Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 160 - Walkies!

I must confess.

I haven't been exercising as much as I should lately.

What with stresses at work, and the biting cold, it has been very hard for me to get up and go walking at 5 a.m. when it's some unearthly low temperature outside, or to head to the pool in the cold and dark, which, oddly enough, has colder water than it did in autumn. Yes folks, they made the water colder! Of course....

So today, fed up with my lethargy, I got dressed in multiple layers and hot the streets again in 9 degrees weather, and.... actually really enjoyed it! I walked so fast that the cold ceased to be much of a problem fairly quickly, I picked a thumping collection of songs that carried me along, and as I turned into my street at 6.20pm, I was greeting by a darkness-tinted crystal clear sky with the first rays of sunshine suffusing up from the horizon.

Just magical, otherworldy, and a lovely sight to start the day with.

Of course, it would have been even better if I hadn't had to go to work, but you can't have everything, alas.