So I'm that girl. The one who gets a boyfriend and stops going to the gym. I've been dating dude for almost 5 months now, I think I've been to the gym a total of 6 times since we met. A year ago that would have been the amount of times I had gone in one week. Growing up, I was always involved in gymnastics and dance, so I was always slim. So I never had to do any extra working out. Then I graduated college and it wasn't until I had been home for almost two years to realize that I was going to have to start working out to maintain my girlish figure. There have been plenty of times when my grandmother and my mother have said that they were my size at my age. Now my grandmother is a women with a lot of extra cushion. And my mom is not big, but she does have some pounds on me. So last October, two of my friends decided to join the new gym that just opened up. Up until that point I had been against working out. 1). because I'm lazy and 2). because I didn't have a reason to work out. Now I had a reason to go, I had motivators and jeans that were shrinking. I refused to go up another size. Time to hit the gym. I was obsessed. I was taking classes, I was lifting, and I was doing cardio in addition to taking my salsa classes 2 nights a week, and coaching 3 nights. I would go religiously. I went daily, either right after work, or I went after practice which wasn't until 9pm, I went early in the morning on the weekends. I was in there 6-7 times a week. Then I met the bf, and its been down hill ever since. The gym is 15 minutes away from my house in one direction, and he lives 30 minutes away in the opposite direction. When contemplating in my head where to go, the bf always wins. So I've been neglecting my body and health for 5 months and it shows. Jeans are shrinking again. My sister is preggers, I swear my stomach is growing with hers. I'm sure people are like, which one's the pregnant one. I had on a button down the other day, those buttons were screaming. I had to untuck my shirt so I could eat. That was my motivation to get back into the gym.

So I've decided to cancel my memebership at my gym, and join a new one that is more convenient, they have a location around the corner from my house and also have two locations on the way to the bf's house. Now I can go right after work and still have time to go before practice and still make it to the bf's at the usual time.

So yesterday I started my free week pass. I had already gotten one back in September from the owner and already used it. But this other dude gave me one too around the same time. So I went to use it yesterday.

Assohole Owner: didn't you already use one of these?
Me: yes I did, but I was given two.
AO: To me he says, "You're not supposed to use this again." Shaking his head, under his breath to himself he says," You're really not supposed to use it." but he lets me anyway.

So why the hell did you let me. Why would I turn down a free week pass. As the owner you should treat potential customers with a little more kindness, like you want their business. Why is it that big of a deal? Your gym is not that tight. It actually is tight in the literal sense. Machines all on top of eachother. The only reason why I'm here is because my jeans are getting tight and I need a place that is more convenient. Believe me for what I'm about to pay you, I'd much rather pay $5 more for a cleaner and roomier environment, but relationships require compromise.

This is the gym that I went to once upon a time when I was did my 3 month workout stint back in high school. And once again it felt like high school. I swear it was like a GHS reunion up in there. And just like high school, I'm still like the only black person in there. So I'm minding mine, listening to Robin Thicke. and I see this dude with a baseball cap on from behind. Can't see his face, all I see is his arms that are overflowing from his D.A.R.E. t-shirt from the 7th grade and his side burns, and I know its him. Tony B. that fine ass baseball playin white boy. He turned around, and he was looking as cute as ever. I wonder if he's like Robin, I could be his sweet chocolate lover. And then he started talkin to these two boys that are brothers, WHAT, those boys were fine too. Finer that I remember. And one of them was staring at me. Just like them negroes at Jameil's gym. Anywho I'll be joining tomorrow when I get paid. I need to get back into my non-stretch size two's.