wildly and grinning when someone wins a new car.
The next lesson and the most important is QUIT BEING ASHAMED OF YOURSELF AT THE GYM. I wish I had a nickle for every time one of you has written me saying you are scared of the gym. It’s either your clothes, your hair, your makeup, your lack of makeup, your shape, your form, afraid of free weights, afraid of machines, afraid of getting off the machines to jump around, or just plain afraid of what people think even if your hair is done, your makeup perfect, and you know what you are doing. Sigh! Get over yourselves! You are at the gym for you and no one else. If you can’t go to the gym and look like crap, smell like crap, and feel like crap when you leave, where can you?
What does this have to do with Bob Barker? Simple. I’m going to, yet again, get real with all of you and share MY most shameful gym moment. Today I had arranged all my weights so that I could be upstairs on the treadmill while TPIR was on because this is Bob’s second to last day. At the end of the show, I started thinking about all the times this show has been a constant in my life. I then realized I wouldn’t be able to watch the final airing tomorrow because I have my PT appoinment. I STARTED CRYING ON THE TREADMILL BECAUSE I WASN’T GOING TO SEE BOB BARKER! Yes, you read that one right. I was the weirdo in the gym crying on the treadmill and it didn’t have a thing to do with intensity.
TOM is a real ***. Sorry for the curse word but it’s true. I’m sure that had something to do with my meltdown. Well, after I dried my eyes and realized a couple of people were looking, it dawned on me they are re-airing the show tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. Amen! I’m saved!
The moral of this story? One, find some music or something you like to do during cardio because it makes it a lot easier to get through. Two, you’ll never look more ridiculous than I did today in the gym so get out there and get busy. Screw those people looking at me today. They obviously weren’t working hard enough if they had time to watch me. :)
Thanks for the memories, Bob! This Barker Beauty will never be the same after tomorrow night.