City Girl?

Santa Cruz Chronicles - day 6 

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I’m getting my walking legs back.  Just to clarify, walking legs are quite different than running legs.  One may be a speed-walker, or a speedy runner who logs many-a-mile.  But by no means, is one equivalent to the other.  I felt pretty sluggish on my run this morning.  But that was to be expected, considering that yesterday’s run was dangerously close to two hours.  Where is she even going with this, you may ask?  Well, since I now work in the bustle of the downtown area (both at the newspaper and at Starbucks), I’m finding that I’m doing a whole lot of walking and biking... “physical commuting,” as I like to call it.  

Now, for anyone who doesn’t exercise on a regular basis, the kind of walking and biking I’m talking about (basically commuting to and from work) would probably be a sufficient daily workout routine.  But I’m not that person.  Rather, I’m that person who gets up early to get that hour-plus-run in before work, to then have to physically “commute” to work.  Then, just add a teaspoon of dealing with whiny customers into the mix, and you have a near perfect example of a day-in-the-life of Melissa.  That being said, I’m just a tad more exhausted than normal.  Hopefully I’ll adjust to my new much busier lifestyle, but I’m not too worried about it.  Before long, I’ll be immune to it.  I just can’t let myself get to bed too late.  I think that’s going to be the trick. 

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On a completely different note, I tried a totally different yogurt place tonight.  I wasn’t even planning on getting any tonight, but my sweet tooth was raging, therefore I had to oblige.  The place was called “Yogizmo” and it was only a few blocks from my house.  So far, I must admit, it’s the best I’ve had since trekking up to Santa Cruz!  Yes, there is a bit of excitement in that exclamation point that you see!  Despite the shop not having any kind of self-service, the yogurt itself was high quality, and the toppings were way up on the charts as well.  One thing that really struck my fancy... they had these things called “dark chocolate covered acai berries.”  I usually never stray from my usual yogurt toppings, but those little berry things were so intriguing, I couldn’t resist.  Also, to continue justifying the berries (as if I really have to), they’re apparently jam-packed with antioxidants.  Who really knows for sure but they tasted awesome as hell, so I’m not going to worry about it.