Volunteer

We get a newsletter from OHS every week telling us what areas are in the most need for volunteers. For dog walking, they break it down by shifts. Friday mornings have been lagging behind for a while, which is why I joined that team. Last week, when I was on vacation, there was one volunteer there to walk dogs in the morning (average seems to be 6-10). That poor person - and those poor dogs! Depending upon what time she got there (it's a safe bet it was a woman since I would estimate the ratio of men to women volunteers to be 1:10), I doubt she would have even gotten through one of the four pods of dogs. Today we had a new person join the team and had several other people show up to help out since they, too, must have seen the one person number.

It's surprising how quickly you get to know the dogs' names. At first, it seemed like they were destined to remain anonymous to me since they all looked alike to me and I inevitably forgot to check their names before heading out. Now I make an effort to look at the name and can tell the difference between most of them that have been there more than a couple of weeks.

I had lofty plans to work out after volunteering, but it is simply too physically exhausting. Plus, I'm so hungry by the end and I didn't bring anything to eat afterwards. I entered my exercise into FitDay. Apparently, I've actually burned more calories today than yesterday just due to the sheer amount of time spent walking. Hmm. Interesting. I don't know how accurate those calories counts are, but I shall just accept it and move on. It's the new "don't obsess over the details" me.