I need to be more active.

Last Saturday, hubbie and I went to a Filipino party at Washington, DC with another couple friend. We had the time of our lives just dancing.  There’s 3 things that Filipinos love doing – eating, dancing and singing.  So it won’t be any wonder if you’d go to a fancy Filipino party and see all three activities in full swing – lots of good food, karaoke singing and ballroom dancing.   We actually saw a few couples who were very good at ballroom dancing that I told hubbs maybe we should follow up on that thought we had a year ago of going to a few ballroom dancing classes. Thing is, I should look for an affordable dance school cause the ones I’ve seen so far are priced so steep.  Do you know that there’s this school of thought out there saying that couples who dance together build a better relationship between them?

I had fun that Saturday night. Hubs and I were just enjoying ourselves dancing silly. Come to think of it, that was actually the first time we went out to a formal social event.  It was something we both needed to refresh ourselves what with all the work and commuting and housework we always did.  We vowed we’d have more of this kind of fun next time.

One thing I also miss is tennis. I used to take tennis lessons years ago. Altho I wasn’t really that good at it, admittedly, I could return a serve (but my backhand’s bad, ha ha ha). The only bad thing that time was that I had a heart problem that prevented me from running after the ball too much. Thus, I never got to pursue learning the game after one summer. (This was years before I had a heart surgery that now enables me to do marathons if I want to. ) You know what else I loved about the sport? The gear! The ladies’ tennis shoes, the tennis racquet I picked out and the cute tennis gear. Ok, so I’m going about this for the wrong reasons, but I’m a girl, so sue me ;P

Speaking of tennis shoes, there was a time during my college years that I got so crazy with tennis shoes. All the colors, all the popular brands. My favorites then were Nike’s and the popular K Swiss tennis shoes. Maaan, if you had K Swiss then, you had style. I think I had to prod my mom to buy me two pairs – and that was an enormous feat, if you know my mom. On and off the tennis courts, they were the “official shoes of summer” for the teens during my younger years.

Not only did I go crazy with the shoes. Since I had noone to borrow my tennis racquet from, I had to ask my mom to buy me one. It took me a long time to pick which one I liked and would be good for my size. And when I did, my mom still didn’t buy me one.  Dismissing me by saying that we didn’t have the money for it.  But later on that same month, my dad gave me one for summer. I can’t remember very well what brand they gave me.  But I do remember that there was this one babolat racquet that made my mouth water that time.  Well my tennis racquet was also cool and that was what I used the whole summer. I know that before I left for Canada that racket is still in my closet.

One of these days, I will go back to playing tennis. Maybe when the summer comes and the weather gets warmer, I’d be able to think about this again and be serious about my need to exercise