another week with LOTS of walking. last week i put in 20 miles, because i took superLong hikes on the weekend. i was so proud of myself. i have been semi-agoraphobic this winter and i feel like i am getting over it now. yay. and i didn't just walk the neighborhoods, even though they felt enchanted in the gloomy lateWinter with the new Tejas lens on the iPod hipstamatic! wheeee. one day i hiked on The Levee, our town's "hike and bike trail" along the river. it's pretty bleak, actually, boring. but it was good for power hiking without worrying about cars and lumpy sidewalks, stuff like that. on the way back, i went into the woods on the mountain biking (ha ha) trail. at least it was different! and i found a DUMP! sure i love nature in the woods, but it is always exciting to find a human dump from old times. it is like archaeology. rusty cans, bits of broken bottles and pottery shards. we have an old dump on our family property in Texas and i have loved to poke through it since i was little. in the one last weekend, i found a WHOLE crusty bottle with a rusted-on lid and interesting brown stains inside - a WHOLE whiteGlass bottle with a couple of nicks and a really heavy metal and porcelain lid for a canning jar. i want to use them for still life photos. and i want to go BACK!

otherwise, glueing lots of paper bits, watching library films, eating healthy stuff, then back to work and now it is the weekend again. good. i have cleaned up my miniLoft and will go to the city to fetch the poet and bring him back here for the weekend. we meant to have some hiking, but it is black as night out there. i hope it doesn't plan to rain ALL weekend. at least it is not cold. it has been amazing. i saw daffodils yesterday! early ones, to be sure, but still...

i feel like my new good habits are kicking in and i feel lighter, definitely *better* - less lethargic and puffy. healthier. now for the real test. i washed my jeans. will they feel awful when i first button them? or ok? gulp...