"But steroids would be easier."

I had a pretty good weekend. Let's start with Friday at work though. A friend was chatting with me saying how she was bored at work. I suggested she do a cartwheel in the office to help stir up some conversation in the office and make the day interesting. For whatever reason she laughed at the idea and sarcastically suggested I do it instead. Challenged accepted.



Friday night we had a surprise birthday party for one of our friends. She totally knew and really made no effort of acting surprised either. What a jerk. Anyways it was a good time. I had a full rack of ribs which could probably have fed a small village in South America somewhere. I could feel it clogging my arteries as it went down. Don't ever let me order ribs again. Too delicious but just way too much food.

I know you're probably thinking about how I was talking about eating healthy and all that but I still haven't gone out to buy a boatload of chicken and salad yet but I will (eventually).

My friend and I have been wanting to get into shape for a while and since he gawked at my idea of using horse steroids, we joined a gym instead. I'm real excited to get started (steroids would have been easier) and hopefully will reach my goal of being in the best shape of my life by my birthday. I want to be able to crush a coconut with my bare hands, that would be kind of cool and oh so useful.

Joining this gym was such an easy process with no real haggling or hasselling involved unlike another gym him and I joined a few years back. We got a flyer for 'that gym' a few years ago and it was 16 weeks for $16. 'That gym' had the stereotypical meat head manager who probably had an Arnold like accent sit us in a room and talk to us for 3 hours telling us we need to join this gym. His deal went something like this (picture overly aggressive hand gestures as well).

“Look, our 346,234 star gym is the best in the world and by the time you're done here you'll be able to crush a car between your biceps so obviously this is the gym for you. Our prices are normally $107 a month but since you guys are good guys I'm just gonna slash that right down to $94, sounds good right. But wait gimme a second, (speakerphone calls some random dude) hey Rocky, do we have any more of those corporate deals left?” Rocky then responds by saying , “I dunno Arnold there such a good deal there going really fast.” Arnold then hangs up and turns to us while drinking a protein shake, “How about this guys, I give you the corporate deal and bam that $94 becomes $76 how does that sounds good right? Nobody gets this deal. But if you sign a lifetime contract right now I'll just slash that down to $54 and bam sign here.”

If you notice the above conversation you will see that neither I nor my friend were able to get a word in. After 3 hours of him chewing on protein bars and constantly using the word 'bam' we ended up staying with the deal on the flyer, 16 weeks for $16. They probably hated us. All I remember thinking is 16 weeks for $16 bucks is a good deal, and I love cars, so why would I want to crush them between my biceps?

And we won our basketball game 75-74 on the weekend. My stat line: 18 pts, 8 rbs and 6 ast plus a game tying 3 pointer at the end of regulation to force overtime. Yes I felt like a hero.

Peace.