Things I Thought and Saw

This morning on my walk to the coffee shop I once again thought about how grateful I am to be living in my neighborhood and to have good health that allows me to walk all about it. On Tuesday we walked to vote then I walked to the bread store (Tuesdays and Saturdays are the only days high fiber wheat is made, yo). Yesterday Grace and I walked to the hardware store where I bought a new air filter for our furnace (I changed it when I got home go me for being a responsible house dweller) and this morning I walked to our local coffee shop where I'm writing to you courtesy of their free wifi and enjoying a really lovely cappuccino. It is a perfect fall day in Louisville.

On the walk to the coffee shop I saw two things that greatly amused me. First, someone's lost or discarded math homework dealing with the area of rectangles. Second, a little old lady in a tiny car with a front license plate that said, in dramatic script, "FEAR NO ART!"

While walking I paid a bit of attention to how heavy my laptop bag is. Oh, it's not crazy heavy but when packed with all of my stuff it weighs probably at least 8-10 pounds. That's not really much at all is it? No, not really but I definitely feel it when it's slung on my back. It doesn't make walking difficult or anything but obviously you exert a little more energy when you've got an extra 10 pounds on you. That thought brings me to acknowledging that my body used to have an extra 170 pounds more on it than it has now. Yes, as of this morning's weigh in I have lost just over 170 pounds. I don't have any deep thoughts on this accomplishment at the moment,  I have a deeply shallow one though: this accomplishment would never have been possible without the invention of Coke Zero. I honestly and sincerely wish I could send a thank you note to the scientists who perfected the formula. They truly made a positive difference in my life. Yes, I could have lost weight without glorious Coke Zero to drink but it wouldn't have been nearly as fun.