Hello Shape Shifters. It has been a little quiet here lately, I hope everyone is doing well. I have kept up my daily outdoor walks, though it hasn't always been fun. On Monday I had a negative dog encounter again. It made me very anxious and stressed and I cried after which felt pretty silly. It was within 5 minutes of my walk and I was a little tempted to just go home again, but nature is the best healer, right? So I did my walk as planned and I had a really nice time without seeing anyone else after the dogperson. Tuesday was pouring rain and I spent 52 minutes getting wet and being miserable. I walked around the farm fields and went to the grocery store after where I probably left a whole watertrail. My coat was still wet 2 days later. Thankfully I recently bought a new coat and Wednesday was dry, so I tested that one out. I like it a lot. It is a pretty green (it looks uglier in the picture) and very long with teddy at the top half but not too warm. I will put a picture here from the website. Yesterday we had storm Pia. I thought that would be the end of my walking streak, but around 11:00 I saw it would be dry for a while and I was really stubborn and wanted to keep walking. So I walked mostly around the farm fields where there are little to no trees around. It would have been too dangerous to go to the forest. I had a pretty good time, though the last part was a bit of a struggle with the wind in my face. It made it hard to breathe and it was a roadwalk so I had to take care not to get blown into any cars. This morning the wind was a lot less and I stayed mostly dry for my walk. It was nice. I really enjoy the routine I have with walking in the morning. My dad is visiting tomorrow, so I have to figure out some other time to walk. Probably in the rain again.
Something else I am excited about is that I finally managed to save enough money to replace my computer (while still having a lot of savings left in case something happens to Tinus or a household item needs to be replaced). I had a lot of lag playing my main game (World of Warcraft) which made it a lot less fun. I have been wanting to get a new pc for probably two years. I planned to get a prebuild or have one build, but I couldn't find exactly what I wanted and having someone else put it together adds around 200 euros. I figured it would be more fun to buy some new games (I want to try Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy and Guild Wars 2) instead and build the pc myself. I got all the things delivered today and I plan to spend Sunday building the computer. Hopefully it will go well. I built my current computer myself as well, so it is not new for me, but it is always stressful. Some pictures under the spoiler. Happy Friday everyone

Daily step goal: 10,000
Tue 12/19: 12,637
Wed 12/20: 16,850
Thu 12/21: 8,261

Tinus has a happy face for them treats.

@pupowl Merry Christmas to you as well, my friend!!! Hope you have a lovely day...so inquiring minds want to know...EXACTLY what kind of cookie have you planned for your Christmas treat today?!! I took some to work from a local bakery last week (chocolate chip, peanut butter and oatmeal raisin). Surprisingly, the chocolate chip went very slowly...the others disappeared like madness!! That bakery makes amazing cookies. I had to set them on another desk at work so they wouldn't call my name all day! LOL!