So, yesterday was tough all around & even more so than expected for several. I’ve been facing some difficult personal struggles these past weeks / months & shared some of the deepest soul rendering details with one close & dear yesterday but not until after she broke some terribly worrisome work related news of her own that made my timing totally suck & made me feel even worse than I could’ve possibly expected about the entire situation.
There’s never a good time to share the raw edges of your soul when they can have a negative impact on others dear to you, but the cosmos & Murphy just seem to be on point these days; aligning troubles to multiply their effect on folks. As any of you who’ve followed these rambling adventures of the Griz know, bringing angst, hurt, or even simple aggravation to anyone dear just tears me up & it seems the older I get the more so that effect impacts my soul.
Because of this, combined with my upbringing, I try to be the best friend / person I can be, bringing others what happiness I can while trying my best not to cause anyone dear to me any type of hurt. Trouble is; life just doesn’t cooperate well sometimes & yesterday was certainly one of those days. I know many of my friends have expressed that I need to learn to focus on bringing myself happiness, at least now & then, but I acquire my greatest happiness through that of dear ones so these two factors are intimately intertwined for me, like it or not.
This week & beyond is undoubtedly going to mark a rough stretch & a period of tremendous adjustment that I honestly have no frigging idea how to surmount just yet but like any journey, it has to begin with the first step & can only be completed by not giving up.
All of that being said, this morning marked the first workout in Helga’s NEW House of Pain (AKA ATC Fitness)! The only constant is change, that’s for SURE!!!
Mixed feelings abound! Everything there is nice, clean & functional BUT there isn’t a single clock in the place, the stations are much closer together than before & are organized in some bizarre total body circuit sort of fashion, each is situated so that nearly every resistance station is directly facing the occupant of another & the locker room merits a paragraph all of its own!
There are 2 brand new Concept II cardio rowing trainers still in their boxes & several large flat screen TVs setting around the joint still in their boxes as well so it’s going to be even nicer soon but I spent this morning searching for stations & wishing I’d worn my pedometer! Once I finished yesterday’s missed UBWO I actually (quickly) sketched the place out on the back of my spreadsheet, noting each station I care about, so I can attempt to revamp my sessions in an efficient, productive, time effective, order.
Nearly all the equipment came across from Helga’s old place so not much new to try, add, or learn. Miss Snooty even had her spandex in a bunch scowling as she hunted stations & being miffed staring folks in the face as she worked out rather than teasing the old geezers with her butt as she went along LOL.
ATC advertises “Around The City, Around The Clock” having SEVERAL 24 hour locations around the Memphis metro area & for an extra $5 per month you can utilize any of’em anytime & also get free tanning. Since I’m quite fair skinned & none of the other locations are AT ALL handy for me I stick to the cheapy $15 per month for my location with no tanning but lots of folks opt for the premium route. Well, this being the latest, supposedly greatest, location there were LOTS of new folks there this morning who claimed to have been going to the next nearest / newest one so hopefully the new location will be good for their business!
Now about the locker room…apparently the locker arrangement itself was developed by some anal retentive industrial engineer / bean counter as they are the 6’ tall but double stacked variety to maximize the possible number of lockers per square foot of wall space but these short little lockers do not even allow a decent shirt to hang without piling up in the bottom BUT the showers must’ve been designed by some psuedo masochist NBA player as the shower heads are AT LEAST 7 feet above the shower floors & can not adjust to spray below the chest line / shoulder blades of this 6’2” bruin! They do however have AMAZING water pressure blasting out of nearly 100 surgical needle jet nozzles to remove ANY sweat or oil that could possibly be on ANY surface you can direct them towards. I can only assume this is why you absolutely can not aim them anywhere near the tender nether regions but something tells me the ladies aren’t going to be extremely happy much below the collar bones unless their into some serious frontal pain!!! There’s a cool lil Asian gentleman / AM regular who’s timing & mine generally run pretty close & that poor fellow said he could barely reach the shower head to even attempt adjusting it let alone get into its flow!
The only constant in life is change so I guess, as stubborn & impatient as I am, I just need to suck it up & get better at dealing with it!
Rock on pals.
Sincerely, your crazy Memphis
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