kickaha | Now with more pink bits!

I went to the gym tonight for the first time since my shoulder surgery. Good lord I've atrophied. *sigh* Now begins the long slow climb back to where I had just happily gotten this spring... but I knew this was going to happen. At least now I can actually manage to climb into and out of the weight machines without severe pain. AND... I hung from a chin up bar. With my arms basically straight. Over my head. With my full weight. It felt *GREAT*. Okay, it actually hurt like hell, as the remaining scar tissue continued to rip apart, but you know that feeling you get when you wake in the morning and streeeeeeeetch your arms over head and reach and grasp? Today was the first time I've approached that since late May. Good workout, good stretches, good progress.

Then I noticed that the gym now has tanning... $5 a session (not bad for a college town) or $150 for a full bloody year unlimited. Oy. At once a week, that's less than $3 each. Very not bad. When

ginkgo and I did our round-the-country trip, I spent a lot of time hiking, and got some nice color, which I've since lost some of, and would like to get back. So I went for a session.

BTW, my LJ icon? The one with red hair and pale skin? Yeah, that's me. I'm lobster boy in the sun. I grew up in Eastern Washington where there's a lot of it. Ask

icebluenothing about my feet sometime.

I decided that my gym shorts would leave a huge tan line halfway down my thighs. So I went without.

My tush is now bright vivid pink.

And that ain't all.

*sigh*

Now with more pink bits!

Wow