I am not getting sick. I am not getting sick.

My throat is sore.  I'm hot then cold and a little bit clammy.  Time to pop the Cold F/X again and hope for the best.  It worked like a charm the last two times.

Regardless, I still puttered around cleaning today and this afternoon I took the kidlet to Deer Lake Park for a walk.  It had stopped raining but it was still overcast so I knew the trails would be relatively empty.  I just needed to get out and spend some time with nature - it's been a while.  We used to go for hikes all the time but it's been years now.  A walk is a good place to start.

The kidlet was a bit disappointed that the only forest animals we saw were ducks, Canadian geese, various birds, and slugs.  Still, she pretended to take a picture of every slug we saw (and there were many) and I think she enjoyed just being out as much as I did.  It's so peaceful, quiet, green.  All I could hear were the birds singing or chirping, or the Canadian geese honking as they flew past, hovering just over the lake.  We stopped and watched a man flyfishing off a little dock, then once he left, the kidlet and I pretended to fish.  We caught clownfish and sharks and tuna and zebra danios.  I'm sure the odd person who walked by wondered what the heck we were doing but we didn't care.

We watched people paddling their canoes in the lake and I told the kidlet we would take her canoeing one day.  She was pretty excited about that.  I haven't canoed in years either but loved to as a kid.

There were a couple houses nestled in the park with huge lots (some of it must be park land) and a view of the lake and I imagined living in one of the large old houses where it seemed that you were so far away from it all, surrounded by tall trees and long green grass and all kinds of birds.  And yet, you're only a minute from a main highway.  I'm sure the houses cost millions but it's always nice to dream.

So I'll be taking it easy tomorrow as Monday is my first day in a temporary position on the Corporate level (helping out until they hire someone to replace the woman who just left) and I'll need to have my wits about me.  But for now, it's to the couch I go.