day 26

Today was a beautiful day. There was sun! Light! Blue sky!

Sunshine of happiness flooding into my life

 

This guy brought his telescope out to take pictures

There's a new bakery down the street that opened three days ago. I was quite excited about it for a while, until I had their French loaf. It wasn't bad, just that the neighbourhood supermarket has better bread. They still have a chance to win me over with cakes and pastries though.

Even so they would have to be pretty good. There's another shop around the corner that has the yummiest éclairs I've had. That's a tough battle for the new bakery to fight.

True love has chocolate AND whipped cream

Oh oh oh, and my accomplishment of the week: I finally went out for a run! I figured there wasn't a point in holding it off any longer.

After a bit of procrastination, I pulled myself outdoors just before dinner. It was two degrees out. My legs never felt so naked before. I thought I felt my leg hairs stand in the cold... but then again I can't be sure.

I ran about three or four clicks? Pretty decent, especially considering my last run was about three weeks ago. I reckon the cold helps. It added a spring to my stride. Not to mention I didn't feel myself sweat.

I explored the neighbourhood a bit. Figured out how the roads join up to the nice park nearby. There was a weird fumy smell throughout most of my run though. I thought for a moment there was stuff burning somewhere, but I couldn't tell the fog from smoke. Other than that, it was a pleasant run.

Came home to do a cool down (ha ha) and had dinner. A nice hot pot of chilli con carne and half a loaf of subpar bread were waiting for me. Yum.

Cook a pot of chilli; toast a pan of bread

So back to today. Siobhan, Jamie and I went out. We watched American Hustle, then had Nandos. The show was so-so, but the company more than made up for it. It's been a good day.