Sign my name across my butt...

Today was a pretty shit day. My colleague took a 'personal day', which I encouraged her to. However, that meant that I was left with the rest of the work, which my boss decided I must complete in the same amount of time. Anyway, throughout the course of the day, she increasingly became more and more irritating until it basically boiled up this afternoon in a little email confrontation. I basically told her I was leaving on time and that I was training next week, she told me if need be, the training would wait. I told her that it would render my training experience useless if I was forced out of training for any period of time and she chucked a mental at me. The fact is, this training is apparently very intense and the L&D Manager has specifically said not to leave early or be late because we'd fall behind fast. Anyway, my manager was abit irritated by that, but in the end, I won.

So, I tra-la-la'd off from work and drove to the gym, filled out some forms and was escorted around the gym by a little dude by the name of Janan who, although looked like he used the gym, didn't look like he knew what he was talking about!! Anyway, the gym was huge. It's a big franchise place, lots of gyms across the country etc. I mean, this place had like 20 treadmills, and just as many bikes etc! It was huge. So, when I turned to him and asked him how big the other gyms were (this wasn't the one I would be using regularly), he said the one I would using a lot was TWICE the size!! *laugh* I'm so chuffed, as that was part the reason it was so easy for me to leave the last gyms I was signed up with.

Anyway, we sat down and he explained the fees. Initially on the phone, he had explained to me that because it was a gym located in suburbia, they charged $6 less a fortnight than the other gyms in the franchise, but I could use those gyms without being penalised. In person, he went on to explain that he could waive the joining fee and that they had a special where they were offering something like another $6 off that price, so I was pretty stoked and agreed to sign up. Then he asked me if I knew anyone who wanted to sign up, I could get another $5 off my fees and I happened to mention my friends from work who said they were going to sign up next week. He looked a little shocked and impressed and laughed, saying I scored a deal. I basically got $15 off a fortnight!!

Now I just have to drag my arse to the gym. I must!