Quiet Time With Music

the mud along my river walk after the flood

So you will notice every now and then that I lead a very boring life and that it mostly consists of, well nothing really. As my day was so boring today I was going to do a profile on one of my dear facebook friends, one of my exciting friends. I have a few exciting facebook friends who would be horrified to think that I was blogging about them, so it would be perfect, right.

But then....

I went for a walk....

Uggggg, not again I can hear you saying. But wait, don't stop reading, this was not an ordinary walk. Truly it wasn't, and I will tell you why.

It was a work day for my daughter today so I had to stagger out of bed and drive her in my sleep... again. Upon returning home, I had the usual argument with myself, but today, I won!!! So I fell back into bed and slept until 11am. After doing a teeny bit of work and checking into facebook to see what was happening in my cyber world, I started thinking about 'the walk'. I knew I would have to wait until the afternoon as the UV index is off the page between 10-3pm here, and I am not allowed to get sunburnt, so I filled in the time daydreaming, you would be amazed how fast the time goes when you are lost in never never land.

My husband G, has taken today and tomorrow off 'sick'... just because, so he was around most of the day. But he had gone out in the afternoon and at 4pm he phoned to say he would wait around for my daughter to finish work and bring her home.

It was then that I had the brainwave. If I leave now, right now for my walk, then I can go alone and play my music. Oh what fun that would be.

This is where it gets interesting...

It took me at least ten minutes to get ready and leave, probably a tad longer. There was sunscreen to apply, and of course I had to make myself beautiful, then I had to get the dog and do my stretching before I could start. With that all taken care of I was off on my walk. But by this time it was getting close to the time that G would be zooming home, and he can drive very fast so I had to think.

It was hard to think with my cool music bopping in my ears as I am easily distracted, but I made a plan. I wanted to walk by myself today so I had to find a way around the main roads that G would be driving along so he wouldn't see me and ask why I hadn't waited for him. As soon as I was at the river I knew I would be safe.

So there I was jiving to my music and singing very quietly to myself I am sure, as I was darting in and out of side streets to make my way to the river. I didn't go the regular way because he was bound to go that way when he discovered I was missing, so that he could catch up to me. He is a speed walker and would catch up in no time at all.

Finally I was at the river... bliss. I was strolling along, quietly singing and bopping to my 'tunes', just me and my puppy. I was stopping here and there to take photos of the mud left behind after the flooding and puppy was having a lovely time smelling all the yucky smelly mud without being pulled along before she had finished her investigating.

my puppy having a glorious time investigating the smelly mud

After about 45 minutes I was actually amazed that I hadn't received a phone call from G asking where I was, but that was just a fleeting thought before I got back to more important thoughts,like my music.

But then...

I looked ahead of me and saw someone walking towards me, and I said to myself, 'o-ohhh, I know that walk'. Yep, it was G and he was gaining fast. Sigh, there goes my quiet time.

As he approaches me I smile innocently and wave ' Heyyyyyyyyyyyy, Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii' I say sweetly. He asks me why I didn't wait for him but before I can answer he looks down at the dog who is very excited to see G here, and in a shocked tone  he says...'Is that mud on the dog's feet, you let her walk in that smelly mud???'  'Oh, umm, yeah, she just did that when she saw you coming', I say quickly. G is NOT impressed, dunno why!

G takes the dog leaving me free to wander and listen to my music without having to try to keep her out of the mud. He is saying something to me but I can't hear as I have my music on, still. He has not noticed yet!  But of course he eventually did notice and oh my dear, he was NOT impressed.

Did you know it was dangerous to walk with music in BOTH of your ears, why anyone could come up behind me and hit me over the back of the head and then what would happen to the dog!!!! Excuse me, the dog????  And how can one hear the bikes ringing their bells to pass me, if I have music in both ears and the dog on such a long lead, after all I do wander all over the path and forget to stay to the left hand side. Hmm, I survived just fine, thank you by myself I think to myself.

As he is pointing out all the other irresponsible things I was doing whilst having music in BOTH ears, I tune out and go back to listening to that bad bad music. And I would have gotten away with it too, had a good song not come on and I accidently let out a few bars of the song.

Well the look on his face when he turned to me was enough for me to stop listening and start being responsible.

Big sigh... it was fun while it lasted. I wonder when I will get to be irresponsible again and listen to my music while I walk. Maybe I can perfect the art of sneaking out for my walk, that was fun too.