Take that...hated gym of mine

I actually have about 5 title options....so I am going to share them all...

Know what I can do with 6 Chocolate Oreos?
The Machine that almost killed me
The Scale that Lies


Ok...that was three...but I swear that as I was huffing and puffing and blowing that house down away this morning on the elliptical that I had more in my head.

First of...Yea me!  It's my one month Bandaversary!  HAPPY DANCE!  HAPPY DANCE!  And I celebrated with my first trip to the park district fitness center.  And my two of my worst fears came true.

1.  I got on a machine that I really had no clue what I was gonna do with and it kicked my arse after 5, ok 3 minutes.  It was some Precore AMT machine of Death.  I am POSITIVE that it what it was called.

See....Machine of Death....ok...really....this is it...and it turns out my dumbarse was using it wrong and didn't ask anyone for help....

So, I settled with the standard elliptical for 20 minutes and 15 minutes of treadmill.  Not bad for someone who hasn't worked out in eleventy billion years.  Maybe it will make-up for the 6 Chocolate Oreo cookies that might have been consumed in a moment of angst last night.  (might means that I cannot confirm or deny where the cookies went from the container.  It could have been the one-eyed dog).

2.  My second fear that came true.  People talked to me.  Umm....hello.  I have ear-buds in.  Can you not see that?  Do I look like a person who wants to start up a conversation?  I even have a hat on!  Leave me alone.  And it was like a common thing.  Everyone was talking to everyone, whether they knew them or not...about the weather, about the fact they didn't want to come work out, about their jeans being too tight. It was like they were trying to motivate each other!  I know...go ahead and shudder...I did.  Sigh.

I did, however, reach over 6000 steps before 10AM and since my daily goal is 10,000, I am good to go...I have a few errands to run, and then some Revenge to watch...and my Daisy Scout book should be here and then the REAL planning fun for next year starts!  I also need to update my Nano playlist a little more because while I am all about Sarah McLaughlin....something about Building a Mystery while you are on an elliptical just doesn't work...now if I was listening to Building a Mountain....(shout out to my V-Show friends who get that)