A week before a recent 5K Run/Walk (bet you can't guess which one I was signing up for) I received what was titled, "Athlete's Standard Release Form". After reading it several times I decided to share it with all of you so you could get the same joy from it I have received. I have just offered up the most amusing part (between the arrows) so you wouldn't have to wade through the other legal junk.

I think they included the "fixed or moving objects" part just for me.

Jon and I were taking a walk last night and we came upon this object in our alley:

It's creepy, right? I wasn't aware clowns liked to garden. What would a clown plant anyway? 

Today I found myself walking between interviews and classrooms with a Pokemon pedometer attached to my pocket. It sounds a lot less pathetic than it actually is. My son bought a new game for his Nintendo DSi. It is a Pokemon game that encourages kids to walk by including a pedometer that trains your Pokemon based on the number of steps you take.

So, my son thought it would be a good idea to let me train his Pokemon since I walk just about everywhere. And I agreed. Either I am an incredibly supportive and wonderful mother or I am a big huge sucker. I think it's the latter. Now my son gets to make his mom look like a dork and gain points for his game all at the same time.

What was I thinking?  On a more positive note, I have already walked 8,000 steps and my day has just started. Go mom!!!!

****Side note: I think I may begin referring to myself as a personal trainer. I don't have to mention I'm a trainer of Pokemon.