Happy New Year's Eve
This is my final post of 2023. I woke up this morning still despondent over the Detroit Lions' heartbreaking (and highly controversial) loss to the [fucking] Dallas Cowboys. Still, I managed to scrape myself out of bed and face the world. After watching CBS Sunday Morning--a ubiquitous weekly activity--I went outside for a four(ish) mile walk to get as close to 10,000 steps as possible. As of this morning, I still needed about 8,000 steps to hit my 10,000 step per day average for the month of December. (Yes, I obsess over this stuff if you hadn't noticed). Sadly, I will not finish with as many steps or miles as 2022, but I am blaming that on one big FitBit equipment malfunction I had while in DC during SuburbsFest. I also came up short on steps two weeks ago during the particularly trying several days I went through with my mom's illness. (She is--fingers crossed--on the mend). When my exercise was over, we all piled in the Kia Telluride and drove out to tiny Metamora for a...