I may as well have won the lottery yesterday afternoon. Thanks to a class action suit against the gym where I was a member during seminary, I got a free 45-day membership to the club that is less than a mile from our house.
I've already been twice.
You wouldn't look at me and think: gym rat. You probably wouldn't think that one of my major considerations in picking out a college was the proximity of the gym to the honors dorms. Nor would you guess that I took so many gym classes in college that I couldn't get credit for them all.
I just love going to the gym. I love the elliptical machines. I love the weight room. I love swimming laps, and I loooove the jacuzzi after it's all said and done. I love feeling buff, even if I've never succeeded in actually being buff.
Oh, and I also love playing racquetball, though I do not at this moment have a partner lined up. Ah, the good old days of playing with Andrea three times a week.
We did belong to a remarkably crummy gym our first year living here. (Remarkably crummy = blood on the walls of the racquetball courts for weeks, even after we complained. Repeatedly.) Once the membership lapsed I wasn't about to join the nice but infuriating gym that had charged an arm and a leg to quit (let's just say the class action suit was very well deserved). I figured the weather's nice enough, I don't need a gym membership.
But, oh, have I missed it.
So I get 45 days. I'm going to go as much as possible; there really isn't anything that melts my stress quite as reliably.
I'm totally joining a gym in Illinois.
You most certainly have the buffest arms of all the Willis girls. I'm just saying.
ReplyDeleteIf I moved back to IL, I'd so join the Y. I miss belonging to a Y. But out here, Y's just aren't the same....
ReplyDeleteAnd that would be a total brain-fart. You don't care about my longing for YMCAs. The real comment is that I actually like belonging to a gym as well. I'm not a "classes" person, but I like going and doing my thing. I miss that. The reason for the Y comment is that a good Y is something I could join for me AND for the baby, which is about the only way I can imagine my hair smelling like chlorine again.
ReplyDeleteSadly, as far as I can tell the Y nearest our new home doesn't have a pool. We'll see if it's a possibility to join the summer outdoor pool in town - I grew up in the pool and would love the same experience for J.
ReplyDeleteKatherine!! I found a gym with a pool in San Jose a mile from our new home: I have never had that luxury in Cali and yet there is nothing I love more. A toast to good gyms!!!!
ReplyDeleteXoxoxo
Allison