OK, this isn't about standing but as I was typing "I'm still walking" that Elton John song popped into my head.
Anyway, I gotta say that I am pleased with myself today.
No, nothing spectacular happened.
It's just that I'm trying to continue walking as much as possible rather than being lazy and grabbing the car every time I have to head out.
As you, dear reader, know, I picked the car up on Friday, ran some errands out in the boonies then returned home and the car stayed parked all weekend! Of course, that would not have been the case if the weather had been nicer because then I would have driven to a beach. But that's the sort of excursion the car is for, right?
Today, I had errands to run downtown and I walked to them all. Bank, bank, post office, drugstore, video rental place. A total of 2.6 km. Not far, I realize, and it would be a bigger pain to drive everywhere and have to search for parking, but still.
Not to mention -- but I will -- that I almost walked right into a guy with a walker urinating on the sidewalk. It was outside Starbucks at the corner of Spring Garden and Queen, for anyone interested. It's that sort of quaintness I'd miss if I'd been in a car. Sort of like walking around with an iPod permanently attached and missing the sounds of life around you.
So yay me for not getting lazy and missing what my city has to offer!
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