If a fat girl falls off the treadmill in Cadio Cinema and no one can see her, does she still get credit for a workout?

Good morning all!

Well, I've not been all that enthused about my new membership to Gold's Gym, as I've mentioned here a time or two. HOWEVER, the Gym FINALLY opened their real doors this week. No more working in one sweaty, un-air conditioned room with fifty other people, oh no. No, now we are in Gold's for REAL!

I have to say, after one work out there yesterday, I'm dangerously close to falling in love with a room.

I'm not a confident weight trainer. (Okay, I'm a complete chicken.) It seems like I always wind up following a gaggle of muscleheads who are trying to outdo themselves one some machine and I sit in their cloud of BO and farts while changing the weight on the machine from 400 to 40.



Now I'm at Gold's, and they have "Lady Gold's" Normally, my conservative brain would say that it's just not right that the women should have a separate place to work out...and then I walked into Lady Gold's directly from the locker room (No walk of shame through Musclehead Land.) I enjoyed the fresh, cool, unstinky air as I was able to ride the recumbant eliptical (My favorite) and hear the TV (NCIS) over the sound of the four other women lifting weights without grunting or farting, or anything. It was lovely.

Then, bolstered by a great halfhour in Lady's Gold, I braved the ten step walk to Cardio Cinema. This may be my new home. Seriously. 1) It's dark. 2) There's a movie with surround sound and it doesn't matter that the movie was "Fast and the Furious," I hopped on a treadmill and hoofed it for half an hour, a record for me. Again, this space was free of Musclehead nation, though they lurked at the banech press thingy just outside the door. I heard only a whisper of their grunted communications while I tread on and on in surround sound glory.

Yep, I'm lovin' it. I'll go back this afternoon. Who knows, if I do this often enough, I may even brave hitting the pool...in spite of the fact that the Mensa scholars who designed this place put GIGANTIC picture windows that look over the pool from Muscle land. I'm not sure I'm ready to have the over pumped watch me hack my way through a lap in my swim suit. We'll see.

On a completely random note, for those of you wondering, we did get a letter yesterday telling us that after a two week investigation, the Waukesha police and the bank both decided that no, hubby and I did not go to the Janesville Walmart and spend $200. We get to keep the refund and I'm hoping that those who stole our debit card numbers are found and flogged by several muscleheads in a small, stinky room.

Looking forward to meeting in Madison!

Good morning all!

I've often said that a big part of writing and writing well is belonging to an organized writers' group. Well, I haven't been in one in several years, not since our little group stopped meeting at The Chancery on Tuesday nights. (We learned that while drinking and writing mix quite well, drinking and offering critiques do not, right Elliott? :)

Anyway, I'm really excited to head to Madison this weekend with my dear friend Linda to officially join the Madison Chapter of WisRWA. I've been a member of RWA (Romance Writers of America) for a little less than a year, but getting into a chapter has been my goal for longer than that. So Saturday is the day and I couldn't be more jazzed to get back into an organized group!

This past weekend was an eyeopener for me. I'm not a person who goes through life worrying about who is going to rip me off. (I never think I have anything anyone would want.) Well, Saturday morning I was jangled out of bed by a phone call from my debit card company alerting me to the fact that my debit card number had gone outside to play Friday night and wound up on at the Janesville Walmart (That's an hour away from us) at about midnight. The joker with my number tried to buy $400 worth of stuff, but was denied because, well, I don't have $400 in my account! (Thank heavens for small favors, I guess!) So they managed to get $200 from me. Spent the morning at the bank and chatting with police officers. Can't wait to see how this all turns out.

I found out later that my number may have been lifted at a hotel where the computer system was compromised back in May.

I guess I'm just one of those dupes...I simply cannot understand how anyone can just use someone else's debit card/credit card number. I don't get the technology side of it and I don't get the honesty side of it. A few bad eggs ruin a lot of things for everyone, and that's just too bad.

On the plus side, thank goodness for bank protection. Credit card companies really do try to work with the customer to make sure there's no fraud.

Finally, I am reading a very cool book by Laurie Brown called "Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake." I know, goofy title. But the book itself is pretty awesome, and I'm only halfway done reading. Her premise is really original and if you like Regency romances, paranormal romances, or contemporary romances this book has something for you! Check it out!

I'm hoping that today is the day I start reworking the opening of "Shara's Chance." Out with the prologue, in with a first chapter that makes more sense.

Tah!