Kara & Michael’s Blog

Michael has a philosophy on weight loss that goes like this, “Live like you are the weight you want to be, and gradually you will move towards that weight.” It makes sense, no? So yesterday, he asked if I would walk the 2.something miles (one way) to the dollar store with him. It’s an easy walk, he said. I agreed to go.

If you live somewhere other than Maryland, I’ll let you in on a secret about Maryland summers. They’re pretty hot, but it’s not the heat that gets you. It’s the humidity. It’s the mugginess. It’s the haze of moisture that clouds everything and sticks your clothes to your skin and sticks your skin to your other skin. It’s gross. I had a Spanish teacher in high school who told us girls that we wouldn’t wrinkle because of the humidity, so we’d appreciate it down the road. Maybe she’s right, but either way, it’s not fun weather to walk in.

But walk we did. Slowly. Walking with me is like walking with a six year old. I stop to look at flowers, at squirrels, at birds. After about an hour, we made it to the dollar store. I bought bubbles, cookies and flavor-ice (their Italian Ice collection… it is tasty). Then we stopped at 7-11 for some propel. Then walked back. On the walk back, my legs started to give out. I had to push myself to make it the last mile or so. A woman walked by and asked, “did you walk ALL the way to the store?” as if the concept had never occurred to her.

This morning my quads and hamstrings are making me walk a little bow-legged. My right heel has been scraped up by the back of my shoe, so I’m putting that foot down funny. I look stupid, in other words.

But, I’m glad I went. I always look at old couples walking in the morning, holding hands and I tell Michael, let’s be like that when we get old. Maybe we’ll be skinny then. As Michael said last night, “I don’t see fat people walking. So we’ll either end up skinny or we’ll stop walking.”

Sights from our walk:

This bird was really cute. It didn’t run away from us and when I talked to it, it chirped back to me. It was adorable.

This was printed on a sheet of plexi-glass. I don’t know why. I think someone thought they were being really clever with this, but it doesn’t read well. The jumps in logic aren’t smooth enough for it to be funny.

And this is the cat I woke up to this morning, after she had thrown my glasses somewhere and made me look for fifteen minutes before I found them. Before she started chewing on a plug for a fan that was running. We are lucky she has not died yet.

Puffy cat! This is her sideways, dare you to fight with me, prance. Her tail is like ten times its normal size.

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