I saved a dog's life this morning. Well, mostly I just managed to avoid killing it.
She looked like a stray, no collar, and her body suggested that she had nursing puppies around somewhere. She was standing on the median when the light turned green, and I was pretty sure she was going to stay there. After the first car made it through, she decided to make a break for it, then pretty much froze in front of my car. I locked up the brakes, and was able to stop barely inches before the bumper made contact. Whew--crisis averted! She trotted off to the shoulder like nothing had happened. Not even a courtesy wave. "Hey, thanks for not killing me!"
I've only hit a domesticated animal once before in my life, and it wrecked me for hours afterward. This one would have been worse, because of the whole nursing mother thing. I'm not sure I could have dealt with the guilt of orphaning a litter of puppies.
My morning actually was going pretty well before that...I got up on time, ate breakfast, drank coffee, packed everything I needed to pack for work, got Noah to school on time. Oh, and when I stepped on the scale and was 2.5 lbs. lighter than yesterday!
I think the loss was mostly due to all the water I drank yesterday, and my 70-minute workout last night. I walked, I jogged, I Precor-ed. There was no stopping me, baby. It's been a long time since I worked out for more than an hour straight, and I was surprised how good I felt at the end of it. I could have leapt tall buildings, etc. Go me!
Posted by Joy at February 8, 2005 10:19 AM