After work gym funny, back and forth, anniversary

I did my after work cardio session yesterday.  As I was on the treadmill I spotted a funny scene.  There was a big beefy guy on the bench press, he had 225 on the bar and a couple 25 pound plates leaning on the bench on the floor.  He was in between sets so he was walking around a bit (like I do sometimes) All of a sudden an older guy comes over and plops down on the bench with 2 ridiculously light dumbbells.  He sits on it and starts some funny looking bicep routine.  He is bouncing the weights up and down, his elbows never going beyond 90 degrees.  Up and down, up and down he goes, very fast and then after that he puts the weights over his head and rotates his wrists back and forth .  It looked like a pom pom routine. 

Well anyway the beefy guy sees the old wanna be cheerleader sitting on his bench doing this funny routine.  He doesn’t say anything but instead just continues to circle.  The old guy does a full 3 sets of this silliness before getting off the bench.  I guess all those plates loaded up on the bar weren’t enough of a hint that someone was using the bench.  The big guy never said a word, I am surprised.

After my bad van experience, I called up the garage and told them the brakes still didn’t work right and made an appointment for today.  So we got up early to get out the door.  I drove the van, Ali followed in the Sentra.  Shortly into the drive I am noticing that everything feels fine.  Hmmm maybe it just needs to warm up a bit until it f’s up.  So I keep jabbing the brakes and they keep feeling fine.  So after we get about 5 miles out from our house, I make a sudden left onto a side street and tell Ali the brakes feel fine.  Maybe something really was just rusty from sitting for over a month?  I don’t know but I turned around and took it back home and parked it. Weird.  I need to drive it more often, once a week would be good.

Today is my 8 year wedding anniversary.  It’s hard to believe it’s been 8 years.  It seems to have gone fast but at the same time a lot of things have happened over that span of time.  Out of my side of the wedding party, the only person I have regular contact with is Rich, yea I don’t talk to either of my brothers much at all.  We relocated 1200 miles south, have a house and solid careers now.  We’ve done good. Ali and I have been together for over 10 years, wow. 

Last year we took our California trip as our anniversary celebration.  We have no such big plans this year.  As a matter of fact tonight, our big deal will be getting take out from Olive Garden and watching dancing with the Stars on TV. 🙂  Tomorrow night we are going up to Fort Myers to watch Kathy Griffin with the neighbors, it should be fun.  I told Ali that in 2007 we will head off somewhere on either another cruise or some other spot that we never visited before.