Exercise Attention Span & Sour Pancakes?

Good morning! I got all my work done so I'm going in late today which means you get an early morning blog entry from me...lucky you :)

Lately I've had no attention span when it comes to exercise. I've been exercising, very consistently, but I can never do the same thing more than a few times. Even spinning, which I love, I rarely attend more than once a week. I tried to do the daily yoga challenge, and though I am still plugging away pretty frequently, I find myself trying out different yoga videos, different poses and even mixing in some pilates. Last night I went to do "Yoga Sculpt" On Demand and I suddenly couldn't find it (I'm hoping it was just a fluke and today it will appear again). I decided to try Pilates instead and did a 20 minute Total Body Pilates video. I loved it! It began by focusing on the stomach muscles, moved into the butt and upper thighs and finished with some back exercises. I think I must work the stomach and upper thighs in other work outs that I do because it was mainly my back muscles that were sore later. The only thing that annoyed me about the video was when the pilates girl, Nicole Stewart, would talk in the same rhythm she wanted us to be breathing in...really unnecessary. I will definitely be doing this video again, but I do look forward to when I can mute it, no offense Nicole :)

I used to be a big pilates girl long before the interest in yoga, spinning and many of the other things that I do now. I started doing pilates in high school and actually got pretty good when I was going consistently in Australia. For some reason I can't seem to find a pilates class at my gym that works for me time wise, but I'm hoping to incorporate more at home if I can. At least for a few weeks, then I'll probably have a new obsession. What's your exercise attention span like? Do you tend to stick to one activity or change it around all the time?

On a completely unrelated note I'm having a major baking issue and I'm hoping one of you can solve it for me. My mom has been making these delicious oatmeal pancakes forever and when I moved out I took the recipe and started making it for myself. Everything went well, they were delicious, I was happy. Then, one day I made the pancakes using the same recipe and they had this TERRIBLE sour aftertaste to them. I thought I did something wrong so I tried again a few days later and the same thing happened. My mom and I blamed bad baking powder, so I got a new one and tried again. Still terrible! I have tried making them probably five or six times since then and it's always this terrible taste. I have to know what the problem is, I really think all of my ingredients are fresh! The other VERY strange part to this story is that I made oatmeal apple muffins that use the same ingredients (plus additional ingredients), just different measurements and they always come out fine.

So I am going to post the recipe and please tell me if you have any ideas of what could be going so wrong!

Oatmeal Pancakes

1 egg (I use egg whites only, 3 tablespoons I believe)

1/2 cup plain non-fat yogurt

2 tbsp. oil

1 tsp. sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 cup oatmeal

1/4 cup flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Alright, you fantastic bakers out there- please tell me what I am doing wrong so I can make my favorite breakfast again!