24 Hour Fitness

I had a crazy incident at 24 Hour Fitness yesterday.

Here's the background story. I'm scamming my gym membership because a) I'm uber poor and b) I refuse to pay for a 24HF membership because I think they SUCK (but that's kind of all that's around here sadly). I use one of my friend's cards. She lives in Dallas.

So as usual I go there, and the dude behind the counter has seen me before but maybe because I was still wearing non-gym clothes maybe I looked different. So he scans my card, and then goes "Wait a minute"...and stares at the screen.

I stare at the screen, in panic. I know they don't take pictures with the card...so what could he be looking at? Does it say that Nicole also just signed into the gym? Is he going to ask about my supposed Dallas address?

Then he hands it back to me and says "Next time don't come in with your mother's card".

Me: "WHAT?!!"

Him: "It says you're 31" (I'm going to be 28 in a few weeks).

Me: (shocked)..."It's called really great lotion!"

Him: "Yeah. Lotion. Sure".

So i go in the back and change, and i'm thinking "crap crap this guy works ALL the time"...

After I changed I went back over and I'm like "If you think my mother is 31, how old do you think I am?!" and he says "I don't know....15?"...

So i started mock laughing (because i'm trying to play so offended over all of this) and flash him my wedding ring and I say "I'm MARRIED"...

and then for good measure I add "And i had a baby!" (okay I don't have a kid...but lots of people my age have one or two kids so that's believable)...so he was all "Oh...whatever"...

NOw i don't know if I should be offended because he was an ASS to me...or if i should be grateful that I look 15...but see being called 20 would be more flattering than looking 15 becuase at 15, i was a gangly looking tool...or the fact I lied about having a kid, which I didn't have to do but I really felt I needed to emphasize the point, now I feel stupid for that...

Anyway. So after I worked out and I left, I said to the guy on the way out "thanks for making my day!" and he's all "Have yourself a good night, see you later!" so that means it's all good NEXT time I work out, but eep...I can't wait till the location in Ladera Ranch opens up and I can just go to another location then.

Moral of the story? I miss my Gold's Gym.

This is the story of 7 people....

I'm willing to admit that I'm an absolute teenager in my mind.

Total immaturity, I know. When I was 16 I was the most mature person ever. Sadly my maturity stopped at 16 as well.

Growing up I was all into YM, 'TEEN, Seventeen...and they always highlighted MTV and MTV shows...well in Canada we have MTV's MuchMusic and Musique Plus (the French version), which really is just nonstop music.

When I first moved to the US I was so annoyed with MTV...my knowledge of music video totally slashed big time (I have since learned that if you stay up late, you can catch that insomniac theater or whatever). And I was so annoyed that at least I got my VH1 Behind The Music fix. But then...

everything changed...

...when I got to watch Real World.

I had read about Real World (Eric Nies was ALWAYS in those teen magazines...which yes highlights my age, I know...but to my defense, the dude is still doing RealWorld/RoadRules challenges) in all those magazines, but they don't show it in Canada, so I didn't think much of it. But when I finally started watching it...OMG...I thought it was brilliant.

Now keep in mind, that maybe by the time I started watching it, the whole "wow let's get some young hot people drunk and film them" novelty had worn off, but to me it was AWESOME. And I've been addicted ever since.

Granted the last season, Philadelphia, was horrible and I missed quite a few episodes...after awhile, there's only so much "we're good looking we love our roommates let's drink yadda yadda let's talk about the meaning of life like at 21 I know anything about life" I can handle, and that season in particular there was alot of Here's The Meaning Of Life, Like, You Know What I Mean? discussions....but overall, I absolutely adore Real World.

On Tuesday we saw the first episode of Real World: Austin. I was ready to write the show off if it was going to be thin, gorgeous people...thankfully, this one isn't. I mean, part of the idea of the show is to have people from different backgrounds interact...pfft in Philly, they were ALL from the same stupid background, even having 2 gay people didn't make a diff in the intellectual stimulation of the show. But this one...I have to give it credit.

You've got the Military Chick who's definitely not stick thin and kinda butchy and has 'tude.
You've got the Virgin Hairdresser who just seems appalled by everyone's actions.
You've got the Token Hot Blonde who's excessively slutty.
You've got Exotic Girl With a Twist...she's an insane violent drunk.
You've got Token Hot Guy...which wouldn't be a big deal but DANG the dude got his face punched in the first episode and his bone completely moved in (they showed the X-Rays, eww) and now he's all jacked up. I dig that.
You've got Token Black Guy...ahh whatever he's just the token Guy Of Color.
You've got Hillbilly Frat Boy...he's kind of useless but his excessive hand slapping with Token Hot Guy is kind of funny. And he's not good looking.

So my friends....I think Real World has redeemed itself from the past season by finding people that actually have personalities and serious psychological issues. Yee haw!

Star Wars...again

Okay, so I haven't written in awhile and now i'm going to write, again, about Star Wars.

See after seeing the last movie, and finally "getting" it, my husabnd and I had a marathon on Sunday watching Ep4 to Ep6...it got too late to watch Ep 1 & 2, plus I wanted to watch 4400.

So just a few random thoughts on it.

First off, WOW...talk about seeing all the things I didn't get before. Okay now to my defense, everything I know about Star Wars was really from when I saw it as a kid, I didn't know anything about politics or human behavior, and it just stayed with me everytime thereafter that I saw it. Like when I heard "the Empire", I thought Empire = Emperor = Royalty = Princess Diana (hey I'm Canadian...and my parents married in London so I grew up loving the monarchy).

And when I heard "Rebellion", to me, I just assumed Rebels = bad. I mean, you hear all the time about the way in Iraq and all the rebels, blah blah.

What I have noticed is that George Lucas has an obsession with arms and hands. Throughout the entire series, Anakin/Vader gets his hand cut off twice, Luke gets his cut off once, Luke's hand is then cut once (that's when he puts on that black glove), C3PO has his arms ripped off several times, and Han says the Wookies will rip your arms out of their sockets when they lose at chess (or whatever that game was).

So I guess this weekend I'll watch the first two episodes (not really lookign forward to it, Episode one was HORRIBLE), and then maybe watch the Sith movie again. I don't think Hayden Christensen is good looking when he plays normal guys...so I'll take him as the hot guy going nutty in Sith.

Ice ice baby

I know, I know, it's been ages since I've written.

Not that I'm sure anyone even reads this, but whatever...sometimes, you gotta get crap off your chest.

I meant to write more, but the past few weeks my Random Thoughts and Gripes were about work, which of course I couldn't write about without writing myself my own termination notice.

Anyway, thankfully that's all done and now I can focus on normality again.

Since I've been working late or doing stuff after work, along with all the TV reruns, I find the only way I can get my daily TV fix is by watching Nick At Night...

You have no idea how much I love the Cosby Show. And Fresh Prince. And what's said is how I still remember that intro rap to Fresh Prince.

But Cosby Show is SO timeless in its cheesy family humor. Like when Theo lied about why he didn't get to eat dinner with his team so Claire actually takes him to "court"...or when Rudy has her first day of school and made her tunafish sandwiches two weeks previous....

Genious. Pure genius.

Although it's pretty funny how times have changed. Like both Cliff and Claire come home around the times their kids come home (which to me would mean 4ish)...pfft SO not happening. Everyone I know who has kids, if they ahve dinner together, have to eat at 8pm because that's factoring in getting off work at 5 or 6 and then dealing with traffic.

And come to think of it, what if Rudy got home from school first? Hmmm...

I have serious issues with the way we work. Today a coworker was talking about how in Europe they get so much time off, blah blah....well yeah that's all great in theory but if the US is supposed to get the leader in everything economically, you're not gonna be that way if you're taking 2 months off for vacation or daily siestas. Don't get me wrong...i couldn't care a less if i'm in a country that's the #1 powerhorse of the world. BUT...if you're gonna live here, don't think that this country could survive working slacker hours like other countries. Because Lord help us all if we should actually learn to ENJOY life here.

Disgruntled much? Oh yes very much. I did the math of whenever (if ever) I should have kids, the cost of childcare...well even if i count EXACTLY 8 hours of work (which is do-able, because my husband leaves work an hour and a half after i do) which is rare because people have to factor in commuting...omg the cost of childcare is astronomical. Grumble grumble.

This is all random babbling, becuase it's almost 5pm on a Friday afternoon and I would leave work NOW if my boss didn't decide to suddenly come in on her day off.

GRUMBLE!!!!