its 6am! I am headed out to walk. I hope its not so humid yet. :cool:

Put in 2 miles at about 2mph and then, saw rabbit hollow road. Gave it the raspberry and kept going. Its sooooo humid out even at 6am! the air is so thick you can drink it. I was drenched in sweat before I got to the end of my driveway! its over! The deer flies were really quite hungry this morn and tried hard to make a snack out of me. at one point there were about 6 chasing me. I had to break into a sprint to just get untangled from them.

my whole walk was smack smack! smack smack! and ugh! ouch! Whathe? get off me! The humid air really brings them out.

Jack the cat watched me happily come home and gave me a nice meeeeeeeeeeooooooow greeting. atta boy, cheerlead mom.

Ugh... Deer Flies. :o I loathe those things Dej!! Been too cold for them up here this summer I think (only been 'circled' by 1 last week on a sweltering hot day). Horse flies are even more 'ick' (the ones here as I recall are a sickly green body + gray/black translucent wings).

Speaking of bugs, I miss the hum of the Cicadas in the summertime. They're an incredibly ugly/grotesque bug if you've ever seen one (thankfully for me, it was dead or I'd have screamed - age 6 or so). Long story short, we don't have Cicadas in Moncton, NB, or not this year... only 1 summer I can recall hearing them, and it was during a very hot couple days.

I went on my 30 minute walk this morning and the air was nice and cool. Sun was behind cloud, it had rained earlier this morning so the ground was damp. Was starting to get humid as I walked the last stretch.

It was very dark/stormy looking last night, but I did manage to get my 5km walk in (did 5km the night prior as well, and put in about 20km in the 2 days of my weekend - a lot of walking). Tonight I may walk 30 min after dinner (I find it somewhat helps digestion to take a leisurely paced walk after supper), but if the weather's bad I may play my Wii instead (maybe yoga!).

This is a "the heck with it" kinda day..:mad:

You guys are great and you make me look bad, but I don't care..:p

I shall do the minimum required and not an ounce more..:D

:grouphug:

I was thinking about going to the gym after I get back from the eye doctor, but I woke up this morning with a very sore knee. I have no idea what I did to my knee. I just woke up and it feels like something tried to rip the kneecap off.

Anyone else wake up with what feels like a sprained knee that seems to come out of nowhere before? (pain goes from my knee up to my hip. I cant bend my knee without wanting to yell) Is this some bizzarro MS thing? Or did the aliens from the Questions thread visit me last night?

Lots of joint supps out there that work. Takes a month of steady dose to work into joints. Lack of exercise also causes it :)

EDIT - Dej I know what you mean & I HATE bugs since I breath mostly thru mouth so if it's past say 4pm, I'm not going.

okay - I'm getting BETTER ...

I took out my little 2-step stepladder .. and would just go up one, both feet, down, one foot then the other ... and did it steady for 3-minutes!! stood up straight .. and marched up and down one step ...

AND did 6 different arm exercises with weights while I sat by the computer reading ...

my goal -back to my Army basic training weight ... 20 lbs to go!!

Im so proud of you! :hug::cool:

Way to go Vonn! Dej what a great idea you had bringing topic back.

yep - thanks, Dej ...

it would be nice if we could lose weight with all this sweating in the heat!! LOL