kudos to chubby mommies

i'm concerned about that "by polar" watch thing. does the watch keep time one day and is really funny and runs a little fast, and then refuses to keep time the next day - and seems really depressed and angry? hmmmmm

i would so much join the chubby mommy running/fastwalking/srolling club if i lived any where near Bend. i have my own club though. there are two of us (although sometimes we are joined by Syble & Harry -- Harry is an Austrian guy who last lived in New Jersey - can you even HEAR that accent??)

Right now, Art and i walk every tuesday and thursday. Art is a non-working-at-the-time Episcopalian priest. his wife lives in the middle of nowhere in california somewhere cleaning teeth for the army or navy or something like that. they offer her a great amount of money for her teeth cleaning skills and keep her there away from her husband and the walking club. supposedly, someday, she will retire from this incredible job and she will join us in our unemployed walking.

Art is one of those people who truly makes me laugh. he is wonderfully irreverant and wholly holy holey. Art is in is 50's and i do believe that my husband might be a little jealous of my walking buddy. maybe i should be more honest here... it's more of a strolling club. there, i said it. we stroll along the river road mostly, and we talk about life in general sometimes in specifics. we laugh at stupid things, and feel uppity in our own little way of solving all of the world's messed up drama. Art is an ex-husband, ex-hippy, ex-surfer, and an ex-californian - and, he knows all about most everything regarding horses. he is a very interesting person and he buys me coffee before we go on our stroll. we are trying to convince ourselves to walk every day, but sometimes we end up going to breakfast at the Echo Lake Cafe instead of going on our stroll.

Joining the chubby mommy running club might be too much for me. i couldn't keep up with fawn, or mizinformation, and certainly not even miss julie.
(refer to http://chubbymommyrunningclub.blobspot.com for this making any sense at all!

I'm a little obsessed about this whole notion of walking and forming walking clubs because if left to my own devises, i would sit on my chubby butt and just write in my blog, or play scrabulous all day. essentially, i walk out of guilt. i walk because i want to be a good example for my girls. i walk because it's making my knees feel a little better. i walk because my puppy needs the exercise. i walk because i want to hear Art laugh. i walk because the beauty of that river draws me in. i walk because it's so intoxicating to smell the earth. Julie, if i lived in Bend i would join your club. i would stroll/walk/run/marathon with you, my friend. thanks for being an inspiration on many different levels.