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throbbing feet and delivery pizza

Today Matthew and I had this wonderful idea that since we did not have anything planned for our Saturday that we would go for a walk. It started off with just a walk around the lake off from our apartment and ended up with us walking all the way to Crabtree Valley Mall. For those of you that don't know, the mall is about 5 miles away from the apartment. We were all hyped up that we were going to walk to the mall and eat some lunch then go to best buy to look at receivers for speakers that we may get from my brother. The walk down there was not to bad. It took us a little under an hour to get down to the mall. The last stretch I have to say was the worst for me because Matthew was walking faster since he knew that we were almost there. We took a go amount of time eating and sitting down in the mall so that we could relax a little. By this time I was in a little bit of pain from all the walking on hard pavement with shoes that I don't wear all that often. The part that I was dreading was the walk back. I was so dreading it that I convinced Matthew to check out the bus schedule to see when the next bus to our area would be coming through. Turns out that the next bus would be there in over an hour...less than what it took us to walk there.

Thus with all that said and done, and all my options of all other ways home were ruled out, we headed out on our journey home. Basically this was the worst part of the day and I got really frustrated with the whole situation. My feet were soar, my knees were aching (talk about getting old), and all my energy had been sucked out of me. Let's just say that I probably was not the best person to be around at about that time. My lovely husband, bless his heart, tried his best to cheer me up with ice cream. The only thing was that he got the exact ice cream that I told him (but he didn't hear me) I did not like. Oh well. We took a few breaks and in the end we made it home. As soon as we got home I took off my socks and shoes and laid down on the coach and haven't really gotten up but about 3 times the rest of the night.

We went ahead and ordered pizza for dinner and watched a couple movies. Now my husband has drawn me a hot bath since my body is not quite agreeing with me. I shall be going to enjoy that now!

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Rita said…
Bathe in Epsom salt. Helps to 'pull out' the soreness. True. Next time at the grocery or drug store, pick some up and store in your bathroom closet. Then you'll be ready for that next sore occasion.
3/14/10, 6:39 PM
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