Posted by melody_A
on Sun 26 Sep 04, 1:24 PM to melody_A's blog.
Yep I have done it, at long last.
A couple of days ago I bought one of those pedometers, all in an effort to increase my walking. Living in the country, I thought I would be walking more often, but this simply is not the case, you drive everywhere.
Well the first day it would not work. The second I had a lazy day at home so clocked up only 4000 I am ashamed to say. Yesterday I went the gym and kept it on, but that still only showed 6,500 by the end of the day.
I was starting to despair that it was impossible, or I incredibly lazy. So today dawned a new day and a new challenge. I zeroed the counter and started again, but I had a cunning plan – A walk to the bottom of the village to get a Sunday paper.
Mini Mel and I went a walking, and walking and walking. We went to the playground and had a play on the swings (it's so much more fun when you are an adult) then we discovered some local woods. After an age and many steep slopes down, mini Mel only slipped the once, we found a lovely pond. So, I sat and watched my beautiful daughter collecting acorns, throwing sticks and making ripples in the pond. We could hear the birds singing and not another sound – it felt like we where the only people in the world.
I got thinking. I really am the luckiest girl in the world, I live somewhere beautiful, with a man who takes care of me like no other, a man who takes me to highs I have never known in the bedroom. My daughter is thriving in her new environment, she is doing so well in school and I am incredibly proud of her. I don't have any worries whatsoever, I have never known a time like it. I left home at 17 and since then, I always lurched from one crisis to another, never quite getting to a place where I feel content.
Ok, it's taken a while, but I'm here. At peace, happy, looking forward to the future. And do you want to know what is the cherry on the icing? I've done 10,400 steps today AND its only 2pm.
Mel xxx
Edited Sun 26 Sep 04, 1:27 PM by melody_A
