oops, I did it again

Last year I swore I wouldn't do any more multi-day charity walks. Everybody around me said sure, right, like that will happen. Especially since Bonnie was diagnosed with breast cancer last fall. I could have gotten free registration for the 3-day. I ignored it. I received a letter from the Avon walk with discount registration and ignored it.

Bonnie called yesterday. "Since I don't need chemo I'm in for the Avon walk". Bethy, who walked with me last year is signing up for crew. So yesterday I signed up for the Avon. Good thing I didn't throw out the letter. Team Bonnie's Boobies were born. Our logo is a pair of pink-footed boobie birds.

So if anybody is in a giving mood, my link is http://www.avonwalk.org/goto/gayleh. I won't keep the blog there this time. I'll just stick with this one. That one disappears after the walk.

Didn't walk much this week. there's snow everywhere. 

My brother in law is in the hospital, and my sister isn't handling it well. So I decided I'd go cheer her up. There's not much I can do for her husband. I took a chance and walked up to the hospital and found a stairway. You start at two. I walked up to five (apparently this was a short stairway) then down to the ground and back up to four. I exited and started to look for his room. In the process I found another stairway and made a mental note to check it out going home. When I left I found it again, it went to nine. I came back down to four and went back to my sister to tell her I found a tall stairway. She was surprised I was back so soon. On the way out I found another across the hall from his room. I entered and it was a triangle. Decided to leave that way. I got to 2 and the door was locked. I had to go back up to four, and exit thru another set of stairs. That's when I decided not to do the parking deck stairs. I just headed up the hill and went home.

There's two weeks left to the first stair climb. Still not sure I'll make it. But I'm gonna try. I'm thinking of chewing gum during the climb. It will keep my mouth moist and more importantly it will keep it shut! I tend to breath out of my mouth instead of my nose.