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I’ve joined a gym. I swore I’d never do it again, but they actually have leg machines that I can use with my injured ankle. I’m getting all this tone in my upper body, but when even a long walk hurts, leg work has come to a grinding, and painful, halt. Friends Pili and Carri recommended their gym, so tonight I went. It was a girl’s night out. Last time I had a work out partner was before Trinity was born. Okay, last time I had a work out partner that was a girl and not my husband, and last time I had a work out partner that didn’t hate to hit the gym. Jon loves the yoga and Pilates, and he’ll go to the gym if I make him, but he hates it. It’s no fun if half the team hates what you are doing, so in the spirit of our new exercise treaty he doesn’t have to go and I have found new people to work out with. Jon and I are still doing yoga together but for the rest it’s better apart. As Jon described to our new yoga instructor, "Exercise is our one area of mutual destruction."

Every couple has to have at least one area where they are not helpful to each other, exercise is ours. What we enjoy, what we want out of it, how dedicated we are to it; none of it matches. So in the spirit of detente we have decided to divide and conqueor. I’ll be doing arms, legs, and abs with girlfriends at the gym. Two to three times a week, depending on how the schedule works. Jon and I will still do yoga twice a week, and Pilates once a week. Jon is adding the treadmill back in, but that is impossible for me with my ankle right now. This was my first night at the gym. I finished one of the ab machines and Carri said, "You’ll feel that in the morning." My reply, "I’m feeling it now. It’s going to hurt in the morning." If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, then the proof of new exercise is how stiff you are the next morning, though I’m often one of those people that doesn’t stiffen up until the second day, so Wednesday will be the true test.

{Jon here: Fought with AT&T trying to get this posted. Got fed up and found a list of Public DNS servers. Now everything is working.}