When I am frustrated, upset, or angry, (anyone of those NEGATIVE emotions), I don't eat, nor do I veg. I don't self mutilate either. (Just kidding.... I wanted to see if some one was paying attention!). I try not to add more negativity to how I already feel. I do something physical, to drive out those emotions. Therefore, I go for a run, a long, long walk, a big hike, or as I did today, I go snowshoeing in the woods.
The forecast was for a few centimetres of snow, with the temperature rising and then the snow turning to rain. Well, as usual, the forecast was wrong, wrong, wrong! It continued to snow all day. I took to the trails, alone with Vimy. I got lost. Plain and simple! I only meant to be gone forty minutes, but it took me twice that amount of time, and quite a bit of doubling back, before I found my way out of that winter wonderland of snowshoeing trails. The falling snow kept covering my tracks, and it was hard to figure out where I had gone. I must admit, a light panic set in a FEW times. I had my cell phone, with RunKeeper, so I had GPS. Unfortunately, I don't know HOW to actually USE and UNDERSTAND the darn thing.
Vimy and I got quite the work-out! I have learned another lesson. DO NOT go snowshoeing alone, when it is snowing. If you do, stick to tried and true familiar trails.
I gave myself something I never had, when I hiked 820 kilometres in northern Spain last fall. I have a BIG mother of a blister on my right heel!
What a "nounoune" I am! (Fille ou femme, qui agit de façon stupide!)
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