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Life Spice: Variety

Today after work I went over to Planet Fitness to work out a little... by work out I mean use the elliptical.  That's pretty much the only thing I use.  I pay my 10 bucks a month and use that one thing.  I really just don't like any of the other equipment.  But I figure buying one outright would probably be at the very least several hundred dollars.  So even 60 bucks a year times let's say 10 years to buy one... but if that one breaks and I have to buy a new one within those 10 years, I'm still up.  Plus it saves on space and gives me somewhere to go to get out of the house.  Also there IS other stuff if I ever want to use it.

Well today, I thought to myself ok, since it's getting to be the cold dark time of the year when I really won't want to run outside anymore, I'll probably start using Planet Fitness more and more.  But what happened last year was that I got super sick of going by the end of winter.  The same location, over and over.  I tried using other machines, I tried different spots in the gym.  I tried listening to pod casts one night and reading another...

Life gets dull when you do the same thing over and over again.  At least for me it does.  Maybe I'm not doing the right stuff.  Maybe if you do the right stuff it never gets dull?  I don't know.  Maybe it's just me, maybe it's this area.  Maybe there's a place n this planet where everyone that lives there is like...

WOOOOO I LOVE EVERYTHING IN LIFE EVERY DAY AND I DO THE SAME THINGS EVER SINGLE DAY AND NEVER GET SICK OF IT!!!

If you know of a place... Let me know.

So, to keep up my gym work out throughout the winter time... I decided to upgrade to the 20 dollar a month membership (now I'm all kinds of fancy).  This will allow me to use guest gyms.  So now when I'm out writing at an Iron Hill brewery, or any other bar, or at a Starbucks, or any other coffeeshop... Instead going to the same gym near my house I can go to one of the guest gyms in the area to shake things up!

Because variety is the spice of life.  So now I have the option of gym variety.

It wasn't really a super spur of the moment thing.  I've been considering this for some time.  Since I can't run in the winter time outside, this will keep me going working out a few times a week by alternating the gym locations to maybe, the 5 closest ones.  That way I don't bored of just going to the same location over and over and over again.

All that for only 20 bucks a month!  Can't beat it.  If only the yoga place had multiple locations.  And if my work had multiple locations too.  And if I had multiple houses.  I'd be set!

For now I'll settle for multiple gyms... and writing locations.  And diversifying my stocks.

I figure hey I probably should have a healthy habit to help balance out the probably bad effects from my margarita search.  So for every location that I find a delicious new margarita, I'm sure there will be a Planet Fitness nearby to help burn off the alcohol and sugars in the drink.

WIN WIN!

And who knows... maybe at one of these other Planet Fitness's I'll bump into a lady and find love.  My bro met his wife at the gym.  He used the following line "Don't I know you from somewhere?".

He didn't know her.  He knew that.  But it was an excuse to talk to her.  Now they have been married for several years and have a house and babies and all that jazz.

I figure the more places I go out to... the better a chance of meeting the girl that will become the one that I'll come home to every night and never get sick of.  No matter how many times I see her or hear her sweet voice.  Or she texts me or calls when I can't be near her.  Maybe she's been going to Planet Fitness too, but just in a different location.

It's all about fate and timing and all that stuff.  Just have to keep waiting until those paths cross and then my days of going on a variety of first dates will be over.  I guess variety isn't always the spice of life.  When it comes to falling in love... I just want one.  The same one.  Day in and day out... for the rest of our days.  Sigh.  Some day I'll find that too.