Fitness...24 hours a day

It's true. I have joined 24 hour fitness. Paige joined first as it was less expensive per month than weight-watchers. I went in with her once and they gave me a 10 day guest pass. Just walking around in there the firs day was really intimidating.
I've been a member at the Brea City gym before, but the people there were not nearly as huge and buff, not nearly as dedicated (or obsessed, depending on how you want to look at it), and it was never as full of these people that were everywhere I looked when I was taking the tour. However, it is a 24 hour fitness "sport" club so on the tour I got to see the lap pool, excercise pool, jacuzzi, sauna, weight room, excercise machines, and rows of treadmills, bikes, ellipticals, stairmasters, and excercise classes. The thing that sets this gym apart most I think is the lap pool.
I used to swim in high school as part of the diving team and I really liked it. It helped me look bigger (I probably was bigger, actually). It has obviously been a really long time though because where I used to swim 400 meters as a warm-up, that was all I could do and my whole body was spent. I wouldn't have made it out of the pool if it weren't only 4 feet deep on one end. But I'm hoping I'll soon be back to where I was. It's probably the first time in my life that I've really been able to say, "I'm really out of shape." I don't think that previously I had been able to look back to a younger time in my life when I could've out-performed my present-day self; but now I can. I'm sure I'll have a lot of that ahead of me as the years and the kids take over. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Fullerton Jazz Combo

I don't know why people don't know what a jazz combo is when I tell them I'm in one. Is it that when people hear "jazz" they think jazz dance? Or is it the word "combo" that throws people off? I hope it's that one because jazz is the music that was born in the U.S. and it would be pretty sad if people didn't know what it was; just a sign of the cultural intelligence of people these days, i guess. Recently I've told several people (maybe 5 or 6), when they ask me what I'm doing in school, that one of my classes is a jazz combo, and they (every time) look at me kind of confused and say, "So, what do you ... what's that?" I'm thinking..."Really?!" It's a group that plays jazz people!

So anyway, today we have our first performance of the semester. We're playing at Fullerton in front of the Library I think. I just know I have to show up there around 10:30 and we perform at 11. It should be lots of fun, if I can just get over my nerves.