Terrapin Station

Just keep breathing, breathing, breathing

Now I have email and can see my calendar and the 2000+ messages that were in my inbox... but can't see the items I had "filed" in the little virtual "cabinets" within the old program.  They tell me it will come. 

I guess improvement is a good thing.  I have this to say:  Paperless workplace, my hiney. 

My Walking Meter

Because I know you are DYING to keep up with this:

Jan. 6:  Okay, I had to change the style because it's going to be 79 degrees here today and it's just ridiculous to have a snowman on there!  And I had to change the goal again.  That's okay, right?  It's about HAVING a goal, and resetting as necessary.  Grin!

Holiday Walking Challenge

My dear friend Cathy is looking for walking partners.  Her goal is to walk 50 miles between now and Christmas - high aspirations!!

But I'm going to give it a try.  I walked to work this morning, which is 0.98 miles.  I'm going to call that one mile, even - ya think that'll be ok?

I used the same ticker design as Cathy, although it is also not likely to snow here, certainly not enough to build a snowman!! 

I am thinking of this as an Advent exercise, even though Advent won't really start until Sunday.  As I told my super sister Barbara (who will walk a half marathon with the Team in Training this winter!!), I love my Jazzercise and it is a great full body workout...but I need the meditative time that walking brings me.  As Cathy calls it, it shall be Walking Towards the Light! 

So, I walk to prepare my mind and heart and body for the coming of the Lord. 

MDA Walk

I think I mentioned that my church has recently formed a walking group to train for the Susan B. Komen race in Dallas in the fall. 

Today we went to a Muscular Dystrophy fund-raising walk inside a huge local mall.  We were walking in honor of Gloria, a lovely lady in our church who has ALS.  She was there in her motorized chair and she was so excited that we came.  There were about 13 of us in the group.  We walked around the mall twice (though the race course was just once) and it was 1 mile each time. 

I think I mentioned in a previous post my wonderful friend J, who has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.  In addition to having a terrible time with that (as you'd expect), it turned out that her insurance (provided by AARP) would not cover the cancer treatment!  so she is doing a different protocol than was originally planned with a lot of pro bono help from doctors, etc.  Beyond all that, her husband is spending 6 months in New Orleans working on disaster recovery. 

Even though this was a chemo week, she was doing very well, and she came to the walk and went the whole way with us!  She is such a delight and I have really missed her.  We made a little of choir rehearsal and that was great, too.  We are working on some movements from the Rutter Requiem for Holy Week.

Parish Meeting tomorrow!