Nietzsche never did yoga

Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, "What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger." If he had ever practiced yoga, you can bet it would have been more along the lines of, "What doesn't kill me only makes me wish I were dead."

Bring the pain

For a while now I've been considering practicing yoga, but I've been so sick this winter that it's taken me a while to feel up to it. Jim got me a yoga mat for Christmas and I queued up a couple beginner yoga DVDs from Netflix.

Today was the day. I rolled out of bed before dawn to breathe deeply to the soothing moves of "Yoga for Dummies."

That was 18 hours ago. I just took three ibuprofen because I'm already starting to feel the burn, and I'm afraid to even go to sleep because of what I will feel like when I try and drag my sorry self out of bed in the morning.

Who's a dummy now?