Ramblings of a Gym Junkie: Unplugged

Today started off pretty solid. Got up when Peter got up to get ready for work, grabbed my protein coffee and headed to get a SHOULDER workout in. Got a good cardio session in after my lift. All before 9:30. As I meandered through the locker room and entered MY shower stall (I shower at work 99.9% of the time, in the very first stall), reached to turn the water on and BAM. Pitch Black-ness. Like darker than the inside of your eyelids at night. There were a few women in the near by locker area, and it didn't sound as though their voices changed or anything peculiar was happening. So for about 45 seconds, I started to panic thinking I had 1. gone blind, 2. was about to black out and faint, 3. Again was blind, or something of the sort. After trying to feel my way around towards the door (like I said, I shower there pretty much daily, so I know my way around), I realized that the power in the building was out. I debated for a few seconds what to do, and honestly I needed to shower. So I took an abbreviated version of my shower, ended up running into part of the stall wall...ouch...but successfully found my way back to my locker, got ready super quick and proceeded to the lobby to see what the issue was. Apparently the entire area around the club (a Darque Tan, a Jimmy Johns, and a handful of other stores in a strip mall near by, was with out power. Luckily this happened in the middle of the day, so the windows surrounding out workout floor let in enough light that we could see where we were all going.

It was such an eerie weird thing. A place that is always bright, energetic, and noisy, was now peaceful, dark, and creepy calm. Management decided for safety reasons to evacuate the building of any members and close the club (which we are a 24 hour club, so that rarely happens). "Luckily" the power was up and running not an hour later, and we were back in business. It was very interesting however, to realize how much we depend on energy and power. Our hands were tied, no phones, no computers, no schedules, no nothing. Honestly, it was AWESOME. And I don't think there wasn't one of us (that seems like a grammatically horrendous phrase...) that was relieved to have a break. Many of the trainers had clients back-to-back-to-back, with no break throughout the day, some people had paperwork and deadlines to meet. But there was nothing we could do. Again, it was great. I won't lie, I was bummed to get the call that we were back in business.

Lesson. We are so deprived of Unplugged Time. Even if we turn our phone on silent, its usually vibrating every few minutes, or we have the TV on, or lights on all over the house, or the laptop going, or Ipad, or Nook. Oye. It makes me want to go camping. Quiet ambiance of nature, leaving the world behind. The sound of a tent zipper in the morning. *ahhhh* Bliss.

Anyways, I just wanted to share this happening from today, and I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the dark club. It really was eerie. I almost feared that zombies or vampires were going to come crawling out and start looting the vending machines or some thing. Bizzare :)