Walka Blogga Day

Thought I’d share my dream from last night or at least part of it. I was working at the radio station again and we had this cupboard full of a whole bunch of tubes of frosting and I pulled out my favorite one from which was apparently bubble gum and was just sitting in this hallway eating it. A little strange and I’m not sure what it means but apparently it was important in my dream that I be eating this frosting.

Well the title pretty much says the whole story, night all.

Hehe Just Kidding. The last few days I’ve been doing a lot of activities that require some serious walking and I know that if I hadn’t kept up with it over that last few months I couldn’t have hacked it.

Monday: Out to Surrey again for CRA Job Testing, the bus stop was a fair distance from my final destination (it’s Surrey thought so that happens). The testing started at 8:00 and that’s about when I got there so I had to do a serious hustle once I got off the bus. I wasn’t the only one though, there was three of us and I couldn’t let them get that ahead of me. I had a different set of tests come the afternoon so I had about an hour to waste so I went over to the little corner store (beside the bus stop) to grab something to eat. I made some seriously bad decisions in there, a diet Nestea (the one good decision), two chocolate bars and a small bag of cheezies. I ate the snickers and half the bag of cheezies and then threw them out in disgust with myself and saved the second chocolate bar for later. It would be nice to see a convenience store stock some healthier alternatives for a change, as I tend to revert to my chocolate behaviors when I’m in a hurry cause I have to pee. At this point my back was starting to hurt a bit so I started heading back and walking a long distance with a sore back when I really really have to pee is just not fun but I just kept telling myself one step at a time and eventually it would go away. I took a wrong turn and had to walk even further but eventually made it to the bathroom, then proceeded to have and argument with the door in this midget sized bathroom stall. After that things got better (after I got back out of the stall that is), my back was OK again and my bladder was happy. After I finished my second exam I walked back to the bus stop again. So it was a good walking day if you also include the walking to and from and in between bus stops (took the stairs at Surrey Central again instead of the elevator, down not up, but it all helps).

Tuesday: Another test, this one for my H&R class so that was just my usual walk there and back but when I got back Simon was just heading out to take some pictures of the lights around here so we got the chicken in the oven and I went with him. We were out there walking around and taking pictures for about 50 minutes and got some good pics which I haven’t posted to flickr yet but I will.

Today: Took a break from walking today but had all sorts of chocolate, pancake, cookie and bacon cravings. Fortunately making pancakes at midnight wasn’t really something I was in to and we didn’t have any of the other stuff so I just reminisced about the chocolate bar I had after dinner (just one not multiple).

Tomorrow: It’s my last day of class so I think in honor of that I’m going to leave early and take a nice long route to class, stop and get a bottle of water and try going a whole day without the chocolate that currently has a hold over me. I think it’s getting to be about that time of the month and I always have a lot more cravings around that time which probably explains the pancake, cookie, bacon thing tonight (not all together of course). Keeps your fingers crossed for me and maybe I’ll pick up some more lollipops that seemed to be working at the time but we’ve since run out and that could explain the chocolate.

So I started downloading some Fonts tonight cause although the one I was using for the headlines is cool there was always something about it that I didn’t think I liked, so I spent a whole bunch of time getting new fonts and then installing it to Walka and playing with the settings. I then realized that the font I’d chosen was the same exact one I’ve got on my regular blog, what a putz!!! So I’ve changed it back, hehe.

UPDATE: I made it a bit smaller and now I’m happy with it, I just couldn’t part with the hearts.

Friday I was finally starting to feel better, I finally got a good nights sleep so I set out to Surrey for some errands. First off I had to walk down to 7-11 (a few blocks away) to see if I could get a day pass, no such luck as per their usual state of things at that store they didn’t have any. The closest place from there was shoppers (another few blocks) so off I went, I got my bus pass and at this point it was just another couple blocks to the B-Line so I went for it. There’s not a lot of walking between there and Surrey Central Station but I did opt for the stairs instead of the elevator (going down) this time. After another bus ride I was finally able to pick up my letter and start heading back to Van.

Now while I was getting ready to leave I had a quick look at the Translink website and noticed that one of the up escalators wasn’t working at Surrey Central but for some reason once I got back there I rode up the first one just to see if for some reason they were wrong and totally skipped the elevator again. What I realized half way up the first escalator was that you can’t get on the elevator once your up the first flight so instead of looking like a moron and going back down I just starting walking up the second escalator (this is not a small one by any means) I made it up and even held up a few people as I was going slower then they would have like, but too bad, all I cared about was that I was actually taking the stairs and it didn’t really seem to be as big of a deal as it used to.

So after a long circuitous route home another stop in East Van I finally made it home about four hours later, just in time to go do some shopping with Linz. It felt good being out there walking again and I didn’t really have that hard of a time. The whole time I kept thinking “oh it must just be because you’re wearing different shoes”, or “because it’s colder there’s less atmospheric pressure in the air”. Well maybe it’s just because I’ve been doing the work and now I’m seeing the benefits of that work, funny how my mind works like that.

Then Linz picked me up and we headed of to Big Al’s in Richmond to look at some fishies. That is a huge fish store and so we ended up doing quite a bit of walking around in there not to mention the sauna like benefit of all the fish tanks. Needless to say I was pretty warm by the time we left and starting to feel the effects of being out walking all day. I did take a break while we were in there, had a seat on the Koi pond. Now we weren’t done yet, next we went to BeautyMark and due to the horrendous parking situation down on Hamilton Street I got to do a little more walking, not to mention the half hour we spent looking around in there.

My feet were definitely a little sore by the time we went for Dinner and finally made our way back home but it felt great to start the walking process after my cold on such a positive note.

I probably could have gone for the salad at dinner instead of fries but on a positive note I wasn’t able to finish it all and left a bit of both my burger and fries. On a totally unrelated note it was fun trying to figure out the nature of the relationship of the people sitting just behind us. We finally settled on either parole officer/parolee or father/daughter.