So, the past couple of weeks, I’ve been getting up and immediately, before my brain can start functioning to talk me out of it, putting on my sneakers and heading out for a walk (okay, so I put on more than my sneakers because I’m fairly sure that whichever neighbours are up at 6 am don’t want to see me walking around without all my clothes). Sometimes it sucks (rainy mornings! eugh!) but other times (like yesterday and today, when the temperatures are expected to hit about 24C) it’s beautiful out and I love it.
I took a different route today (I try to change it up fairly often, because otherwise I get soooo bored – and I don’t have an iPod to take with me. Well, I do technically own one, somewhere, but I think it’s been co-opted and loaded solely with music from Nintendo games or something) so I didn’t really know the street I was walking on. I was walking by this one house that had an rv parked in the yard and all of a sudden it was like that rv was Noah’s Ark, but in reverse. I swear to Gord that as I walked by, about 5 cats, a couple of birds, and a dog all came bursting out from under the rv – I don’t know what they were doing under there in the first place because there was absolutely no sound, but all of a sudden whammo! They just all ran and flew out from under there as if they were being chased.
Or maybe they were chasing each other. I don’t know.
I admire that kind of dedication. I would do that too except that, as it is, I already have to walk a mile to work every morning – plus, I really hate walking alone unless I’m off on an adventure (like yesterday) and having someone along would only get in the way of me, oh, I don’t know… trying to climb down an embankment, maybe?
Yeah, but DJ, you’re already walking 2+ miles a day – you don’t need to get up early to do more! I’m a lazyarse who basically does this walk in the morning, then stands around in a classroom all day, not really doing much.