More Gym Adventures

While sitting at my desk pretending to be productive working yesterday I started to plan my evening. I knew that I had a ministry meeting and that I also wanted to get some time in at the gym. I didn't run on Monday night so I needed to get back on my game. Its really like falling off the wagon for me when I don't run for a while (a few days). And it really hurts when I don't do at least a mile. I feel kinda like I punked out and could have done more. I've never been a cardio girl, more weights and toning exercises, but I've been working on coming to love like running. So, fine. I decided that I'd stop by the gym on my way home from church. Now of course this is the gym that KFC works at. I knew he'd be there. He works like every night or something, so there were no surprises when I walked in and saw him in his office. I slid by the check in and proceeded to the locker room-unseen.

BUT THEN I LOOKED UP! And who did I see? YOU! I giggled to myself. I hadn't talked to him in a while. After our last little exchange of words, awkward silence, and decisions of distance during the Vday weekend, I'd figured that was it and he'd moved on. Which was fine because I left all of that annoyed on some level (for many reasons that some of you know) and made a conscious effort to move that arse to the friend zone at our last meeting. As far as I could tell...that is what had happened. Hadn't heard a peep from him since then, but last weekend I got a text out of no where asking how i'd been. After a few texts of small talk- that was it- back to our regularly scheduled program. So imagine my surprise when I saw you on the treadmill. And then the surprise on his face was kind of priceless. Yes, I know this is the gym he works out at, but I thought he was more of a day-gymmer. And he thought that I was too bourgeois to work out at that gym (which I later admitted was actually better than my gym across town). Anywho we talked for a minute. Then I went to run but not before calling ILYT to tell her the irony of the sitch-which she boldly laughed OUT LOUD about.

FF to the end of the workout-actually in the middle of my abs. You walk in and interrupt my workout and we end up talking for like an hour. It was cool I actually remembered that i enjoy talking to him. I even told him about KFC when he also walked into the room. I don't think he saw me...or didin't know who I was which was fine....since it didn't make for any awkward moments.

So as I'm leaving KFC is at the front desk. Not to make things weird, I stop and speak. We start talking. He asks me did I catch the holy ghost at church which is a mandate for getting into heaven according to him. (sideeye) Anyway we got into why I cancelled on him and all of that. It wasn't a strange conversation. I was upfront with him, told him that I didn't want to waste his time. That I couldn't really take him seriously based on our conversations-which he insisted was the issue (that we hadn't had any real conversations anyway). Perhaps he was right? So he invited me to go running with him and some other people on Sunday- when he gets out of church (confused face). I told him to text me and that I'd think about it. But re-iterated that I didn't want to waste his time. He decided that it should be up to him whether or not he feels like his time has been wasted. That's fair. Who am I to decide that if I'm honest up front? I told him about my fast. He actually thought that was a good thing since we'd have to hang out in free settings, it'd likely be in places where we could talk and get to know more about each other. So looks like KFC is trying to make a comeback. Though the conversation started off kind of silly- he managed to get it together after hearing me say that I didn't take him seriously. Oh but he did kinda throw me off again when I asked him about a tatoo he had and he said it was something tribal and he didn't know what it meant (WTH?).

So where will these stories go next.....