Day Twenty-Five

A few months back we got an elyptical from a friend at our church (thanks, Nick!), which has been awesome to have - especially during all this rain! On Saturday Rob purchased a weight bench and weights from another friend at church (thanks, Mike!). Now we have enough to start a little home gym!

We currently have four rooms on our second floor. The first room is a guest room, which has a single bed, nightstand, and our iron and ironing board (although that really doesn't get much use). Next is Rob's Beatles room - the only upstairs room with cable - which means we have to have the computer in there, so it doubles as our home office. Then we have my music room and library, which houses all of my Hi-Lo tapes, music, my keyboard and favorite rocking chair, plus all of our books. Lastly, we have a storage room full of junk - Christmas junk, wedding junk, all kinds of junk.

These rooms don't get much use in the summer, because they do not have AC. Luckily enough, we do have an extra window unit (yay!). Our plan is to put that extra unit in my music room and set up our little "gym" in there. We will take the ironing board down and put it in our junk room. Then, we will move our books and rocking chair into the guest room. My keyboard and music collection will also be moved somewhere, but I haven't figured that out yet.

We will move the TV into this room and purchase a small (CHEAP) DVD player to accompany it. This way we can use workout videos (my personal favorite), watch our favorite TV shows, or listen to music while we workout. I'm also creating some artwork with motivational quotes --->
to put up all around the room.

I truly believe this little gym will be the boost we both need to get our weight off. One of us can use the elyptical while the other lifts. We never worked out together before, but I believe this will bring us closer together by giving us a chance to truly motivate one another.