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Subscribing to a gym has never really worked for me. What a waste of money that is. It’s not that I don’t like to exercise, it’s just that as a woman I don’t really feel comfortable to be surrounded by all these bulky muscle men. Not because I can’t lift weights, but because I feel embarrassed about the fact that I actually can.

I’m embarrassed about the fact that I as a woman am able to lift heavy weights. How silly is that? I’m not bragging here, just sharing my frustration!

For instance; I was helping with a friend to move. And as we were collecting everything in the trunk, I helped lifting around the furniture too. And they all said “don’t go picking up the heavy stuff, leave that to the guys”. But I’m stubborn, so I noticed these weights lying around on the attic and (while walking on high heels, because for some reason I can do anything on those things) I just took the huge weights downstairs. So this other friend and I bump into one another while I carry the weights towards the car and he assumes the weights must not be heavy. “Give that thing to me, you go grab a box in the hallway or something”. Poor guy literally grunted it out (sounded pretty neat, actually) when I handed him the weights… I believe there was about 25 kilo- per side, so that’s 50 kilo in total (excluding the bar in the middle).  Of course the guys all thought it was awesome to see a chick on high heels being able to lift all these heavy things around. And of course I felt proud for being able to do so.  But at the same time, I feel a lil embarrassed about it. Because guys tend to act weird once they know I’m able to lift that heavy TV set all by myself. Suddenly you’re not a doll face anymore, they consider you one of the guys. Suddenly you’re considered a psychopath with the potential to seriously hurt someone with a few punches. Well…

*coughs*Let’s skip the rest of that story and move on…*coughs*

The last gym I went to; I accidentally broke a machine. I tried lifting some weights in this crunch/ab machine. Now I’m a complete noob in life with almost anything. I have a God-given talent to “destroy” stuff I touch. This machine was used by some bulky muscled guy right before me. He was lifting about 100 kilo. I didn’t know how to change the amount of weights and decided to just give it a go… And I managed, did about 25 crunches with the crunch/ab machine. But then… The lining in the machine snapped and well… Let’s just say it’s best if I don’t go to that gym anymore!

But for my current job, I have to push weights, walk about 12 km during work and have some nice stretch exercises on the side. Fuck lifting 30 to 50 kilo – in weights – at a random fitness club, try pushing around huge “refrigerators” filled with hundreds of hot spaghetti packs (or some other dish)! Try stacking thousands of packs of boiled potatoes. Try doing stuff like that for about 8 hours a day (thankfully I do more than just that). I can tell ya this much; it beats going to the gym. Seriously, it’s like I’m getting paid to exercise!

My female co-workers all think I’m nuts when I tell ‘m that I concider the job a full body work out. “Don’t do that, let a guy handle that!” some say. And in the beginning I did take advantage of the fact that I’m a woman surrounded with lots of male co-workers who are willing to help a “poor lil girl” out

(For some reason they think I’m about 10 years younger than I actually am. I take it as a compliment and I rather not tell ‘m my real age. Let ‘m all just assume I’m  still a Tween XD – Totally fine with that!).

Anyway… What was I saying again?

It’s nice to have the guys run for you. But at the same time I don’t want to be “that poor lil girl”, because I know I can tow around that heavy “fridge” all by myself with ease. And the weird part is that once the guys notice you are in fact able to do it by yourself, they act weird.

The past week all the guys at work kept talking about their Playstation and their Black Opps and how they all want to play that game together. I’m more into RPG and I’m more into Xbox than Playstation. And the infamous cliché question popped up during lunch break; “What are you doing this weekend?” My answer was; “Turn on my Xbox 360 and play videogames all day long.” So the guys were like; “You play videogames? Wow, that’s so awesome! Too bad you prefer Xbox above Playstation, though. But it’s forgiven if you drink a beer with us after work.” And I was like; “Sure, why not.”

So after work I met up with the guys, while they were drinking their beers and smoking their cigarettes. The conversation about videogames and such continued. They went on and on about Black Opps and Playstation, and I just told ‘m “Dude, I’m an Xbox girl. I play Fallout 3 and have the entire Fable saga. I prefer running around with a sharp or blunt object like an axe or a hammer and beheading innocent bystanders, robbing and burning down villages as I stroll around Albion or the Capital Wastes.” First the guys laughed but once my graphically described words on how I play Fallout 3, the boys became awfully quiet. They just looked at one another. I don’t give a fuck, I had a free beer.

Figured it was best to not stick around too long, 14 drunk men surrounded with 1 drunk chick somehow doesn’t feel like a good story… Eventhough I don’t mind being “one of the guys”, guys tend to not concider me “one of the guys”… So I thanked ‘m all for the beer and couldn’t stop laughing as I walked home.

I guess they were shocked to know that “this doll face” lifts fridges all by herself and likes to violently dismember digital characters in videogame land. Which is a lil hypocritical, cause with Black Opps you can snipe people and shoot someone in the head. What’s the difference in chopping heads off with a sharp object vs shooting a head off with a gun?!

Anyway..

I’m going to do something really girly now. It is time for me to go shoe shopping. So… Later gater