Choo Choo la Rouge played at Cakeshop tonight and I decided I would walk there. It was 70 degrees today and I've become a fairly physically active lady lately, so I thought I'd walk from my apartment in Greenpoint to the venue, which is in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The map program on my phone told me it would take one hour and 5 minutes to get there and it did almost exactly!
I walked down Manhattan Ave, took a right on Bedford Ave and then another right to get on the bridge. A dude on a skateboard came barreling toward me almost immediately. His friend on a bike behind him, said "That was awesome" to me. Uh huh.
I listened to The Replacements on shuffle on the entirety of my walk. Some songs I heard were "Waitress in the Sky", "Unsatisfied", "Back to Back" "Seen Your Video" "Kiss Me On the Bus", "I Will Dare". Good walking music.
By the time I got the the middle of the bridge, I was thinking about how I had never walked over this bridge before. I had walked (and biked) over the Brooklyn Bridge many times, but not in quite awhile. I'm not a person that is especially fond of heights, so at the beginning of the walk on to the bridge, I was a little bit nervous, but by the time I reached the middle, I was feeling pretty good about my endeavor and myself.
I read the graffitti: "Graffiti is Lame" "You Are Out of Your Element" "Think Low Carb"
Anyway, I got to thinking about how doing things you don't normally do is a good practice. I also thought, "What if I tried to do something I have never done before every day". And then, "What if I wrote about it - like in a blog...."
So that's how I got here.
I'm going to try to do this everyday. First, do something I've never done before, whether big or small and then write a little something about it. And maybe post a picture or two.
My little project.
Day 1.
Love,
Jennifer
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