New Gym and Glory Hallelujah

Rich and I have been gym shopping this week.  It is something that we have been discussing for a while - I love the gym I started with, the patrons, the staff, etc. but 32 miles a day is a ridiculous amount of wear and tear on a vehicle, gas expense, and time when there is a perfectly good gym less than a mile from home.  I have been trying out the different gyms to try and get a feel but tonight we bit the bullet and enrolled at National Fitness.  It was actually fortuitous as they were running a new year's promotion which waved the enrollment fee.  All in all we ended up saving money as both our memberships is only $10 more than my old one and Rich's membership at the cardio-pulmonary rehab had a co-pay every time he went.  I especially like the idea that we'll be able to go workout together - although anyone who knows us may question how that will really work out since I am becoming more and more of a morning person and Rich is becoming more and more of a night person!  LOL 

It is interesting for me to note how much better I do with daily exercise.  It just isn't about the weight loss, but it is about the flexability, range of motion, endurance, strength, and the endorphins.  Everytime I think about "endorphins" I think about the scene in "Legally Blonde" where Elle is talking about the fitness guru they are defending and she says something to the effect that, "exercise gives you endorphins, and endorphins make you happy, and happy people just don't shoot their husbands...they just don't!"  I think one of the things that I am most surprised about is how true that is - I really do have a happier, more calm, even relaxed feeling when I am exercising regularly and I notice the difference in how my body responds physically too.  Who would have guessed that at 57 I would have become a gym rat?!?!?  LOL

I would like to think that I will be able to achieve my weight loss goal this year but I'm really not worried too much about it as I know that with consistent exercise and good nutrition I should manage to get healthier each and every day.  So, I wonder where I will be in December 2011...but I am not worried about it...and that's a good thing.

Today is Glory's 10th birthday.  I remember grimacing a little when Carlie and Joey first told me that they were going to name her "Glory".  I guess I couldn't quite imagine it - why not "Gloria" or something more conventional was my initial reaction.  However, it wasn't long before I had not only gotten used to the name but really embraced it.  I still think of the phrase "Glory, glory Hallalujah!" whenever I say her name - but I truly rejoice in her birth and life!  Our family would just not be the same without her!  Hallalujah she is ours!  Happy Birthday, Glory!!!