Dolphin’s Dock

• I don’t objectively like to work out. The other day as I sighed before doing arm exercise or another, TheBoyfriend™ commented, “you may not like these exercises but your arms are loving them,” to which I responded, “no, I can assure you my arms are not loving them, they maybe responding to them, but they do not in fact love them.” That said, I also have reach the point where I do not under any circumstances want to miss a trip to the gym or cut a work out routine short. In fact, shockingly, I’m the one who insists on getting cardio in even if we’re running a little late, where as TheBoyfriend™ would be ok with skipping directly to the weight training portion of our work out. I say, if I’m developing these muscles, the hell if I’m gonna let fat build on them and keep them covered.
• For what it’s worth, my motivation to work out isn’t to be healthier, or stronger, or anything like that. It is too look hot. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to being healthy and strong, but I’m not going to be one of those people who claims that they don’t’ really care how they look, they just workout for their health. 90% of the time, that’s BS and it sure would be if I said it. For most of my adult life I’ve thought, “well one day I’m going to get all buff and hot,” and I have finally reached the age where I’ve realized, if I’m gonna do it, I need to do it now while I’m still young enough to turn some heads.
• I have noticed that I am turning heads, if not yet the heads I’d like to turn. Seriously, I never knew this city had so many dirty old gay men in it. I’d heard that the Downtown Y was kinda a “cruisy” place, and that has definitely turned out to be the case. Which, for the most part doesn’t bother me. I mean I’m not thrilled to be oggled by old men, but I am working out so that people will want to look at my body so I’m not going to complain to much when it happens, even if the people looking are folks I’d rather not look back at. As long as they keep it to looking without touching, I don’t really care that much. The exception being this one redheaded perv. It’s one thing to try (unsuccessfully) to steal a discreet glance in the showers. It’s another thing entirely to visit the water fountain by TheBoyfriend™ and I’s locker THREE TIMES in the 5 minutes it takes us to dry off and get dressed.
• Going to the gym does take up a fair bit of time. We’ve been going on wed, Fridays, one day of the weekend, and often Mondays (if TheBoyfriend™ doesn’t go to his meditation class). Then we have Jiu-Jitsu class on Tuesday and Thursday, so our weeknights are pretty much packed now. But it’s time we’d otherwise just spend sitting at home watching TV or surfing the web, so it’s not like we really are missing out on something we’d rather be doing. Plus it’s more “together time” and in a way that surpasses both of us sitting next to each other and watching a tv screen (or worse yet, watching separate computer screens).

Last night, it seems, the temperature must have hit that perfect sweet spot to make the glass expand and contract just right, and I woke up to find that the little chip in the glass that could fit under a dime is now a foot and a half long crack! What a way to start a week…

I’ve been REALLY bus with work lately. I’ve been frequently working 10-13 hours days in the last several weeks and working on the weekends from time to time. I’m not complaining, because it’s largely been enjoyable work (even if the pace necessary to meet the deadline was less than fun), and even were it miserable work, it’s still paying my bill bills at a time when a growing number of my fellow Americans don’t have that luxury. In this economy, being “too busy” at work is a good thing. Things should be slowing down just a bit now as the major project that we were working so hard for is now (more or less) complete.

At least some of the time that hasn’t been spent working has been spent at the gym. TheBoyfriend™ and I went ahead and joined the YMCA on January 31st (just squeaked in to get the New Year resolution special rate). We’ve been going three times a week up until the last two when busy schedules and a random snow storm have kept us away, but tonight we start back again and I’m actually looking forward to it.

So staying busy, but mostly good things, but I’m hoping things will slow down a bit so that I can bring blogging back up to a higher priority again.