Day 7: Pokemon Gangs and a new reason to walk around the neighborhood

Captured! In an empty field by my house! Who knew a pink jumpy snake-kind-of thing was just chillaxing there?! I mean little garden snakes? of course! Rattlesnakes? Possibly! But that pokemon... snake... dude... thing?! Wow! What a world we live in!

Owen and I took to an adventure walk in the neighborhood today, and we are lockin' it down, folks!

As we were walking we ran across a dad and his daughter seeking out one of these hidden Pokemon right in front of the Insurance company across from our house! Across from our house folks! Hanging out in the parking lot at an insurance company! Who knew about this hidden world? We didn't!

So we have already captured a bunch of these cute little guys. I'm a little too old to have enjoyed Pokemon as a kid, so please forgive my naivety, I have no idea why I am capturing these little guys, but in about an hour I think we captured 8 or 9. 

As we are walking toward the grocery store a block away from our house a subcompact car filled with boys obviously in their teens yells out the window, "Pokemon Go, Fool! That's what's up!" 

I look straight up at them and they are totally talking to Owen and me. I smiled and showed how many I had found at that point by holding up four fingers. They were clearly unimpressed, rolled their eyes and rolled their windows back up. 

So, I got to bond with my 10 year-old for a minute, had eyes rolled at me by teenagers (I'm at an age now where this has become routine) and I captured a bunch of cute little cartoon critters that had apparently just been chillin' in my neighborhood since like 1995. I'm not sure why I'm doing this, but when I found two of these cartoon bouncy boogers, obviously trying to look menacing by their scowls but clearly non-threatening in general hiding near my house (and a Pidgey literally under my desk where I am sitting right this very second), I really got into it.

So all this to say, I had a good day. I made the mistake of getting sucked into social media and am in the process of re-cleansing my brain from the trash talk.

Seriously guys? Does no one have anything positive to say anymore?

No sugar, no alcohol, healthy meals, read my Bible twice! Had a short devotional time with the kids. Maeve read me a book. Got a whole lot done at work today and the presentation went well. All in all, a pretty good day.

Have I mentioned that except for my momentary foray back into social media that those lusts for stuff like certain foods, toys, decorative stuff, upgrades, etc are just kind of melting away. It's like distancing myself from advertising is allowing me some reprieve from constantly wanting something else and just to be content with what I have already. Crazy.