Back to the {stupid ass} walking

It's been a while since we talked{or I rambled on and you read}about the {stupid ass} walking/ 5k training! After our trip to Otsego Club, I took a few days off because I was sick, and then I took a couple of days off  early this week because I was having that wonderful "girl thing" and I just can't get that far from home, during that time! So the walking has been hit and miss and my attitude about it sucks! I hate walking!! I am trying my best to find joy in the nature around me, I'm trying to stay inspired, but the last couple of weeks, I HAVE NOT BEEN FEELING IT!! And now it's getting cold, and that means I will have to decide keep walking outside until I can't take it anymore, steal my MIL's tread mill and walk in the living room, go to the gym with my husband and maybe find other stuff to do besides just walk, or walk around a track at the Middle School?  So many choices, NONE of them sound fun! I guess this would be as good a place as any to add a few pics I've been taking on the {stupid ass}walk:

 Harvest Time

 Milk Weed.  I was always fascinated with this as a kid!!!

 Strange how this year, the colors here have not been nearly as wonderful as the colors up north.  Seems like a few trees changed and the leaves just blew off the rest! Weird.

 Yes more weeds, or wild flowers growing in the ditches

 Silly pic.  This is what I wear to walk most days

 And this is what I take with me, besides the dog. Yes, I carry it in a back back.

 These are a few of the latest odds and ends I've gathered along the way.

Last night was tough walking, they just grated the road or something and all the rocks were loose.  Have I mentioned how clumsy I am? Well I am!! And last night I almost fell, yeah! So I walked slow and watched where I  was stepping. Someone mowed the ditches and along the sides of the road {weird}we have been hearing stuff scuttling around in certain really thick sections of fence row, and yesterday we spotted a CUTE little chipmunk. He had obviously never seen a person or a dog before, because he just sat there staring back at us. I tried to get a pic but it was impossible to see him on my iPhone, and he finally ran off. I stopped and chatted with a friend I haven't seen in a while, she happened to be passing by.  I took this cool pic of a crow on the phone lines. Edited on my instagram app.

Saw 2 deer on our way back home. It looks like there is going to be some work done on the railroad tracks, don't know what, or how that will affect the road.  Might have to take an alternate route. 

OH and did I mention I went and signed up to do a fun run/walk 5k this coming weekend??? CRAZY stupid, I know!!!!! I have several friends who are doing this with me and my daughter, but I'm not sure I am ready for it at all. It's for a good cause and it should be interestingly fun. Hopefully it will not be freezing cold! AND Hopefully I can get my mojo back soon. I have issues with delayed gratification, this I know. I should be happy, I'm working toward my goals, I'm getting it done, I'm improving slowly and THAT is probably my problem.  I want everything now! And I'm bored! Maybe new music would help.  I've tried changing it up, I've listened to everything from Alter Bridge to Volbeat{that's as far as I made it alphabetically speaking}I even stopped off several places in between from Lamb of God{for all you non-metal heads, NO that is not a christian rock band}to Evanescence to Metallica to Stone Sour to Slip Knot. You would think that a person with 19.71GB {3329 songs} on their Zune {yes I realize I could use my iPhone but it has so little room on it compared to my old school Zune} I could find something to listen to. Tallon just bought the new Mastadon CD so I think I may try that tonight and see if it helps, if it stops raining!!!

Wow that was a ramble on about not much at all wasn't it!!