ouch Sat 3/25/06

thought i'd better go ahead and blog...
did i mention my perfectionism?
since i hadn't blogged in so long, i felt i needed to go back and note ALL my little jaunts into the fields in the MONTH (give or take) that i hadn't blogged. and that just kept me from it all the more since WHO HAS THE TIME FOR THAT? so i just kept putting it off. yesterday's blog entry was me, throwing my perfectionism to the wind, and just jumping in where i was! (sound like flylady?)

so, again, today...off to the desert fields behind our neighborhood.

passed paintballing young'uns today. boy they thought i looked weird. just stared!

Blazer ousted 2 jackrabbits and a pair of ducks that just did NOT know where to land after he found them out! They KEPT circling and quacking above us for the longest time. i kept telling them, "you'd better go find somewhere else, cuz he'll just GET YOU AGAIN the minute you land back here!" i fear they left babes behind and that's why hey wouldn't venture further. i got us outta there as soon as i could (in the hard-to-get-traction sand).

man! i can't believe how much land there is out there. you'd never know it. so far, UNDEVELOPED. i wonder how much longer before the subdivisions protrude and push till they cover that area. it's truly like the wild west in there. like the desert old movies you've seen. like Little House on the Prairie. except when you run into someone w/ great traction, trying to 4-wheel themselves up onto a hill. i swear, today i thought i was going to witness a horrific accident. this jeep (not like a cool 4 wheel jeep...like a family, big, long jeep...like didn't chevy chase have a family jeep in one of the national lampoon movies??) was VERTICAL! he went back down and took one last shot. i had my hand on my phone, ready to call 911. i thought for SURE he was going over backwards! but he made it. my 2nd thought was he was gonna high-center himself....would i help???? well, apart from being scared of being out in the DESERT w/ my dog blazer who i THINK would save me, but i haven't had him all that long; what could i do, really? i guess, if that HAD happened, we could have rocked it backwards...but then it would have, FOR SURE, gone over backwards! well! all this worry for nothing. didn't happen.

just noting it.

what else...

OH YEAH. that part where i STEPPED ON A HUGE ROCK (how'd i miss seeing that?) and TURNED MY ANKLE!!!! oh, me oh my. SEARING (sere? sear?) PAIN! I almost went DOWN on this one! but after a moment of no breathing, the pain subsided and i rotated around and around and was able to move on...no problem! it's a little swollen tonite and feels like it needs to pop ( i know: not a good sign ) but relatively okay. i'm gonna ice and go to bed. we'll see tomorrow. but all in all, i've been BLESSED w/ real strong ankles. (*you might remember this same thing happened last month when my bro was here. healed up right away.) pls, God. I need NO MORE INJURIES.

i won't quit going back there, tho. even when i can't run or when i have to take lots of breaks, it's way more fun than beating the norm paths! fun for blazer to run. fun to see nature. fun to be OFF the beaten path. and it's a good hike for when i can't run. harder work ... in the sand. and very hilly.

so, ROCKS begone! you haven't GOTTEN me yet!

so: one hour total. 3 covered. ran probably 30 minutes total.

and brad's still in new orleans. miss him.
God Bless!