still walking: i fie on thee, cold weather!

alrighty then...december has arrived...and i am behind on my Christmas cards...only because i insist on writing an actual letter in every single one of them! i need to stop procrastinating, because i really like these cards!!

so. things continue to be busy and i am not surprised. i will say that i have had a great time being in classrooms to teach/co-teach/model! i have really enjoyed the kids this year. i'd forgotten how much fun it is to interact with them and just enjoy them and let them know that they are special...when did that happen? shame on me. (not even joking). like they say at momentous, chase the WHY. always try to find something positive (even if it's just that they spelled the cuss word correctly...baby, you seem to have a grip on your spelling-, now let's talk about that).

i find it hard to believe that last week was Thanksgiving-it seems like that was so long ago. i would like to take this opportunity to say that i have continued on my morning walks-and to be quite clear, i probably wouldn't be so faithful were it not for having an accountability partner, because 4:00 comes early when walking begins at 5! but i wouldn't have it any other way. i think she nailed it on the head this morning-it really does make my day 100X better to start out exercising (and i add: with a friend and just touching base in the morning to jump-start the day). so yes, consistency has been good-even in the chill of the morning. (now, if i were in iowa, this could never happen b/c we'd be ice statues as our blood would coagulate before we made our route!)

that said, i did go to get new shoes- i told the guy, "walking/light jogging" and so he pointed out two pair, and so i asked him which one he suggested, which led me to the pair that was on sale. awesome. [a side-note- i saw a student while i was there, and it was fine, because it was a student who could actually carry on a conversation, not just sit there staring awkwardly]. so i proceeded to wear these and sure enough-it never fails: blisters-good thing i had blister bandaids from orlando still! i may have to invest in more, so i am switching shoes back and forth until they get broken in. but here's something crazy, i went out this evening to walk/jog the intervals, and surprisingly the rub was more while i was walking-it felt much better on my feet when i was actually moving. (unintended motivation? perhaps.)

did a little running around to get there, but we got
there, and it wasn't a surprise ending...i didn't read the
books, but i'm pretty good with those predictions..

unfortunately, friday it rained all day and into the night, so that was kind of a bummer. i did run that morning-in the rain, but the lighting ceremony was off, so instead, we opted to catch mockingjay II. the theater that we were hoping to watch it at was not playing, so we found another close to school, and must've caught the kiddie show, because the teen-young adult boys behind us were 3 year old girls. jerks.

every once in awhile after church, there is a detour to
cane's for fries..ok, pretty consistent...good thing for walking!

saturday-full day of errands, culminating with church-which was the beginning of advent. excited about that, but it was strange, because it seems like the study that they were doing just kinda' abruptly stopped-perhaps it will pick back up.

sunday we were going to go walking, but it was raining all morning, so we postponed and ended up going later in the afternoon. only we didn't do the usual route. "julie, wanna' walk to school just to see how long it takes?" me:SURE! i was actually surprised that it really didn't take that long, and it wasn't as far as i'd anticipated. so on the return we decided to take the long way around and while it was a great walk, it would've been better if there'd been sidewalks the entire way, because at one point, while traversing a huge puddle, i worried that i was about to lose my walking partner-she's a trooper! wet socks, shoes and all!! at least it didn't begin to rain until we pretty much reached home base! perfect timing...which calls for a reward--i think reward that day was soup! something to warm up-and this was the point where my tooth was killing me! (i didn't mention it had been sensitive since thursday, but sunday it was as if every nerve ending was under attack!).

i scheduled a dental appt for tuesday, then i had to go in wednesday. that is a post all on it's own, so i will close for today and we'll have that conversation seperately!

from tonight's walk/jog- it was great weather!

night!
julie