What a great place!

The other night I realized that I love where I live. Not particularly our actual house, but our neighborhood and the surrounding area. It is wonderful having a neighbohood pool and someone to cut your grass. We have our grocery store, pharmacy, neighborhood bar, blockbuster, starbucks, total wine, a chinese place, a pizza place, a mexican place, a wing place, bonefish, the ABC store, and care-a-lot pet supply all with in WALKING distance.

In case you don't realize how awesome this is for us, let me explain...
Grocery Store: Self-Explanatory
Pharmacy: Visit there at least once a month, every month...
Bar: love sports, non-smoking, and 1.50 drafts!
Blockbuster: We rent movies on the regular
Starbucks: nice hang out and the coffee...when we get a coupon
Total Wine: If you know me...Self-Explantory
Chinese: Favorite kind of take-out
Pizza: Jonathan's overall favorite food
Mexican: One of our two favorite food genres
Wings: Favorite junk food dinner
Bonefish: The other of our two favorite food genres
ABC Store: see answer for Total Wine
Care-a-l0t: Hello!! ARF! and Mackenzie!!!

But wait...it get's better, as you know, I am some what a fitness enthusiast. I never claim to be a healthy eater, but I love to be active! Well I have been comtemplating for a couple months whether I should cancel my gym membership, it's almost $40 a month, and with Jonathan going full-time with ARF!, any places we can cut, we really need to. I really didn't want to because I was afraid I would become a sad and lethargic couch potato. I lost 25 pounds after I gained Gold's and have managed to keep all but 3 or 4 off for the last two years plus! To be honest I was afraid I would become fat again...

Well, as usual, my neighborhood has come to my rescue...within WALKING distance between Care-a-lot and the ABC Store we are getting a Planet Fitness! Instead of paying 40, I will be able to pay 10 dollars monthly and have access 24 hours a day Mon-Fri (and 7-7 Sat and Sun) to a ton of cardio machines and weightlifting machines! Not only that, they have a 'judgement free zone' motto. Their focus is similar to mine, which is, once size does NOT fit all, and a healthy, active life-style, not extreme weight-loss, is the goal. They offer comp. miniature tootsie rolls, free pizza the first mon. of the month, and free bagels the second tue. of the month. Believe or not, because of the low cost, I actually have a tentative agreement from Jonathan to join!! I thought we would have to be millionaires before I saw that happen.

So when I think about the size of our house, and how it would be nice to have more room and a real yard, I also realize how lucky we are, and I'm not ready to grow up to a big-girl house! For once in my life, I'm (gasp!) satisfied!