There is another…SKYWALKER!

One of the nice things about working in downtown Des Moines is our beautiful skywalk system. It can be -20F outside and you can walk blocks without having to set one tender toe outside if you don’t want to.

The skywalks also make it very convenient for downtown workers with limited time to take a brisk walk over a lunch hour or for a mid afternoon brain break. I walk with a friend or by myself. I don’t mean to sound antisocial but I sometimes prefer to walk by myself (not all the time, just sometimes). It’s a great way to blow out the cobwebs and organize my thoughts.

It also makes it easier to hear the voices in my head...

Random thoughts from a skywalker
I walked my usual loop on Wednesday by myself. Alone with my thoughts, my brain was free to wander (thankfully, it eventually wandered back to me).

1. If you walk through the skywalk level of the Savory Hotel, look for the ceramic lambs. A very naughty person colored one of the lamb’s eyes red.

2. The Savory Hotel plays big band 1940-ish music on their overhead sound system. It puts a smile on my face every time.

3. Here it is Nov. 1. We’ve barely digested the Halloween candy and they already have Christmas decorations up?!?! What happened to Thanksgiving?

4. Listening to my boots on the tile floor, I noticed one goes “click”, the other goes “clunk.” Is it the shoe? Is my gait? Is it the echo? If I put my shoes on opposite feet would it make any difference?

5. Why does the skywalk Brueggers Bagels always smell like feet?

6. People who walk by themselves wearing their hands-free cell phone ear piece and have perfectly normal, natural phone conversations are weird.

7. I either walk too fast or the automatic sliding doors are too slow.

8. Just how many e-mails do I need to delete from my work mailbox so I stop getting nasty notes from IT?

9. Who needs an iPod when I have Get Happy stuck in my head – Judy Garland’s version, not The Partridge Family theme song. Forget your troubles…Come on get happy…You better chase all you cares away… I don’t always have that particular song in my head, I just usually have a song of some kind stuck in my head.

10. On my way back to the office, I ran into the colleague I spent 5+ hours with in the Chicago airport while we were waiting for our delayed flight back to Des Moines. I haven’t seen him in a couple weeks. As luck would have it, I was wearing the exact same sweater I was wearing in the airport. Yes – I have washed it since then.

Wiped out
Hubby turned in his mid-term for one of his graduate classes. It was a take home test that took him 15+ hours to complete. He should have his grade back early next week.

One more funny thing: Listen to this parody of Frank Sinatra singing Strangers on My Flight. Song should automatically begin to play.

Swing it Frank!