Suburban kvetch #1
I joined a new gym.
This would imply I had an old gym, which I did — in 2004.
The new gym is where people workout and maybe shower after. There’s no juice bar, no couches, no classes and little, if any socializing. To me, it’s perfect. I do not want to drink juice or sit on a couch or join a class or socialize. I want to exercise and I want to leave. It’s a sparkling new facility - it’s just low-key. You know, like me.
The front wall of windows allows in plenty of sunlight and you can see out the windows from anywhere in the gym unless you’re in the back pumping iron facing the mirror, which I’m not.
I watch TV or listen to music or a podcast while I work the elliptical or the recumbent bike. But the other day I looked out the window. I mean, I really looked. Cars whizzing by in the distance. A blue sky above. And staring at me from the other side of a four-lane road was a pizza joint (Hawaiian), a Subway (as close to a hoagie as you can get in the Midwest), a day spa (reflexology anyone?) and my favorite Thai restaurant (OK, the only Thai restaurant for miles, no matter. Basil fried rice with chicken and Nam Sod, no peanuts).
I went quickly back to reading subtitles and watching The View.
By angie on Jun 28, 2009
Attagirl!
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By fern on Jun 29, 2009
Don’t the other posts count as official? Let me know if you ever see me going through the dunkin donuts drive through (getting my iced decaf)!
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SuburbanKvetch replied:
June 29th, 2009 at 5:50 am
@fern,
this is an official kvetch! although, as you know, my life is a kvetch pretty much.
and, can’t see dunkin’ donuts from the window at the gym. good thing too. don’t think i could handle that.
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By MindyMom on Jun 29, 2009
Haha. That’s actually my kinda gym too - if I even liked going to gyms. I prefer to work out solo - either at home or outside but definitely NOT with all that food in my face. Ugh. Good for you though, hope you keep at it!
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