Diane

A week ago my average steps per minute when walking was 102 spm.  Today it was 114.  An average taken from nearly 1 hour of walking.  And that doesn’t factor in that for nearly a half mile, I was carrying my 3.5 year old and trying not to get tangled in the dogs leashes.  Got them all home and then I went for a walk by myself.

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It was either go for a walk or sit down and remain angry.  My husband is home again today so I was going to take my daughter to the Y with me and work out.  Well, they’d changed the hours of child watch and she had no place to go.  So, we went home.  She wanted to take the dogs for a walk and was doing really well walking the puppy when all of a sudden she just started sobbing.  I had to carry her the rest of the way home.  As if I didn’t weigh enough.  The extra 33 pounds was torture.  The puppy didn’t want to walk any more so I as half dragging her just to get home.  She’d run then flop on the grass.

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Anyway, I get home and dd finally stops crying.  I guess she was just really thirsty because she drank about a pint of water and was fine.  I told my husband that I was going for a walk and grabbed my mp3 player only to find the battery needed charging.  Oh, well.  I went walking anyway. 

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Now I feel much better, albeit a little saddened by the desire to walk the deer paths and old logging roads of my childhood.  For some reason I’m really missing Maine today even though I know they’re having a major storm and I couldn’t have gone walking if I were there today.  I really miss true nature.  Want more than what suburban life offers.