Gimmie a P, Gimmie an E, Gimmie an I, Gimmie an F

Saturday morning, 6:30, the alarm goes off and I have to go and shovel the sidewalk.  The first official shoveling has come and gone.  I have been trying to get up earlier each day because I can’t roll out of bed at 7:55 and get ready to leave at 8:15 (which I can definitely do) if I have to shovel 6 inches of snow first (granted, there was just under an in this morning).  This is why I really don’t like winter!  Why do I live here again?  Oh yeah, I love it (I know, I’m going schizo on you).

Any who…After shoveling, I had a hot cup of coffee and got ready to head off to the PEIF, you know that place with the gym equipment.  Oh that’s right, you don’t remember it, because you haven’t been there.  At the beginning of the semester Dan, Andy and I decided to work out EVERY Saturday morning (except the one weekend a month I have to work).  That went well for 3 weeks, then Andy fell of the face of the earth (he had a rough semester, so I’ll give him a slight break, though I think he could have spared an hour).  Our group of 3 grew to 7, 8, 9, even without Andy.  Then all of a sudden, BLAM it’s just me and Kaitlyn.  Don’t get me wrong now.  Kaitlyn and I have a blast playing racquet ball, and I love telling her how much I hate her when we do ab workouts.  But what happened to the camaraderie, the group encouragement, the commitment to your friends?  I leave the comfort of my warm bed and my loving wife to subject myself to hard physical punishment (that I enjoy, but that’s not the point).  The point is this was supposed to be a time not only to better ourselves physically, but also to strengthen our fraternal bonds.  We were supposed to have fun, hang out and in general have a good time.  For most of you, that went by the wayside.  I can think of a few explainations.

1. You are lazy.  You can’t bring yourself to get up at a reasonable hour (8:30) on a Saturday to do something that benefits not only yourself, but your friends as well.
2. You don’t like me.  I offend you, or I’m too old or not cool enough or something.  I understand, but you could at least be honest (by the way, this better not be the reason!)
3. You are lazy.
4. You don’t value your health enough to stay physically fit
5. You are lazy.
6. You can’t spare the time because you have to study.  (come on, its an hour and a half that you would spend sleeping instead anyway)
7. You are lazy.

I sense a theme here.  I really do think that it comes down to not having the gumption to get out of bed.  But I find that to be a rather poor excuse, because I’m the guy who slept through Christmas morning gift opening one year because I didn’t want to get out of bed.  If I can set the alarm, crawl out of bed, brush my teeth, throw on some gym clothes and head out the door, you can too.  So next week (the last of the semester) I better see you there!

 

Now after belittling the majority of my readers, I have to give props to two people.  First to Cat, who got up this morning and came to workout with us.  She has had this chest cold all semester and the doctor told her not to go, but she’s feeling better and came to punish herself with me (that’s love)  Second to Kaitlyn.  She got me playing racquet ball again and I love it.  We have tons of fun.  She also makes me push myself into doing things I normally wouldn’t do.  Those crazy ab workouts suck, but I know I need them.  She has also been there faithfully every week, and I stopped counting how many times it was just the two of us.  She doesn’t get paid for it, but she makes a pretty good personal trainer for me.

That’s all for now.  Dodge Ball tonight!!!!!!!!  Watch out, my “Inner Bridget” might show up!