Ladies, let’s talk about great ideas. Mary Kay had a great idea to sell a face cream that exploded into a whole cosmetics line and Fortune 500 company. Raquel Welch had a great idea when she uprooted her two kids with only $500 dollars to her name and fled to LA to become a huge star. Ruth Wakefield had a hell of an idea when she put chocolate chunks in cookie dough in 1930 which is now known as Chocolate Chip Cookies or Lauren’s Greatest Downfall. But, sometimes we ladies don’t have the greatest of ideas, they just feel so warm and fuzzy at the time that we go for it.

Speaking of fuzzy and not-so-great ideas, I recently had two of my girlfriends, Tricia and Sara, over for a laid-back dinner. We all agreed that we needed to be in bed early with a two-glass wine max. Done and done. WHATEVER!!! I would like to amend the phrase “two-glass” to “two-bottle” well, almost, not quite that much.

Anyhow, here we are wined-up and Tricia (who is a Bikram Yoga Godess and former gymnast) brings up the 80′s break-dancing move, The Worm, wondering if she could still do it. All of sudden, she’s on the ground throwing herself into perfect “worm” motion then coaxing us to do the same. First of all, I think I’ve attempted the worm once in college and I sucked then, but, now at 32, as I’ve matured, my worm must have, right? Are you freakin crunchy!!? It looked more like I was jump-humping the ground than doing the worm. I heard cracks and pops all over my body and I think I broke a rib.  I just laid on the ground for 5 minutes after doing it while Tricia did another one over me. Last, Sara decided to give it a shot. This girl snowboards, kiteboards, ironing boards, bread boards, whatever board is around – she’s going to rock it out and look hot doing it. Sara has never even attempted the worm so the picture below is as far as she got which is nowhere, but I say A for effort because she popped right up as I was still on the ground dialing an ambulance.

My point? It was a fun bonding moment for us and then I woke up in the morning and wanted to skinny-girl-slap Tricia for the idea! I didn’t call or email either of them asking if they were sore because if their answer would have been “no” (which I bet my fondue set that it would’ve been) then I’m pretty sure our friendships would’ve ended… out of jealousy.. on their parts….of course.

So ladies… if you haven’t done those splits in 10 years… don’t try them.. especially if you’re surrounded by girlfriends who are in much better shape than you!!

Trica owning The Worm

Me. It looks like my form is okay, but my legs flopped right after this was taken.

Like I said, it was Sara's first attempt. I don't feel sorry for her, though, she has 6-pack abs.